The latest patch for the Natural Selection 2 Beta is now available on Steam. If you have pre-ordered the game it should automatically update on Steam. If you would like to pre-order and get instant access to the beta, you can still do so here.
This is a relatively small patch, as we've been spending a lot of time trying to track down sound and other issues from 164 and generally playing "catch up" from the massive patch that was Build 163. Here's a quick video describing where we are and where we're going for the next week:
Build 165 changelog
Changes
- Fixed bug where logging into the command station would mess up player's weapons when logged out
- Updated infestation building sound to not be looping to reduce/fix out of channels problem
- Disabled distress beacon until it works without spawning people in stuck
- Fixed bug where looping sounds weren't destroyed when entities were destroyed
- All parented sounds and particles for all Actors are now destroyed when they are
- Fixed bug where armory arms opened on the wrong side (due to new random rotation of structures)
- Mask alien players' names from marines while gestating. This way, aliens can take advantage of the "camouflage" in the hive provided by all the other eggs (thanks Skyler!)
- Improvements and tweaks for all alien heal effects
- Added s_stats console command to display sound system statistics
- Added parasite animation and effect
- Added a tooltip for failing to place infestation as a Gorge
- Constrained the Gorge move velocity if building (used to work and then stopped for some reason)
- Added some tooltips to HydraAbility for failing to build Hydra
- Added additional profiling sections for particle related functions
- Increased infestation health from 250 to 500 to make currently slow-growing infestation from being wiped out too easily (especially at the hive)
- Fixed bug where Observatory could scan when it wasn't powered
- New pistol sounds
- Tweaks and iterations to guns and explosions (rifle, grenade launcher, shotgun)
- Parasite on power point goes away when power point destroyed
- Added back in marine/rifle/end
- Increased the amount of time the give damage indicator is visible from 0.25 to 1 second
You can always keep up to date with what we're working on for the next patch with our real-time progress tracker and please don't forget to subscribe to your new YouTube channel to get these updates ASAP!
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woot! great news! keep it up Max, Charlie, Matt, and Cory ^.^
I hope you guys end-up being a successful company and to work with you some day :D
I wanna price drop to 20 lol. I want this game but I haven't spend more then 20 dollars a month on games if that. Maybe next month I can buy this game... I feel bad for not jumping on the Special Edition this just gets better every patch.
(buried)
Yeah, at it's current price it's not a very attractive deal, completed or not, the Christmas 2 for 1 deal was great, me and my friends pitched in, 15$ a copy was a massive steal, 20$ sounds bout right. 25$ tops.
At current it's just kinda like "Yikes..."
Even if it is only beta.
Is it on desura?
steam-only so far...
really awesome video, mates! Keep it up :)
I think they should release a bundle with Overgrowth again, for those who have missed that. I basically got both games for the price of one, which is more than fair and was a big incentive at that time for me.
It must be a pain developing an ambitious game for so long and then running short on money. I wish the best to the team and hope they can finish the game that was originally one of the best Half-Life mods ever made. It has potential to be one of the best indie games, too.
Charlie.... You are my hero :)