Natural Selection 2 is a team shooter where one side are human Marines with guns and the other side are Aliens with claws, and each team has a commander playing a real-time strategy game on top. It has a steep learning curve and a lot of depth. These pages get you through your first rounds.
Game overviewTeams, objectives, how a round flows, and how it ends.New player guideYour first rounds, step by step, and the ten things new players should know.ControlsDefault key bindings for players and commanders, plus the extra bindable actions (Quick Bind, radio, proximity voice).CommunicationVoice, chat, pings, requests, personal and context pings, radio commands and proximity voice.GlossaryNS2 slang and abbreviations you will hear in voice and chat.