Natural Selection Mod to get Sequel, Source port

kingphreak writes "The popular Half-Life mod, Natural-Selection is undergoing an update. Natural-Selection: Source (a port of the original to the new Half-Life 2 Source Engine) and Natural-Selection 2 have been announced. It is not known by Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland and the rest of the NS Team whether NS:S will be a direct port or whether NS2 will use the Source Engine, UT2004 Engine, etc." They're currently testing Beta 6 within the community.

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Clarification

[Guspaz]

When the news post said this: " It is not known by Charlie "Flayra" Cleveland and the rest of the NS Team whether NS:S will be a direct port or whether NS2 will use the Source Engine, UT2004 Engine, etc."

To clarify that, NS:Source and NS2 are two different products. NS:Source would be a free Source mod, and NS2 will be a commercial product, who's engine hasn't yet been decided (though Source and Unreal Engine 3 are two engines that Flayra mentioned as possibilities).

According to Flayra (Charlie Cleveland), NS2 will be a ~$50 game (In other words mainstream), and will require a multimillion dollar budget to pull off, in addition to requiring several years of development.

Normally for a first time developer to get such a huge budget would be rare, but Charlie has proven with the original NS that he can put out a cutting-edge genre-defining game that pushes the rendering engine to the limit. That will count for something.