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Anonymous Sat Sep 10 22:56:13 2016 No.3488820 [Reply] [Original]

What was Half-Life's multiplayer like? I don't play multiplayer shooters anymore but I'm just curious about how it played. I've read Game Boys, but a book about Counter-Strike isn't really a good frame of reference about Half-Life's multiplayer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:14:54 2016 No.3488835 >>3488820 >implying you can't just buy it for a dollar or whatever the fuck it is and play with other people, in the servers that are occupied, right now

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:22:37 2016 No.3488850 >>3488820 Pretty poor, horrendous weapon balance, unfocused maps, huge reliance on hitscan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:23:15 2016 No.3488851 >>3488835 The entire server list was empty save for a Five Guys map.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:25:58 2016 No.3488854 Its like quake dm in a good way

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:28:23 2016 No.3488858 >>3488820 It was pretty bad but fun. Also bunnyhopping and quakes strafe jumping

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:32:29 2016 No.3488863 [DELETED]

>>3488850
I was a competitive CS guy mostly but I found Half-Life DM to be really weird, unbalanced, and not fun.

I liked other mods a lot more. Day of Defeat was great, as was the WWI mod and even the Revolutionary War and Paintball ones were good.

Me and my CS bud would play it on CS breaks.

Also, there's a game about counter-strike...?

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:33:41 2016 No.3488864

>>3488820
>>3488850
I was a competitive CS guy mostly but I found Half-Life DM to be really weird, unbalanced, and not fun.

I liked other mods a lot more. Day of Defeat was great, as was the WWI mod and even the Revolutionary War and Paintball ones were good.

Me and my CS bud would play it on CS breaks.

Also, there's a book about counter-strike...?

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:36:52 2016 No.3488869

>>3488864
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Boys-Heartbreak-Battleground-Competitive/dp/0452295440

I got it as a gift a few years ago and found it an interesting read, despite being written from an entry level position. Pretty neat if you're interested in esports or compLexity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:40:36 2016 No.3488876 >>3488820 Pretty awful yet that didn't stop me from playing it a lot for some reason.

Anonymous Sat Sep 10 23:58:42 2016 No.3488901

>>3488864
Me and my friend have been playing tons of old school dod lately it's tons of fun.

I used to play half life dm but I played more opposing force dm because of more weapons.

When I was in high school I used to bring my retail counter strike disc to school and play half life dm with some other bro on the library computers. The vice principal caught us once while we were skipping class and asked what we were doing. My friend told him we were training for the army he tried not to grin and gave us shit and told us not to do it again.

Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:02:30 2016 No.3488912

>>3488820
First off, making a deathmatch game using the exact same weapons as the singleplayer is pretty hilarious because it's a direct port with no real sense of balance, although there are some minor changes like a red dot scope on the revolver. It is exactly what you expect, abuse of gauss rifle charged shots, egon gun kills people quicker than a Quake lightning gun, random ass snarks and tripmines. Continuing this theme of Half-Life singleplayer gimmicks, you will find more of it in the maps like driveable mining carts, a nuke bunker that you can push a button, lockdown, hog the door sequence, and watch the nuke kill literally every other player in the server. It's silly but it's fun in a downtime sort of way. Don't be a tryhard and do nothing but instagib people with gauss rifles.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:29:14 2016 No.3488973 I was pretty fun. The level where you could activate a bunker and nuke the map was funny. Very much a casual sort of experience.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 00:48:06 2016 No.3489012 >>3488820 The HL1 revolver is A E S T H E T I C

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 01:18:53 2016 No.3489043 File: 98 KB, 1024x768, 1473406043624.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >source """""""games""""""" lol. just fucking lol.

>>	a white guy ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Sun Sep 11 01:37:08 2016 No.3489071 File: 45 KB, 640x480, e8573c695ee42c2e7a593345f62a997f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3489043 >being a retard lol. just fucking lol.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 01:39:00 2016 No.3489074 File: 3 KB, 800x600, shitfamsactualrealworklmao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3489071 This is you. literally you. keep defending your nodev """""""""""""""""""""work""""""""""""""""""""", potato head. :)

Anonymous Sun Sep 11 02:10:14 2016 No.3489116 [DELETED]

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Holy shit some awful fucking opinions in this thread. I get it, you guys hopped on a /v/ server for a hour and played nothing but Crossfire and decided the game was jank. You're selling it way short though. There was plenty of room for movement techniques especially with gauss jumping, and complaining about hitscan is pretty silly when pretty much every multiplayer FPS of that era had hitscan up the wazoo. Of course HLDM wasn't ultra-hardcore competitive like Quakeworld but it wasn't a random clusterfuck either, and there were tons of creative maps with awesome setups and layouts beyond "lol nuke button."

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 02:13:44 2016 No.3489119 >>3489116 > ok

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 02:18:59 2016 No.3489124 File: 166 KB, 1000x600, shitfamnodev.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3489116 this is you. this is literally your """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""work""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 02:22:09 2016 No.3489130 It was mediocre.

Anonymous Sun Sep 11 03:59:04 2016 No.3489228

>>3488901
my 1.6 account got vac banned years ago because my CS bro and I shared accounts for everything and he let his fucking friend use my 1.6 account who got it banned.

I have a real life now and can't afford to get into multiplayer games anymore, but every few months I'll install DoD Source and play for a day and then uninstall it lol. 1.6 is better in some ways for dod.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 04:22:29 2016 No.3489257 >>3489124 Stop shitposting you autistic nigger, already saw you ob /v/ and /vr/ today Just put on a trip so I can filter you

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 04:27:22 2016 No.3489263 >>3489257 He's also constantly shitposting on /vg/ and then linking his shitposts on other boards for approval

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 04:29:10 2016 No.3489268 >>3488820 The steerable rockets were loads of fun. Cat and mouse, especially in cluttered maps, keeping an eye out for that red dot to know when you need to GTFO.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 04:47:36 2016 No.3489290 >>3489124 >>/v/351450832 Stop

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 09:38:55 2016 No.3489554 It was all about rocket crowbar 2 also dod>>>>>>>>>>dod source

Anonymous Sun Sep 11 18:20:24 2016 No.3490396

You wanna know what HLDM was like? Go search for "quadrazid" on youtube and watch some of his 1v1s. Those guys are completely insane. And yes the game relies heavily on hitscans, you can see how much they abuse the guass guns massive hitscan damage with the secondary fire (charge), and the fact that it hits through walls.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 21:21:54 2016 No.3490794 >>3489116 If you have to resort to a strawman in order to deflect criticism then your game is certified grade A shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 11 23:56:37 2016 No.3491038 File: 50 KB, 155x143, so_keen.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw trapping my team in a wall with the apc

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 00:07:09 2016 No.3491047

>>3490396
>game relies heavily on hitscans
Why do people keep saying this as if most games don't?

UT had some super fast green gel weapons, and everyone has grenade/rocket launchers, but pistols/shotguns/rifles/smgs are almost always hitscan in everything. Tribes 1 and 2 are the only exception I can think of where everything has an actual projectile except for the laser rifle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 00:46:39 2016 No.3491134 It's ridiculously fun with friends for me, we enjoy it. Personally we enjoy op4 dm as it adds a few more fun things.

Anonymous Mon Sep 12 01:19:18 2016 No.3491180

it was basically shit, you would have people jumping around in a small room with the crowbar and camp the health station. revolver was over powered if you had accuracy, and there were a lot of maps where the crossbow would spawn in an area with only one entrance to defend but could snipe the entire map.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 06:54:00 2016 No.3491534 Terrible balance but HL:AG TDM was good fun on lan

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 06:56:42 2016 No.3491536 Why was the early 2000s such a goldmine for multiplayer FPS? (or maybe im just being nostalgic? what do they lan these days? MOBAs?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 11:56:17 2016 No.3491840 >>3491536 3D graphics was still new-ish (progress was still rapid), LAN and Internet play just got super easy, developers were still open to experiments instead of rehashing same industry-standard formulas like nowadays

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 16:33:52 2016 No.3492285 >>3491536 >lan these days implying it's not all always online drm and forced online play through shitty official servers

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 17:55:27 2016 No.3492413 The SMG grenade sound still haunts my dreams

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 19:04:19 2016 No.3492537 That crazy american indian looking guy was GOAT

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 12 19:10:34 2016 No.3492546 >>3491536 >what do they lan these days? MOBAs? Quakecon is still the biggest lan party every year, so it's still Quake 3/Quake Live. I could be wrong but I don't think any major MOBA allows offline play, unless it's at a big tournament.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 13 03:01:59 2016 No.3493187 >>3488820 I always had a lot of fun with my friends in that map with the tram, and that map with the bunker.

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