favorite dead multiplayer game?

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!Klams: Dec 25, 2005; Squid Squad

ColoradoCleric posted:

Unfortunately for The Specialists the only normal server is 24/7 lobby

Ah my mate was one of the people involved in making that, it was class!

Did any of you ever play 'The Hidden'? One of the best hl2 mods ever, one of the most fun online fps games I ever played. One team was a group of navy seals types armed with machine guns and shot guns, the other team was one naked man with a knife. Who was ALMOST invisible. What made it so great was that you could just about see the shimmer, but there were things like steam vents and windows that made you think you'd seen him, lots of friendly fire deaths. The Hidden could actually jump really high, climb on walls and see through walls too, he was kind of a killing machine, which made it absolutely terrifying. Seriously, if it's not still available would strongly recommend watching a YouTube vid or something, Gabe was great

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!Klams posted:

Ah my mate was one of the people involved in making that, it was class!

Did any of you ever play 'The Hidden'? One of the best hl2 mods ever, one of the most fun online fps games I ever played. One team was a group of navy seals types armed with machine guns and shot guns, the other team was one naked man with a knife. Who was ALMOST invisible. What made it so great was that you could just about see the shimmer, but there were things like steam vents and windows that made you think you'd seen him, lots of friendly fire deaths. The Hidden could actually jump really high, climb on walls and see through walls too, he was kind of a killing machine, which made it absolutely terrifying. Seriously, if it's not still available would strongly recommend watching a YouTube vid or something, Gabe was great

Holy poo poo, this sounds glorious. :allears:

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symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

!Klams posted:

Ah my mate was one of the people involved in making that, it was class!

Did any of you ever play 'The Hidden'? One of the best hl2 mods ever, one of the most fun online fps games I ever played. One team was a group of navy seals types armed with machine guns and shot guns, the other team was one naked man with a knife. Who was ALMOST invisible. What made it so great was that you could just about see the shimmer, but there were things like steam vents and windows that made you think you'd seen him, lots of friendly fire deaths. The Hidden could actually jump really high, climb on walls and see through walls too, he was kind of a killing machine, which made it absolutely terrifying. Seriously, if it's not still available would strongly recommend watching a YouTube vid or something, Gabe was great

i think it got ported over to GMod

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Frog Act: Feb 10, 2012

i spent a weekend getting really high and playing Hidden Source about a year ago and had a ton of fun

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barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Counter-Strike: Source is dead for mostly anything other than 24/7 office/dust2 and surf. There are only a few good rotation servers left and they're all usually only active in the afternoons, when they fill up and result in waiting for an open slot.

Jedi Knight Jedi Academy is not dead at all. Just bought a copy at a thrift shop forf $2 and the first server I joined was filled with people. At first I thought they were bots but then two of them helped me learn the mechanics and dueled me a couple times so I could get the hang of it. Really awesome community, those that are left. Eager to teach newbies so that there are more people left to play JKJA

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Blue Raider: Sep 2, 2006

everybody hated call of duty 3 but goddamn if i wasnt a beast at it. i went 120-9 in one match

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Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

!Klams posted:

Ah my mate was one of the people involved in making that, it was class!

Did any of you ever play 'The Hidden'? One of the best hl2 mods ever, one of the most fun online fps games I ever played. One team was a group of navy seals types armed with machine guns and shot guns, the other team was one naked man with a knife. Who was ALMOST invisible. What made it so great was that you could just about see the shimmer, but there were things like steam vents and windows that made you think you'd seen him, lots of friendly fire deaths. The Hidden could actually jump really high, climb on walls and see through walls too, he was kind of a killing machine, which made it absolutely terrifying. Seriously, if it's not still available would strongly recommend watching a YouTube vid or something, Gabe was great

The best part was that you could play the Hidden like a literal slasher villain, killing and hanging people's bleeding corpses from the rafters. :unsmigghh:

I might be wrong, but there also weren't any death notifications, so you could never be sure how much backup you had as the soldiers.

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Turdsdown Tom posted:

Jedi Knight Jedi Academy is not dead at all. Just bought a copy at a thrift shop forf $2 and the first server I joined was filled with people. At first I thought they were bots but then two of them helped me learn the mechanics and dueled me a couple times so I could get the hang of it. Really awesome community, those that are left. Eager to teach newbies so that there are more people left to play JKJA

I wouldn't say that's not dead at all but boggles my mind that people still play stuff like that and wc2 or bf2 or whatever. I'd imagine playing with the same 15 people would get old after awhile.

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Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

Turdsdown Tom posted:

Jedi Knight Jedi Academy is not dead at all. Just bought a copy at a thrift shop forf $2 and the first server I joined was filled with people. At first I thought they were bots but then two of them helped me learn the mechanics and dueled me a couple times so I could get the hang of it. Really awesome community, those that are left. Eager to teach newbies so that there are more people left to play JKJA

Huh, all I've heard of JKA are the horror stories of spergy vets fighting for their e-bushido.

E: I do know that Movie Battles mod for it is still going strong, though.

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hard counter: Jan 2, 2015

Sp1r0_Agn3W posted:

everybody hated call of duty 3 but goddamn if i wasnt a beast at it. i went 120-9 in one match

Yeah part of the reason why I liked SoF2 and Tribes so much was that I was a wee kid and had hours to get good at that poo poo. I remember being good enough at SoF2 that in a capture the briefcase, best of seven, I could play blue and consistently go up to 6-0, then switch red then win 7-6. Mods actively observed me to see if I was cheating but every time they concluded nah he's just that drat good.

I'll never be like that at a bideo game again

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Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Mordja posted:

The best part was that you could play the Hidden like a literal slasher villain, killing and hanging people's bleeding corpses from the rafters.

I might be wrong, but there also weren't any death notifications, so you could never be sure how much backup you had as the soldiers.

Ok, holy poo poo, we need to all play this. Jesus christ. :stare:

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barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

F.E.A.R. was also a really good online game. The standalone F.E.A.R. Combat still has like two servers that get a few people but other than that it's gone. You can't play retail anymore because it was a GameSpy title.

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ColoradoCleric: Dec 26, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Steam really should just take over masterserver responsibilities for titles on its platform

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kalel: Jun 19, 2012

Mordja posted:

The best part was that you could play the Hidden like a literal slasher villain, killing and hanging people's bleeding corpses from the rafters.

I might be wrong, but there also weren't any death notifications, so you could never be sure how much backup you had as the soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tltj8CxOCc&t=21s

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Stunt_enby: Feb 6, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SciFiDownBeat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tltj8CxOCc&t=21s

thank you for the obnoxious streamer, friend, i enjoy grown men screaming at video games le epically randomly

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PantsandCola: Aug 17, 2013; you did good... you did good

nigga crab pollock posted:

is this dead

it cant be dead

how it didnt get a source remake is a tragedy that will ripple thru the ages

you should check out double action boogaloo. it's made by the specialists guys

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Cephalectomy: Jun 8, 2007

all you wolf et whiners can suck it regaler wolf was way more fun. trying to defend normandy against HPB's was fun as gently caress because of the nebelwerhfer

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ColoradoCleric: Dec 26, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

My favorite feature of the specialist is being able to manually rack the shotguns

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a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

Mordja posted:

The best part was that you could play the Hidden like a literal slasher villain, killing and hanging people's bleeding corpses from the rafters.

I might be wrong, but there also weren't any death notifications, so you could never be sure how much backup you had as the soldiers.

I was v good at this game and knew how to mess with people and hanging corpses intricately was an amazing joy when you pulled it off with dramatic flare

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symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

Mordja posted:

The best part was that you could play the Hidden like a literal slasher villain, killing and hanging people's bleeding corpses from the rafters.

holy poo poo, i remember doing this a lot in Trouble in Terrorist Town. we called them "meat lockers" and the record on the server i frequented was 11 bodies strung up like christmas decorations in one room.

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TheMostFrench: Jul 12, 2009; Stop for me, it's the claw!

Hidden servers I used to play had disabled the one shot kill move, so you had to get 3 hits on every person to kill them. Other things you could do are pick up a body, leap with it and then let go in mid air to fling it across the map, or land on top of a guy camping in a corner (landing on people did no damage) and dangle a dead body in their face.

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Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

If you guys liked the Hidden stuff, they made a modern game that is basically that + more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msw8BJTMy8E

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ishikabibble: Jan 21, 2012

Zzulu posted:

If you guys liked the Hidden stuff, they made a modern game that is basically that + more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msw8BJTMy8E

Dead By Daylight isn't really much like the Hidden. In the Hidden, the non-hunter players actually had guns and the objective was to kill the hunter while the hunter's objective was to kill the players, which is totally different from Dead By Daylight's gameplay model where the players are powerless against the killer but the killer has to kill the players in annoying convoluted ways.

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Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

yea

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dk2m: May 6, 2009

With HL chat, I just thought of Condition Zero. It never really got the respect it deserved, IMO - I ended up putting way more hours into Condition Zero than CS 1.6, partly because of the new skins and partly because they got rid of grenade wall damage.

The single player was garbage thought, I don't even know why the attempted that.

It's too bad there's like 6 servers for CZ and 9 million for 1.6

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Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Ok, holy poo poo, we need to all play this. Jesus christ.

Whenever threads like this pop up I always think we should arrange a steam group for weekly old game revivals or something but :effort:

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Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Mordja posted:

Whenever threads like this pop up I always think we should arrange a steam group for weekly old game revivals or something but

drat, if I had more time, I'd whip something up. Wasn't there a thread a while ago strictly for organizing goon multiplayer games? I realize it might not get a ton of traffic like the actual Steam Megathread, but I think it could be worth it.

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Neurolimal: Nov 3, 2012

The closest non-hidden Hidden game is probably VS Saxton Hale mode in TF2. It's less common than Freak Fortress 2 though, which takes VS-SH and adds bozarre memes and gimmicks

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Stunt_enby: Feb 6, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Neurolimal posted:

The closest non-hidden Hidden game is probably VS Saxton Hale mode in TF2. It's less common than Freak Fortress 2 though, which takes VS-SH and adds bozarre memes and gimmicks

...literally the only thing those two modes have in common is that they both involve 1 player against the rest, saxton hale is shittier than normal tf2 and is about killing someone with a lot of health and OP abilities instead of someone relying on stealth to stay alive

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Neurolimal: Nov 3, 2012

Stuntman posted:

...literally the only thing those two modes have in common is that they both involve 1 player against the rest, saxton hale is shittier than normal tf2 and is about killing someone with a lot of health and OP abilities instead of someone relying on stealth to stay alive

There's variants with lower-health spy-based classes, also its not actually difficult to kill most of those bosses; if anything, the health is to make up for the fact that even basic coordination can make it extremely difficult to melee them.

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ColoradoCleric: Dec 26, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

dk2m posted:

With HL chat, I just thought of Condition Zero. It never really got the respect it deserved, IMO - I ended up putting way more hours into Condition Zero than CS 1.6, partly because of the new skins and partly because they got rid of grenade wall damage.

The single player was garbage thought, I don't even know why the attempted that.

It's too bad there's like 6 servers for CZ and 9 million for 1.6

What was the difference with CZ anyways? Didn't source come out like right after? The only thing I can think of is they added a bazooka.

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turn it up TURN ME ON: Mar 19, 2012; In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only war.

...and delicious ice cream.

Murphy Brownback posted:

That Silent Death spaceship combat game back when GameStorm still existed. Also their text game Darkness Falls.

I played this for hours one day way back when GameStorm existed. Loved it to death, and then GameStorm died. I went on a 2-hour long Google fest one day looking for any scrap of its existence, but couldn't find anything on it. Man, I remember that game had some good mechanics. Or maybe I was just young and didn't know anything.

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barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Xaris posted:

I wouldn't say that's not dead at all but boggles my mind that people still play stuff like that and wc2 or bf2 or whatever. I'd imagine playing with the same 15 people would get old after awhile.

Agreed, but if I can search for servers in the browser and find multiple full servers, a game is not dead.

Maybe if this thread were titled "favorite multiplayer games that don't have player counts as high as when they were released", but imho JKJA is not dead.

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Mordja: Apr 26, 2014; Hell Gem

There are close to 600 people playing Battlefield 2 right now which is probably more than are playing Battleborn.

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Frog Act: Feb 10, 2012

Mordja posted:

There are close to 600 people playing Battlefield 2 right now which is probably more than are playing Battleborn.

I used to boot it up every once in awhile for that cool mod that is now Squad

ed: project relaity

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CuddleCryptid: Jan 11, 2013; Things could be going better

ishikabibble posted:

Dead By Daylight isn't really much like the Hidden. In the Hidden, the non-hunter players actually had guns and the objective was to kill the hunter while the hunter's objective was to kill the players, which is totally different from Dead By Daylight's gameplay model where the players are powerless against the killer but the killer has to kill the players in annoying convoluted ways.

Sounds like it was more like Evolve than DBD

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Sancho: Jul 18, 2003

I miss vietcong. That game was surprisingly fun

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!Klams: Dec 25, 2005; Squid Squad

Haha, yeah, I was going to mention all that in my original post but figured it was massive already, it was so so good not having death notifications, and being all "poo poo, guys? Guys? Where you at guys?" And then walking into a room to see them all hanging dead from the rafters like "...Oh poo poo...."

The Hidden could do freaky voice emotes too, so you could totally go '.....LlLlloOooOoooOoooKkkKk uUuUuuuUuppPpp!!!' And then drop on someone's soft meaty face and slash them to bits.

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nigga crab pollock: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

Turdsdown Tom posted:

F.E.A.R. was also a really good online game. The standalone F.E.A.R. Combat still has like two servers that get a few people but other than that it's gone. You can't play retail anymore because it was a GameSpy title.

the weapon sounds were kind of bad but poo poo exploded into dust and sparks when u hit it. they really got the satisfaction of shooting stuff, people flailin backwards cause the just took a 12 gauge to the chest. was good. also bicycle kicking people off ledges will make any game fun

nigga crab pollock fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Aug 3, 2016

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Ruzihm: Aug 11, 2010; Group up and push mid, proletariat!

I fondly remember throwing barrels at ridiculous speeds to smash people in one hit in the hidden. a good physics exploit.

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