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Description

Natural Selection 2 is an immersive, multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival. It seamlessly combines shooter and RTS/strategy gameplay.

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Two Unique Sides:
Whether you play as one of the elite marine Frontiersmen or the vicious alien Kharaa, you must use unique strategies and your abilities to win. Marines form persistent squads to find and destroy alien hives. Aliens can choose a wall-running Skulk, pudgy Gorge, flying Lerk, murderous Fade or gigantic Onos that can smash through doors.
Real-time Strategy:
Commanders play from overhead to lead their team to victory. Build structures anywhere, collect resources and research upgrades. Marines buy weapons at an Armory or build sentry turrets and siege cannons to assault the enemy. Aliens build upgrade chambers, evolve special abilities and plant traps.
Dynamic Environments:
Use a flamethrower to clear the spreading alien infestation. Aliens destroy power nodes knock out the lights and power down marine structures. Random start locations mean you must scout your enemy and before committing to a build. Every game is different.
Unlimited Variations:
WYSIWYG graphical tools and powerful scripting allow you to create new weapons, scenarios or entirely new games. You’ll get all our tools (level editor, cinematic tool and more) as well as the full Lua source code to Natural Selection 2. Version 1.0 is just the beginning – ongoing automatic updates keep the game fresh by adding new maps, weapons and abilities. Steam Workshop support and auto-downloading makes playing and distributing mods automatic - and gameplay always fresh.

Recent News for Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2 Updated - 30^th April 2013
Optimization Sped up server start times by pre-computing hashes for files for consistency checking Improvement It is no longer possible to spam console commands on the Client Sound effects are now entity based and inherit the relevancy of their triggering entity Added custom HUD indication for exosuit thrusters By default, the consistency configuration file will include all file types except UI te...
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Natural Selection 2 Updated - 6^th April 2013
Change Reduced extractor death and Spikes tracer effect intensity. Distress beacon sound has no longer a distance restriction. Feature Added capturing of dump information from the TechSupport.exe tool if NS2.exe is running. Clicking an already selected hot group will cause the view to jump to the units position. Fix Fixed “runtime error” that occurred sometimes on map change. Fixed bug w...
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Free Weekend - Natural Selection 2, 50% off! - 21^st March 2013
Play Natural Selection 2 for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Natural Selection 2 at 50% off the regular price! Natural Selection 2 is an immersive, multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival. It seamlessly combines a shooter/FPS gameplay with a strategy (RTS) game. If you already have Steam in...
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Natural Caution: The Perils Of Cheap Game Keys - 8^th March 2013
Here’s a cautionary tale, and a stark reminder that digital goods are still the World Wide Wild West. While a majority of PC games these days seem to ultimately involve a Steam key (which is itself an understandably controversial state of affairs), ownership of one of those keys can be sold by any number of third parties. So we see online stores both reputable and troublesome striving to off...
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Natural Selection 2 Update Released - 7^th March 2013
In the battle that is the shipping of a big patch, we do our best to achieve total victory. The bane of our development lives is the ‘hotfix.’ Hotfixes are horrible. They suck up disproportionate amounts of development time, they are inefficient uses of development resources, and just generally suck. But try as we might to avoid them, sometimes they are needed. Gorgeous needed one, and h...
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