Why do you (any users) not beleive me? Please unban all forums from any websites. Good Job, NS2-Developers – That is my idea old time ca. 1 or more than years. You Loser!! HAHAHA! Nice new game for HL².

Best regards, SnakeMedia
I have won about my idea at NS2 Developer.

Bought the special edition to thank them for NS and hopefully help them along with NS2!

Ah that explains alot and makes alot of sense… apart from the bacterial reaction to a threat is to create a creature to fight the threat but give him the wrong tools (teeth) to do it with!

The Devour = Bacterial infection sounds likely and a good explanation, but still, why give it herbivore teeth!?

VH2.nl :: 217.163.25.167:27015 (Dutch/Euro server)
NS TALENT :: 212.187.246.188:27015 (Euro server)
Able :: 217.163.31.208:27015 (Irish/Euro server)

Needless to say, all of those servers are primarily Classic only, although I think Able does have Combat maps (prefixed with “co_”) on the mapvote.

There are also quite a few less populated servers that supplement a lack of players with (usually only Alien) bots. The bots are very hard to kill once they get within striking range (competitive players have been known to train their aiming skills on the bots), but it does provide a less pressurised environment if you wanted to try out the Commander mode, for example. Often you’ll get random people joining on the Marine team who came there for the same reason.

If you’re Commanding, just remember the following golden rules:
1. Build an Infantry Portal. Without it, nobody in your team can respawn.
2. Build an Armory followed by an Observatory. The Observatory is a fairly crucial structure (as described below) and the Armory is required to dish out advanced weapons, and can supply ammo and health autonomously.
3. Never leave the Command chair to kill an Alien. Instead wait for a Marine to spawn to deal with the problem, or if the Alien threat is more immediate, click on the Observatory and use the Beacon feature to bring your entire team back to base.
4. Turrets are generally a waste of time. Unless you’re playing against bots, don’t invest any amount of resources in them.

Oh and if you get criticised, just explain that you’re new. The NS Community can respond badly to ‘newbs ruining their game’ but most are happy to help out newcomers who are upfront about this and don’t try to assert themselves in crucial positions, such as Commanding. Newbs can easily learn the ropes without any hassle just playing as a grunt Marine, sticking with teammates and following the Commander’s orders. That might sound a bit dry but a lot of the interest in NS to begin with is soaking up the atmosphere of walking through deserted ore refineries and empty spaceships and getting jumped (or eaten) by aliens. :)

For anyone that didn’t like NS or found it hard to get into, all signs seem to point towards the devs trying to make NS2 a more accessible game.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask the devs to PLEASE implement some sort of “spectator” client that would not remove a “slot” from the number of players, so that folks like me could watch the match without unbalancing the sides. This is a multiplayer game that I would buy at retail JUST to be able to watch matches between other players, the first game was so good.

All the competitive matches in NS have HLTV running, so 200 people can spectate without even being on the server.

Whether marine, commander, or one of the many evolutions of the aliens, there was always many flavors of excitement to have in the roles of the original Natural Selection. #1 mod in existence, IMLTHO.