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Bishop Beo posted:Yeah starting out on Lightly Broiled and it seems like a decent amount of challenge without being unfair. Man the shotgun and TNT in this game are satisfying to use! I was seriously impressed by how intuitive the TNT throwing was even from the start. A lot of times when you have a chargeable throw the force seems random or just off somehow (see: Dark Forces and Kyle's insistence on throwing thermal detonators into the ceiling and NOWHERE ELSE) but Caleb just chucks bundles exactly as far as you'd expect, every time. Whenever I missed I knew before I threw that I had made a mistake.
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koren posted:Ironwail is the community standard right now. This is true unless you’re on macOS, where the OpenGL version supported is lower than what Ironwail needs to run. In that case you’ll probably want VkQuake or QuakeSpasm Spiked.
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Feb 5, 2024 18:15
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So, any retro shooters demoing this nexfes?
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Feb 5, 2024 19:17
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Mordja posted:So, any retro shooters demoing this nexfes?
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Feb 5, 2024 19:20
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I don't think that's gonna show lol
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Feb 5, 2024 19:21
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Mordja posted:So, any retro shooters demoing this nexfes? Retro lineage, modern take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-PZq9weWg Demo should be available for download, but servers don't go live until this afternoon/evening it sounds like.
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Feb 5, 2024 19:27
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I wasn't impressed by the beta for Tribes, small teams... no vehicles... maps are really small... it just made me desperately miss playing Tribes 2. 32v32 CTF with vehicles and deployables all over the huge map, good times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov-UbcG8bDw
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Jehde posted:Retro lineage, modern take: was about to post this. has some good kills e: gonna miss having tanks to run people over with tho site fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 20:32
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The servers are live! This new build for the demo is pretty slick, you can practice skiing or target practice while you wait for a match now. The available game modes for the demo are 4v4 team rabbit 2, 12v12 capture the flag, and then 7v7 capture the flag competitive still being locked away. Played a 12v12 match on the new map and it's a tonne of fun. E: People still play tribes 2 if all you want is tribes 2 btw. Jehde fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 21:36
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Do I need to set up anything specific to play Tribes 2? Would love to check it out again even for a few days.
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Feb 5, 2024 22:27
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Quake II: Call of the Machine is legit. MachineGames has a knack for channeling id's design sensibilities and putting their own unique take on things. It's beefy too! And they added this for free!
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Jehde posted:The servers are live! This new build for the demo is pretty slick, you can practice skiing or target practice while you wait for a match now. The available game modes for the demo are 4v4 team rabbit 2, 12v12 capture the flag, and then 7v7 capture the flag competitive still being locked away. Played a 12v12 match on the new map and it's a tonne of fun. Eh, I'd rather not just get my poo poo rocked by the lifers. But cool that they increased the player numbers in T3!
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Ok not a FPS but I completely missed this by FPS masters Raven back in the day, I would have played the hell out of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hbRaFtk5E&t=646s went to look it up after seeing this incredibly 90's ad for it 
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Mordja posted:So, any retro shooters demoing this nexfes? One had kinda amateur drawings, the other was like a Roman gladiator thing. I forget the names but I’ll pull them up when I get home e; Bane Murrain was the former, Caesar’s Revenge the other There are still existing demos, though, of various recent shooters: Calcium Contract, Captain Wayne, Exophobia, Relentless Frontier And I wouldn’t call it a boomer shooter but Mullet Mad Jack is a super fast corridor shooter akin to Post Void and that demo just went up this month The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Ok not a FPS but I completely missed this by FPS masters Raven back in the day, I would have played the hell out of it I have good news for you!
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Mr E posted:Do I need to set up anything specific to play Tribes 2? Would love to check it out again even for a few days. https://www.tribesnext.com/ I'm so glad that Tribes 3 has a form of team rabbit 2 that's being played by people again, it's so fun.
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Between all the Quake and Doom I've played recently, its been a long time since I've had a look at the modern 'Boomer shooter' throwback games, I played Dusk and Amid Evil ages ago. What newer games are considered most worth my time?
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khwarezm posted:Between all the Quake and Doom I've played recently, its been a long time since I've had a look at the modern 'Boomer shooter' throwback games, I played Dusk and Amid Evil ages ago. What newer games are considered most worth my time? Post-DUSK & Amid Evil, I'd say: Cultic, HROT, Slayers X, and Turbo Overkill personally.
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khwarezm posted:Between all the Quake and Doom I've played recently, its been a long time since I've had a look at the modern 'Boomer shooter' throwback games, I played Dusk and Amid Evil ages ago. What newer games are considered most worth my time? Amid Evil got a two-episode expansion recently which was pretty good Gonna echo Cultic as well. Kind of short but great atmosphere and plays really well, like Blood if Blood didn’t hate you. skasion fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 01:32
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Turbo overkill, hrot, Cultic. Ultrakill is only throwback adjacent but you should play that too, same publisher as Dusk and AE. Honestly I haven't had a truly bad time with any I've played in the last year and a half but I might just be easy to please
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The Quake 2 rerelease is also extremely fuckin tight
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Beyond Sunset did an early access release with I think half of the planned episodes in it, and Selaco is doing its early access release in May but has a demo out now.
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Cultic is the standout throwback shooter for me. Most satisfying combat of any game I've played in years. And it's got a demo, which is nice.
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koren posted:Ironwail is the community standard right now. These are primarily single player focused, right? Like anything other than vanilla quake maps seem to have glitches in coop.
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Coffee Jones posted:These are primarily single player focused, right? Like anything other than vanilla quake maps seem to have glitches in coop. QuakeSpasm Spiked at least has made an effort to improve netcode stability and accommodate higher engine limits, though ymmv.
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I need to check out Turbo Overkill. CULTIC and HROT are up there with DUSK for me as the holy trinity of the retro FPS renaissance.
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There's also a bunch of overall decent games you should get but might wanna wait for a sale first. This is where your boltguns and fashion police squad and such fall. I would toss zortch in here probably but its only 5 bucks so I don't see it getting much cheaper. Last but not least several games are probably gonna go 1.0 this year so if you're worried they might increase in price when they do, you might be right. Viscerafest, Wrath Aeon of Ruin are on the cusp of being finished and I'd wager Ultrakill is gonna wrap up this year too
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Coffee Jones posted:These are primarily single player focused, right? Like anything other than vanilla quake maps seem to have glitches in coop. Ironwail and regular quakespasm do have network support, but it's quite primitive. Quakespasm-spiked and FTE both have vastly superior networking support and are the ports you want to use for coop play. I have used QSS in the past to play with friends with great success, but you'll need to set "sv_gameplayfix_spawnbeforethinks 1" in the console to play AD maps without clients crashing out. I would strongly recommend against using QSS as your standard port for single player because it has a history of quite nasty bugs and incompatibilities, not to mention a much slower renderer than ironwail.
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Milo and POTUS posted:There's also a bunch of overall decent games you should get but might wanna wait for a sale first. This is where your boltguns and fashion police squad and such fall. I would toss zortch in here probably but its only 5 bucks so I don't see it getting much cheaper. Last but not least several games are probably gonna go 1.0 this year so if you're worried they might increase in price when they do, you might be right. Viscerafest, Wrath Aeon of Ruin are on the cusp of being finished and I'd wager Ultrakill is gonna wrap up this year too Oh yeah I was going to ask about Fashion Police and Boltgun, I take it then they are on the lower rung of recommendations compared to Cultic or Turbo Overkill?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Ok not a FPS but I completely missed this by FPS masters Raven back in the day, I would have played the hell out of it Same engine as Mageslayer, isn't it? I think I still have the original disc for that around. Vague memories of it being fun at this point.
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khwarezm posted:Oh yeah I was going to ask about Fashion Police and Boltgun, I take it then they are on the lower rung of recommendations compared to Cultic or Turbo Overkill? I really liked Fashion Police Squad though it is a tier below those games. It has character out the wazoo.
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It's just that dusk/AE/TO/Hrot/Cultic are so good that almost everything else compares disfavorably lol.
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what i've played of boltgun is Fine, it's just that it's not really uhhhhhh something that carries through entirely with the design. like the aesthetics seem they were the primary focus, and they made sure some guns sound really nice to shoot, but the actual structure of the game isn't as tight as it could be, which sticks out sorely compared to other things like cultic which manages having a really nice aesthetic, amazing guns, and also just core gameplay that works incredibly well for what it's doing.
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Johnny Joestar posted:what i've played of boltgun is Fine, it's just that it's not really uhhhhhh something that carries through entirely with the design. like the aesthetics seem they were the primary focus, and they made sure some guns sound really nice to shoot, but the actual structure of the game isn't as tight as it could be, which sticks out sorely compared to other things like cultic which manages having a really nice aesthetic, amazing guns, and also just core gameplay that works incredibly well for what it's doing. Well again pretty much everything is runner up to cultic. All around it might be the best of the lot especially when you consider the price too
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Cultic is clean and cool as hell and the developer is a good dude.
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Boltgun just needs some tweaks like nav points, better communication that you're taking damage, and toning down those loving champions
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i'm a boltgun fan but yeah it's not touching cultic
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Boltgun proof you can't carry a game on weaponfeel alone. But you sure can try. I did like it more on my second playthrough, going from easiest to hardest. Like Amid Evil, not enough of a difference in difficulty progression; hardest didn't feel that much harder. Great for the achievement but man easiest felt harder than it should have and hardest easier
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