My quest to play NS for free

[E-Mxp]

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 . 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 so you don't need Steam to run it (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!!! Menu worked, backround music worked and I had a huge list of servers!! (note: Happy!! ). But than...... disaster......

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.

[Plague Bringer]

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?

[Lord Baxter]

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

[Plague Bringer]

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

D=

[techhead]

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

[Kaleo]

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

Amen