Hello guys,,,,

I was thinking about adding singleplayer playable stages with the GREAT mod Natural Selection, why not you can make 3 style of gameplay, the first to play as a soldier in a squad, a commander and as an alien.



because it atomshpere helps to make the game exciting, horror, challenging.

of course without removing the multiplayer gameplay.

please tell me your opinion about that idea

Its a great idea, but its too big a step right now while theyre trying to perfect the beta version, plus HL2 is seeming very attractive though i dont suppose theres ever going to be a move.

Nice idea and id love to see it go.

I think they're more concentrating with balancing and bug fixing for the game...
but, i bet NS2 will have a single player, wait for that

I think, that they just don't want to programm an AI just for this.
Do they even have one? I guess: NO.

Back in 1.04, the gorges had an AI weapon - babblers. But they where under controll by the snark's AI, so I bet they don't have a clue about AI-Scripting or even Programming.

if a single player mode was to be made, it should be to develop new peoples' skills in alien classes and use of the com chair.

SIngle Player

itll be like the first thing to happen before Six days in sanjii.

how about the first encounter? and the genghis mining labs? or something from there.

A marine is sent onto a mining facility on top of a large asteroid to help out with little problems in there. The workers reported haveing parasitic burns from an unknown cause. The burns would hurt for a few minutres and then slowly go away. Many workers think thats theres something in the water thats causing the burns. thats where you come in, The first thing that you do is to go and familiar with your surroungds.

you make your way to the control room to see two workers fussing around with equipment and a monitor.

you take a a look at the LCD monitor. two marines are guarding a large drill and a 10 workers. The scientist is bald, with gray hair, somewhat fat and a scar on his eye. He seems very excited on whats on the opposite side of the cold, brown rock.

"Alright, only two more feet to go" says a short and stocky worker with a red jumpsuit.

Your thinking " whats so valuable in here? and whats that smell.."

you have to go back and and put ur stuff into ur bunk. along the way you encounter a marine holding some heavy boxes full of equipment. He Says" hey, buddy, you forgot your armor, your pistol oh and the crappy grenade.l" he hands you the T.S.A nano armor and the standard pistol. only 10 shots but very accurate and deadly. " oh and hold this LMG? " " i gotta tie these boots" bends down to tie his laces and moves on with his box "

you yell " hey wait you forgot the LMG" but hes too far away and thinking you'll return it to him later..

nearing your bunk,you see a group of workers in shock and surprise over a couple monitors filled with static. a worker says " damn it, the cameras must be outta batteries already" gets up and walks to the storage. you look at the black and white monitor to see a the drill and little dog like creatures running and swarming over the marines, you recognize the marine before holding the box, he dropped his box and primes his grenade. the screen goes back into static.

You hear a loud explosion in the direction where the Marine was going. a long metallic groan and you know the area has being sealed offw with dirt and boulders.


you hear a snarl behind you and slowly turn around...

WTH the scientist is bald WITH grey hair? lol .

that story would be a nice replace for that crapy intro fake movie with the lasers on the heads of the marines...

HP/AP/Damage would have to be tweaked, as having the player go down in 2-4 hits which could happen within a second or two would kind of ruin single player... Kind of like the snipers in the mod HL Invasion

Good idea. But most Single player games have a variety of weapons..and NS does not. I was thinking maybe make it like combat, but it takes a very long time to level up.

As for the AI that the only area we have a problem

Im happy with the current weapons selection.

As for AI, you never know what NS has in store for us, there already are AI developers getting better with the NS layout. Things like:

RCbot
WhichBot
Hivemind

However it wouldnt suprise me if those 3 makers were somewhat p***ed off that we keep releasing the same dam maps with lil changes that renders the AIs walkpaths/waypoints almost useless.

An official AI may be even done, i think NS are holding some projects back, but to tell the truth, i aint ready. Are you?

Yeah, I'm ready. The waypointed bots are just to stupid, imho. they cant react properly to a thread because they only have their hardcoded waypoints and can't move out of them - one time, as i tested a bot, the bots tryed to jump up a handrail which was impossible... stupid bits!

what's hivemind? O_o

Omg... HES BALD! with gray hair on the sides!!(around the ears)

when your bald you dont lose the hair on ur sides because the DNA there RESIST detachment from the scalp!

dont you guys watch t.v.?

cause it would be boring as hell i think.....

its bad nuff playing with nubs let alone bots,

but mainly because it would be a lot of work for somebody to just play once and then delete.


look how crappy CS: czero is .

you could ask the teams that working for RCBot and Whichbot and Hivemind to join hands with you so they can make AI and you can develop the mod

he he he he

Hi again,,,,

I recently have got the CZ bot Files,,, will it help you in the making of the official AI ??