I still don't understand how so many people cannot love fps arena games these days. I also didn't know Unreal got a DM6 variant.
I still don't understand how so many people cannot love fps arena games these days. I also didn't know Unreal got a DM6 variant.
Most popular maps gets remade, ripped, copied or badly ported between popular FPS, etc. games. Shame people don't seem to be able to handle games like this though - ETQW died off pretty quickly because people needed it spoon fed to them and rewarded for participating rather than having to put effort in to enjoy themselves.
Only thing I really miss was playing Invasion on Tokara Forest - the combination of pacing of the game mode and map ambience was pretty trippy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmjNk7TaM0 though the game had impressively um epic map look and scale for its time everything else was done better in other games really.
For some reason it looks better than Q3DM6?
The good old days of no awards, no achievements, no trophies. Nearly every recent game I see in Steam has the same award/trophies/achievements that is on console. Obviously since nearly everything is a port.
The Finnish it movie is great. Have you tried the new UT pre-alpha?Finnish it is my favourite frag video. I ventured into some games with a few of those guys before - but got severely bruised in the process
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Still got my original copy of ETQW. I thought it was pretty damn good to be honest.
I booted up the single player of Unreal a few months ago. That game is harder than I remember but it gives no hints. No objective markers, no help. No friendly person intruding on comms to give advice or outline the objective.
Just complete immersion in trying to figure out a way forward and stay alive. I have to say it felt refreshing.
Thing is, though, if modern games were all like that I doubt gaming would be as big an industry as it is, unfortunately. Casual players want fun, something they can pick up and play while dinner is cooking without too much investment of time and effort. I totally get that and in fact it is pretty much how most of my game time pans out these days. I simply don't have the time to invest untold hours into a game to develop and polish my skills.
QC is being propped up by old school fans. Same way QL has been propped up. Steam stats show that QL player numbers are very low with only an all time peak (since it came to Steam) of 6,154 players. Typical average this year is around 500 concurrent players.
Currently 184 players on QL. Compared to BLOP's 3 at 2,350 (steam only).
Battlefield 1 - this month alone the weekend peak players per day are 100k+ across 3 platforms (sometimes as high as 150-180k). Even in the week it has 50-60k players at any given time. But what is most telling is that the combined players on console are 5 times that of PC (PS4 alone is 3 times the number of PC players).
That is the crux of it. Consoles.
Good luck trying to play QC on a pad. Until you can (or Mouse and keyboard becomes mainstream for consoles) it, and every other attempt at a skill based shooter, is doomed to failure in the current market.
Just not enough players on PC these days, and the ones who do play are on Overwatch, BF1, CoD and any other number of titles that they can pick up and play and do relatively well at.
Why would they go on QC to get demolished and trash talked into quitting?
Never knew you played Quake Wars back in the day. It was a fun game but it died as well since most did or didn't like to play team games back then. So many medics not reviving people, that was why I started playing medic in these games. Including Enemy Territory. Leaving packs wherever I could and always scanning for downed team mates. Not out playing Rambo. Or some git would get you with a panzer or mortar out of the blue.
Though Quake Wars never really felt like Quake to me apart from recognising the Strogg. It always reminded me of a futuristic battlefield/war type team shooter you'd expect from the year 2100/2200. Those flying vehicles were also crazy fun.
I think that was for many years I got burnt out of fps gaming. So many not playing as a team.
Brink was another game I loved but it got slammed for the amount of stuff on screen.
Though Quake Wars never really felt like Quake to me apart from recognising the Strogg. It always reminded me of a futuristic battlefield/war type team shooter you'd expect from the year 2100/2200. Those flying vehicles were also crazy fun.
I think that was for many years I got burnt out of fps gaming. So many not playing as a team.
Brink was another game I loved but it got slammed for the amount of stuff on screen.
No, I've sold up my PC gaming system years ago, but the new Quake and the upcoming UT is making me very nostalgic and feeling like I need to consider building a new one
Yeah the aesthetic was a little off though technically the events of quake 2 are set in approx. 2240 with the storyline spanning from something like 2142 to 2245. Style of the vehicles especially is a bit wrong though I kind of like the take on the Strogg stuff.
Brink had a lot of potential but from what I can make out 1-2 people in positions to call the shots were a bit convinced every idea they came up with was unadulterated genius and wouldn't listen to those that said some ideas might sound good on paper but were impossible to implement without getting in the way of gameplay, etc. eventual result was people leaving the company.
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Is it possible to stay on the sever after the game?
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What character does everyone pick?
I've settled on Scalebearer for the time being.
I've settled on Scalebearer for the time being.
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So is this game F2P?
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Hmm......
Nothing in there about netcode....?
Although hopefully the projectile tweaks will make the RL less meh.
Nothing in there about netcode....?
Although hopefully the projectile tweaks will make the RL less meh.