How to play Natural Selection 2: Combat on Mac
| Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
NS2: Combat pits aliens against space marines in a fast paced, action-packed struggle for survival. Part twitch-shooter, part stealth crawler, design your own tech tree, choose your own style of play, and control one of seven different life forms.
Try unique abilities such as 'Devour', where the largest alien eats her enemies, or pilot the hulking mechanised 'Exo Suit' and punch aliens in the face. NS2: Combat offers ranked servers supporting casual and competitive play.Choose your play style
Build your dream loadout with a slew of unique abilities and specialisations.
Become a jetpack-wielding, grenade-launching marine; or a heavily armored, super-charged alien who enjoys eating marines for breakfast. Whether you're building sneaky teleporters in remote locations or devouring every marine in the room, this game has something for everyone.
First released: Sep 2014
Play Natural Selection 2: Combat on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Natural Selection 2: Combat on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
Natural Selection 2: Combat installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Natural Selection 2: Combat like you would on any PC.
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