Work Continues! - Natural Selection 2

SystemSystem Join Date: 2013-01-29 Member: 182599Members, Super Administrators, Reinforced - Diamond
edited March 2015 in NS2 General Discussion

imageWork Continues! - Natural Selection 2

Yes the Community Development Team is alive and well, admit it you were getting worried. Have no fear though, as we have been working tirelessly in the background on some...

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  • SantaClawsSantaClaws Denmark Join Date: 2012-07-31 Member: 154491Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited March 2015
    OMG what?! https://trello.com/c/pqNG70S8/465-first-person-spectating-making-the-targetted-player-hitch-if-the-spectator-has-high-ping

    Are you messing with us here? Excellent work!

    Inb4: better late than never.
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  • SamusDroidSamusDroid Colorado Join Date: 2013-05-13 Member: 185219Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    edited March 2015
    It was like 5 lines of code too, been fixed for a while
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  • DC_DarklingDC_Darkling Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
    ya know, reading about a menu refresh I shall repeat myself once more.

    Please do NOT make a new menu which doesnt use like, most of the screen. having a menu (like on combat standalone) on the top is a huge impractical waste of space.
    Its a menu, not a 'ooooh shiny picture' area.
    For a work area, sure.. But its a menu man... a menu.
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  • DefaultErrorDefaultError Minnesota Join Date: 2013-10-31 Member: 188917Members, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
    The Shadow lerk and Onos like really good.
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  • WasabiOneWasabiOne Co-Lead NS2 CDT Join Date: 2011-06-15 Member: 104623Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    DC_Darkling wrote: »
    ya know, reading about a menu refresh I shall repeat myself once more.

    Please do NOT make a new menu which doesnt use like, most of the screen. having a menu (like on combat standalone) on the top is a huge impractical waste of space.
    Its a menu, not a 'ooooh shiny picture' area.
    For a work area, sure.. But its a menu man... a menu.

    the new menu is mainly because of some other changes behind the scenes that will require rebuilding it, but I believe the concepts are on trello as well.

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  • JektJekt Join Date: 2012-02-05 Member: 143714Members, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow
    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™
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  • LokiLoki Join Date: 2012-07-07 Member: 153973Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    yes Soon™ :D
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  • WasabiOneWasabiOne Co-Lead NS2 CDT Join Date: 2011-06-15 Member: 104623Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Jekt wrote: »
    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    I know, I hate saying it, but still better than a date we might not hit :P
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  • SebSeb Melbourne, AU Join Date: 2013-04-01 Member: 184576Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Silver, Retired Community Developer
    WasabiOne wrote: »
    Jekt wrote: »
    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    Soon™

    I know, I hate saying it, but still better than a date we might not hit :P

    Nah it's ok, if Rockstar can do it, so can we!
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  • SupaDupaNoodleSupaDupaNoodle Join Date: 2003-01-12 Member: 12232Members
    Thanks for the continuing hard work :)
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  • alsteralster Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19124Members
    NS2: CDT Edition > Steam sale > $$$ Come on you know you want to do it.
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  • YojimboYojimbo England Join Date: 2009-03-19 Member: 66806Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    Super excited for shadow skins to be completed and finally see derelict get public release :)
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  • Cannon_FodderAUSCannon_FodderAUS Brisbane, AU Join Date: 2013-06-23 Member: 185664Members, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    yeah. good job. Can't wait. I awesomed you Wasabi, cos System is a faceless robot that never reply to my posts :-p
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  • Perman12Perman12 Campuchia Join Date: 2015-01-31 Member: 201130Members
    what about match making ? im new to NS2 but there is few and less player dont want to wait in one empty server to find people play for 1 hour =='
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  • WasabiOneWasabiOne Co-Lead NS2 CDT Join Date: 2011-06-15 Member: 104623Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Perman12 wrote: »
    what about match making ? im new to NS2 but there is few and less player dont want to wait in one empty server to find people play for 1 hour =='

    so yes, this is on our list of wants, however there is work that needs to be done to HIVE (our backend stats collector) first before we can invest the time making the match maker work. We haven't given up hope yet on this topic.

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  • NaRcONaRcO Madrid Join Date: 2005-03-07 Member: 44219Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    no words, love you CDT, you rock!
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  • Perman12Perman12 Campuchia Join Date: 2015-01-31 Member: 201130Members
    i think you guys should get match making right now , near Steam sale to atract new players

    just an system connect people with ~150ms ping together and join in one server>> Rank match can be work later on like CSGO Competitive Lobby
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    A more lightweight version of matchmaking is server ranking which is something I've put a little work into. The idea is that rather than just filtering nonempty nonfull and sorting by ping, you can rank the servers by default by something that takes all factors into account, including the relative skills.
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  • NordicNordic Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    Perman12 wrote: »
    i think you guys should get match making right now , near Steam sale to atract new players

    just an system connect people with ~150ms ping together and join in one server>> Rank match can be work later on like CSGO Competitive Lobby

    There was a gather system awhile back in game that worked similar to that. It was never used though so I think it got removed.
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  • artemartem Join Date: 2012-09-16 Member: 159587Members
    Good job!
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  • Perman12Perman12 Campuchia Join Date: 2015-01-31 Member: 201130Members
    im mean a lobby like CSGO when player can creat "lobby" to chat and click REady >> when everyone in that lobby ready >> host player click start and system will test + find <250ms server and connect all people there ?

    Talking in English >> take Counter Strike Online for example , they have lobby system andi have try Eng version (CSO Singapore/Malaysia)
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  • Cannon_FodderAUSCannon_FodderAUS Brisbane, AU Join Date: 2013-06-23 Member: 185664Members, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    @moultano any thoughts on a 'current server population' FET? What I mean is, Give the option of using the last round's score (or K/D or what ever metric) to shuffle instead of a global skill score. So it is an instance of Forced Even shuffle based on the last game (obviously this can't work for people that left and new people just joined), but those without a last game score can be randomly assigned for simplicity sake. I see many problems such as people joining late etc... But this will alleviate the problem of players who don't play often but are good etc... And if people know about this, and hang around for more than one game, they will hopefully get a "balanced" team game going more often and have fun.
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  • deathshrouddeathshroud Join Date: 2010-04-10 Member: 71291Members
    edited March 2015
    uwe should pay faultline so we can get some combat content added to ns2..

    really want the classic rifle
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  • OtsOts Join Date: 2003-07-30 Member: 18577Members, Constellation
    In the mean time, Matso, fsfod and a few of the programmers have been converting NS2 to compile on Visual Studio 2013, rather than the current Visual Studio 2005 NS2 currently compiles on.
    Cool.
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    Cannon_FodderAUS wrote: »
    @moultano any thoughts on a 'current server population' FET? What I mean is, Give the option of using the last round's score (or K/D or what ever metric) to shuffle instead of a global skill score. So it is an instance of Forced Even shuffle based on the last game (obviously this can't work for people that left and new people just joined), but those without a last game score can be randomly assigned for simplicity sake. I see many problems such as people joining late etc... But this will alleviate the problem of players who don't play often but are good etc... And if people know about this, and hang around for more than one game, they will hopefully get a "balanced" team game going more often and have fun.

    That's how the old system worked, and it didn't work very well. A better solution to the problem of player who are good but don't play often is to have a higher update rate for new players, or to increase the update rate as a function of the time between games.
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  • meatmachinemeatmachine South England Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177858Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
    Shadow fade and onos look soooo freaking awesome, I can't wait to flash them :D
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  • KKyleKKyle Michigan Join Date: 2005-07-01 Member: 55067Members
    Is this it...?
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  • cpt000cpt000 Join Date: 2013-08-28 Member: 187152Members
    Appreciate your work guys - do you guys think you could tweak the early game balance for the aliens? According to NS2stats, marines currently win 63% of all early games (i.e. games < 10 mins) and it's getting a bit tiresome, to be honest.

    The strategy is simple: marines sprint to the alien natural harvesters, kill the cysts, then proceed to camp. Aliens get starved for res and upgrades are reduced to a crawl. Meanwhile the marines cap all of the res and get SGs, PGs, weapons, armor upgrades. Aliens f4 and leave the server. Server dies.
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