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DatonKallandor posted:That looks like one of those commercial Half Life 1 mods. It's just got that vibe. chocolateTHUNDER posted:Music is very HL1/HL2 also. I initially thought it was an old, unearthed demo for a game from the 2000's for these same reasons, and was very confused for a few moments.
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The console port of the System Shock Remake has been dated for May 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zct6_8yhQG0 This will presumably coincide with the Very Big Patch on the PC.
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WRATH got patched today: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1000410/view/4141694364930729681?l=english quote:Fixed OpenGL corruption on MenuQC entrypoints when steamoverlay is enabled on AMD GPUs
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quote:Changed Soul Tether Limit to 3 for Outlander Difficulty quote:Increased Enemy Damage for Outlander Difficulty
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It outlander a difficulty that is unlocked after beating the game? What does this mean? "Set Encounter Level to the max of 5 on each map for Outlander Difficulty"
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Yes it is. From what I recall the encounter level determines what enemies are in each map and it increments throughout an episode as you collect the rune things / get geared up. This at least is how it worked in early access, not sure how it affects episodes 2 and 3.
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The Kins posted:The console port of the System Shock Remake has been dated for May 21. I hope this sells like gangbusters and Night Dive get to make a proper sequel 
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I would literally commit a murder for Night Dive to do to System Shock 2 what they did for the SS1 Remake. Literally.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I would literally commit a murder for Night Dive to do to System Shock 2 what they did for the SS1 Remake. Literally. That would, without question, be totally rad and I'd absolutely buy it. But I kinda want them to just make their own from scratch, no restrictions.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I would literally commit a murder Dramicus posted:That would, without question, be totally rad 
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I think I spot a volunteer
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Just give me more Nightdive System Shock. Don't tell me how the sausage is made.
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Did the Wrath update broke something? Some hours ago I was playing Boundaries of the Living, and it looked great, moody. Now I load it up again, and it looks like this I will restart Windows, just in case. edit: reboot didn't fix it. Gamma/contrast/brightness is at default. Verifying files didn't fix it. This is how it should look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyfwXsSYZc Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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Turin Turambar posted:What does this mean?
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Turin Turambar posted:Did the Wrath update broke something? Some hours ago I was playing Boundaries of the Living, and it looked great, moody. Now I load it up again, and it looks like this: From the 3d realms discord: quote:In WRATH we’ve noted an issue with Boundary of the Living’s lightmaps and some still having issues with main menu flickering, so we are preparing those for a hotfix Hopefully they'll fix it soon.
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koren posted:After experimenting with outlander for a bit, my biggest annoyance is getting instantly nailed by a projectile when dodging around a corner at close range against the big frog, coach gun wielding grunt or most dangerously of all, the metal fella with the slag cannon. These enemies seem to know when you're about to peek them and pre-fire accordingly. It disincentivises the kind of aggressive play and dancing around enemies you can do in Quake and makes me want to take much wider angles around obstacles and corners instead. On top of this, the slag cannon guy has an attack that predicts where the player is going to be, rather than firing at their current position (think of chton's lava balls in quake). If you're playing aggressively and try to get in their faces, you run a big risk of eating twin 50 damage projectiles before you can react and change course. Enemy projectiles are extremely fast in general, likely to help counterbalance the player's base speed and acceleration with the blade, which makes close range projectile dodging rough. I'm just on the act1 boss now, but unless the slag guy means someone different than the guy I know, he doesn't lead his shots? Same with the other blokes. Which is kinda a complaint I have with the game, the turret enemies vomiting out projectiles which aren't hard to dodge, just tedious. Unless of course they actually start leading their shots on outlander, which is awesome and why the hell is it gated behind a difficulty instead of the default setting?!
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koren posted:From the 3d realms discord: Ah ok, so it only affects that map. What I feared was that it was a general issue and the remaining maps I have wouldn't look right.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I would literally commit a murder for Night Dive to do to System Shock 2 what they did for the SS1 Remake. Literally. The remake was so goddamn good I hadn't been sucked into a game like that since Elden Ring.
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I've never been able to get into the original System Shock even with the remaster and I loved the remake; I usually am playing multiple games at once but I pretty much just focused on the remake from beginning to end once I started.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The remake was so goddamn good I hadn't been sucked into a game like that since Elden Ring. Yep, Steam has clocked my time with the remake at 30 hours, and I feel like I really did marathon that. It's really unusual for a game to captivate me for that amount of time these days. I hear that big patch that's coming has some Steam Deck optomisation, in addition to the controller improvements for the console release, which will almost certainly be enough to prompt another run for me. It'd be nice to have a release date for SS2 as well.
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I... I think I need to play all of the boomshoots. All of them. Of this new..... I don't know, platinum age of retro-styled fps games, I've played: Project Warlock Dusk Doom 2016 Doom Eternal (not finished yet) Cultic (also not done) Shadow Warrior (the first one of the reboot games) ... and the demos for Turbo Overkill Amid Evil Fallen Aces (does this count?) Selaco Project Warlock 2, but I refunded it and will wait until it's done/out of EA. Controls felt not good. I should mention that I've also played the classics, like: - all of the Dooms, though I'm not quite finished 64 and 3 - the Quakes - UT99 and the fps love of my life, UT2k4  - the Half-Lives - Borderlands 1 & 2 - Duke 3D, a bunch of add-ons, the 64 version, Time to Kill, but not more than the demo for Forever. Bleh. - the Serious Sams - Blood - Shadow Warrior - Heretic - a bunch of really older ones, like Catacomb Abyss (my personal favourite), Wolf, Blake Stone, Nitemare 3D  I'm probably forgetting some (I mean, I love Void Bastards, but that's doesn't really fit what I'm going for). Once I'm done Cultic, I'll probably wait for the upcoming Steam sale but what bonkers insane fps do y'all recommend I pick up next? Nightmare Reaper looks REALLY fun and I might check that one out. That and Turbo Overkill are currently my main two in the running for 'what's next'. Edit: ah, I still have to play through Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, so that's actually next. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Johnny Joestar posted:put HROT on the list Is it that good? I see a poo poo load of brown, which is.... fine, but man.... I remember not liking making Forge levels in Halo 3 because of how blue/grey EVERYTHING seemed to be back then. Is it basically Quake getting the Dusk treatment? Actually, I don't know how that would work, Dusk is already super Quake-like.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Is it that good? I see a poo poo load of brown, which is.... fine, but man.... I remember not liking making Forge levels in Halo 3 because of how blue/grey EVERYTHING seemed to be back then. HROT is near the top of the FPS renaissance in my rankings - it's DUSK, CULTIC, and HROT as the holy trinity (thus far) for me.
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Groovelord Neato posted:HROT is near the top of the FPS renaissance in my rankings - it's DUSK, CULTIC, and HROT as the holy trinity (thus far) for me. Alright, well... Sold. I do enjoy more goofy options, which is probably why I wasn't really looking at HROT and was moving more towards Nightmare Reaper and Turbo Overkill. I consider Cultic and Dusk kind of in the middle of those two extremes. Anyway, I'll try it, for sure.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Is it that good? I see a poo poo load of brown, which is.... fine, but man.... I remember not liking making Forge levels in Halo 3 because of how blue/grey EVERYTHING seemed to be back then. I enjoyed HROT quite a bit, and I'm not a diehard Quake fan. It's a solid boomer shooter. The aggressively brown decor never grew on me, however.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Is it that good? I see a poo poo load of brown, which is.... fine, but man.... I remember not liking making Forge levels in Halo 3 because of how blue/grey EVERYTHING seemed to be back then. HROT is amazing, please don't judge it by its appearance. Someone posted a cool infodump on Czech lore earlier in the thread which is a pro-read, sadly I can't remember when it was posted tho Other cool games you didn't already mention: Platform agnostic: System Shock Remake Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer Deus Ex (I like the GMDX mod personally) Wizordum Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition Powerslave Exhumed Turok (I'd say just play the first, the second is a meandering mess with some really interesting ideas) Aliens vs Predator Classic 2000 (get the mod that reinstates the original FMV briefings, the new ones suck) STAR WARS: Dark Forces (original through STAR WARS: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (use the OpenJKDF2 source port) STAR WARS: Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast STAR WARS: Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy Return to Castle Wolfenstein Strife: Veteran Edition Terra Nova (like HROT, please do not judge this game by the screenshots) SiN Gold (use the Dominatrix source port) Outlaws Steam only: Black Mesa (Half-Life 1 remake in the Source engine) Only on GOG: Soldier of Fortune 1 (the sequel is ok but not great) Clive Barker's Undying (use the Renewal mod) Star Trek: Elite Force 1 & 2 SWAT 4 (not really a boomshooter but it's good) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (as above) The Wheel of Time (I haven't actually played this yet but it looks ok) Not for sale digitally Prey 2006 (you can find CD copies on ebay, or probably on archive.org) Wolfenstein 2009 (as above, it's on archive.org) The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (includes a remaster of the first game) No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 (look for the 'revival' versions online) Do not play under any circumstances Witchaven 1 & 2 Soldier of Fortune: Payback WWII GI Blood II Kingpin Remastered (somehow manages to make the original game look like a masterpiece) Kinsie also maintains a decent list here: https://trello.com/b/UJEhTigw/sector-effectors Convex fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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HROT is so fuckin good, it has a really unique silliness that I really love.
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DELICIOUS CANNED POULTRY
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You should play Ultrakill. It's not a 1:1 fit to either the classic boom shooters or the modern renaissance, but I think it's analogous enough that if you're working your way through this genre, you kinda have to see it. I've never quite got into it, only ever playing each episode a couple of times, and I'm still yet to even get around to the latest one. But the people who like Ultrakill seem to really loving love it. And it's one of those games that's just.. worth seeing for what it is. I agree with DUSK and CULTIC being in the top tier (haven't played HROT yet), but I think Ultrakill sits in the next bracket down as a "Required Reading" thing that anyone invested in this genre should at least take a look at. Some would argue it absolutely should be bumped up to GOAT tier.
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Convex posted:HROT is amazing, please don't judge it by its appearance. Someone posted a cool infodump on Czech lore earlier in the thread which is a pro-read, sadly I can't remember when it was posted tho Thanks! I crossed off the items that I've already played, or at least played most of that "I'm good". I'm really torn on RotT. I love love loved it back in the day, and played the demo of the Ludicrous Edition, but I feel like it's a game that lives much better in my memories than when I attempt to play it again. One specific reason is the audio and how bullet spongey everyone is. The machine gun sounds like a tap dancer on too much caffeine, while the pistols are just booming. I very much appreciate the fact that the sounds have been updated, but it still doesn't make me enjoy it any more nowadays. I feel like I've had my fill, forever. Maybe not. But maybe.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Thanks! I crossed off the items that I've already played, or at least played most of that "I'm good". I'm really torn on RotT. I love love loved it back in the day, and played the demo of the Ludicrous Edition, but I feel like it's a game that lives much better in my memories than when I attempt to play it again. Yeah that's fair enough! I forgot to add that you should also consider the Death Wish and Marrow mods for BLOOD if you didn't already play those. Also I got the name of the Dark Forces port wrong, it's now called The Force Engine
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I'm gonna at least namedrop Dread Templar which while nowhere near as amazing as the unholy trinity (whatever its composition may be - Dusk, Cultic and Amid Evil for me) is still a very solid shooter elevated by fun weapon customization and really catchy music. It's been on my mind lately because I'm currently playing Wrath and keep thinking it was a better version of that. Also really like Blood West but the only thing that's got in common with retroshoots is the aesthetic, it's more of a stealth/immsim type game.
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Convex posted:HROT is amazing, please don't judge it by its appearance. Someone posted a cool infodump on Czech lore earlier in the thread which is a pro-read, sadly I can't remember when it was posted tho Dear lord, man. This list is rad.
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Convex posted:HROT is amazing, please don't judge it by its appearance. Someone posted a cool infodump on Czech lore earlier in the thread which is a pro-read, sadly I can't remember when it was posted tho This is Corridor 7 erasure and I won’t stand for it thank you for the list, I didn’t even know there was an open source recreation of Jedi Knight II’s executable!
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I forgot Prodeus. I really want Prodeus. So, right now, my top 3 "next buys" are HROT, Turbo Overkill, and.... Well, I guess it's a toss up between Nightmare Reaper and Prodeus.
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I found Prodeus extremely mid, with some questionable decisions made around saving / respawning and a boring bestiary. Nightmare Reaper has its problems: make sure you turn down a bunch of its graphical bells and whistles as they're just ugly, and its leveling system should never have left the prototype stage. But it also has some real fun guns and satisfying movement, with an arena mode I must have sunk a whole lot of hours into.
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