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Based on the description, it's actually Counter-Strike Online with a different name and an emphasis on the zombie mode.Elliotw2 posted:It actually does tell you about them, once, in the throwaway tutorial in UT2k3 and the extremely short tutorial video in 2k4 mentions them once and doesn't show them. It does? I never really payed attention to the dumb tutorial movies, since it looked like they just explained the barebones basics of each gamemode. 
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closeted republican posted:Based on the description, it's actually Counter-Strike Online with a different name and an emphasis on the zombie mode.
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Sep 23, 2014 12:32
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Yeah, CS:O 2 is literally CS:GO with a cash shop, they still want to squeeze that $15 entry fee from cheaters as much as they can.
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Sep 23, 2014 12:33
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Elliotw2 posted:Yeah, CS:O 2 is literally CS:GO with a cash shop, they still want to squeeze that $15 entry fee from cheaters as much as they can. Plus, 1.6 has the best version of maps like cs_assault, which is what really matters. 
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Sep 23, 2014 12:36
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The Kins posted:For some bizarre reason, Valve and Nexon are releasing a free-to-play co-op zombie-shooting variant of Counter-Strike 1.6 in a few hours, and I have no idea why.
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Sep 23, 2014 13:18
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That reminds me, is the Left 4 Dead arcade game out yet?
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Sep 23, 2014 13:22
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Just loaded up quake live for the first time in over a year. It's really heavily populated! I don't' know if they've implemented good matchmaking but I was playing opponents who weren't super hardcore, I didn't see anyone doing crazy trick jumps at all. I didn't win, but I didn't get stomped either. 24:20 K:D I'm not sure if it's just gotten a big boost from going on steam but it seems there are plenty of new players on there and it's a good time to get in.
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Sep 23, 2014 13:44
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It has gotten a massive boost. Before the steam launch their daily peak was around 500 concurrent players, whereas it's now at around 6000. And there is absolutely 0 matchmaking going on, it just dumps you onto the first server that has players and room in it.
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Sep 23, 2014 14:34
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Remember when QL had their own bizarre ranking system before they switched to ELO?
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Quake Live does not use ELO, qlranks.com is entirely unofficial. They're still using the same completely broken 'tier' system since day one. New players get dumped into tier 3 out of a possible 4 and it's not even properly enforced. The community has been begging for proper matchmaking functionality for six years but it's never going to happen because it takes work, unlike hacking in a new weapon and playing around with some variables. Amethyst posted:Just loaded up quake live for the first time in over a year. It's really heavily populated! I don't' know if they've implemented good matchmaking but I was playing opponents who weren't super hardcore, I didn't see anyone doing crazy trick jumps at all. I didn't win, but I didn't get stomped either. 24:20 K:D koren fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 15:09
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The Kins posted:For some bizarre reason, Valve and Nexon are releasing a free-to-play co-op zombie-shooting variant of Counter-Strike 1.6 in a few hours, and I have no idea why. Valve is just in it for the money nowadays.
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Sep 23, 2014 15:11
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Cool hooker outfit on the player character on the left there. I didn't realize it was still 1998.
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Linguica posted:Cool hooker outfit on the player character on the left there. I didn't realize it was still 1998. It's a translation of a Korean free to play version of Counter Strike that launched in 2003, there's a lot of dumb character designs
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Linguica posted:Cool hooker outfit on the player character on the left there. I didn't realize it was still 1998. Did you ever consider that she might be a hooker? Prostitutes can be heroes too. Let's not hookershame
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The Kins posted:cs:online stuff As everyone else said, it's basically 1.6 aimed at the F2P-obsessed Asian market. That mode also allows players to become a giant dinosaur zombie and a mech, by the way.
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Glagha posted:Did you ever consider that she might be a hooker? Prostitutes can be heroes too. Let's not hookershame Wasn't there a games thread about an adventure game starring a prostitute that got shut down after people got really angry that prostitutes were portrayed as something other than helpless victims?
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Elliotw2 posted:It's a translation of a Korean free to play version of Counter Strike that launched in 2003, there's a lot of dumb character designs It's funny because as you scroll down through the "character" list, you'll see the usual entries: GSG-9, SEALs, Spetsnaz, Militia, etc. Then suddenly you're looking at 12-year-old girls with guitar-shaped rifles, tits flopped out like pancakes, and bios written by retard shut-ins. "Enzo bleaches the meticulous 2-day beard on his lantern jaw when he's not dreaming of fighting pirates in Africa. His outfit is a sailing polo with the collar flipped up." "Here's some characters in soccer uniforms for some reason."
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:It's funny because as you scroll down through the "character" list, you'll see the usual entries: GSG-9, SEALs, Spetsnaz, Militia, etc. Then suddenly you're looking at 12-year-old girls with guitar-shaped rifles, tits flopped out like pancakes, and bios written by retard shut-ins. "Enzo bleaches the meticulous 2-day beard on his lantern jaw when he's not dreaming of fighting pirates in Africa. His outfit is a sailing polo with the collar flipped up." "Here's some characters in soccer uniforms for some reason." Also: quote:David is a veteran soldier and is a former instructor of SAS who has experience. He is one of the surviors in laboratory basement, who has been survived. He became disillusioned with the horrible incidents that he saw in the basement and decided to join the Terrorist as they promised to help hum to get out from there if he assist them in obtaining a confidential document. He found out that Gerard is chasing him and decided to particpate in the battlefield so that he can persuade him. Sobatchja Morda posted:Back when I first played Half-Life, I played it on the family computer and forgot to insert the disk. I never noticed in time that my aunt's Celine Dion cd was still in there, until the point where, during the bombardment in "Forget about Freeman," My Heart Will Go On started playing.
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Elliotw2 posted:It's a translation of a Korean free to play version of Counter Strike that launched in 2003, there's a lot of dumb character designs
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I've always said Counter-Strike 1.6 needed more zombies and tits.
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The Kins posted:For some bizarre reason, Valve and Nexon are releasing a free-to-play co-op zombie-shooting variant of Counter-Strike 1.6 in a few hours, and I have no idea why. This looks like complete loving garbage. e: whoops
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Someone is porting System Shock into the DarkPlaces Quake engine. Apparently set to release on December 23rd. http://www.indiedb.com/games/citadel/
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Insert name here posted:If I pick Spetsnaz as my skin can I win a cs match by gassing all the hostages? As long as most of the Ts die as well. By "most", I mean one or two.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:It's funny because as you scroll down through the "character" list, you'll see the usual entries: GSG-9, SEALs, Spetsnaz, Militia, etc. Then suddenly you're looking at 12-year-old girls with guitar-shaped rifles, tits flopped out like pancakes, and bios written by retard shut-ins. "Enzo bleaches the meticulous 2-day beard on his lantern jaw when he's not dreaming of fighting pirates in Africa. His outfit is a sailing polo with the collar flipped up." "Here's some characters in soccer uniforms for some reason." A bunch of these F2Ps have soccer-themed crossovers. Crossfire, Combat Arms, AVA, etc. I will fight people over the rad sci-fi designs in CSO's MOBA-style game mode where you fight in space with ME3 weapon ripoffs and with robots, though. Fake edit: That SS1 port is rad, and Darkplaces being the sourceport of choice has me sold even further.
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Korendian Leader posted:Quake Live does not use ELO, qlranks.com is entirely unofficial. They're still using the same completely broken 'tier' system since day one. New players get dumped into tier 3 out of a possible 4 and it's not even properly enforced. QL has far too few ranks to be useful. A better idea would be to use CS:GO's system, where there are tiers and rankings within each tier. That way, the people that've never played a Quake game in their lives can play in the low rankings of the first tier, the people that have a basic grasp of things like dodging go through the second tier, the people that generally know about everything in the game have the third tier, and the pros can start going through the final tier. Hell, for the poeple that are really low, the game can summon a few bots on the easier difficulties so that they have a chance to fight against someone if there are too few people in the server.
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catlord posted:This is true and I prefer Quake 3. The flak cannon is loving awesome. Its strange, but I absolutely hate the Q3 grenade launcher and refuse to use it, but I love lobbing the secondary attack of the flak cannon into people's faces for the perfect one-hit kill. 
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Bouchacha posted:Someone is porting System Shock into the DarkPlaces Quake engine. Apparently set to release on December 23rd. This will be the best Christmas gift ever.
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Zaphod42 posted:Its strange, but I absolutely hate the Q3 grenade launcher and refuse to use it, but I love lobbing the secondary attack of the flak cannon into people's faces for the perfect one-hit kill. The Q3 GL is a great anti-pursuit weapon. It's saved my rear end several times from some dick chasing me. It's a boring weapon to use, but it works well for that it's made for.
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JackMackerel posted:A bunch of these F2Ps have soccer-themed crossovers. Crossfire, Combat Arms, AVA, etc.  The level design in that is pretty neat actually.I just tried the CS Nexon: zombies - the game crashes if I try and choose a server but autoplay or whatever worked. So far the one level I played consisted of fighting waves of zombies in one platform for about an hour. There's a lot of stuff to craft though, I'm gonna play it a bit more after work tommorow and kinda wrap my head around if there's anything more to it. I imagine newer maps will be more complex or have at least something else to do.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:If you check out the Steam guides for DN3D:Megaton Edition, I think there's a guide or a link to get it, or at least a better sounding version. That's SC-55 music. The SC-88 is a different synth. (also EDuke32 doesn't recognize bassmidi even though it's my default midi synth and even SDL_mixer applications use it  )E: actually it does but it only recognizes bassmidi port A even though I have port B selected  Also the EDuke32 software renderer is unacceptably slow. Seriously guys, rendering Duke Nukem 3D in 256 colors is not a tall order for a modern processor. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Dukehard is pretty cool but I don't think I should be getting booted out to the main menu after beating Map07
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Zeether posted:This will be the best Christmas gift ever. He started working on it in July. I have no idea what bizarro world he lives in where he thinks that'll be done by December. I hope so, though!
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LvK posted:Dukehard is pretty cool but I don't think I should be getting booted out to the main menu after beating Map07 I had that problem with the latest official version of EDuke, get one from here instead.
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Mill Village posted:I had that problem with the latest official version of EDuke, get one from here instead. nope  (clarification: just downloaded one, loaded my save, re-beat the level, nope) edit: just manually skipping to map08. I take it I don't unlock anything too cool for beating the episode on difficulty 3?
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Hell to the Chief is still my favorite Duke3D level of all time. How does UT2k14 differ from UT3 in gameplay? In videos it's hard to tell because of the reused UT3 assets (I hope they get rid of them) Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Amethyst posted:Bunny hopping and trick jumps are not a problem. The problem is matchmaking. High skill techniques shouldn't be removed because players can't find anyone to play against at an appropriate skill level. The only thing you achieve by lowering the skill ceiling is a shallower game. I disagree. They cause the same problem fighting games have: you can't actually enjoy the game until you get over this brickwall of skills that fundamentally don't matter to the gameplay. It's like if tapping a land in Magic involved doing an intricate dance or something.
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Amethyst posted:I didn't say that. Amethyst posted:You can't hit anything in cod without scoping in. That's already one other thing to learn. You need to learn about the three separate stances if you have any hope of a positive K:D ratio.k You can't even get a kill in Quake without getting good at trick shots and bunny hopping. If you're going to talk about 'positive K:D ratio', compare that to Quake, in which case your entire argument falls apart.
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This thread made it into the big leagues: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3667112
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Keiya posted:You can't even get a kill in Quake without getting good at trick shots and bunny hopping. If you're going to talk about 'positive K:D ratio', compare that to Quake, in which case your entire argument falls apart. That's complete bullshit. I literally played a whole game of quake yesterday without bunny hopping or trick jumping once and got plenty of kills. You're basing your judgement on 10 year old memories of getting stomped by experts.
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Keiya posted:I disagree. They cause the same problem fighting games have: you can't actually enjoy the game until you get over this brickwall of skills that fundamentally don't matter to the gameplay. It's like if tapping a land in Magic involved doing an intricate dance or something. "Skills that fundamentally don't matter to the gameplay"? What the hell does that even mean? This attitude amounts to nothing more than a generalised hostility against competitive game design. Your magic the gathering analogy makes no sense at all. Video games are a physical activity that test your muscle control and reflexes, a card game is not.
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