Dirty Bomb (from the ppl behind ET)

Warbie · 1 Dec 2012 at 10:48

New free to play fps from Splash Damage:

http://www.dirtybombgame.com/

And before too many people jump in and shout Brink was poo!, there's a few things to consider. Firstly, this is a PC exclusive, and secondly they're dropping id Tech and using the Unreal engine. Both great bits of news. Remember also that ET is still better than anything we currently have to play and nobody else is making games of this type.

Fingers crossed!

Warbie · 1 Dec 2012 at 14:39

caz32 said:
Not even worth a download, looks terrible.

This is what you get when you mix Brink & Anime

Prophetic and constructive criticism - you should post more often

Warbie · 1 Dec 2012 at 19:03

I'm pretty certain this will have the class and teambased, objective play from their previous games.

Warbie · 14 Dec 2012 at 20:55

After one bad game that you didn't even try? Says more about you my friend

Deific said:
...made a really bland shooter with no USP...

It looks like they're trying to recreate ET in a different setting, which is enough of a selling point for many people - especially considering the sorry state team based PC shooters are in at the moment.

Warbie · 14 Dec 2012 at 21:07

Maybe not. It's free to play though, so what is there to lose?

Warbie · 30 May 2014 at 18:20

House said:
just played my first game, its very like ET and Brink, how many times are SD going to make the same game with a different skin?

That said its pretty dam good, with friends it could be great.

To be fair, Brink was very different to ET. That was the problem. ET was epic, Brink was average - despite having some nice ideas. Dirty Bomb is falling some place in between for me - not a patch on ET or RTCW, but better than Brink.

Warbie · 31 May 2014 at 11:06

House said:
Brink was ET with some fancy jumping and screwed up net code (on consoles at least I was away from pcs back then). It had no community and died pretty fast on Xbox even though it got patched (too late to recover).

The problem was the lack of accuracy with hipfire, awful maps and little synergy between classes. That's what made RTCW and ET so good - the focus on defending/attacking choke points, clear front lines, and teams sticking and moving together. Brink just became a spammy free for all with no direction, which was a shame as there was plenty of potential. I don't think we're going to see tightly focussed teambased fps like RTCW/ET/CS etc any more. There's too much money in spammy chaotic shooters similar to BF and CoD.

Warbie · 31 May 2014 at 11:47

House said:
I have high hopes for Dirtybomb I really do, I hope they can reverse the trend.

So do I . I've been playing it for the last 8 months now and there's some good throwbacks to RTCW and, imo, not so good concessions made to try and make the current CoD generation and unlock crowd feel at home. You can't pls everyone.