Early FPS Megathread: the kids need to learn about TekWar sooner or later

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Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Deakul posted:

Does Quake 2 have any "must try" singleplayer mods? Anything on the scale of something like Arcane Dimensions for Q1?

Pretty much just looking for a reason to keep it installed, I haven't really dabbled in anything Q2 related in probably 20 years.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2023 03:10

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 12:14

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Turin Turambar posted:

Dominic makes a Doom tweet thread. He mixes mods and commercial games, so let's put it here:

https://twitter.com/DominicTarason/status/1637929502830370817

c'mon dood don't make us see the pendulum avatar guy's posts...

# ¿ Mar 21, 2023 23:35

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Overbite posted:

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/...tm_medium=email

Humble doing a boomer shooter bundle that includes

Nightmare Reaper
Deadlink
Forgive Me Father
Viscerafest
Impaler
Graven
Wrath
and uh the citadel

I've never heard of Deadlink or Impaler.

I hope Graven and Wrath are good. The EA builds are fine but man, Wrath has been in development forever and it doesn't seem like its near the end. I feel bad for em, they made a mistake developing it the way they are.

too bad some of the games forgot to put a character doing the epic doomguy pose on their cover art

# ¿ Mar 30, 2023 04:12

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Scrolling through your weapons and pausing time is for newbs. Sorry but that's #facts

# ¿ Apr 8, 2023 18:32

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

skasion posted:

Will only happen when people stop putting gd bathrooms in their games. I don�t understand why mapmakers do this. I have never walked into a door in an FPS and thought �hell yeah, a bathroom�

then something is wrong with you .

# ¿ Apr 12, 2023 01:38

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

haveblue posted:

Every other weapon except the AR had its uses, but they were all situational while the pistol was the main workhorse. The plasma pistol charge shot had very strong tracking and was a guaranteed shield pop. The sniper rifle could do sick 360 noscopes because it was still perfectly accurate when unzoomed, it just didn’t have a crosshair (leading sweats to attach homemade crosshairs to their TV). The rocket launcher was the most reliable vehicle counter

The sniper does have a crosshair

# ¿ May 30, 2023 12:38

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Grimthwacker posted:

Y'know, I've noticed a distinct lack of "tacticool" PvE FPSes that aren't Call of Duty or Battlefield. I guess Insurgency: Sandstorm has that (just brought that on sale), but sometimes I just wanna gun down multiple mooks with real (or real-adjacent) guns. Basically, I want a new Black. Or single-player Tarkov. Give me my gun porn.

Project MSX was awesome, and I'm sad the developer quit working on it because it became completely incompatible with later versions of GZDoom. There are so many great Doom mods that run the gamut these days, but that's a whole other conversation.

If you like the coop mode in sandstorm and want something a little more realistic, Ground Branch is a coop shooter modeled off raven shield/ghost recon. Full tacticool weapon customization and some stuff you don't see in many other games like options on how you hold the gun and canted sights.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 12:05

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Also you can still play Tribes 1 and 2 perfectly fine. There are free, preconfigured installers and everything. You just have to join an organized game or find the time when a public lobby fills up since like 200 people play them total.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 16:54

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

every tribes game (and earthsiege/starsiege iirc) was released for free by the publisher like a decade ago so i odnt think it matters that there's "no legal way to buy them"
https://playt1.com/
https://www.playt2.com/

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 17:54

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

I dont see what nightdive slapping a $20 pricetag on a multiplayer only game and putting it on Steam will do for it. It sure didn't work for Quake Live. Heck as far as Steam itself helping, the latest Tribes-like was free to play on there and died out in less than a month.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 18:54

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

verbal enema posted:

My only thing about a new quake is it being designed for controllers

Try to rocket jump with a controller I dare you

Eh doesn't seem that hard. Just press LB to trigger the ability once it's off cool down. :shrug:

# ¿ Jul 17, 2023 01:41

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Milo and POTUS posted:

PC Gamers are absolutely insane and the number go up crowd doesn't just apply to money it seems. I think I played nearly 70 hours of Cultic when I was probably getting 25 fps tops on lowest settings and had a blast

that sounds awful. fps games are absolutely a genre where high frame rate is important.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 13:54

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

thankfully it's not the 1990s anymore and lord graf zahl perfected doom for us

# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 14:27

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

played 1 level of the machine games thing and 1 round of the edge. Man does quake 2 stink!

# ¿ Aug 10, 2023 19:17

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

site posted:

That can only mean one thing: quake wars

tbh this should be done. can't buy it anymore and it has weird input/framerate issues. fun game. at least open source it or something.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2023 01:52

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

The Kins posted:

Important new release for Quake 1: The Fireblu Jam

The "Nuts" map in this is cool. Fun to figure out how to 100%.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2023 04:26

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

The Kins posted:

Well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9TTurkH4c

man those remastered cutscenes look awful

# ¿ Aug 23, 2023 15:14

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Here I got a good clip of how huge the berserker AOE is

https://media.discordapp.net/attach...0.04.53.824.mp4

# ¿ Aug 24, 2023 03:11

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Sigh. Another boomshoot lost to the chuds...

# ¿ Sep 26, 2023 13:02

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

HolyKrap posted:

Cause this breaks a ton of mods

dang. i figured but still annoying.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2023 20:50

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Sir Lemming posted:

Midair 2 is currently in closed beta, hopefully they can fix whatever those issues were. (I haven't been following it for very long but a mutual friend gave out some keys.)

I think they opened it up recently and there are regular playtests on weekends. It's LT mode only tho. Light armor restricted 6v6 which the pug ppl have played since t1.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2023 00:55

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Jehde posted:

The Tribes 3 playtest is really good right now. Some things to nitpick, but overall everything I want is there. 12v12 CTF, base generators are back.

really? i was pretty disappointed. none of it feels right, especially the skiing

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 20:51

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

the skiing feels "fake". you get a free sprint boost when you start it and you latch on to the ground. like, if you ski along the side of a hill you dont curve with the slope at all--you just stick to the terrain and go straight. the jets are weak and dont have much energy so low-speed disk duels aren't as interesting either and simple things like jetting up to a flag stand are annoying because you dont get much height

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 22:52

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Jehde posted:

It sounds like you didn't play this week's playtest.

They overhauled the skiing and it works as expected now. They also added an option to let you choose how much lateral jet thrust you want as a trade off of vertical thrust. This is still a very early alpha, so they still have a lot of missing features to implement yet. But so far they're improving the things I want addressed. The development trajectory is pretty promising.

Tribes is back and it rules.

I only played this one. the skiing feels terrible and jet thrust isn't something you should have to change in the settings.

i know itll only get a quarter of tribes 3s eventual player base but midair 2 is how I expect tribes to feel

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 04:17

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Grimthwacker posted:

Rage's ending was such a hilarious nothingburger.

An interesting new (I think?) Half-Life mod that I'm watching Cpt. Sledge play on Twitch right now: Delta Particles. It looks cool and I don't think anybody's brought it up yet. Good timing since I'm well into replaying HL.

just beat this and it was cool. thx for linking

# ¿ Jan 12, 2024 02:41

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

excited for wrath. played an hour or two of it in EA and liked it enough that i stopped to wait for the release.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 15:04

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

I hate manually activated power up items. Unless it gets a lot harder they don't seem too necessary either.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 04:30

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

Barudak posted:

It has a pacing issue, but by hub 3 you will have arguably too many weapons and enough mean enemies to make fights frantic.

The maps are at least twice as long as most quake campaign maps, maybe even 3 times as long sometimes, so each hub is 2-3 times longer than an equivalent quake episode. With levels in any order, the toolset and enemy mix can only tier up roughly every 10-15 quake equivalent maps which contributes a lot to the issues.

i was pretty bored in the first episode but 2 definitely kicks it up. not super hard yet but i'm at least dying occasionally.

my major annoyance atm is the enemy pathfinding is weird and so many fights end up with the cacodemon equivalents getting stuck somewhere.

and the blade movement is fun but on Hard your health gets chewed through quickly and most enemies get a hit in if you go full melee. the glide move giving super armor or health leech would open up more effective strategies with it. i want it to be effective to fly through the eyeball monster's projectiles and stab it. instead, it's usually better to sit back and snipe with fangs/handgun

# ¿ Mar 2, 2024 17:01

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

yeah the ghast equivalent is not fun to fight. they get stuck in corners and are best sniped with the pistol.

you do get a railgun later which helps with deleting some of the larger enemies (e.g., the cacodemons die to rail + shotgun blast)

# ¿ Mar 3, 2024 02:10

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

half life rules

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 14:20

Squeezy Farm: Jun 16, 2009

the shooting and movement in gunfire reborn felt lifeless and borderlands-y to me. the robot one seemed better and it had some interesting rocket jump style mechanics but it wasn't much fun either. keep roguelite elements out of my shooters.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 20:31