/v/ - Video Games

I want a simple game to go fast with other /v/irgins.

>>15688582

>What happened to the Xonotic threads? aFPS general thread I guess.What happened to

It moved to /vg/ and generally doesn't have the posting activity to be on both boards.

>>15688582

If you have trouble with the Vortex you can try to stop doing flicks and aim normally. Normal aim appear as flicks if you play at a high frame rate (120+), but then record a low frame rate video. Depending on your tactics, you can be annoyingly accurate, precise, and suppressing if you style around tripwire aiming and reserve flicks for odd opportunities.

>>15688582

>no trigonometry

trash

>>15688582

>What happened to the Xonotic threads?

They moved boards for whatever reason.

>>15688619

Honestly the two Xonotic gamenights have shown there are a handful of anons at most who even care about Arena FPS. The bulk of /v/ is Halobabbies nowadays.

>>15688625

Me too. Tribes is from some weird alternative universe where Arena fps kept being developed instead of abandoned in favour of the console market.

>>15693420

>Halo

>not an arena fps

>>15693426

>Tribes

>arena fps

What is wrong with you /v/?

If you think Tribes is an arena fps why don't you just play Team Fortress or Titanfall? Every game where you gotta go fast and shoot projectiles is an arena shooter for you faggots anyway.

>>15693470

Halo is not an arena FPS because it lacks proper Arenafps movement tech. It's a neutered version of the concept dumbed down for console players.

>>15693495

Well, except "movement tech" doesn't mean anything if you don't define it. And if you define it it gets too specific and you may just call arena fps quake clones because they need to fit your autistic criteria about strafe jumping and momentum based movement. And still, games like Titanfall 2 and Tribes may have quake-like movement and weaponry but that doesn't make them arena since they lack the only defining elements of the fucking genre: equal starts and item control.

>>15692877

I play on 60 FPS because toaster. I could run it on 100 FPS but it will wildly drop and fluctuate too much creating inconsistency, so I just maxed it to 60 for stable gameplay.

My problem with the Vortex is that my aim sens seems to be too high cause I tend to overshoot. But lowering my sensitivity means I won't be able to do 360 mortar shots to kill chasers while I'm bunnyhopping around.

It's a dead genre. I was called a liar every time I said it before. Where are those people now?

People want to have fun. We've evolved past games you need to sink hundreds of hours into and maintain muscle memory. They died after the early 2000's.

>>15693495

Well, this is getting into the discussion of essential identity.

Fast movement is just one of the traits which define the Arena shooter genre. Halo has most of the others. It's not quite an Arena shooter but is heavily inspired by them. The designer for Halo CE's multiplayer said himself that he was following the formula of Unreal Tournament.

>>15694577

>They died after the early 2000's.

<checked

This. We don't want them to be gone, but they are. The problem is games like Xonotic stand as the cenotaph to our shared experience, they call us back and remind us of the glory days while at the same time being an empty tomb that was once our arena. A field of glory bereft of it's heroes.

Fucking tears in the rain, man.

>>15694756

Xonotic deviates a lot from Quake 3 e.g completely new map entity and map designs, but if your favorite weapon would be Vortex, you only play at the basic level without regard for other mechanics, and you only play map ports its understandable you can't tell the difference.

>>15694919

+ you are very likely speaking from a business perspective. And sure, video game companies need to make money, but the standard for the video game market is fairly low if not outright psychologically exploitative.

So if you can't turn down graphics settings to picmip or set fullbright models because it would reduce the value or novelty of cosmetic microtransaction, if you can only matchmake (and it's rigged in some way to make you buy more microtx) and have no dedicated servers to organize manually organize matches around, or the business model involves facetious level ups, lootboxes, etc it's no deal for me regardless.

You'll probably say the genre is too pathetically small to feasibly play, but if you played just any old multiplayer game that isn't R6S, PUBG, Overwatch, Battlefield, CSGO, <trendy game heavily promoted by YouTubers>, there's a similar case with a small dedicated community in which if you at least engaged, you can consistently play the game with. In the small community's case, there's a sanity in which you never have to argue against bootlickers, shills, apologists in any controversy where the pursuits of the developers/company contravenes what the fans want. There'll also be a sanity where you don't have Red Shell, privacy invading game analytics, poorly designed anti-cheat systems, and get auto-censored or banned for saying or doing certain things.

>>15694577

This better be bait.

>>15688625

fuck ya i played on that section 9(8?) server with all the mods liked remote guidable missile stations in shit. so much fun. Sigh… them old days

What about games like Fistful of Frags and Smokin' Guns? Are they Western FPSes and that's it?

>>15694852

So 'tripwire aiming' is just letting opponent walk into the crosshair? Doesn't that only work on unsuspecting targets? what if he sees you and is dodging erratically?

>>15695033

Hitting mid-air shots is satisfying as fuck. The best feeling of dominating when you're bouncing your opponent around like a cuck.

>>15695128

The timestamps that really get across the aiming style are:

>0:08

Using it as a follow up to the devastator+mortar combo. Probably least noticeable 'wait' time in the clip.

>0:37

Is when the opponent really walks into it.

As for dodging erratically

1. Vortex is hitscan, so if the crosshair was on the target, it's a hit, no questions asked.

2. Normally people dodging is limited to a/d'ing back and forth- which it's guaranteed for them to walk back in position, making it easier to land the hit than try to move the crosshair to them.

3. Said a/d'ing back and forth is asking for a combo'd shot with a projectile regardless.

>>15695175

I did notice that if using the Vortex in a combo with another weapon, I perform better. Somehow switching to the Vortex (while holding m1) increases my likelyhood to hit rather than just equipping the Vortex the entire time and trying to go for shots. Don't know if its placebo or something else.

>>15695191

That's because you already aimed when using your previous weapon.