Ns2 made it in "GT's Ultimate gaming preview"
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Some good video clips too.
Here's my imagined internal dialog of some not knowing about NS2 watching it.
Gunfire (Hey look an FPS shooting aliens)
Commander (Oh its a RTS...but what were the shooting bits)
Skulk dropping to Bite marines (WTF....do I get to do that?)
I kind of want NS2 to be laying low till all the main bugs are fixed and its closer to release. I mean don't get me wrong, I want NS2 to be as massive as possible but if we get a surge of new/average players they will not tolerate the current status of the game like most of us do.
In the end it's all good I guess...
I kind of want NS2 to be laying low till all the main bugs are fixed and its closer to release. I mean don't get me wrong, I want NS2 to be as massive as possible but if we get a surge of new/average players they will not tolerate the status of the game like most of us do.
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Did you even play Bf3 Alpha&Beta? Horrible ... A Nightmare... it suckd!
I think people can "Adapt" the "status" of this game.
I think people can "Adapt" the "status" of this game.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What I see from videos of the BF3-alpha, it looked significantly more polished than NS2 while also running pretty smoothly. I don't think the comparison is valid, and as long as NS2's performance is in the gutter, it may be best not to advertise it to the general public.
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I played the beta and had almost no trouble with it, which was impressive since its a game with a massive scale, albeit made by a larger team...
The point is NS2 is nowhere near the polishedness required for even a public beta, its still missing game features and the performance is, while playable, unacceptable.
As of now, NS2 runs average on high end systems... I've got a mid range core i7/6870 combo and when there's a lot of action my framerate gets killed, while BF3 is buttery smooth.
Again, you are comparing apples to oranges, but if you were to make the NS2 beta public today you would get more negative than positive press.
Here's a quote from the other thread
<!--quoteo(post=1897384:date=Jan 25 2012, 08:55 PM:name=Laosh'Ra)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Laosh'Ra @ Jan 25 2012, 08:55 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1897384"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->nice! :D judging from the comments, most people seem not to realise that they can already play ns2 by pre-ordering. i tried to comment but it won't let me (some log-in issue even after i activated the account via email, its kinda weird), so if any of you has an account there, please mention this in the comments.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Those people do not realize the indie roots of NS, and haven't been following the development closely enough to realize that UWE is a small team and that even though they are working their asses off, progress is not as fast as you would get from a 50+ person team. They will proceed to pre order the game and probably demand a refund because of the bugs and what not.
It was cool reading all those comments with NS2-love, but always a little shocking to see how many people don't know about our existence!
It was cool reading all those comments with NS2-love, but always a little shocking to see how many people don't know about our existence!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Heh, well it's not like you guys are actively promoting the game currently and also hiding behind Steam beta so Valve doesn't really promote NS2 either. I say hide a bit more, we need more polish before the masses are ready for it I guess.
Please tell me that free licenses have gone to the gametrailers people, among others :D
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BF3 still sucks.
Wise words.