My beloved FPS Day of defeat is finally dying off. CAL is dropping it after this season. So I guess my question is there any FPS out there that has the same feel as the Half-life engine. I have gotten 6+ years of use out of half life and I am looking for something to fill the void. I have tried source and it is just broken. Any thoughts as to what plays similarly?
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I love people who call Source "broken". There's nothing broken about it, it is just DIFFERENT. HL's engine was just a modified Quake 2 engine. Source was built inhouse from the ground up. Of course there are going to be changes and things that don't work the same between the two. They are not that hard to adapt to if you give it time.
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Originally posted by: Kromis
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
What does that mean?
KT
You can't shoot through walls and nades can't hurt you through them!
Lol, I see...no wait, I do not see at all
clamum
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Half-Life was based on a heavily modified Quake engine, not Quake 2.
Anyway, I agree with you. I don't really see what's so bad about Source. I've played the Quake series since the demo of Q1 as well as HL1 and HL2 (CS:S, DOD:S)... it's a more modern engine but I'm not quite sure what the OP means by "broken".
It is the difference in engine mechanics that causes the discrepancy. Hitboxes work differently, there's a crazy physics engine to adjust to, etc. People who call it broken are just whining because they, for some reason, don't want to take the time to adjust to a new game (CS:S).
If Valve hadn't built an inhouse engine, they'd use something like the Doom 3 engine and update CS:S with that. We'd still be hearing the same complaints because it would still be a different engine!
EDIT: To be fair, it's alright to prefer the 1.6 version over Source. I just don't see why people need to refer to a perfectly good thing as "broken".
I would agree that they ruined DoD when it came out for source.. The Half life 1 version of DoD was much better..
I can see where one would say DoD:Source is "broken".
CS:S seems fine to me. I've been playing CS since 2.1 beta.
I can see where one would say DoD:Source is "broken".
CS:S seems fine to me. I've been playing CS since 2.1 beta.
I have been wasting my life on CS:Source for the past 3 months (recently got broadband), it is really addicting and I dont see anything wrong with it. I spend at least 1 hour a day playing (in between dealing with my pesky kids).
I have seen cheating at least obvious ones 2-3 times (speed hacks) and they are usually kicked out after 1-2 rounds (votekick or an active admin)
I tried to play DOD source and did not like it at all, run around shoot kill get killed re-spawn repeat every 30 seconds until someone wins the game.
I like the CS:Source type of game where there are objectives and penalties for being careless and dying early. Being able to watch the game when you are dead to learn from other players is a great feature.
I used to play a lot of Rogue spear back in the 56k years and loved that game too.
Will have to try out fear I hear its a free online game or do you need to own the original game?
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I have seen cheating at least obvious ones 2-3 times (speed hacks) and they are usually kicked out after 1-2 rounds (votekick or an active admin)
I tried to play DOD source and did not like it at all, run around shoot kill get killed re-spawn repeat every 30 seconds until someone wins the game.
I like the CS:Source type of game where there are objectives and penalties for being careless and dying early. Being able to watch the game when you are dead to learn from other players is a great feature.
I used to play a lot of Rogue spear back in the 56k years and loved that game too.
Will have to try out fear I hear its a free online game or do you need to own the original game?
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Exactly. Everytime I play this game there's some mad cheating going on. VAC is pointless. I also know for a fact that the only way to get decent at this game is to procure a "good" players .cfg file. There are many "tweaks" that the good players use (more like cheats) which give them a huge advantage. cl_ scripts and the like which change their network connections and all sorts of garbage. CS:S is notorious for this stuff.
Tell me about FEAR.
[/quote]FEAR multiplayer is good clean fun. The only complaint is that the jumping melee attack is overused and overpowered. But you can easily overlook that problem because the MP content of FEAR was made free about 6 months ago. Go here to download your free MP version of FEAR
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FEAR is good, i vouch for that. I used to LOVE CoD1 mp as well.
Enemy Territory was superb too, and free (or it was).
Don't know if CAL plays those, i'd be curious though. Don't know why, i've given FPS up...i get way to addicted and end up having issues with my wife. I want her on my good side
Enemy Territory was superb too, and free (or it was).
Don't know if CAL plays those, i'd be curious though. Don't know why, i've given FPS up...i get way to addicted and end up having issues with my wife. I want her on my good side
true. I also prefer 1.6 over source...feels more responsive.. and more used to.. but source isn't bad.. much better graphics + physics..
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FEAR :thumbsdown: I have seen more cheaters there than any other MP game I have ever played, plus I just hate the feel of the game.
CS: Source :thumbsup: I have never seen these cheaters you speak of and I would guess if you just find decent servers to play on they would not be a problem.
CS: Source is by far my favourite MP game right now, although COD2 is very good as well.
KT
CS: Source :thumbsup: I have never seen these cheaters you speak of and I would guess if you just find decent servers to play on they would not be a problem.
CS: Source is by far my favourite MP game right now, although COD2 is very good as well.
KT
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