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Natural Selection 2 has received a bunch of new updates. Here's a summary of what's happened over the past two months. Shadow Fade A ferocious new Fade model is available in the NS2 Item Store. This completely new version of the Fade was created by NS2 player and modeller extraordinaire: Howser. Take a look at it on the Shadow Fade site. Hive Status

Amanda and Brock have built a new Hive Status interface. Displayed in the top-left of the screen, it gives heaps of information about egg counts, upgrades, and hive health: Lots of things that were previously hidden, and potentially frustrating. It looks really cool, to boot! Slick New Tutorials

NS2 is a tough game to learn. It's part of the charm for many of us. But if player numbers are to grow, we need more new players to stick around. Trevor has been busting gut to create fantastic tutorials for new players.

Hit Responsiveness

This one is tricky to describe. But Skyler has made it his mission to make shooting aliens "feel better". Here's some examples: show enemy health bars when you've damaged them

improved responsiveness of hit feedback on crosshair and made hit feedback fade equation use a expontential fade instead of a linear

better feedback when an enemy dies, and ragdoll disappears faster

hitsounds enabled by default for new players ... not the sexiest sounding features, really. But they make a huge difference to how the game feels.

Exosuit Overhaul

Spitting dualie fire at skulks is one of life's little pleasures, but Exosuits were often frustrating machines. We've changed the way ejection, lights, locking and other elements work to make them more fun to play. Most importantly, they can now thrust in any direction.

Medpack Shakeup

Medpacks have received changes aimed at making them more fun to play with and against. They now heal 25 damage instantly, and 25 damage over time. You can read all the gory details on the development blog.

Translations are Back NS2 players come from all over the world. We have reconfigured and re-started the community translation site at translate.unknownworlds.com, and new languages are already available in game.



We hope you are enjoying all these changes to Natural Selection 2, and look forward to hearing what you think.



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- Unknown Worlds