So yeah, slow week. Oh wait. Exploding out of nowhere like a suicide bomber, fragments of NS2 info have embedded themselves in our flesh. Let us reflect upon the past few days events while we writhe in agony and slowly bleed out. Good analogy, no? No?

It looks like 95% of total sales are for the US$40 Special Edition, which is pretty incredible. It made Flayra cry. Wipe away those tears with dollars bills, friend. Further comments in his NS E-Team email:

So far, sales have beyond our expectations and the response has been pretty amazing! Our community web-site is sporadically up and down due to huge traffic, but we’re working on that now.

For those of you that are worried about how your preorder will play with Steam, a special FAQ has been set up to answer your questions. It seems there’s still a bit of confusion around the whole thing but we’ll see what happens. Valve and UW tend to look after their customers in my experience.

Now on to this weeks megalist updates:

• • See our frame-by-frame analysis of the trailer
• Further further confirmation of the Fall 09 release date in the teaser trailer
• No ETA on the alpha
• In regards to the preorder and Steam:
  • “Pre-order is stand-alone and will auto-update, but assume it doesn’t include the Steam version.” -preorder page
  • “If I pre-order NS2, can I play on Steam?
    There’s a good chance of this, but we can’t promise it yet. Once NS2 is using Steamworks and Steam, Valve will probably be able to make this happen, but that’s to be determined later. For now, we can’t promise this. “-preorderfaq
• Two-tiered preorder pricing structure:
  • Standard version US$20:
    • Direct download on release
    • Beta and tool access
  • Special Edition US$40:
    • Direct download on release
    • Alpha, beta and tool access
    • All black marine armor – unclear whether they will be able to perform the haka
    • Eternal gratitude – whenever Flayra does donuts in his Ferrari he will think of you.
      
• “NS2 will probably use Steamworks for your friends list, even if you’re not playing it through Steam.” – preorderfaq
• “We can’t commit to a Mac or Linux version”
  ” We’re big Mac fans here and we want it and we have the same problem with other games.”
  -preorderfaq
• Skulk
  • Updated look? Possibly with tentacle ‘dreadlocks’?:
    
• Onos
  • Check out this motherbitch:
    
  • Can actually break down doors! (thanks glimmerman!)

So there you have it. Make sure you check out the full megalist! Feels good to have a cdkey in my inbox.