Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2

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this game is losing players
as much as i hated the free weekend it added a bunch of new players, why does this game have such a low amount of players...
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1. Big learning curve
2. Performance issues
3. Lack of matchmaking/skill ranking to keep veteran players from walking all over complete newbies which leads to a lot of frustration for new players

Hopefully they'll have a bunch of #2 sorted out in their patch later this week. #1 is an ongoing process that will probably never be solved entirely, and #3 is in the works as well since they just added a global stat/skill tracking system with Reinforced. Whether or not anything more concrete will come of it remains to be seen.
Ultima modifica da Hobocop; 17 set 2013, ore 0:46
Messaggio originale di Deft-Tech:
as much as i hated the free weekend it added a bunch of new players, why does this game have such a low amount of players...

You connect at a bad time.

http://steamcharts.com/app/4920#1m

The West Coast populationis pretty low compared to the European players. Game peaks with European players.

Also, bad optimization plays a role.
Some reasons:

1) Niche game from indi studio.
(not so famous / well known like other titles.)

2) Steep learning curve.
(too much for most dumb players nowadays... they leave because 2 complicated.)

3) Requires REAL team-play where you have to listen each other.
(Not what the standard COD / Deathmatch / "I do what I want" ego- kid wants to play.)

4) No big commercial campaigns like other games.
(Less Customers)

5) Not available in "normal" gaming stores as DVD-Box
(Less Customers)

6) Only available for PC.
(Less Customers)

7) Extreme Resource Hungry.
(Many players have problems with performance and don't want to know technical details... "I can play COD / Battlefield, but this does not work!?")

8) Too much changes / Bugs at the free weekend.
(Got a bad reputation?)

9) Too much pub-stomping and yelling at rookies compared with (long time) outdated tutorials and no real "sandbox-mode".
Ultima modifica da Un!ted20; 17 set 2013, ore 0:50
^ Have to completely agree
havent been playing for days now becuase of the performance issues. there is no fun in dogfighting when on your screen you fully pump an alien with a shotgun but they dont die and then they warp into your face and your dead -.-
Yeah I have noticed the warping as well. Running everything full settings and never had any issues until more recently. It's barley noticeable on good servers but sometimes it can make the game unplayable.
Ultima modifica da Thaiden; 17 set 2013, ore 8:29
Still keeping my eye open form time to time, but in break. giving the new guys a while to learn a bit of the dynamics, hopefully from guys with mics. Having trouble getting a server slots - seriously the one server, I wait for a slot if I get one and in time, [moderate ping] not get kicked as someone connected quiker, I might just get a disconnected from server after precaching.
A lot of players are having problems since the free weekend Reinforcement patch and are waiting for it to be fixed. As i understand it, a patch is due this thursday to fix a lot of these bugs so hopefully the servers will be busy at the weekend, hopefully :)
NS2 is doing better now than before the free weekend.
Messaggio originale di Hobocop:
1. Big learning curve
2. Performance issues
3. Lack of matchmaking/skill ranking to keep veteran players from walking all over complete newbies which leads to a lot of frustration for new players

Hopefully they'll have a bunch of #2 sorted out in their patch later this week. #1 is an ongoing process that will probably never be solved entirely, and #3 is in the works as well since they just added a global stat/skill tracking system with Reinforced. Whether or not anything more concrete will come of it remains to be seen.

Pretty much this, I watched some videos and couldn't wait to play it!

Played a match as marines and got really annoyed as the aliens jump all over the screen at 500mph and seem nigh on impossible to hit or kill.

Oh well I thought I'll try alien! get pin point shot in every match dying in seconds with no chance to get any kills!

Oh well I thought maybe if I practise it'll get better... sadly the 3rd match never happened as its kept refusing to let me join games since. It just saying its caching for AGES then says I timed out. This is whats annoying me most I've literally played 3 games and have yet to find a pc game I can't play yet due to my pc (its not exactly amazing but its 3.2Ghz with a gforce GTX 650 and 8gig ram) I've just not been able to get this to work. Tried for ages as I really wanted to play it but eventually I just gave up trying
Messaggio originale di random mutation:
NS2 is doing better now than before the free weekend.

Barely.

http://steamcharts.com/app/4920#1m
I'm a fresh player from free weekend, and the game is pretty frustrating. I don't know if it patched or if I'm just playing against vets but it's so frustrating. It's become alot harders to kill the basic aliens (alot more ammo) the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bird is so fast it's ridiculously stupid. Aliens just seems to get off increibly easy. You play as a marine buy some equipment when you die it's gone, you have to shell out for another. You die as an Alien, and oh well I'll just evolve again thanks. Marines get the shaft.
Messaggio originale di Rick Chambers:
I'm a fresh player from free weekend, and the game is pretty frustrating. I don't know if it patched or if I'm just playing against vets but it's so frustrating. It's become alot harders to kill the basic aliens (alot more ammo) the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bird is so fast it's ridiculously stupid. Aliens just seems to get off increibly easy. You play as a marine buy some equipment when you die it's gone, you have to shell out for another. You die as an Alien, and oh well I'll just evolve again thanks. Marines get the shaft.

Actually, losing a lifeform is much more punishing for aliens because marines can salvage weapons dropped by dead teammates. Aliens have no such luxury, and combat lifeform egg drops from the commander are super expensive and are a pretty big risk due to how much aliens have to spend on everything else they need to keep up with marines.
Ultima modifica da Hobocop; 17 set 2013, ore 21:59
http://translate.unknownworlds.com/ you can contribute for that.
And why should a project be unfinished if it doesn't have Russian text?
It doesn't have any other languages to begin with and it's fine since it's a small indie studio.
why ? because english is the International-Most Common Language

beside , you guys must have sympathy for game-developers

Try to creat a video game and sell it on Steam USA :D You can understand their feeling
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