/vr/ - Retro Games

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Then those players aren't so "hardcore" because they clearly have never played the game in Damn I'm Good, for which the freezer is one of your greatest ally. If you're good, you can virtually freeze each enemy with one or two freeze shots (if you weaken them first with other weapons) and therefore they won't respawn, and it has twice as much ammo as the shrinker and the shots never fail like the shrinker's do.
Also combining the freezer with the pistol mean it's useful even against packs of enemies, as you can shatter frozen ones from far away.
In DM it's also a great ally because any shattered Duke will leave an atomic health, giving you the upper hand for the next encounter. Just make sure someone else doesn't pick it up first....

> the expander is nice and as accurate as the Pistol
I think it's even more accurate. Also the expander is good against groups of enemies, either to weaken them or even kill them: if there is a pack of Liztroop you only need to expand one so the explosions kills all the ones around. Plus, the expander is one extra very useful weapon to use in Damn I'm Good.

Gearbox recently acquired the whole franchise through legal shenanigans.

So they took down every available version of the game so the money stops going into pockets that aren't theirs, and instead of just re-negotiating the rights for these versions, have decided to make their own port instead so they can earn 100% of the sales.

... even though they're losing more money by making their own port, than if they'd negotiate the re-release of the existing ones and share the sales money with the devs who made them.

But apparently making their own DN3D port is harder than they thought because it sure is taking a long time.

Word is that it will come with a new episode, however that will include new Duke quotes such as "Bazinga!" and during development their idea for a new enemy was a Liztroop with a mohawk.

They're also basing everything on a dynamic light system ripped off from EDuke32, and they were also using the level editor of EDuke32 even though Pitchford threatened to sue the mains EDuke32 devs (for other reasons).

They've already fucked up so much that their port will not be compatible with custom maps and mods, even those that were compatible with the original DOS version of the game.

Yes, now you feel bad for asking.