NS2: Combat

Wait54%

Mixed · 303 player reviews · Low confidence

It depends on what you're after.

Steam Deck Unrated
  • Windows

Faultline Games · Action · Oct 31, 2014

Player review score
54%
Mixed
Price
Free
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
4
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
4
Full audio1 of 4
Subtitles0 of 4

Should I buy NS2: Combat?

Buy it if you like
  • Combat: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 22 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 13 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Servers and matchmaking: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Monetization: 4 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 303 player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 186 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
36% of themes are praise46% are divided18% are complaints
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
42 of 186 sampled reviews raised it
The Combat narrative is pretty meaty stuff too, set in the heart of various outposts setup to defend planets from a hostile race, The hopes are to irradiate the humans from the invading forces, and from the other perspective to remove the Kharaa life forms from its facilities.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
22 of 186 sampled reviews raised it
The game could have quite easily been a counter-strike romp from A to B, dispatching the same abilities for each character, but instead there's a strong levelling system allowing each player to uniquely identify and create their own style of gameplay using the new levelling system.
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
13 of 186 sampled reviews raised it
In the multiplayer sessions, mostly 8vs8, I didn't see any major hiccups, besides the one map that was no finished... but we only played it after the dev asked if we want to.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
6 of 186 sampled reviews raised it
The music is decent, but doesn’t leave any sort of lasting impression, however the graphics and aesthetic are nice enough to keep you well-distracted from the unimpressive music.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Combat42 reviews
Gameplay22 reviews
Multiplayer13 reviews
Graphics6 reviews
Divided opinion
Difficulty
56% still recommend
Performance
88% still recommend
Co-op
86% still recommend
Optimization
100% still recommend
Bugs
100% still recommend
Players complain
Servers and matchmaking
47% still recommend
Monetization
0% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Includes level editor
  • Stats
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows

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