Calling all rookies and veterans! Further your knowledge of Natural Selection and gain a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie by joining the newcomer draft tournament! New to competitive? Play on a team, get coached, make risky plays! Veteran player? Profess your love for smashing in your opponent’s teeth by teaching players how to ‘git gud.’

The NSL is hosting a brand new Newcomer’s Draft tournament! Read more about it by clicking the link. This is a great opportunity for new players and veterans alike to come together and share knowledge, come up with sneaky gorge tunnel strats, exo rush your way to victory, but most importantly have fun! The tournament begins on June 18th at 12pm EST/ 6pm …

After the successful construction of a new mining station on asteroid codename: Kodiak, the crew of the Industrial Construction Vessel “Caged” sent out a distress signal. ALTERRA Corp quickly dispatched a private military unit to investigate the source of the distress, what they found was an empty vessel and no signs of human life…

Welcome to Caged, the newest official map in the NS2 universe. A throwback to the original NS1 Map by Nelson ‘manah’ Ferryman, Flaterectomy and other community contributors and testers have worked to honor the original but also offer a new take for the current state of play. Caged offers players a fun four techpoint map with plenty of res and unique rooms and corridors for …

Greetings!

Squad 5 badges are handed out by the Natural Selection 2 community and us developers to show our  eternal gratitude to those who helped growing NS2 and its community.

Anybody who makes a sustained, positive, and reasonable effort to support NS2 and / or the vibrancy of its community may be awarded with a blue icon.

Silver and Gold are 'big deals' and are only awarded extremely sparingly for outstanding efforts.

Thank you all for your contributions even if you haven’t made it into Squad 5 yet, and thank you to those who took the time to nominate them.

Note that the only way a community member can be considered for Squad 5 is if YOU nominate them here…

It’s time for the next round of Squad 5 awards!

This batch of recipients are comprised of somewhat lesser known individuals who have still made amazing contributions to our game and community. This is exactly what this program is meant for, publicly recognizing those lesser known for their hard work.

Be sure to try out the fruits of their labor when applicable, so that you can determine for yourself the level commitment that is associated with being a Squad 5 recipient, and because these people have spent hundreds of hours all towards something they hope that you will enjoy.

Note that the only way a member can be considered for Squad 5 is if YOU nominate them here!

Be …

The Kharra horde continues their push into the galaxy. The TSF are overrun.

Only a few survive to face the Last Stand.

 

Last Stand is a fast-paced twitch-shooter mod for NS2. There is no commander. Only you, your skill and your friends. Play as either Alien or Marine in a final showdown on over 10 maps.

Designed with low player counts in mind, play all the way up to 24 players and win the fight for glory!

Last Stand was a Mod developed a few years ago originally by a number of people at Unknown Worlds during a Mod jam. Since then in their spare time Samusdroid, Ghoul and a few other community members have had a hand …

One month has past since our spotlight about NS2News.org. So it’s time for another community spotlight.

This time we are humbled to present one of the longest actively maintained Natural Selection 2 game mode modifications to you: The Faded

The Faded is available on the Natural Selection 2 Steam Workshop or directly via the in-game server browser.

Hi,

Let me introduce myself a bit. My name is Katzenfleisch (my online nick, not my birth name :)).

I’m a developer who likes to spend some of his spare time on NS2: The Faded. You might also see me around as a Lerk in vanilla games or in command of the deadly ‘Faded’. Now we’re acquainted, suit yourself up and get …

Some of you may know about a little program that started, called Squad 5.

It was a UWE initiative which publicly recognizes and awards certain nominated community members for their contributions to Natural Selection 2 and its community, by means of an in-game badge. While it has been a great way to show thanks to the unparalleled level of dedication that our community demonstrates, it has had a checkered past. From being dropped entirely for years, to being delayed for months, all while hidden in a little sub forum of its own for very few to see.

I am here to announce that the program is once again alive and kicking, but this time we will be proudly displaying these …

Without doubt the community is what makes Natural Selection 2 so unique and special.

The passion of many community members goes beyond the game and lets them start projects to support this community and the game in every possible way. Many of those projects have influenced Natural Selection 2 in various ways but sadly often didn’t got the attention they deserve.

So it’s time to give those projects some spotlight. Now without further delay I’ll let Pelargir introduce his current project NS2News.org:

Let me introduce myself first, I’m Pelargir and I’m typing up this post to present you our latest project: NS2News.

So what is NS2News ? For those who haven’t heard about it yet, NS2News is a …

Hi everyone.

One of the things we’re actively trying to improve is the way we communicate with the community. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to reach us and each other.

As well as continuing to use Trello, we’ve started up a new Trello Board for our activities to allow you to follow our development progress. We will continue to use the forum and this development blog to post announcements and interact, but we think there is now a new faster, more fluid way we can communicate in the future.

Discord is a relatively new chat & voice service. It’s a combination of Slack, Skype & Teamspeak all in one. We’ve been testing if …