Diablo is okay, but Unreal Tournament rules

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I know this is a gun forum, but does anyone play Unreal Tournament. I want a personal Flak Cannon for my house. With the size of that shell do you think you could handle the recoil.

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I enjoyed the demo, but it seemed to be all Deathmatch so i never bought the full version. Been playing Soldier of Fortune(brutal) and Half-Life addons like They Hunger for the FPS Action, both those games rock.

Steve
 
I have to confirm that Unreal Tournament beats Quake3, hands down. I love assault.

There's a lot more to UT than just deathmatch. Assault and Domination require decent teamwork and you're forced to play them, unlike Q3, as a part of your Tournament career.

I downloaded a few new maps and a couple of mods that keep it interesting. One mod has you using weapons that resemble real ones, like the MP5 and AR-15, that do appropriate damage and require reloading. It adds another twist to the game.

I installed a mod for Q3 called Weapons of Destruction or something that's quite a bit of fun. It makes the rocket launcher shoot at about the same rate as the one from Q2, the rail gun and BFG shoot about as fast as the machinegun, the machinegun shoots as fast as the chaingun from Q2, and it adds a grenade launcher to the mix. Overall, Q3 was good looking, but I didn't like the play much.

Soldier of Fortune is pretty poor as FPS games go (played it 4 times all the way through). I saw lots of texture cracking, bad environmental effects, rotten enemy intelligence, and a few other things that shouldn't have made its way into the game. The violence is cool at first, but when the novelty wears off, you're left with a mediocre game. On the other hand, multiplayer is very good, I like being able to fling grenades without having to switch weapons.

I've been playing a lot of Motorcross Madness 2 and EA Sports' Superbike 2000. The graphics for SBK 2000 are pretty awesome and inspired me to take up riding (CBR 900RR). The controls can be varied from full simulation to almost arcade mode and nearly anywhere inbetween. I'm ranked around 1500 in the MM2 standings, though I've played online only about 8 times. It's fun, but can be frustrating at times (like dropping from 1st to last in the final lap).

I understand Id is going to do another Doom game as well as another Castle Wolfenstein (yahoo!). I remember playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple II plus, with 48kb of memory (yes, kb not mb), using paddles instead of a joystick (made a 1 player game require a team of 2).

[This message has been edited by Destructo6 (edited August 16, 2000).]
 
I just want a redeemer really. Unreal Tournament does kick ass, a good game that doesn't use up too many braincells, sometimes it's just more fun to run around killing everything in sight.



[This message has been edited by scud (edited August 16, 2000).]
 
Anybody play Team Fortress 1.5? Squad game--absolutely rocks. Be Heavy Weapons Guy, Soldier, Medic, Spy, Demo Man, Engineer or Sniper.
 
I haven't played the 1.5 version of TF yet. My version of Half-Life should be back in my hands this week, so I'll take a look. How does it compare to TF Classic?

Have you seen the Red Faction previews yet? It's supposed to have fully destructible terrain. Instead of only being able to destroy a few specific things, you can break anything you can see or shoot. Therefore, if you need a trench or fighting hole, you can shoot the ground with a rocket launcher or something and viola, there it is. Since it's only about 35% finished right now, I'll just wait and see what's really delivered.
 
quote: Destructo6 wrote <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I understand Id is going to do another Doom game as well as another Castle Wolfenstein (yahoo!). [/quote]

Yes! I heard Wolfenstein would be done with the Q3 engine, and that the Doom remake would have an all new engine. Ive seen some great screenshots of the new Wolfenstein.(cant remember a link though) Hope they live up to my expectations. Sorry you didnt like SOF Destructo, I will admit that im easily amused by the sheer mayhem of that game.

Does anyone like the Strategy/Wargames genre? I just ordered Combat Mission from battlefront, wondering if anyone has played the full version.
 
Half-Life and mostly Counterstrike kicks much ass! Unfortunately, it has been out so long that the hackers have finally broken down the code and multiplayer cheats like no recoil, and headshot only have become prevelant. LAN parties are the only way to play many FPS games fairly now.

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Going to a LAN party this weekend to play a lot of games. I like UT a lot. I hosted LAN parties at my place since last year when the demo came out. (before that we played Rogue Spear).

I too like the flak cannon for close up work, but the sniper rifle is the best for distances.

Have you added the Akimbo mod to the game? It lets you carry two of the same weapon. Dual flak cannons rock!

Now I have beeen trying to play Counterstrike but I am still learning. My best game of UT had 5000 kills. It took 5 hours.
 
Has anybody noticed that there are smiley faces on the tips of Flak Cannon rounds? One of the game rags pointed out this little detail.

I actually liked SOF, but there were some annoying things that, having been eliminated, would have made it much better. I really hate bad guys spawning into areas you've just cleared.

[This message has been edited by Destructo6 (edited August 16, 2000).]
 
Team Fortress 1.5 rocks. I never played TF classic so I can't compare them. It's downloadable lots of places. I have yet to try Counterstrike, but I am intrigued. Email or ICQ me (see profile) anytime for a game of TF 1.5 if I'm around.

Regards,

Ledbetter
 
Team Fortress is good. I have not experienced cheaters that much. My character, President Bill Clinton.

JigglyPuffs JigglyPlace is a server I frequent, among others. Can't remember their names...

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Hi, my name is Killbot 6000, and I'm a Counter-Strike addict...

I've never been much of a fan of the "respawn as soon as you die" games. I guess I don't get as much of an adrenaline rush when I know I'll be back in action in a few secs.

PS, I'm usually on .=Chicago Screenz (etc etc etc).
 
Y'all don't know what yer talkin' about!

Real gun nuts play Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear!!

Can't just run around and shoot everyone on a whim.. strategy is involved here!

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The R6 series is pretty cool, but if your latency is high, you have no fun online.
CounterStrike, for HalfLife, is similar to R6 in that you use realistic weapons that do realistic damage (you can take about 2 hits, max). UT has similar mods. The engine for both UT and HalfLife are significantly better than the R6 engine.
 
I agreee, the R6 series typically has mega-lag for me on the internet (on a LAN too). I was happy to discover that HL/CS is a little more forgiving in the lag department. I haven't tried UT on the internet yet, but I suspect it will have similar performance to CS.

RB6/RS is still pretty cool though. But if you want to play the bad a** terrorist, you're out of luck.
 
I agree that Rogue Spear has too much lag. I was on a T1 and it still lagged pretty badly. Do yourself a favor and get CounterStrike. BTW beta 7 should be coming out this week! You can take more than 2 hits in CS. It depends where you get shot and what gun you are shot with. I go by the name Incursion in CounterStrike.

[This message has been edited by Incursion (edited August 17, 2000).]
 
Now if we were talking the original Counterstrike.. as in Red Alert: Counterstrike, thats one thing. But Unreal Tournament is okay. I kinda bowed out of the Quake III / UT craze a while back. I'm more main-stream strategy these days.

Actually, I'm kinda loosing my gaming edge alltogether. Getting tired of Winblows crashin' all the time.. and I can't make up my mind which distribution of Linux I'd like to stick with. Hell, I even installed FreeBSD this past week for the heck of it. Seems pretty nice, but its definately a different OS for sure.

I don't even know why I bothered to invest in that GeForce.. who wants it? :D

[C&C: Red Alert 2 is comming soon!]
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[This message has been edited by KaMaKaZe (edited August 17, 2000).]
 
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