Tundra Update Released
New cosmetic items are now available in Natural Selection 2! Tundra adds ice-cold Shotgun, Rifle, Exosuit, and marine armor paint jobs to the battlefield. These items are available now in the brand new Natural Selection 2 item store.

Those of you with keen eyes might have noticed something different about these items. Unlike previous cosmetic items, which were Steam Store DLC packs, these items are available individually as part of the Steam Economy. Much like items in Rust. This means you can choose to buy only the pieces of the Tundra pack you really want. You can also sell and trade the items.


All this new functionality has great potential for Natural Selection 2's future. Instead of just making and shoveling out packs of cosmetic garbage, the NS2 development team can take signals from the Steam Economy, and work on things people actually really want. We could potentially work together with community creators to put sweet new customization options into NS2. Specific actions - Such as helping new players, or winning a particular NSL tournament, could result in the award of dedicated items.

To fill up your Steam Inventory, run NS2 and then select 'Player Customization' from the main menu. NS2 will talk to Steam for a little bit, and then all your items will appear in your Steam Inventory. If you buy a Tundra Bundle from the Item Store, do the same thing and select 'unpack bundle' to unpack all the Tundra items into your Inventory.


- Added a bar on the main menu to show your progress to the next hive level
- Added all new Tundra items (Armor, Exosuit, Shotgun, Rifle, and Shoulder Patch)
- Changed all previous customization variants to be items instead of DLC (except Black Armor)
- Added ability to open the Tundra Bundle from within the customize menu
- Added simple event recording system, so we can track things like tutorial completion rates and if new players are viewing the tip videos
Fixes
- Fixed case where rifle could have the wrong texture
- Fixed not being able to see skins of other players while spectating in first person
- Commander dropped equipment will be of the commander's selected variant
- Fixed animation issue with Rifles which may have caused issues with its animation graph (might fix gun jams, please report!)
- Tweaked numbers again to try to fix redplug issues when a client alt+tabs (introduced in build 283)
- Increased snapshot history on servers to 3 seconds instead of 2
- Changed time until throttling of alt+tabbed clients to 2.8 seconds instead of 1 second
- Fixed inconsistencies in the consistency checker causing consistency checks to sometimes fail
ns2_derelict
- Added some new vents from Garage to Alley and Offices to help give aliens more flank routes
- Added some objects to block sight lines in Alley, to prevent window sniping
- Added some objects to block sight lines in Turbines
- Added new vent from Botany to Plaza/Bridge