NS2 Marine!

Looks really good.

Nice metal texture! It does indeed look like a concept!

yo NS2 crew i'm really happy for you, and i'm gonna let you finish. but starcraft 2 has to have one of the best space marine models of all time!

kidding aside, that looks pretty sweet.

looks....amazing!

how are the tools and editors? pondering on pre-ordering for early access

When can I pre-order this

Reminds me of the Quake1 guy, the way the face is lined by the helmet sides.

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When can I pre-order this

http://www.naturalselection2.com/ Click on the right side where it sais "Pre order now"

I preordered the day it was available, cant wait

that does indeed look alot less dorky than the marine model form ns1 *runs* !

good stuff ! can totaly see why people believed it was concept art !

Spot on

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Is that barak obama ?

hahahahaha

Looks awesome guys!

I miss the cyclops-helmet thing the NS1 marine had though (and I think the female marine is waaaaaayyy sexier with it on the old concept art!)

Can.. can I be a dick here?

The technical aspects of it are great, the texturing and modeling look to be really solid and I can totally buy into the idea behind it.

But it's a little "generic space marine" right? Master Chief meets Doom Guy meets any one of the 100 or so "space marine saves earth from aliens" characters we've had in the last 5 or 10 years?

Am I being a dick for wanting to perhaps have something a little different? Something a little niche, perhaps more workman-like, not so over-the-top? Seems all this metal would be hard to move in, restrictive and perhaps a bit too heavy?

Or is it just a case of: all those other marines were pussies, the NS marines are what the "space marine saves earth" genre has been waiting for?

Also, bump.

Personally i think you guys should of changed the colour scheme... Green seems so overly used.

My favourite futuristic marine type soldier are the ones from final fantasy spirites within --> http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ccrame/Imag ... y%2034.jpg

or the bf2142 ones ---> http://z.about.com/d/compactiongames/1/ ... 42_039.jpg

Oh i wasn't saying NS should go with those designs. Those just happen to be some of my favs. However i do not like the colour scheme of the green they got going on there despite the old ones being green as well...

To be honest i wish more games would go with a different approach with the armour than what they currently are doing. Not sure why every game has to go with the steel armour look. I guess thats why i like 2142 because its more like body armour that is fabric more so than metal.

edit: Mass Effect is a good example of what good sci fi armour should look like imo

Yeah, the old NS marines were cool as hell, but that was like nearly 10 years ago. We've had a lot of space marines since then. I think Killzone 2 took the idea of technology in the future and really made it work well.

Yes I agree there, the tendency for most futuristic depictions of armour to be this big metal stuff is a bit weird and not particularly imaginative. While this new Natural Selection armour is very well made, I have to say it looks completely unoriginal to me and just makes of think of Quake and Halo.

I really like the kind of armour depicted in Metal Gear Solid and Crysis, in that they wrap quite closely to the skin/muscles and use cushioned reinforcement and stuff like that to stop penetration rather than inches of metal — kind of like that real-life flexible orange stuff the Ministry of Defence came up with recently (we had a thread about it I think).

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Seems like a much more feasible armour of the future IMO, as flexibility and strength are what the military wants.