Post by Dan @ 10:39am 27/05/14 | 8 Comments
Continuing its tradition of unorthodox game development, Natural Selection 2 developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment has permitted a community team to continue development of the multiplayer shooter while they focus on their next game, Subnautica (thanks Rock, Paper, Shotgun).
A detailed forum post by explains that a community dev team -- referring to themselves as NS2CDT -- consisting of 14 Natural Selection 2 players from around the world, will be working on forthcoming patches for the game.
It means that now with Unknown World’s blessing, we as a community can forge patch 266. We can hopefully start to incorporate the best the community has to offer, such as bug fixes and popular features...with many more ideas for the future!Open game development seems like a great idea. Hopefuly they don't make a mess of it, so we can see more of this kind of thing.
For the everyday player, they can now rest easy knowing that NS2’s future developments will be in the trusted hands of a team of experienced NS2 players just like them, who only wish to see NS2 become bigger and better than ever before! There is potential for greatness, but we will have many hurdles to overcome along the way. While these things take time to implement and grow, we plan on being very open with what we are actively working on. Afterall, it is by the community, for the community!
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Posted 10:42am 27/5/14
Posted 10:49am 27/5/14
Posted 11:29am 27/5/14
Also sounds kind of awesome too. Hopefully they take the Gorge back to earlier levels of awesome. I missed having unlimited troves of those plant turrets because that was a large part of the class.
When they nerfed it down to only 3, I was sad. I stopped playing gorge soon after.
Posted 11:31am 27/5/14
Posted 03:06pm 27/5/14
As far as being "lazy", the developers worked extremely hard to get NS2 off the ground. Except it's likely not making money any more. They're smart to try and move onto something else and make sure the future of the game still gets attention rather than having it die from neglect.
I still have a spare free copy to gift on Steam (bought the 4pack) if anyone is interested in trying it out.
Message me (http://www.ausgamers.com/messaging/write.php?to=10049754) if you want it.
Posted 03:40pm 27/5/14
Posted 03:55pm 27/5/14
Posted 01:03am 28/5/14
With regard to the community development announcement - it's actually a fantastic move by UWE. We will be getting so many more bug fixes/game improvements now that these community leaders are involved in NS2 moving forward. Many of these 'community devs' worked with UWE in making the game in the first place, some being part time devs on the team, some contractors etc. UWE still has oversight of what they do, so there is still a process of quality assurance etc.
It's an exciting time because there is potential for a lot more content, performance increases, and quality of life improvements ahead for the game that will ensure it continues to be played.