Natural Selection Half-Life Mod Reaches 3.0 Beta

Posted by simoniker on Sunday January 25, 2004 @06:23PM from the only-the-strong-mods-survive dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the official Natural Selection page, where V3.0 Beta of the Half-Life mod "hybrid first-person/real-time strategy game" is now available. According to the page, changes include 10 new maps, as well as the addition of Natural Selection: Combat, a "...new fast and furious gameplay mode focusing on intense action. Combat games generally last less than ten minutes, and require very little knowledge to play." The mod can now be played using the add-on's "official Steam support", and will be "...listed under the 'My Games' section (not as a 3rd-party mod)", a laudable achievement for the Natural Selection developers, who've also implemented vital "skulk prediction fixes" for this update.

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Re:Quick problem / fix with NS 3.0 beta by Sparr0 · 2004-01-26 03:21 · Score: 4, Informative

Few CS players will move to CS2, because HL2 will be written well. No more "click on the head, get a head shot" bullshit like in HL/CS. CS players, as a general rule, are incapable of dealing with engines where you have to lead targets for motion and lag. This revelation only recently came to me. I play CS rarely, but after many years I never understood why I performed so poorly. About a month ago someone actually explained to me how aim works in CS (just click on your target). All this time I had been leading my targets. This rift is not easily crossed, and is why CS2, if it ever exists, will not draw a significant number of people from CS.