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Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: E-Mxp on May 27, 2007, 07:30:04 pm

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: E-Mxp on May 27, 2007, 07:30:04 pm

Tremulous will always be in my heart, but it happened to me that I've become curious about Natural Selection. I've heard so much about it, that I wanted to try it for myself. Of course, without spending a penny :D. And with the power of the internet, I thought I'll d succeed. I was wrong :(.

The first problem I had was to get Half-Life 1. With the power of (almost) legal torrents, that wasn't much of a problem.
The biggest problem was the program Steam. A sucky program you must have to play the game. I avoid it by getting a Non Steam version of HL1. Then, I installed ns, but it failed. After pressing Change game --> Natural Selection --> Ok I got the backround of the NS-menu and than it crashed. The power of the internet has failed me :(.

But the Allmighty Internet brought me a gift.... Google. And with Google I found this: Non Steam version of Natural Selection v3.2 (http://foros.3dgames.com.ar/showthread.php?t=371620) so you don't need Steam to run it :D (note: Happy!!!). The file was HUGE, but wanted to play that game so I had to. Installed it and runned it. And what-do-you-know.... It worked!!! :D Menu worked, backround music worked and I had a huge list of servers!! (note: Happy!! :D). But than...... disaster......

Quote from: "NS Console"

invalid CD key

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(

Conlusion:
You have to buy Half Life to get a cd key, but you don't really need Steam to play NS. :)

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: Plague Bringer on May 27, 2007, 09:36:18 pm

For the non steam version you still need the halflife crack, eh?

I'd ask for a link but that's clearly breaking the forum rules.

There's many places to get CD-key cracks (and they won't be linked either, surv), also, my friend has NS, perhaps his key could be of use?

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: Lord Baxter on May 28, 2007, 11:28:45 am

i always feel guilty about using keygens or hacks, especially on shareware games, you want to continue to play beyond the cut-off point but you fell so guilty about it when you do crack it... it sucks :(

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: Plague Bringer on May 28, 2007, 12:21:06 pm

The steamless NS is encrypted, and my HL torrent's taking a day to DL.

D=

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: techhead on May 28, 2007, 06:34:29 pm

I don't care, can't play Half-life on a Mac anyway.

Title: My quest to play NS for free
Post by: Kaleo on May 29, 2007, 10:52:37 am

Quote from: "techhead"

I don't care, can't play Half-life on a Mac anyway.

Amen