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Natural Selection 2 pits humans against aliens in a struggle for survival. You fight as a Frontiersman marine with weapons, or as one of the Kharaa alien lifeforms. The game combines first-person combat with real-time strategy: each team has a Commander who oversees the battlefield and directs its forces.

Command the battle

From above the battlefield, the Commander issues orders, places structures, gathers resources, researches technology and deploys abilities. A human Commander can send health packs and ammunition to a trapped marine squad or place sentry guns to defend a position. An alien Commander can grow a Hive in captured territory, spreading infestation and allowing more alien eggs to spawn.

Play as the Kharaa

Alien players evolve into one of five lifeforms, each with a distinct role:

• Skulk: runs on walls and attacks with its jaws.
• Lerk: flies and deploys gases to support teammates.
• Gorge: heals other lifeforms and builds tunnels, hydra turrets, walls and other tactical structures.
• Fade: blinks in and out of battle and attacks marines with giant scythes.
• Onos: a huge, tough lifeform that can withstand attacks from entire marine squads.

Fight as a marine

Marines use rifles, shotguns, grenade launchers, pistols and other weapons. Cluster grenades clear ventilation shafts of Skulks, flamethrowers destroy alien structures and infestation, and boosts dropped by the Commander improve combat effectiveness. Marines can also build Exosuits armed with miniguns and railguns, or equip jetpacks to launch fast assaults on alien Hives.

Mods and creation tools

The game includes the tools used to make it, and its game code is open source. You can create and play mods, publish, share and download them through the Steam Workshop, and automatically download mods when joining modded games.