Pokerface

Tonight at 7pm Eastern (4pm Pacific), the Natural Selection development team is slated to release the final version of NS 3.2 (according to the Natural Selection game site).

As always, Tactical Gamer will be your place for top-notch Natural Selection gaming. Our servers will be converted as soon as feasible, meaning that your gaming experience may be interrupted in order to update the server files.

We have been given permission to open the client download for Supporting Members 15 minutes before the actual release time. So not only will SMs get it fast, they'll get it early.

As with every upgrade, not everything may work as it typically does, and we encourage the community to report any issues here in the fora so that we can find them and squash them.

As of the time of this writing, the changelog goes as follows:

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(as reported here)
o Balance/Gameplay Changes
- Increased resource tower health from 5000 to 5500.
- Halved the hive3 armor bonus ( 3.2 Hive 3 will be equal to 3.1 Hive 2 )
- Reduced the 'drag' on lerks when climbing by about 20%
- Increased the charge pushback slightly.
- An alien near a sensory chambers cloaks at level 3
- Using an MC or a Hive causes an alien to uncloak.

o Added cl_hudmapzoom
- cvar that controls the zoom level of the in-hud minimap.
- Value 0: No minimap is shown
- Value 1: Default view
- Value 2: Zoom in X2
- Value 3: Zoom in X3 ( current 3.1 view )

o Added Mines and Welder to the scoreboard

o Bugfixes and other changes
- gorges under attack now flash red on hivesight.
- Webs can not be destroyed by friendly fire.
- Fixed a demo playback lockup.
- Minor server performance improvements.
- Updated titles.txt for 3.2
- added hungarian translation ( Thanks HatlabuFarkas )

o Updated ns_nancy
- Mother hive has been tweaked some to be bit more alien friendly.
- Bug where some grid floors were causing the commander to be inable to place items on them has been resolved.
- More optimizations in some areas.

o Updated ns_machina
- changelog to follow

o Updated ns_origin to the remake project from Menes
- Replaced Biodome elevators with stairs
- Modified Biodome architecture
- Moved Biodome resource node to North-East of the hive room
- Added a vent North-East of Biodome leading to the existing vent system
- Moved Xenoform Research resource node to Power Core
- Modified Power Core architecture
- Added a weldable vent in Power Core leading to the existing vent system
- Added a vent connecting the two vent systems of the Biodome area
- Added height alterations to the vent between Biodome and Ventilation
- Lowered the height of the Cargo Bay ladders
- Added a vent connecting the vent systems above Industrial Ante-Chamber and Cargo Bay
- Added a vent leading to Coolant Monitoring from the Ventilation/Furnace vent
- Modified the height and the length of Ore Extraction
- Modified the hallway leading to Furnace from Ore Extraction
- Modified the conveyor hallways between Ore Extraction and Cargo Bay to allow an onos to pass
- Moved Furnace hive slightly to the East
- Fixed Computer Lab railings not blocking fire
- Fixed not being able to drop structures and items on certain parts of the floor in Lava Catwalk
- Modified the Cargo Bay elevators to prevent instant killing (they now do 45 damage per second)
- Fixed problem where an onos would need to duck to pass in the Ventilation vents
- Fixed the ceiling of Ore Scanner blocking the commander's view
- Fixed stuck issues in Ventilation
- Fixed clipping issues with the Biodome floor
- Fixed sprites appearing in the corner of Cargo Bay
- Fixed unintuitive clipping preventing players from going in various areas/corners
- Modified the spawn points in each hive and in Control Room (marine start)
- Modified the ready room
- Modified slightly/greatly the texturing in many areas

micr0c0sm

a) this is the beta2 -> final changelog. Once the full 3.1->3.2 changelog is up check back on this thread.

Pokerface

It's less about requesting the files and more about having the time to set them up.

And according to this site, the actual age in dog years is 25.8. The editors regret this error.

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Pokerface

Bump for the bolded information.

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<LazyEye> yeah when I play on TG the server digs though my trash
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micr0c0sm

<3 TG. Great job poker!

Wyzcrak

Thank you, Poker, for getting this file hosted on TG's downloads so quickly. Great value for me.

I got home late from a very busy day at work, and being able to sit down, begin the download from our Downloads section immediately (no hunting for mirrors; no waiting), and have a 150MB game download pulled down and installed in less than 10 minutes is, frankly, awesome.

The fact that the NS team gave it to us early is just icing on the cake.

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micr0c0sm

Daaaayam is there polish on this one. I have a feeling this version of ns will satisfy everyone, and last a loooooong time to come. If it doesn't I blame shroompicker.