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

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Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

moms pubis posted:

Why is the storm troopers leg on the gun? :psyduck:

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 19:16

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:48

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Turns out in Brutal doom kicking a zombie marine doesn't out right kill them! I learned this after kicking a shotgunner to focus on a cacodemon just for him to stand back up and shoot and kill me from behind!

# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 20:06

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Chinook posted:

Have you ever tried kicking the space marines who are tied up to poles? For all I know this isn't a Brutal Doom thing, but I had never tried it before and was pleasantly surprised by the results.

You can kick them? I was sorta annoyed that I had to switch to my fists to do their thing.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 21:31

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

OneEightHundred posted:

And then if you haven't had enough of the latter, you can watch the 4-hour long machinima prequel.

4 hours? Good lord.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 22:26

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Thy flesh consumed doesn't pull any punches does it? Cyberdemon by the second level on Hurt me plenty. I just decided to hoof it to the exit then even try to kill it in the space I had.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 19:49

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Minidust posted:

Cyberdemon? I just played through Thy Flesh Consumed for the first time. Did I miss a huge part of level 2 or is this some mod you're referring to?

I'm using brutal doom, but I don't think that changes any enemy spawns. The cyberdemon was also right at the end, after opening the blue key pillar.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 21:59

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

^^^^^^

Alright so I'm not crazy!

# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 23:59

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

You totally break the zombie sergeants neck when you back punch them. I really like that detail for something you won't see very often.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 00:37

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

OneEightHundred posted:

So, just a quick interest check on something related:

There's a sort of critical mass problem with a lot of "dead" multiplayer games and especially mods where servers stay depopulated because everyone looks at the server browser and there are no populated servers so they quit.

I'm considering starting a thread (or using this one?) to fire up some retro multiplayer game/mod nights so some old-but-still-fun stuff can see daylight again, basically by just guaranteeing that a decent population will be on at the same time. Would there be any interest in this?

I would be down for old half life mods and the like. I have fond memories of playing the old WON Rocket crowbar.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2011 00:22

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

tooooooo bad posted:

We should really play HL2JKS because it's fully radicool.

I really enjoyed this mod. There's nothing like playing the snake hunt game mode and escaping without firing a real bullet, and only your hand gun.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2011 21:52

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Cream-of-Plenty posted:

- Removed plasma ball splash damage.

Thank god.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 22:57

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

poptart_fairy posted:

Pft, if you were taking damage from the splash you were in chainsaw range.

It's not that, it's me running behind cover but not letting go of my fire button fast enough. I can't stand losing up to 20 minutes of progress because of a drat wall.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 23:10

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Kazvall posted:

I am hosting a Brutal Doom(2) v0.13 server now!

GoonGame - 24.151.62.64:10666

I'm not seeing your server on DoomSeeker.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 23:33

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Kazvall posted:

I will be hosting a NeoDoom/Brutal Doom server for the day. That means 32 maps many haven't played, and new music/voices,etc. It's a lot of fun.
NeoDoom - 71.88.43.174:10666

It was fun until we got to a huge rear end city and couldn't find the key card.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2011 22:13

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

poptart_fairy posted:

Does joining a server automatically download everything I need or what? I've not done multi on anything other than a playstation.

Everything except the game wad.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2011 22:17

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Dominic White posted:

Neodoom strikes me as fine for co-op - just run that by itself. Brutal Doom seems to conflict pretty bad. Is there any kind of admin/vote system? The option to skip levels like Residential Ward?

We actually got passed it.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 00:06

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

tooooooo bad posted:

whatever man Neodoom owns. That Vietnam-looking level where you spawn in and there are like a thousand fireballs flying out of the trees was totally radical.

I just wanna know how the scoring works. I went afk for like 3 minutes and then had 2000 more points at the end.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 02:04

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

treat posted:

Here's the list for this afternoon. More ideas are welcome. I'm pumped for BrainBread!

@ 4pm EST.

Zombie Panic! - http://www.moddb.com/mods/zombie-panic
Vampire Slayer - http://www.moddb.com/mods/vampire-slayer
BrainBread - http://www.moddb.com/mods/brainbread

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fat_old_men/events/1443629142907695186

Which games going to be first?

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Oct 30, 2011

# ¿ Oct 30, 2011 20:32

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Zeether posted:

They Hunger is pretty fun. We played it in Sven Co-Op a while back. Also The Specialists, Natural Selection, and Poke646 and its sequel. Poke646 in particular is a very interesting singleplayer game. You might need to check the game's guide because often you'll be confused at the route to take through a map and it sometimes involves crouchwalking on the edges of buildings.

Don't forget firearms.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 21:31

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

Can anyone tell me the name of that Doom mod someone posted here a while back that had recharging health and some kind of crazy punch dudes and blow them up mechanic? All I really know about it comes from one gif but it looked cool.

You're thinking of Brutal doom, or Russian overkill.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2011 10:02

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

I am definitely not thinking of Brutal Doom. This had some Halo-like shield thing going on. I don't think it was Russian Overkill either since, like Brutal Doom, I have played it.

Oh, I know. ProjectMSX I think. http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=25836

# ¿ Dec 7, 2011 10:06

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Dominic White posted:

Ooh, neat - looks like the Worst Mod Of 2010 is getting a major update next week. There's even a teaser trailer up.

Looks drat good.

Jesus that is some awful music. :psyduck:

# ¿ Dec 10, 2011 14:08

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

tooooooo bad posted:

So this is pretty special.

(animated)

Bwahaha what the gently caress is going on. :v:

# ¿ Dec 27, 2011 03:10

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

So that Half-Life mod, Cry of Fear, is supposed to come out today. Some people who donated have a multiplayer stream going right now if your interested in it. http://www.twitch.tv/snbplay

If you do watch the stream, be prepared for people who are really bad at this game dying constantly.

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Feb 22, 2012

# ¿ Feb 22, 2012 02:17

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Flubby posted:

I'm about two hours into Cry of Fear now. If you ever wanted a first person Silent Hill this is probably it. It has the bad combat, clunky inventory system (go into your inventory, click use/equip, then click on the key to try it), really disturbing enemies (dead children wrapped in garbage bags and the baby from Eraserhead), and it even has the endlessly trying locked apartment doors straight out of SH2. I have to admit it's gotten some jumps out of me. This is a lights off, headphones on type of game. I also like the dual wielding. Basically if you have you knife set to 1 and your flashlight set to 2, you can hit 1 and 2 at the same time to hold both. I'd also like to warn anyone who first starts playing it that it uses the realistic clips. Ammo won't transfer over to a new magazine so go easy on the reloading.

It also has inventory management. You can carry up to 6 things and a large weapon, like a shotgun. From one of the gameplay videos I saw a few months ago, you lose 3 inventory spaces at one point though. No storage box either, but syringes stack and bullets don't take up space.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2012 08:19

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Komoxdos posted:

Point of View is absolutely brilliant.

It's probably the best total conversion SP mod for Half-Life.

LvK posted:

Problem is, it was pointlessly bleak. It was Die Hard without any possible happy ending as far as I could find (and Google, too). Also I think part of the reason I found it fun was that even with the "realistic" mission statement (which I think is part of the reason for the bleakness... whatever) removing crosshairs and healing, I'd played so many HL1 mods that I didn't find myself really needing either.

The mod creator released a text file on his forums that had the good ending in it. You hop back through the vent the security guard boosted you through to get to the boss quicker, and have a huge gunfight between him and his henchmen. It was cut due to him wanting to release it on time I believe.

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jun 4, 2012

# ¿ Jun 4, 2012 07:58

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Thompsons posted:

I wanna play Black Mesa but I always pussed out when the fish monsters showed up

The Fishes are alot easier to kill in Black Mesa, mainly because the cross bow can actually shoot vertically now. :haw:

e: my brain died.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2012 10:56

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

The Kins posted:

Rage was great, but it took seven loving years to make, which is about four too many.

The combat in Rage was great, but everything else was pretty mediocre. Which was a shame because there was not enough combat.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 04:43

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

I thought it turned out that SGT what ever wasn't American and didn't know that what he was saying was wrong and offensive? Or am I getting this wrong?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2013 09:29

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

The old counter strike vehicle map bigcity or whatever was fun as heck guys. :colbert:

# ¿ Sep 26, 2013 02:02

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

mod sassinator posted:

When you think about it, Doom is like a first person SmashTV.

That could be a fun concept for a war, has anyone mad a SmashTV style endless arenas type thing?

Yep. It's pretty fun, but hard. It's also made by a goon.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2014 01:45

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

mod sassinator posted:

What happened to Skulltag? That one was really popular a few years ago. Not super faithful to the gameplay of the original, but was a lot of fun from what I remember.

It exploded. Zandronum is basically the successor to it.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 19:09

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Mogomra posted:

Everyone complaining about the apparent gore level of this new Doom: Wasn't the original Doom like super gory for the time? It's just sort of tame by today's standards.

no, let me tell you about how brutal doom ruined doom,

# ¿ Jul 19, 2014 02:57

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

I just played through all of Scythe(with DOOMRL arsenal) for the first time, and it was pretty good.

At least until every room became "You know what would make this room better? Multiple Cyber Demons."

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 08:10

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Former Human posted:

Scythe 2 is way worse in that regard. The maps are twice as big and there are dozens of arch-viles and revenants every three feet. It also includes two new enemies that are stupidly powerful. The last few levels really aren't fun after a certain point.

Yeah, I noticed that a few maps into Scythe 2. Also learned the hard way that DoomRL Arsenal doesn't really play well with the maps, seeing how it kills you to make you lose your weapons every now and again. That really bummed me out when I found a nano upgrade and only needed one more power to make my shotgun shoot nano shrapnel.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 08:56

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Bouchacha posted:

If the DoomRPG launcher is loving up, you can get around it by manually zipping up each subfolder in the release and renaming the zip file .pk3. You may have to mess around with load order to get it working exactly right.

Thanks for this. The launcher wasn't working for me either, but I got it working by doing this.

Even with the nerf to Scout, he's still extremely powerful once you get a tech and agility mod. It just takes 40 shots to kill a spider mastermind with a revolver instead of 20 now. :v:

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 21, 2014

# ¿ Aug 21, 2014 22:53

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

uhhh I think I broke the game

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 02:06

Roobanguy: May 31, 2011

Bouchacha posted:

DoomRPG is so fun in the mid-game but man, you quickly become an unstoppable beast and it loses its charm. Balancing that stuff is very difficult and the options are there to allow you to mess with it though. Right now Luck is absurdly overpowered, especially since it multiplies with the yellow aura. If you run that all the time during giant mob battles and continually pump Luck, it gets absurd with the fact that enemies can drop stat points so your power basically scales exponentially. I'm running around as a renegade with a Nano Super Shotgun and all augmentations upgraded and turned on and it's basically a shotgun machine gun shooting a wall of pellets in every direction forever. I think the only thing that comes close to surviving more than a second is the cyberdemon. My only foe is the lag from all the loot the enemies keep making GBS threads out

Edit: I'd probably advise to stay away from the arena in the UAC base is it levels you up way too fast.

The only thing I upgrade in DoomRPG is carry capacity. You still get a slight damage boost every level, but it doesn't become the situation where you are killing nightmare cyberdemons in 6 shots with a revolver as the scout. Also not using augments because they are ridiculously over powered.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 08:52