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PurpleXVI posted:A horridor shooter. Horrors of war?  painedforever posted:I guess. But you are left alone at various points, and a lot of the soldiers around you get killed in various horrible ways. I am proud to say that I neither know nor care. Easter doesn't generate any extra days off here, anyway, so there's literally no reason to know it Palladium posted:This game doesn't have enough brown, grey and black palettes. 0/10 would not recommend. id Tech 4 did not age well at all. They looked better than Q3 games back when because they had more polygons, but today they look worse, even with higher resolution textures. Everything looks... I don't know... bubbly?
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painedforever posted:... is Easter on the same dates for the Eastern Orthodox Church? More importantly, do they celebrate April Fool's Day on the 15th in Russia?
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The older IdTech games always looked like action figure playsets to me, its the really shiny flat surfaces I think. Doom 4 kinda has this but they managed to rein it in a lot more.
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Dreadwroth posted:The older IdTech games always looked like action figure playsets to me, its the really shiny flat surfaces I think.
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Alexeythegreat posted:I am so regretting not just scripting it and not saying "I did say run" in the end instead of all those unnecessary words that I did manage to produce That has not historically been a very successful level-clearing strategy in the early days of FPSs, I don't think. But it... almost felt like what you were supposed to do, here? That or just let one shoot rockets into the other one.
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This is to inform everyone that the updates will resume next weekend and to ensure that the thread doesn't get archived until that happens
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Hell yeah, I was wondering if the LP was gonna resume just the other day.
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I failed to deliver a month ago, here's why We are now going deep into the Strogg territory and we have more Strauss. This is where the single most frustrating enemy to fight on max difficulty comes up, and hot drat is this an infuriating section to play through.
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So which is more painful, Hepatitis A, or fighting those floaty flying machinegun assholes on the highest difficulty level?
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PurpleXVI posted:So which is more painful, Hepatitis A, or fighting those floaty flying machinegun assholes on the highest difficulty level? Yes 
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It's great to see you back in any case, Alexey.
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I've always had a soft spot for the idtech 3 games and playing quake 4 again is on my list. But gently caress playing it on hard. Great to have you back.
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Laughing Zealot posted:I've always had a soft spot for the idtech 3 games and playing quake 4 again is on my list. But gently caress playing it on hard. Idtech 4. 3 was Q3 era.
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Laughing Zealot posted:I've always had a soft spot for the idtech 3 games and playing quake 4 again is on my list. But gently caress playing it on hard. Oh yes, Q4 is legit fun, slowness notwithstanding, on lower difficulties. It is not a bad game by any means (I also don't hate Doom 3)
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Sucks about being hospitalized. Glad to see you're doing all right. I was starting to wonder.Alexeythegreat posted:By the way, there will be no death reel for this. You are sitting through every last second of this. I mean, fair enough.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Oh yes, Q4 is legit fun, slowness notwithstanding, on lower difficulties. It is not a bad game by any means What about Prey?
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White Coke posted:What about Prey? Sphincters for doors and the revival minigame are bad, everything else is okay to decent
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Well, it's good to have you back! Those hitscanners really feel out of place in a game like this, as does the slow movement speed - either let the player dodge, or let them have a way to get into a position where they don't have to. Otherwise, as you point out, it feels like trying your luck blindly rather than playing a game. Is the hyperblaster hitscan? Seems like a departure from its original incarnation of being slow but decent damage projectiles, and the characteristic spin-down when you stop firing looks like it's gone too?
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An update is coming soon-ish. Meanwhile, place your bets on the number of deaths I'll be at by the time I win the Macron fight.Crazy Achmed posted:Well, it's good to have you back! No, the hyperblaster isn't hitscan, but its projectiles are very fast
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I think 50, it's maybe a tad low but I don't remember the first Macron fight being huge bullshit after you'd played the game a couple times. Though I also haven't played this game in 8 years soooooooooo
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I remember the problem with that fight was that you hit it just after another big fight so were always horribly low on health and ammo, probably deliberately.
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 Aaaand it's time. The biggest problem with this fight is less difficulty and more me having trouble with this fight specifically for whatever reason. Still hard, though. I tried to meme as best I could to compensate for my badness in the fight and the mind-numbing corridor-walking that immediately preceded it. Once again, though, the corridors will get infinitely less obnoxious after we get powered up starting next ep. The big change is coming up soon and that's where the game is going to get both more fun and much more unforgiving (because it wasn't difficult enough already).
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That was painful to watch. Must have been even more painful to play. Goondolences
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Your pursuit of science delights me, Alexey. 
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Can't believe you got dunked on so hard by the president of France.
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Technowolf posted:Can't believe you got dunked on so hard by the president of France. 
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I ensure everyone that this was one of the most frustrating things I've done in my life
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Alexeythegreat posted:I ensure everyone that this was one of the most frustrating things I've done in my life Thank you for your service. 
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It's time This is it, the stroggification and the part where the game becomes, for a while, relentlessly brutal. Movement speed is up and we can now read Strogg, which mysteriously turns out to be English in a different alphabet. Rhino squad are idiots. The section is very very hard
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Alexeythegreat posted:This is it, the stroggification and the part where the game becomes, for a while, relentlessly brutal. Would you say that you stroggled with this section a lot?
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You missed one death near the end there, Alexey  On a more serious note, holy poo poo does the hardest mode look unfun.
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I did a run of the original call of duty like this. On the hardest setting a single bullet would kill you and the set pieces were designed with regenerating health in mind. Hundreds of enemies all shooting at you. There were many, many quick saves
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And this, kids, is why you don't play on the highest difficulty level. The Stroggification sequence really was a big shocker when it came out. Previews talked about it at length, magazines here in the UK devoted entire articles to discussing it. In reality it's a grisly haunted house ride where you're mostly watching (and listening to - I turned the sound off on my own playthrough) horrific stuff happen to the guy in front of you. Interestingly, unlike "No Russian" a few years later it wasn't regarded with disgust. Quake 4 is one of few games to make good use of tactically making the player powerless (there's more stuff coming up much later in the game), and it's a legitimate storytelling method.
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So...supposedly Kane being able to read Strogg now is because they downloaded it into the neurocyte they implanted. But then Andersen says the neurocyte isn't active. Sooo, how is it letting him read Strogg?
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It seemed like when you were able to get cover that that emergency blaster took a surprising turn for the actually useful. How much damage does it do/how useful is it on a sane difficulty setting?
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malkav11 posted:So...supposedly Kane being able to read Strogg now is because they downloaded it into the neurocyte they implanted. But then Andersen says the neurocyte isn't active. Sooo, how is it letting him read Strogg? It's not controlling him, but he gets to use it to read Strogg and do other Strogg stuff because the plot requires it. White Coke fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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