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Choose the CPU, memory and NVMe storage your server runs on, and add more when it grows.
Natural Selection 2 Server Hosting
Run your own server for marines and Kharaa, with your maps, Workshop mods and rules, set up from one panel.
- Steam Workshop mods downloaded on start
- Team balance, voting and map rotation in the panel
- Your own player slots, no per-slot fees
- Switch between 446 games for free, anytime*
- From, per month
- $5.49
- Player slots
- Unlimited
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- Money-back
- 3 days
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No per-slot fees. Choose your own slot limit. To help us recommend the right plan for you, tell us how many friends are joining you!
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$8.49/mo
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Secure Backups Included
Fade
$8.49/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
- Fade plan $8.49
- Secure Backups 30 GBFree
3-day money-back guarantee
Part of the Gamebox
Switch your Natural Selection 2 server to any of 445 other games, right from the panel, whenever you want!*
Included with
every plan
Server Console
MySQL Database
(S)FTP Access
Secure Backups
Scheduled Restarts
DDoS Protected
No Per-Slot Fees
US & UK Locations
Automatic Install
Workshop Mods
Why host your Natural Selection 2 server with Physgun?
Your maps, mods and rules for marines and Kharaa, on a server you run from one panel.
Online ยท DDoS protected
Always online, always protected
Your server stays up when you log off, and it is protected from DDoS attacks.
Deploying server Installing Natural Selection 2 Server online
Installs itself
Order and the server downloads and installs Natural Selection 2 on its own. Nothing to set up on your side.
Config EditorServerConfig.json
PlayersChatVotingRanking
AFK kick time300 sec
Auto team balanceOn
Even teams on joinOn
Rookie only
Saved to ServerConfig.json
ServerConfig.json, without the typing
Your Rules in the Config Editor
Rookie only, AFK kicks, team balance, all talk, vote kicks and map votes, skill ranking and reserved slots, grouped and labelled in the panel.
- Players, Chat, Voting and Ranking groups
- Minutes per map and rotation order for your map cycle
ServerConfig.json - Physgun VS Code main ServerConfig.json MapCycle.json
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"settings": {
"rookie_only": false,
"alltalk": true,
"auto_kick_afk_time": 90
Terminal
$ ssh server@physgun.com
โ Connected, NS2 container ready
$ physgun status
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For the power users
SSH Access & VSCode
Connect with real developer tools and edit your config, admin list and map cycle directly. Or skip it and use the panel.
- Full SSH access included
- Edit files live in VSCode
Starting Map
map namens2_summit
Restart
Now starting on ns2_summit
Starting Map and Slots
Set the server name, a password for private rounds, player and spectator slots, and the map it starts on.
ready
ready
Workshop Mods
List Steam Workshop mods by their Workshop number or NS2 mod ID. The server downloads them, and players get them when they join.
Web Admin
Turn on the web admin page to manage the server from your browser, with its own username and password.
The panel every Natural Selection 2 server deserves.
One place for your whole server: name, password, player and spectator slots, starting map and Workshop mods in the startup settings, a config editor for team balance, voting and the map rotation, schedules you set for restarts and backups, subusers for your admins, a file manager with SSH and VS Code, and every other universal tool.
gamecp.physgun.com/true-console-ssh-access
True Console & SSH Access
Accurate, blazing-fast output piped directly from the container. Paired with complete SSH access inside the Panel!
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Natural Selection 2 Server Hosting, Explained
New to Natural Selection 2?
What is Natural Selection 2?
Natural Selection 2 is a first-person shooter and real-time strategy game rolled into one, from Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Frontiersmen marines fight the alien Kharaa for resource points across the map. Each team has a Commander who looks down on the battlefield, places structures, collects resources, researches technology and drops help to the players fighting in first person. A round ends when one side's base falls.
Strategy Meets Shooter.
A Commander on each side builds, researches and gives orders while the team fights.
Two Unique Sides.
Evolve from Skulk to Onos as the Kharaa, or take rifles, jetpacks and Exosuits as a marine.
Why rent a server?
What is Natural Selection 2 Server Hosting?
A Natural Selection 2 dedicated server keeps your community's games online around the clock, without a PC left on at home. With Physgun you set the server name, password, player and spectator slots and starting map in the panel, list the Workshop mods to download on start, set team balance, voting, skill ranking and the map rotation in the config editor, and get full file access over SFTP and SSH for your admin list and configs.
Always Online.
Your server stays up when you log off, so your group can play any time.
Full Control.
Set your slots, maps, mods and rules, and lock it with a password for scrims.
Questions, answered
Straight answers before you order. Still stuck? Real people are here around the clock.
Physgun
You set the player and spectator slots yourself, and we never charge per slot. Keep the teams at 20 players or fewer and your rounds count toward skill ranking.
Yes. Set a server password and only players who have it can join.
Yes. List the Steam Workshop mods you want and the server downloads them on start, admin mods included. Players get them automatically when they join.
Yes. The server downloads game updates and the latest hotfixes each time it starts, so a restart brings it up to date.
Yes. Mark your server as rookie only in the config editor to give new players a place to learn.
Yes. You can set up a backup schedule in the panel, and secure backup storage is included in every Physgun server!
Yes, to any Gamebox game your server can run. Switching wipes the old game's files, and the panel offers to take a backup first.
Yes. Every Physgun server is protected from DDoS attacks.
Chicago, USA and London, UK. Pick the one closest to most of your players.
Yes. Every server has a 3 day refund guarantee.
Still stuck?
Ready to launch your Natural Selection 2 server?
Run your own maps, mods and rules for marines and Kharaa on a server that stays up when you log off.
- 3-day money-back guarantee
- Online in minutes
- Real people, around the clock
