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 GAME: Dirty Bomb DEVELOPER: Splash Damage PLATFORM: PC GENRE: F2P Team Based Objective First Person Shooter ENGINE: Unreal Engine 3 WEBSITE: http://www.dirtybombgame.com MEDIA Dirty Bomb Teaser Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p_bQ5jIyNo Dirty Bomb London Bridge Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4Hjoi2FQ0 Dirty Bomb Shaped By Gamers Trailer: (Hot Analytic Action) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvMOpV2Rjs ABOUT DIRTY BOMB quote:Dirty Bomb is an Online First-Person Shooter game where a fierce battle unravels in the near future London. Team-up with your friends and play as Medic, Engineer, Soldier, Field Ops or Sniper as you complete objectives in one of the many gamemodes. SCREENSHOTS NONE YET! HOW DO I PLAY? Wait or Pay. WAIT, PAY? I THOUGHT THIS WAS F2P? It is, shut up. Well, it will be, pay now and shape the game. Also SWAG.    TRANSPARENCY quote:For transparencies sake I should point out that at one point I worked for Splash Damage during the development of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. I did not work on BRINK. I am not working on Dirty Bomb. I would like return to Splash Damage one day but I do not currently work there. Here is a picture of ET to make you happy. 
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This looks pretty good, which is scary to me because that game with the B looked good too.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:28 |
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BRINK had it's problems, almost all of them gameplay related, but god drat if it didn't look fantastic. Whoops I broke my own rule. \/ Sorry, Quake Wars was awesome.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:31 |
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What kind of insane person is going to give Splash Damage money? They've made two garbage games and one decent one that it should now be VERY clear was only decent because it was a mod to someone else's already excellent (and arguably superior) game.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:31 |
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Quake Wars was Rad so they made 2 good games 
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:32 |
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Same animation assets, same particle effects, same sound effects, same UI, same gameplay elements. The only thing new from Brink is the environmental art style (which is the only fresh thing Brink had going for it) and the insanely crass 320 dollar price model. I'll pass.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:35 |
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This is the second time you've done a prerelease megathread for a Splash Damage game. Are you on their payroll or do you really like hyping up their mediocre products?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:36 |
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I really hope this isn't terrible but asking people to spend $120+ on Alpha access after Brink is kind of insane.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:36 |
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The days of games like ET are long past and this don't look like no ET.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:38 |
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Cession posted:Same animation assets, same particle effects, same sound effects, same UI, same gameplay elements. In their defence it's an alpha. The Flying Milton posted:This is the second time you've done a prerelease megathread for a Splash Damage game. Are you on their payroll or do you really like hyping up their mediocre products? I like their games and I like their studio culture and this is a video game forum. I'm not on their pay roll but I can share some rather lovely iOS and Facebook games with you if you want to see how I spend my day.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:40 |
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Those preorder / reward tiers look a LOT like the ones from Mechwarrior Online. Copy / pasted, almost. Not necessarily saying that this is a bad thing, I just think it's funny that is even uses the same sort of nomenclature -- Founders, elite, legendary, and you just get Mercs instead of Mechs.
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NmareBfly posted:Those preorder / reward tiers look a LOT like the ones from Mechwarrior Online. Copy / pasted, almost. Not necessarily saying that this is a bad thing, I just think it's funny that is even uses the same sort of nomenclature -- Founders, elite, legendary, and you just get Mercs instead of Mechs. I wouldn't be surprise if all those perks and pre-order items were decided upon due to the same set of analytics outlining what works when it comes to pre-orders/kickstarters.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:42 |
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NmareBfly posted:Those preorder / reward tiers look a LOT like the ones from Mechwarrior Online. Copy / pasted, almost. Not necessarily saying that this is a bad thing, I just think it's funny that is even uses the same sort of nomenclature -- Founders, elite, legendary, and you just get Mercs instead of Mechs. It's like the same colors and fonts and everything, it looks basically exactly the same. Also yeah anyone who is gonna give splash damage money for this is insane. Personally, I think everyone who bought brink at launch should get in for free so we can tell them not to do the same garbage. Not like we're smart enough to know what a good game is though apparently 
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:42 |
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hopterque posted:It's like the same colors and fonts and everything, it looks basically exactly the same. For comparison's sake:  I guess it worked well enough for Piranha? I figured that they got a lot of people to buy into Legendary because they had a built-in fanbase to work with, which isn't really the case here.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 18:49 |
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This game could be good, but I'm not going to pay $30 for a loving alpha. Still, hopefully it will be good. I am hopeful! I like the setting, also. Totally not biased due to living in London, nope!
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:27 |
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You guys, I really, really want another Enemy Territory. But I've been burned before.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 19:37 |
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It's just like a sports movie. You have to fail before you can be triumphant.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:12 |
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Is this the only type of game they make? Even when they all end up bad?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:21 |
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This is surreal to see after how badly Brink turned out. Seriously? Did they ever acknowledge that they totally hosed poo poo up with that game and what those hosed up bits were specifically? If so I might be more confident in this one.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:34 |
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I liked Brink a lot.  This looks pretty bad though, because it lacks the bits of Brink I enjoyed most.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:48 |
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Overbite posted:Is this the only type of game they make? Even when they all end up bad? The recently made a really good turn based strategy game called RAD Soldiers for iOS. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rad...d511273608?mt=8
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:49 |
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Oh look, another team based shooter with typical player classes; boy there sure aren't enough of those on the market.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:52 |
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Overbite posted:Is this the only type of game they make? Even when they all end up bad? I'd say one of them was truly bad. I only ever played the demo for Quake Wars though, maybe the full game didn't live up to the demo which I thought was reasonably fun.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 22:57 |
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DSauer posted:Oh look, another team based shooter with typical player classes; boy there sure aren't enough of those on the market. The last good class-based shooter was TF2 because it had way more interesting classes than "this guy has a machine gun, this guy has a shotgun, this guy can repair tanks." Honestly, I'm kind of done with class-based shooters in general because teams never have the right composition. It's always seven snipers and two soldiers and no medics. Give me an FPS where I can rely on my own skills instead of my lovely pubbie teammates 
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ASK ME ABOUT GETTING REAL MAD IN A SECRET SANTA FOR RECEIVING THE EXACT GAG PRESENT I ASKED FOR AND THEN DOING A COMPLETE U-TURN WHEN I REALISED IT WASN'T EVEN THE ENTIRE PRESENT
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DSauer posted:Oh look, another team based shooter with typical player classes; boy there sure aren't enough of those on the market. Hey man this one is Free 2 Play!!! That's a totally untapped shooter market and I'm sure a Free 2 Play FPS game will turn out really well and be well-balanced without relying on player purchases and have a lengthy lifespan with a healthy playerbase that sticks around past the first 6 months and content updates on a regular basis that add content for players without forcing them to pay to access it. ...now I'm just depressed about Gotham City Impostors falling off the face of the earth.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:03 |
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DSauer posted:Oh look, another team based shooter with typical player classes; boy there sure aren't enough of those on the market. Seriously. I could do with a few developers trying to re-invent unreal tournament.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:09 |
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If I throw 30bucks at the founder's package and I really like the game, Do I pay the difference or will I pay the entire amount?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:34 |
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Gumdrop Larry posted:This is surreal to see after how badly Brink turned out. Seriously? Did they ever acknowledge that they totally hosed poo poo up with that game and what those hosed up bits were specifically? If so I might be more confident in this one. Maybe they will let us trade Brink in as a gesture of goodwill 
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:34 |
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Enemy Territory was my favourite class-based shooter of all time so this looks interesting to me. But what was wrong with Brink that so many people are wary about this?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:46 |
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Fergus Mac Roich posted:I'd say one of them was truly bad. I only ever played the demo for Quake Wars though, maybe the full game didn't live up to the demo which I thought was reasonably fun. I liked the demo so much I bought the full game and then found out the rest of the game was terrible!
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:50 |
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Overbite posted:I liked the demo so much I bought the full game and then found out the rest of the game was terrible! gently caress, man. I want to like this company and their games so badly.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:50 |
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So when is Splash Damage going to try to make something other than mediocre team based shooters?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 23:56 |
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The Flying Milton posted:This is the second time you've done a prerelease megathread for a Splash Damage game. Are you on their payroll or do you really like hyping up their mediocre products? Don't forget hyping up APB. I'll wait for some user reviews before giving them any money considering their track record.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Don't forget hyping up APB. Well, to be fair, that one was his actual job. Monster, you got behind Rage in a big way, too. Just let it go, man. You're going to die of a broken heart by age 35 at this rate.
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Ahhpple posted:Enemy Territory was my favourite class-based shooter of all time so this looks interesting to me. But what was wrong with Brink that so many people are wary about this? Honestly, I think the gameplay mechanics were great. The main thing that made it suck was the horrible level design that made a massive majority of fights happen on 1-2 choke points on the map, which made playing light classes into running through the 1-2 flanking routes the maps had over and over again. It was a far cry from the fast-paced parkour ninja poo poo the game was advertised as being. The other major issue was the horrid post-release support. There was a map with a bug that made it so that it never had sound, making it completely unplayable. This was fixed weeks after release. There were also a few balance niggles that were never even attempted to fix even though a big part of the hype before release was the "e-sport viability" the game was supposed to have. Bloodmobile fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2013 around 00:48 |
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I felt like Splash Damage mugged me of $50 for buying Brink. Brink had serious issues with the weapons. The damage drop off over range was extreme and every weapon hit an intense accuracy cone after 3 shots. You'd do minimal damage to anyone past 15M. The parkour feature was also worthless. $30 gets you one character and nothing else? For a free to play game? Is that a joke? $60 for three characters? $120 for 5 and a tshirt? Restrain me from my wallet! Carecat fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2013 around 01:07 |
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Maxwell Adams posted:Seriously. I could do with a few developers trying to re-invent unreal tournament. No just find a way to make everyone love playing 2K4 and '99 again. They don't have to reinvent it, just... bring the love back. Please. Seriously I played '99 with some friends recently and the game is just a total blast from the word go, and still looks drat nice to this day. The gun that fires razorblades is just the funniest thing in the world
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Maxwell Adams posted:Seriously. I could do with a few developers trying to re-invent unreal tournament. It's going on 9 years and I can't think of an FPS that has come out that stacks up to UT2k4. In fact, just loving remake that game.
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Can't wait to play as MEDIC with my friends.Contest Winner posted:In fact, just loving remake that game. That sounds like the coolest idea ever until you think about it for more than a minute. There must still be a community for that thing.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2013 01:01 |
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Every once in a while, I unpack my UT2K4 archive and see if there's anything going on in there. After a couple of matches of 24/7 Rankin, I get sad and put it away again. :[ I'll probably check out this game when it's released. I never played Brink, despite it sitting in my Steam library, but mainly from word-of-mouth as to how bad it was. Is it still somewhat active, or has it abandoned by this point? Liska fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2013 around 01:05 |
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