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Natural Selection 2 is the sequel to the popular Half-Life mod Natural Selection. It is built on our own engine and will be distributed through Valve's Steam platform.

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We have confirmed with Valve that pre-orders will transfer properly to Steam! As you know, we have been funded largely by preorders although many of you have been patiently waiting to hear if pre-orders would let you download and play the game on Steam later. The answer is YES!

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Pre-ordering now gives immediate access to NS2 mapping tools and artwork as well as early access to the alpha or beta when ready. We are now testing our engine with a small number of players and will expand that to everyone that has pre-ordered the Special Edition shortly.


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phipe
phipe - - 519 comments

This announcement made me happier than Mr. Bison. Honestly.

"YEAAASHSHH! YEASSHHH!"

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cortez666
cortez666 - - 158 comments

nice one

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klemen1702
klemen1702 - - 131 comments

omg beta hurry pls i need this!!! so bad!!!

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SinKing
SinKing - - 3,119 comments

cool! glad you sorted that out. Seems that Valve understands the potential of this unique and fun game.

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gizzle
gizzle - - 31 comments

Will the beta also be available over steam or ist is just for final ??

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GunShip05
GunShip05 - - 322 comments

Nice!

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Undying_Zombie
Undying_Zombie - - 495 comments

Really nice... even though I would not mind pre-ordering this. I think I will wait for it to show up on steam first. I just really don't like using paypal or any service like it.

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Mars_3K
Mars_3K - - 729 comments

I must be one of those fortunate individuals who have never had any difficulties with it whatsoever.

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Soulseker
Soulseker - - 137 comments

You know even over steam you have to use a server like paypal ? lol

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Commander1985
Commander1985 - - 19 comments

Credit Card owners can pay with that too, if they have em. Well i still prefer PP.

BTW. Nice to see that NS2 will be available in the near Future. I played the first Part of it and it was Great! I wish you good luck guys with your new one, hope its as good as the first one. I think it will be ;)

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Luke_Allstar
Luke_Allstar - - 45 comments

Nice!
Will download it when it's available on steam

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Noremakk
Noremakk - - 189 comments

Awesome! It's great to see another independent game showing up on Steam; it truly is the best place for them.

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Worldwideweb
Worldwideweb - - 111 comments

and this is one of the best indie's i've ever seen.....i mean an indie game with this graphics O.o

^^

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deceiver
deceiver - - 28 comments

Great news!

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barronofhellion
barronofhellion - - 294 comments

this is great news i actually was holding off for them to get it up on steam , then gave in to the pressure and got it anyways.... then hear this and am happy :)

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radutanasie
radutanasie - - 949 comments

YES! This made my day :D

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Axozombie
Axozombie - - 32 comments

awesome :o

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Xendrid
Xendrid - - 145 comments

Good news. I'll be pre-ordering when I get my next paycheck.

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slayersarge
slayersarge - - 138 comments

Awesome, though I am guessing you just use your pre-order code to unlock the beta or alpha on steam and the game itself. Or will we have to confirm our steam names and such?

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Anddos
Anddos - - 390 comments

(buried)

Lets all preorder something thats not complete

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radutanasie
radutanasie - - 949 comments

It's called supporting.

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mothmann
mothmann - - 62 comments

3 words... Duke Nukem Forever... but I'm sure thats not the case here.

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TheVidmaster
TheVidmaster - - 623 comments

HOW exactly will it work?

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MattB1023
MattB1023 - - 90 comments

That's what I want to know!

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Xular
Xular - - 31 comments

well theres only one way: register your cd key on steam, eh?

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reconswe
reconswe - - 1 comments

yey

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Craka_J
Craka_J - - 616 comments

Grats with the confirmation. I expected this, but am glad it's for sure now going to be available via Steam!

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gizzle
gizzle - - 31 comments

Another question i got is will one still be able to preorder when beta launches ?

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jmz
jmz - - 172 comments

great to here guys

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dave_5430
dave_5430 - - 2,114 comments

... I hope it ain't as bloody overpowered as the first one... I still hate NS 'cause of random bugs that weren't removed till the last versions... never got back into it.

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Tron619
Tron619 - - 254 comments

No...I couldnt stop it

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omegapaine
omegapaine - - 23 comments

So alpha's coming out? Kick-***!

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sauerfreak
sauerfreak - - 243 comments

This just made my day. :DDDDD

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MrCowThing
MrCowThing - - 109 comments

This game will be on Steam? Pre-ordering now.

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kleptox213
kleptox213 - - 34 comments

do you think you guys can release a short demo, I just want to see if I can run NS2 well on my laptop

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lethal_vortex
lethal_vortex - - 271 comments

nice :)

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy - - 761 comments

Congrats :D

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Ethako
Ethako - - 230 comments

Yay! =D

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Rukus_
Rukus_ - - 660 comments

FUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Was expecting a release date with this though :/

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