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Milo and POTUS posted:Idk, they seem pretty content to just charge through it in my experience. All the big squishy enemies don't seem to instantly catch like the cultists et al.
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Dreamsicle posted:I've finally decided to get Duke 3D crossed off my backlog and I'm really liking it a lot. Are there any good mod/map recommendations or at least good places to find them? I may not be looking correctly, but it seems harder to find good Duke 3rd party content compared to Doom or Quake. Alien Armageddon is fun, in a very maximalist way.
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Been playing the MCC lately and I've been saving Reach for last since I assumed it would be a good palette cleanser if I finished 4 first. As it turns out, I started playing Halo 4 the day before its anniversary, which I found out from 343 giving me an announcement once I returned to the main menu. It's not necessarily a bad game, but I can see why this was the real "Halo-killer." (Master Chief talking too much, scripted melee take-downs happening seemingly at random that leave you vulnerable in a series where melee is viable on the vast majority on targets and is fun and satisfying, other weird scripted sequences that pad out playtime) To be a bit more on-brand for the thread: Aleph One is bugged for me; why can't I interact with any terminals beyond the first one in a map? It was like this when I tried Marathon 1 and Durandal recently.
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The soundtrack (and new update) for Viscerafest Chapter II dropped and it's just as killer as chapter 1's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20nzO4BmJO0 Those djent riffs. The biggest of chef kisses.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Similarly, is there some way to force the next round to start so I don't have to stand around for x-seconds after a previous round ends? Maybe it's something obvious and I've completely overlooked it. Never mind I just figured it out: the option to force the next round to start is access from the shop menu. Didn't expect it there.
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Yeah I don't like the whole timed shop thing they got going on. In fact other than the actual combat and the levels which work WAY better than I feel they should, I don't like several of the decisions of the survival. Starting with I can't see how much I fricking spent by the end!
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Dreamsicle posted:I've finally decided to get Duke 3D crossed off my backlog and I'm really liking it a lot. Are there any good mod/map recommendations or at least good places to find them? I may not be looking correctly, but it seems harder to find good Duke 3rd party content compared to Doom or Quake. https://www.pcgamer.com/duke-nukem-3d-mods-setup-guide/ Among vanilla-gameplay map packs, a very well-regarded recent one is Shaky Grounds. Some further recommendations in this Doomworld thread.
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Carpator Diei posted:Here's a bit of an overview, but it mostly focuses on the three biggest mods (and those three are big, almost unfathomably so): Thanks, I did see that PC Gamer link but I wanted more vanilla maps. The Doomworld link is very helpful.
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My favorite thing about the Quake Remaster was the Dimensions of the Machine episode, which led me to playing Arcane Dimensions which I also really enjoyed. I'm the weirdo who prefers Quake 2 single player to Quake 1 but these mods really captured me in a way that OG Quake never really did. Is there any mod / level pack to the same quality level as these for Quake 2?
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Woolie Wool posted:
I want you to know that I played through this and enjoyed it a lot. Your map wins the award for map in the jam that pissed me off the most, because I had to savescum the hell out of it to finish it. Anyway good job 10/10 
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I'm currently on holiday and on a decade-old laptop that deals with the modern internet about as well as it deals with quantum theory, but occasionally some retro FPS news still lands by my low-FPS ears. Cat Machine's newbie wad continues to make waves: The Guardian did a lengthy piece on the up and coming genre of games that satire the state of England, and two thirds of it is dedicated to retro FPS mods because fate is very weird. https://twitter.com/immorpher64/status/1589249095054823425 https://twitter.com/sunset_city_rpg/status/1589406220355788801
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I bought I’m Too Young To Die: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 1992–2002 as a Christmas present for my brother and read through some of the included PDF, it's really excellent. The formatting is gorgeous. I think it's well worth the asking price for anyone here. Is there an easy way to get this working on Steam Deck?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I bought I’m Too Young To Die: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 1992–2002 as a Christmas present for my brother and read through some of the included PDF, it's really excellent. The formatting is gorgeous. I think it's well worth the asking price for anyone here. Yeah, it's a great book and very well written. I think it sets out the development of the genre really clearly, including bits on the hardware developments at the time and covering quite a few games I'd completely forgotten about. A good substitute for going back and paring through old game mags for info!
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I'm keen to get the book but shipping to where I live costs more than the product itself. Shame they don't just sell the pdf version.
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Dsmif posted:My favorite thing about the Quake Remaster was the Dimensions of the Machine episode, which led me to playing Arcane Dimensions which I also really enjoyed. I'm the weirdo who prefers Quake 2 single player to Quake 1 but these mods really captured me in a way that OG Quake never really did. Is there any mod / level pack to the same quality level as these for Quake 2? No but there are many more for quake.
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Glagha posted:I want you to know that I played through this and enjoyed it a lot. Your map wins the award for map in the jam that pissed me off the most, because I had to savescum the hell out of it to finish it. Anyway good job 10/10 Thanks! "Zugzwang" was heavily inspired by modern challenge Doom mapping and its emphasis on movement and AI funnelling, might have overdone it a bit. It probably wouldn't be so bad if I could keep guards from opening the doors of the monster closets early, but new door types would have broken the rule of "no new assets".
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I mostly had the issue that I kept running out of ammo because of the elite guards but I toughed it out. The opening bit was fun, I enjoyed figuring out how to move to avoid getting lit up. I'm also just not very good at Wolfenstein I don't play it much
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my theory about Cultic's protag is the original guy died and came back controlled by The Will. I think it's gonna be like Blood where the entire cult has been left as a sacrifice to feed their weakened god enough for him to take on the world. Like as far as we can tell, 100 health IS already abnormally high just based on the protag being table to tank more hits by default than any cultist (who i think are all imbued to some extent) even on extreme. The super monstrous enemies outside of the harvesters are, based on the notes, all corpses that were imbued a shitload. I think the gasmask and FG42 guys are the like top level of 'still human' imbued, and the harvesters seem to have been so imbued it damaged their sanity (based on the note you find in the first harvesters lair). the bellymouth guys, floating sack guys, leaping corpses, and blue gorillas are all imbued corpses rather than imbued alive guys.
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Is that so? I thought only the zombies were imbued as corpses (sack might just be zombies in sacks?) and the others were imbued alive, just to various degrees.
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The maximum health upgrades in Cultic are imbued remains. So either the cult did something to the protagonist, or he accidentally imbued himself by touching them. If it's the latter, I'm wondering whether there will be an achievement or secret ending for beating the game without grabbing any of them.
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There's that journal in the penultimate level by the remains that says something like "don't move this, don't even touch it!" I like the idea that he's eating a glowing skull he finds in a sewer pipe or whatever.
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I like how there's some sort of debate in a game that's basically man literally too angry to die. It's not a lot of lore mind you but it's compelling enough that you'll at least ask some questions. I deleted all my saves but I think I remember the note you find in the archives with the armor to be pretty interesting but I'm not entirely ready to do another playthrough just yet. I'm still mad there's no way to see how much you spent in survival
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Baron von Eevl posted:Is that so? I thought only the zombies were imbued as corpses (sack might just be zombies in sacks?) and the others were imbued alive, just to various degrees. theres a note in the mines (i think in the area with the yellow earthmover and pile of corpses) that talks about the telekinetic stuff like floaty sack boys and skeletons being the result of imbuement experiments with corpses, and a note i think in the mine town about how anything imbued while dead comes back animated only by instinct or fear. theres a note i think also in the mines about how multiple imbuements make crazier results whether you do it with corpses or alive people, so theres at least a couple of tiers of 'dead' imbued. i could be wrong about the belly mouth guys, but based on the note by the tnt trap w/ gorillas the blue gorillas are hostile to the cult as well as outsiders, whereas the harvesters are still functional enough to work alongside the cult without murdering them. they seem to have to corral and dispose of the regular zombies, usually as cannon fodder, and you see them together with the blue gorillas in a way you don't see regular cultists + zombies hanging out, or regular cultists + blue gorillas hanging out. im not sure about this theory bc the floaty sack boys seem to be able to hang out with the cultists and they seem like they're imbued dead in some notes? i could be wrong.
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The note about corpses coming back wrong is right before you encounter the zombies, the note in mines is the one about further imbuing things leads them to be dominated by fear alone. The skeletons are the remains of the original cultists, there's a note about how the imbument remains in hem even without tissue and the bones seem to be held together by something like telekinesis. The brutes and tummymouths could be heavy imbued corpses, I guess there's nothing saying either way, bit the impression I got was the ghosts and harvesters were definitely imbued alive, and they're regularly around live cultists. I think the other guys only show up near regular cultists once you get to the asylum and they start glowing.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The note about corpses coming back wrong is right before you encounter the zombies, the note in mines is the one about further imbuing things leads them to be dominated by fear alone. The skeletons are the remains of the original cultists, there's a note about how the imbument remains in hem even without tissue and the bones seem to be held together by something like telekinesis. the gorillas seem more dead purely bc they have skull heads, i think i assumed the ghosts were like an advanced form of the sack zombies in the first harvester area
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I don't know if our protag is special or not, but I'd rather him be a hardboiled detective taken off the case trope. Too tough and mad to die. I like the time and place it takes in too, and his furry jacket. Health pick ups should have been thermoses of black coffee.
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Now I'm just imagining Cultic's protagonist is Nicky Belane from Bukowski's Pulp--just a perpetually drunk rear end in a top hat punching people in the gut like "soft mounds of dead poo poo" and gazing too long into the void. Plenty of appropriate quips too. "I'm not dead, just in a rapid state of decay" and "You only live once, right? Well, except for Lazarus. Poor sucker, he had to die twice."
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Tiny Timbs posted:lmao @ the ending to Prodeus Still a better final stage than either Doom game. Yay for clearing low bars!
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From the guy that made Disdain (this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2113270/DISDAIN/ ) https://twitter.com/NashMuhandes/status/1589151520763039745 https://twitter.com/NashMuhandes/status/1589151869792038913
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Serephina posted:Whoever first created Zdoom must have such a shiteating grin on Marisa walked away in 2017 and was already halfway out the door for years before that, so I doubt it.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:From the guy that made Disdain (this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2113270/DISDAIN/ ) This has nothing to do with that neat Bakersfield teaser clip that came out a month or two ago btw.
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Deakul posted:This has nothing to do with that neat Bakersfield teaser clip that came out a month or two ago btw. Aye ya I should have clarified.
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