/v/ - Video Games

>>14202326

well, i recommend getting quakespasm and visiting https://www.quaddicted.com/ where you have many diff themed maps

>>14212580

>I was thinking of trying it but the way it was all pumping itself up over being like old shooters kind of put me off and made me feel like it didn't really have any merits of its own.

I beat the first episode the other day and have been pecking away at the second. The first episode was very Build-y, reminded me a lot of Redneck Rampage and the city levels from Doom 2, lots of wide-open spaces with buildings you travel between to get cards to progress. It can turn into a first-person danmaku at times. The second episode starts getting a little more industrial and more like Half-Life 1, but I haven't gotten all the way through yet so I can't tell you if it remains that way or veers into some other territory. The visual design is like a cross between Quake and Blood, between the blocky low-poly models and textures, and the theme of the game.

Even with all of the comparisons, the game's still built really smart. Levels are pretty well built, new items, guns, and enemies are all introduced at a familiar clip, the guns feel good and, for the most part, are well tuned so that every weapon is worth a damn in different situations (although the Super Shotty still reigns supreme as my favorite general-use weapon), and it seems to have Quake III-style strafejumping, which can be useful in some of the more open areas to cover ground faster. It feels like I'm picking up speed doing it, anyway, it's kinda hard to say for sure, but I've seen people doing it in the few Duskworld that are out there, so I'll go on good faith that it's a thing.

I'm pretty happy with what I've played so far. Dusk seems like a game a bunch of dudes who played too much Quake and Build games made because they were looking for something fresh. Only downside I'm seeing is that they'll get lazy and, instead of releasing a proper level editor a la Radiant or Hammer, they'll release some queer shit you import into Unity to make levels instead. I ain't making a Unity account to use the Unity engine just to make meme levels, especially when shit like Trenchbroom is retardedly easy to pick up compared to Unity + a 3d modeler. Other than that, it's been a good candidate for GOTY for me already, and I'm cautiously optimistic about the shit coming when it leaves Early Access. Wish I could try the multiplayer without dropping 20bux on it, though, but the campaign so far has been fun enough that even potential developer shiestiness hasn't immediately nixed it like some other things that have come out recently.

I'd say it's at least worth a try, not much to lose from grabbing it from IGG.

>>14215650

If you bought Dusk consider suicide for helping fund a antifa game and supporting sjws

>>14215599

It's pretty fun, there isn't quite anything like it when you compare it to other shooters execution-wise (the closest match perhaps being Marathon) as no other shooter (with the exception of Descent which is its own thing and Serious Sam which rather throws a shitload of enemies rather than projectiles at you) really throws this many projectiles at you with such speed. The sliding move helps to slide you under projectiles which feels rather cool when you pull it off. It's why as you can see in the WebM it's possible to play the highest difficulty where you can't take a single hit (with the dubious exception of explosion splash damage and environmental damage) as there's no hitscan to speak of. Weapons are fairly well balanced and pack some punch, even though they're mostly standard. There's also a mode where you start off each level with the default loadout like pistol starts in Doom, and the levels are actually balanced around such starts here.

The levels themselves can be quite varied, ranging from explorathons, Painkiller-like large open fields, very tight quarters, Quake-ish vertical clusterfuckery, and the second episode features more environmental storytelling in the vein of System Shock/HL1, so you'd be hard-pressed to say that all the levels feel the same. The only really gripe I have is that often I feel is that some more enemies could have been placed in certain spots, especially when I find myself backtracking but only a bare minimum of enemies teleports in the way I got in, but other than that it's neat. It's not the kind of game where it constantly relies on referencing older shooters, but it does try to do its own thing with the occasional reference here and there. There's some inevitable similarities given the inspiration, but it stand out enough on its own, I'd say.

>>14216586

why couldn't they get good artists for the game? It looks so bad. Look at any new Quake 1 level and they're using textures that meet the specifications of the original game from 1996.

>Go through the game's twitter looking for dirt because >>14216018 was too stupid to provide it

>Find the supposed head dev's twitter

<Working on a new solution that should allow us to deploy MORE #DUSKWorld servers in MORE regions for LESS $$$. Yes, this includes Russia ☭

Forget the antifa and /leftypol/ shit, that's small time shit compared to

ARENA SHOOTER DEVS THINKING IT'S OKAY TO HOLD A MONOPOLY ON SERVERS HOLY FUCK ARE YOU JOKING?

I want to be wrong, but without spending twenty californian commiecoins, I can't come to any conclusion other than this one.

>>14216586

I haven't worked past E2M3 yet, but that level oozed HL1 from all pores. Some of the screenshots the devs have posted have made Episode 3 to look very Quake-like, with a big cathedral looking shot, so I wonder what else they're going to do for that one.

>as there's no hitscan to speak of.

If the black dog goat things from Episode 1 don't have hitscan projectiles, then they're just really fucking fast and close to it. Not that it's hard to kill them before hand, but those enemies are really my only complaint, the rest of the enemies having projectiles is refreshing compared to other games.

>>14216971

Because the Quake modders who make their own textures are either a) really good, or b) cheating and using Quake 3 BSPs or something to circumvent the pallate limitations, and the ones who aren't are using the really good textures that are already in the game. For whatever it's worth, I can say that I think they've gone a good-enough job with enemy silhouettes, I don't think I've ever found myself confusing one enemy for another at a glance, and that's the single most important thing in a shooter like this.

>>14218060

No, darkwatch.

>>14216586

I don't know what the fuck is going on here

>>14219189

>sharing shots you searched for means you didn't play the game

Keep trying to fit in fagboat.

>>14219189

>any game you play have to have a unique screen cap to show you played the game

>>14219189

>you have to rename pictures you find in a quick google search for one thread so you do not trigger autists who are trying hard to fit in

I cant be bothered to promote or show others Dusk when new blood interactive are also publishing some shitty commie game.

>>14219277

>omg i love this game now

Funny you should make this thread, OP. I too played Dusk recently and was left with a crave for more shooting.

I never played Doom 1/2 so now I'm doing that. Currently in the second chapter of Doom 1 with gzDoom since non WASD is intolerable (just up the difficulty to rebalance). I was worried it wouldn't hold up to modern standards but it turns out it's really fun. I see now why people hated nuDoom: the maze levels are half the fun, and tons of non spawning enemies the other.

>>14216018

>redneck shooting = sjws

You're a sensitive faggot, aren't you? Don't buy Early Access though

>>14217147

That's a guy from the publisher, New Blood. The maker is David Szymanski.

>>14219223

This game isn't a classic. They took this from SuperHot, most likely. (to show off their animation interpolation tech apparently because they never use it again).

>>14221774

>>14219277