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I'm not a big gears fan but I think the reload is pretty nifty. Battlefront had it, in a proper fps, and while BF had issues I like the tactical reloads there. Adds some surprise and a chance to not be caught reloading for so long if you react in time. Seems good to me.
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ETPC posted:instead of reloading maybe it could be something else. i just like the feel of the tactical reload IDK, reloads seem perfect. Its a time where otherwise your options are "wait" and "hide behind cover for a minute" Having something extra to add some action to reloads is good? Obviously it doesn't belong in doom or UT where you never reload. But if you do...
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ETPC posted:you aren't wrong It really is, turns an unsatisfying bit of downtime into a wee bit of extra gameplay.
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Sep 9, 2019 21:27
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Gears of War 1 was one of the worst shooters I played, too. Clunky, boring use of cover, bad AI, bad weapon variety, repetitive enemies, uninteresting set pieces, with almost zero setting variety. It happens that I'm playing Gears 5 right now (gamepass), and hey, while I still don't really like the core aspect of the game (cover based shooter, 2 weapons, health regen), at least it improved in most other areas.
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Sep 9, 2019 21:35
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I wasn't a fan of the gears reload, particularly because they just artificially made the reload time longer to tack on a qte mechanic, instead of giving you a short reload in the first place
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Sep 9, 2019 21:35
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site posted:I wasn't a fan of the gears reload, particularly because they just artificially made the reload time longer to tack on a qte mechanic, instead of giving you a short reload in the first place You spend a LOT of time behind knee-high cover in these games waiting for your moment, so there needs to be something else going on. Gears in general is still by far the best cover shooter ever made.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:02
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Sep 9, 2019 22:07
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Sodomy Hussein posted:You spend a LOT of time behind knee-high cover in these games waiting for your moment, so there needs to be something else going on. From what little I've played of Gears 5, what gives me the greatest amount of success is to not just sit behind one piece of cover and actively try to flank/get close and start Gnashering idiots. Either that, or get good with the Longshot. Or explode everything.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:08
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Hwurmp posted:
That's a funny way of saying Winback.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:10
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Sodomy Hussein posted:You spend a LOT of time behind knee-high cover in these games waiting for your moment, so there needs to be something else going on. This basically it. And it's why I don't like it: it's arbitrary busywork they introduced as a patch because their core formula was so bland.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:25
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I just wanna put this out there but the enemies in Ion Fury are dog poo poo stupid. They literally just stand there until you are right in front of them. They barely even wander around, and the whole game may as well be filled with those cardboard shooting practice targets from that one level.
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Sep 9, 2019 22:54
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doom modders, when making a dehacked patch is there any particular doom version i need listed to have compatibility with both udoom and doom 2 i tried googling it but it just comes up with people asking about patches theyre making, but ive seen them with version = 19, and 21 and have no idea what the differences are site fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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Sep 9, 2019 23:08
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site posted:doom modders, when making a dehacked patch is there any particular doom version i need listed to have maximum compat with stuff put in 666 just to cover them all I'm sure that's what Carmack would have done I'm not a modder
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Sep 9, 2019 23:11
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Sodomy Hussein posted:You spend a LOT of time behind knee-high cover in these games waiting for your moment, so there needs to be something else going on. Time Crisis. 
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Sep 9, 2019 23:40
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Kanos posted:Time Crisis. 
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Sep 9, 2019 23:41
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site posted:doom modders, when making a dehacked patch is there any particular doom version i need listed to have compatibility with both udoom and doom 2
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Sep 9, 2019 23:56
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site posted:doom modders, when making a dehacked patch is there any particular doom version i need listed to have compatibility with both udoom and doom 2 Can you try omitting the field of 'version' entirely?
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Sep 10, 2019 00:03
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Zaphod42 posted:Can you try omitting the field of 'version' entirely? Wouldn't change anything as far as Doom cares. IIRC that's just there for DeHackEd/WhackEd to know what it's dealing with.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:16
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:21 is for Ultimate Doom v1.9 (yes this poo poo can get confusing). It should be (by which I mean it is) perfectly fine to use with Doom II however since v1.9 has all the text strings and internal gubbins that makes Doom II tick anyway. Okay cool thanks!
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Sep 10, 2019 00:22
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The best use of tactical reload was Eltnum's bullet gauge in Under Night.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:23
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site posted:doom modders, when making a dehacked patch is there any particular doom version i need listed to have compatibility with both udoom and doom 2 The versions should be set to 21 for most purposes. The only place it occasionally causes a problem is older releases of the DOS DEHACKED, which will refuse to accept it as a valid patch on certain versions of the executable. On modern source ports including those like Chocolate Doom, the version labeling gets ignored.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:28
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gears 3 is one of the best shooters ever made the gnasher shotgun should be discussed in the same way the shotgun from fear should be discussed
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zly3Gw9h_u4 Although now I just wanna see this but with Duke's voice for Roddy Piper
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Sep 10, 2019 01:04
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Best reload gimmick was in the Call of Juarez games where in some of them, you could reload single-shot weapons like revolvers and repeaters faster by mashing the reload button.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:09
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Plan Z posted:Best reload gimmick was in the Call of Juarez games where in some of them, you could reload single-shot weapons like revolvers and repeaters faster by mashing the reload button. Im going to disagree and say any mashing mechanic is a bad mechanic. That especially includes pistols that fire as fast as you click
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Sep 10, 2019 01:19
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ETPC posted:gears 3 is one of the best shooters ever made I can’t remember a drat thing about any Gears post 2, and I liked 2 less than 1. What’s good about 3? e: also put me down with the active reload likers. It’s not the greatest mechanic of all time or anything but it does what it says, makes reloading more active. The animation sells it well, it’s satisfying to do right, frustrating to mess up, and not mandatory. skasion fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Duke Nukem 3D: War of Attrition 2.0 was released three years ago and I missed it somehow.  Fired it up this evening and the main changes seem to be (since the last version I played, 1.6, so some of these may be other 1.x changes): Duke himself now levels up and points earned that way can be spent on character upgrades; a few new monsters; and a whole shitload of new levels. Oh, and you now get to pick a secondary weapon to start with so you aren't completely screwed when it loads a random map that wasn't expecting you to pistol-start -- most of them do but there's a few that are part of longer map sequences. I had also forgotten how absurdly lethal everything is, I rolled AGC One first, got stuck and couldn't figure out how to open the grating, burned a skip to get to Train In Veins and died and died and died and died and died and finally called it a night.
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gears 3 is pretty much the platonic ideal of the AAA linear shooter and is exceptionally well paced, incredibly varied and has some genuinely awe-inspiring moments even almost a decade later and it's also just a ton of #content with the shitload of modes and mutators and maps and bots and horde mode and god its just so good though it also gave birth to buying jpegs for your guns in the AAA space
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ToxicFrog posted:Duke Nukem 3D: War of Attrition 2.0 was released three years ago and I missed it somehow. I don't remember the last version I played but whenever the Duke clone showed up, you were in for a bad time 
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also gears 3 has ice-t playing Space Ice-T and it whips sack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v94GuyrL5aw
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Wamdoodle posted:I don't remember the last version I played but whenever the Duke clone showed up, you were in for a bad time In 1.6, usually by the time the EvilDukes started showing up I had a heavily upgraded HoloDuke and the ability to create nuclear explosions with my mind, so it was less "a bad time" and more "an incomprehensible atomic clusterfuck", which is exactly what I play WoA for. 
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I've played Gears 1/2/3 and I enjoyed them. I don't mind cover shooters as long as they can do something interesting with it, and not just have it be "wait for guy to stop shooting. Now I come out of cover and wait for him to pop up..." Gears always tried to throw in interesting stuff like enemies that could force you to move, or little set-piece moments like the rockworm or the lever-activated walls in the Grub city. I missed out on that one spin-off as well as Gears 4 (because fuuuck the Microsoft store). I also really want to play some horde mode like you wouldn't believe.
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ETPC posted:also gears 3 has ice-t playing Space Ice-T and it whips sack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v94GuyrL5aw tbh that video reminded me of one thing I really didn't like about Gears, mandatory exposition walking sections.
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Best reload mechanic? LucasArts' Outlaws. Simply hold down the reload button with a catch - you have control over how many bullets (and the time it takes) for each reload. So if you're under fire, do you retreat and take the time to fully reload your six shooter? Or do you gamble and tap the reload key, knowing full well that your one bullet needs to land?
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Plan Z posted:I've played Gears 1/2/3 and I enjoyed them. I don't mind cover shooters as long as they can do something interesting with it, and not just have it be "wait for guy to stop shooting. Now I come out of cover and wait for him to pop up..." Gears always tried to throw in interesting stuff like enemies that could force you to move, or little set-piece moments like the rockworm or the lever-activated walls in the Grub city. I missed out on that one spin-off as well as Gears 4 (because fuuuck the Microsoft store). I also really want to play some horde mode like you wouldn't believe. For only 5 bucks a month (might be 10 now, not sure) you can play all the gears games including Gears 5 on PC right now. You also get a nonworking on most peoples computer copy of Metro Exodus
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The best reload mechanic is Receiver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCThInmzjXw&t=23s e; less annoying video treat fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Sep 10, 2019 03:57
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treat posted:The best reload mechanic is Receiver
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Barudak posted:That especially includes pistols that fire as fast as you click Heck no. This just means binding fire to mousewheel down. Or using a mouse with a turbo button 
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Shoehead posted:Heck no. This just means binding fire to mousewheel down. Someone mentioned before its an accessibility issue, which does seem like it should be avoided when possible.
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Mordja posted:Oh right, Receiver was a pre-order incentive for Overgrowth, haha. Pretty sure it's generally better regarded too. overgrowth is a really fun game nowadays, but receiver was definitely a fun game first
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