natural selection : source confirmed Thread

There's so much confusion and misinformation floating around about all these projects that I think it's time to set the record straight.

First there was Natural Selection. Then I formed Unknown Worlds to make more ambitious retail games. I thought that the best bet for the company's first game was putting NS into retail, on the Half-life engine. This would be like Counter-strike or Day of Defeat in retail, and would've essentially been the same game, but polished up and packaged with the Half-life engine so people could play it without owning Half-life. I then decided that it would be too costly and a little boring too do this project, so it was skipped.

So the next project is likely going to be NS on the Source engine. We don't know for sure if we're doing this, as we haven't had time to evaluate how much work it will be, but everyone on the team is excited to do it, so I think it will happen. We don't know yet if it is going to be a straight port over to Source, or if we're going to redo a lot of the artwork/animations, or if we're going to change a lot of the fundamental gameplay (flamethrowers, physics, etc.). We need to look into it more, see how many months it's going to take (the bad part) and then make a decision. As soon as we know, we'll let you guys know. NS on Source will be done primarily by the current NS team. I'll be doing the game design and overall direction, but the NS team will be doing all the actual work.

The OTHER project, is Natural Selection 2. The game design has been started (hoo-boy, fun stuff), but this will be a full-fledged $50 (or so) retail game, not a mod. It will use a next-generation engine (like Source, Unreal Engine 3, etc.) and will take years and millions of dollars to create. This is what I'm now spending the majority of my time on.

looks like its gonna be a happy new year after all

natraul selection in the source engine is going to be excellent, id say thats mod only weakness was graphiics and even that didnt stop it being a very fun mod.

shame NS2 is going to be retail, but maybe itll be worth it.
i just wonder if many people will want to bother paying for it, unless it offers significantly mroe than the first one

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i've got a feeling they will go for the latter option... i surprised Valve haven't tried to buy the mod already

they did but NS rejected and the leader started his own company as seen in this quote

Good for him I say, the man has to earn a living, and he is doing it the way he does it best

I'd buy NS:Retail

AND FUCK YEAH, NS SOURCE

The OTHER project, is Natural Selection 2. The game design has been started (hoo-boy, fun stuff), but this will be a full-fledged $50 (or so) retail game, not a mod. It will use a next-generation engine (like Source, Unreal Engine 3, etc.) and will take years and millions of dollars to create. This is what I'm now spending the majority of my time on.

oh oh yes, arent we all

Actually, this is sort of old news. I read something about this months ago, before Half-Life 2 was even released, about Natural Selection being released through the Source engine.

Something tells me he'd have a better time setting up a deal with VALVe to have the game be released on retail, just like Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. It sort of surprises me that VALVe hasn't done that yet, since NS is the third most popular mod for Half-Life

i think its important popular mods are willing to maintain their independence, although i dont fancy spending my money either way

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karuto this is fresh news from NS site, all before it were only rumors

unfortunately last i checked NS site is down