Winter Pause, Playoffs, & the Next Things...

Pause & Playoffs

As we approach the finals days of 2014, we also arrive at the final stages of Season 5. With the holiday schedule, a new NS2 build, and issues with the Steam workshop, we were unable complete all the matches before the end of year break. Congratulations to Gnarcolepsy Lite for winning the Division 1 Finals. If you missed the cast, it was on Feathermonster's channel. Every other division will be able to schedule and finish up their matches after Christmas and in January.

There's been a lot of rumors that CompMod (ModID e5ffa15) has been broken. We've been reassured by Dragon that all of his mods are compatible with Build 272. The main issue seems to be connecting to the Steam Workshop and downloading it in game. Whether it's a bug with how NS2 handles the downloading of mods or an overload of the Workshop servers during the Winter Steam Sale remains unknown, but it's likely the latter. It also doesn't affect the majority of players. If this problem does happen to you and you can't download a mod, have someone with a working version of the mod go to their Appdata folder and zip up the particular mod folder you need and unzip and replace in the appropriate place on your system. You can go to the Appdata folder by pressing the windows key and R. That will bring up a Run prompt. Open %appdata% and go to your Natural Selection 2/Workshop folder.

and the Next Thing

Many may be wonder what will be happening with the NSL in 2015. Our goal is to continue to run competitions for NS2 as long as it is viable. As long as there are people playing and wanting to compete, at any level, in a more organized setting, we will do our best to accomodate those needs. While the specifics haven't been stamped out yet there's already been much conversations about a potential ladder system and some future tournaments in the NSL before the start of the next season. There's even a survey for you to fill so we can hear your opinions. We request your participation.

The new year will promptly bring a collaboration with our friends from AusNS2. We'll be bringing you the AusNS2/NSL Pacific Cup. Sign ups and more information will be provided shortly. As we figure out the format for the next season, sign ups for Season 6 will be opened after the new year begins also. Don't worry, there's still gas in the tank.

However you celebrate, have a great festive season. Stay kind and stay safe.