I bought the game in 2009 and...
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Join Date: 2012-06-19 Member: 153449Members
Join Date: 2012-06-19 Member: 153449Members
As the title says, I bought NS2 in 2009 (25/06/09) because UW dated the game for "fall 2009" (good lie btw). I've read that they are going to release it this summer (I hope it's true this time :D), 3 years have passed and I have the impression that the community of this game is already dead, the hype is gone. The last time I tried the game was in the first beta and it was so horrible that I decided that I wouldn't play the game until the final version, If some of you guys could tell me what's the state of the game/community in this moment I'd be really glad.
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P.S. Its still quite buggy as it is a beta but nothing on that alpha :P
hmm well were older, not that wiser and it will be interesting to see how popular this game will be as it lacks features that people expect in a full game (Player models ie male/female, Game types, loads of maps, er).
But for the time being the game has almost all the things from NS1 in it and the game play although imbalanced is quite fun.
Still performs badly on all but the best hardware although I've read that's coming at some point.
Please don't take this in a negative way, it's fun but it still needs work.
Well then again thats because Brink was well.....a bit rubbish....(no offence to any brink dev that may come across this). It was messy and lacked polish expected from a AAA title. Indie games get a little more leway in this sense but i reckon the UWE guys can do it :) Late aug i can imagne will be 1.0 and 1.1 by the next couple of days :P i mean look at killing floor. I played the mod back when i was 1.0 all the way to its retail status. That game on 1.0 was buggy as hell and even unplayable due to a server browser bug but a few months later all was fixed and a few years later its sold over 1,400,000 copies and counting :) I think NS2 is gonna be absaloutly smashing given time :)
I think you will be surprised and even glad that they delayed the release. The original alpha's and etc were obviously not even a finished game... were still in beta now but this game is gonna be up and coming very soon. It's going to do especially well in the hardcore PC gamer / competitive scene. I haven't had this much fun gaming and being competitive since the 1.6 days. That says a lot by the way.
About the community. I didn't want to sound like a troll, but I've the impression that there aren't more than 200 active players on these forums, which for a 100% multiplayer game is a really low number.
I bought it in 2009 as well, couldn't play it since my pc wouldn't run it. I now have a much better pc, and while performance is still abyssal at times, the game is tons of fun, I think I already clocked 150+ hours in just 4- 5 months. Don't expect it to be as polished as NS 1 was just yet, there"s a lot of balancing and optimising that needs to happen, but with every patch I am more confident in UWE's ability to make NS2 a more than worthy sequel.
It's 2012. Whar game, whar?
I thought it was because UWE said they would release the final game in 2009 -- I didn't realize they were actually charging money for it then. I would feel ripped off to no end if I bought a game in 2009 and it was not even feature complete in 2012. But I'm rich so I pay other people to feel ripped off for me.
Well I bought access to a "beta" that I assume will be finished within a reasonable time period. But I am not one of those who bought it in 2009 anyway. 2009 to 2012 is quite a long time
"1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, a DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows Vista/2000/XP, mouse, keyboard and an internet connection."
I remember reading a post last week where a guy clocked his i7 to 5 GHz to get 40 fps.
I bought the game because they dated it for "fall 2009", I didn't want to play alphas or betas.
Do you have any documentation to prove that? I can remember pretty far back, and I don't recall it ever being advertised as a full game guaranteed to come out in 2009.
The official teaser trailer from UWE. Min 1:00
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfjfBeC6tQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfjfBeC6tQ</a>
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Well I don't want to get into a big confrontation about this, but all it says is "FALL 2009". Do you have a receipt or anything that says 'full game to be released fall 2009'?
People using release dates to trick people into buying things is pretty much older than the dinosaurs...it's basically a standard practice nowadays as far as video games go.
In game design terms that is quite short actually :P
People using release dates to trick people into buying things is pretty much older than the dinosaurs...it's basically a standard practice nowadays as far as video games go.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They dated the final game for 2009 and a lot of people bought it for that reason. If you dont believe me maybe someone who bought the game back in 2009 too could post here to tell that it's true, if it helps here you have an little excerpt from <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/article/62608/natural-selection-2-pre-orders" target="_blank">a old review about the game</a>:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Natural Selection 2's launch was once slated for fall 2009 but, having missed that, Cleveland recently told Shacknews that "we're only going to release when it's ready."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyway, I haven't created this topic to whine about the release date, I just wanted to know the state of the community/game.
People using release dates to trick people into buying things is pretty much older than the dinosaurs...it's basically a standard practice nowadays as far as video games go.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even when trying to weasel your way out of that date, it still took another year for the buyers to even recieve a completely non-functional alpha. There really isn't room for nuance here.