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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 10, 2011, 09:35:29 AM »

Quote from: Lørd Tøny on March 10, 2011, 08:49:58 AM

Hey Marcem, did you know the tomahawk will instant kill you anywhere. Even if it hit you in the foot. Not to mention it has long range and it can bounce. As you say it takes skill for a tomahawk kill, this doesn't take any skill here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anoAjiEW0cw

Because that happens all of the time, right? Also, it's REALLY damn hard to get a huge hit like that.

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Games / Re: Unreal Engine 3 Tech Demo

« on: March 10, 2011, 12:08:06 AM »

Also awesome: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/07/its-real-time-cryengine-3s-real-time-tools/

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 10, 2011, 12:03:34 AM »

Quote from: Visage on March 10, 2011, 12:00:09 AM

I like projectile based FPS games, I have a psychic ability when it comes to projectiles. I was the 2nd best ricochet player in the world at 1 point but now it is dead and I am banned from the only server that actually has 1-2 people on it throughout the day for "haxing" (how do you use an auto aim bot on a game where the projectiles move 20 mph). The only fun I get out of projectiles these days is using the huntsman in TF2, if a sniper runs to get ammo I can actually calculate in my head where he is at and how long it is taking him, then I line up and shoot and BAM headshot right as he gets back. So fun. Also headshotting spies because you see them stealth and can calculate where they are.

The second best? More people play it?

Anyway, projectile based weapons ARE really fun. I used to be quite good at the huntsman.

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:57:06 PM »

Quote from: Grumpy on March 09, 2011, 11:51:27 PM

lawl lawl lawl you must suck at FPS's or have an attention span of 1 minute and didn't watch the whole thing

do too the fact that is probably one of the best frags of one time

That's real debatable. I want to see a guy killing people. I don't want to stare into the eyes of the guy while laughing my ass off, nor do I want to see the rest of this stuff. I want to see THE GAME, not what someone can do with after effects. The later gameplay didn't look special at all either, he just sprays at guys who sometimes jump out and then ALL OF THE SUDDEN METH ATTACK then more spraying. Maybe if I could actually tell how fast this is supposed to be it would be impressive.

Quote from: ChexGuy331 on March 09, 2011, 11:53:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRV0tclxXMQ

son.

That's pretty entertaining stuff, a few annoying edits, but this one shows really impressive kills. The edits should stay a bit out of the way, as some in this video did.

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:50:28 PM »

Quote from: Grumpy on March 09, 2011, 11:46:11 PM

who the forget 1v1's on promod anyways

this is skills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5poTvpiM-Q

note that this is all clan battles and some LAN tourneys

Nice lack of gameplay. Overedited stuff. What's with that guy and his picture? I could barely watch the video it was so hilariously trying to take itself seriously.

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Creativity / Re: Garry's Mod Gallery

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:46:57 PM »

Quote from: Masterlegodude on March 09, 2011, 11:04:10 PM

Francis has met a most gruesome fate...

Edit: Err, what is this?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/garry/screenshot/559776341235620603/?tab=public

Garry was testing pixel shaders. But yeah, VPK game mounting! Hopefully Garry adds Alien Swarm as well.

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:32:14 PM »

Quote from: Grumpy on March 09, 2011, 11:28:05 PM

No actually I think CoD4 promod is pretty fun and takes skill. It also prevents everyone from being a legit sniper but limiting it, at least in pubs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hmZop8sp0&feature=player_detailpage#t=23s
Skillz man.

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:24:59 PM »

Quote from: Grumpy on March 09, 2011, 11:23:42 PM

cod4 promod...

Let's take everything and make it much cheaper!

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:22:12 PM »

Quote from: ChexGuy331 on March 09, 2011, 11:18:18 PM

yeah. instead, they give you a handicapped-ass bow.

The thing takes skill, man.

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Games / Re: Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 10:15:39 PM »

Quote from: ChexGuy331 on March 09, 2011, 10:09:20 PM

There's plenty of awp-disabled servers, but yeah. They're annoying as hell.

Also, the Railgun in Quake III is only an instant kill if the target has no armor and 100% hp or less, but I think it's an insta-gib in Quake II.

I thought it was headshots do 100 hp.

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Games / Marcem Rants: Instant Kills

« on: March 09, 2011, 09:51:22 PM »

What's with modern FPSes? Where did the skill go? I've noticed a lot of games that include a game breaking sniper rifle in it, what's with that? It takes some skill to snipe, right? You scope in, you aim for the head, you shoot. Nope, not anymore. It's simply ridiculous now, there are a lot of them that are instant kills on the torso up. Look at CS's awp. It may be realistic to have that kill you because of the fact it's used on loving tanks, but I'm talking about video games. I joined a CSS server today, I counted over 5 people out of 20 using AWPs, and this was mid round! It was completely unfun to run into office building just to be killed by a terrorist wielding a long BFG.

Whenever I say anything about this, people just go all "UR A PUB cigarette N00B". I don't get it with these "pros" and thinking these things are fair. If you watch any professional gaming event including an FPS other than quake, you almost see everyone using a sniper rifle and quickscoping/noscoping the stuff out of people. This seems completely unfair, but "promods" that are supposed to be balancing the game only make them STRONGER. What the forget?

What I consider a fair instant kill is something like a Black Ops tomahawk throw. For a tomahawk kill, you need to work out the angle to throw it, where to throw it, and all that. That's how instant kills SHOULD be. Also take Bad Company 2's sniper rifles as an example. You get a huge amount of satisfaction for getting a one hit kill there. Bullets take a while and also drop as they go along. It takes a bit of skill to use a sniper rifle, but it's about the same amount of skill to use an assault rifle though. Take Quake's instant killer 9000, the railgun, as an example. The game is so fast paced so it's incredibly hard to go on a big streak with it.

CoD players seem to think these things are great though. The games that they like are CoD 2 and 4. Every video I've seen or round I've played of them are full of dudes running around with sniper rifles. Then when Black Ops killed off a lot of quick scoping, these people whined. I don't see why. Is it that people just want instant gratification or something? In fact, I suggested using an assault rifle to a dude trying to quick scope, then he gets the highest score in the server before switching back to a sniper rifle the next round.

TL;DR: Marcem is an idiot complaining about how game devs don't get how to balance a sniper rifle.

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