Turin Turambar posted:Well, someone should try to play on the last difficulty, Exterminatus. The game has four. Maybe on that one it will be hard enough. I'll definitely play on Exterminatus and see how it goes once I wrap up my HROT playthrough. All of this talk about how easy Boltgun was was making me a little nervous, so I've got my fingers crossed.
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Milo and POTUS posted:For this type of game? Absolutely. For reference: Amid Evil is 4.72Gb Dusk is 8.32Gb HROT is 255Mb Hedon Bloodrite is 567Mb Wrath Aeon of Ruin (early access) 429Mb Graven (early acess) 3.72Gb So yeah, it wildly swings depending on the engine and tech used, 4Gb is decent for a UE game. Deep Rock Galackting is 2.92Gb because levels are generated so it will actually be bigger when ingame. Same goes with a game like No Man's Sky that is around 12gb.
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Yeah, again I was less bothered that it was taking up space so much as I was pissed it was taking forever to download lol. But if it had 3d poo poo like someone said it's probably gonna be bigger I assume. Real funny story: I was going to poke fun at how slowly it ran and poorly on my terrible comp. Turns out, I don't even have the minimum requirements despite being two levels in. If anything this is the best optimized game of the year!
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I feel pretty dumb, I'm just learning from watching pagb's video that holding down the trigger keeps the chainsword going and you can stunlock even big guys with it? I thought it was just a tap and one hit thing
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site posted:I feel pretty dumb, I'm just learning from watching pagb's video that holding down the trigger keeps the chainsword going and you can stunlock even big guys with it? I thought it was just a tap and one hit thing I think you’re supposed to button mash it. That’s what I’ve been doing anyway, and it works
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It took me a while to figure out and I still guess I mostly just fiddle with it til I hit paydirt but the first time you kill a chaos space marine with it makes it all worthwhile
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So I guess Boltgun goes to show that a little bit of marketing really does make a difference. It got day-one reviews from a bunch of big sites and youtube streamers, even ones who wouldn't usually pay much attention to this type of game, is currently at third place in Steam's top sellers list, and has had many times more concurrent players than any other retro shooter ever has. Now that's not to say it'll end up having as long a tail as something like DUSK, it's just an observation. Anyway, I'm definitely gonna pick it up but I'll need something between it and Prodeus, which I'm playing now, since they both clearly fall under the unabashed power fantasy label. Speaking of, Prodeus feels just a hair's breadth away from greatness. The moving and shooting is excellent and the map design is on point; it's just fun to play. But there are a bunch of little niggles that really add up. -The save system has been litigated to death. But that won't stop me! It's bad. -A lot of things seem strangely hacked together. The overworld, for example, why can't you just click where you want to go? The time trials are ostensibly based around a single weapon but you actually have your full arsenal and can use whatever you want. The shop is jank and stop telling me to rate it every time. In fact, stop telling me to rate the official levels at all! If you quit mid-mission, you'll have to restart from the beginning. -I still wish you could turn off a lot of the pseudo-oldschool visuals, things look overly pixelated from afar and I want 3D weapons instead of sprites. -As mentioned, the maps have been great so far, but visually pretty similar and quite a few of them include points of no return. -I bumped the difficulty up to hard and it's still been real easy, but I hear that changes (for the worse?) later on. -Awful, huge menus. -3D automaps have been done before, and far better.
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Don’t underestimate the draw of the Warhammer 40K/ space marine license
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I think people found the idea of doing a new Warhammer 40k FPS... but doing it a boomer shooter, really novel and appealing. Journalists saw it as novel enough as to make news of it when it was announced, which increased the word of mouth. It reached people who are not into the other usual boomer shooters we know of.
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My interest went way up when I saw the taunt button, honestly
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Mordja posted:Speaking of, Prodeus feels just a hair's breadth away from greatness. The moving and shooting is excellent and the map design is on point; it's just fun to play. But there are a bunch of little niggles that really add up. I agree with all of this, and it's why Prodeus is toward the bottom of my list of Retro FPS games I've played thus far. It's not bad but it's got a lot of frustrating flaws.
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haveblue posted:My interest went way up when I saw the taunt button, honestly pretty wide repertoire of taunts. But it does make the main character come off as a total weenie though. He’s no Duke
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skasion posted:pretty wide repertoire of taunts. But it does make the main character come off as a total weenie though. He’s no Duke On the other hand, renaming "armor" to "contempt" is a way more successful version of what DNF tried to do with the ego mechanic, so now they're even
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skasion posted:pretty wide repertoire of taunts. But it does make the main character come off as a total weenie though. He’s no Duke
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Spess marines are genetically and biologically perfect, so maybe it makes sense if they all sound like 30 year old dudes!
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I agree with all of this, and it's why Prodeus is toward the bottom of my list of Retro FPS games I've played thus far. It's not bad but it's got a lot of frustrating flaws. Oh, despite all my complaints I'd still put it above stuff like Dread Templar, HROT demos and that Postal game, below stuff like DUSK and AE.
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Prodeus is maybe my least fave of all the boomer shooters I've played. The design is awful
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I don't know about the HROT demo or if it would be different, but I'd definitely rank HROT 1.0 above Prodeus at this point. Postal Brain Damaged too! Prodeus can eat the most poo poo of any game I still might recommend to somebody with a dozen caveats.
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it's very funny how much this thread hates prodeus when it's like the only shooter other than doom i leave installed
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I did the first boss. I think the level next to that it's much better than the previous ones. What is this? The level looks unique, it has areas that are clearly differentiated, it has a sense of place:  and it has some interesting encounter design, like the courtyard fight, the spiral stair climb, an ambush, fights that are different (there is a mini "caco cloud" fight, for example). It has unique areas like a warp gate maze. Much better. edit: it was the last level of the first episode. I'm into the second episode, where there is a new environment, which is good as I was tired of the previous one. edit 2: the streak of decent level design continues with e2m1 and e2m2. Maybe the game ends up being really good. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 21:04 on May 24, 2023 |
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Turin Turambar posted:Spess marines are genetically and biologically perfect, so maybe it makes sense if they all sound like 30 year old dudes! I hope for modding (I know there won't be modding) so someone can replace the taunts with a literal 12 year old. Give me a genetically perfect man with a squeaky voice calling the hordes of chaos doo-doo heads. Yes, I know actual 12 year olds don't talk like that, some of the most devastating insults I have received were from that age. Maybe get the kids to write their own insults.
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site posted:it's very funny how much this thread hates prodeus when it's like the only shooter other than doom i leave installed i saw that Dread Delusion just got a content update, adding a new questline, a new dungeon, a new endless region/quest, performance enhancements, and now human enemies can use shields and potions also Hedon Bloodrite got an update, I know someone mentioned Hedon earlier, it looks like it has a new movement system and graphical enhancements but also will wipe your saves lastly Forgive Me Father got a balance update to lessen the bullet sponginess of enemies across the board, which may give some indication as to how they'll be designing FMF2 which they recently announced The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 20:02 on May 24, 2023 |
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Turin Turambar posted:Spess marines are genetically and biologically perfect, so maybe it makes sense if they all sound like 30 year old dudes! Jeez, arrogant way to tell us someone just had a birthday. haveblue posted:On the other hand, renaming "armor" to "contempt" is a way more successful version of what DNF tried to do with the ego mechanic, so now they're even What else does this? Fashion Police Squad has swag Anyway, what's the best topic in the hardware software sub for graphic card recommendations? I didn't see a dedicated one unless it got its title switched to a joke
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Milo and POTUS posted:Jeez, arrogant way to tell us someone just had a birthday. I wish I still was a 30 years old 
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Milo and POTUS posted:Anyway, what's the best topic in the hardware software sub for graphic card recommendations? I didn't see a dedicated one unless it got its title switched to a joke https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3484126
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I agree with all of this, and it's why Prodeus is toward the bottom of my list of Retro FPS games I've played thus far. It's not bad but it's got a lot of frustrating flaws. Prodeus seemed to be on track to reach the finish line smoothly and safely, yet the devs decided at the last second to swerve directly into a series of trees. The core game is still solid and fun, but the frame is beat up no matter how you look at it.
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Oh I looked up "card" instead lol
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Bungie has just announced a new Marathon game. Very sick aesthetic. But you know, it could be now a GaaS online game only.
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It definitely wasn't very clear what sort of game it's going to be, but I got vibes of a team-based shooter.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:It definitely wasn't very clear what sort of game it's going to be, but I got vibes of a team-based shooter. I just read there are rumors of being an extraction shooter., yes, another one of those.
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*faaart* sounds like poopoo https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/10/21/more-info-on-bungies-new-marathon-game-which-seems-very-real/?sh=6c623a0dd544
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Something a little bit sad about a new marathon game that doesn't have a mac release...
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i love pvp battle royale extraction co-op shooters w/ hobby grade battlepass
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buying a gun will cost 100 bobs you earn 1 bob for running 26.2 miles in the game
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Yep, Sony-backed Bungie is going straight to the jugular with their first new game under them, and the first Marathon in decades. This does not bode well.
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