Blockland is becoming more of a realistic FPS engine than a building game (rant)

[ultimamax]

Fine, I'm worse than adolf Riddler, thomas edison and the entirety of congress combined for trying to complain about a trend that has been done to death and that you can't get any players ever because of, even if you're hosting a spear dm, a cartoony stealth game or a beta of blockland main adventure mode. I must never talk again because literally everything that comes out of my mouth is dog snake and bull. I am a complete monster for trying to get a game to fit its visual style and theme. Everyone is god king of an universe of their own and I'm a roosterroach floating in space. Blockland is a certified FPS making engine and every game that comes out is a work of art better than Skyrim and Fallout NV combined and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic that must be purged with extreme prejudice.


...Yeah , I apologize for overreacting. The "fps guns" trend is still done to undeath though and should stop. My point was the 24/7 CoD combat servers take way too much players and leave none for innovative ones.
But most of you actually right and provide good points.












Except Face, he's a certified agressive douchebag who only posts in my threads to bash me for no reason.

If anyone remembers that big list of stuffty debate tactics I'm pretty sure the sarcastic apology falls under one of those.

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[Cybertails1998]

The first paragraph is a backhanded apology, the actual one is under it

[ultimamax]

The first paragraph is a backhanded apology, the actual one is under it

Ah. I can see what you mean, there are lots of DMs, but it hasn't really bothered me. I don't think I know enough about the condition of the servers to debate it, but the removal of terrains and interiors will probably lower the dm count.

[kimbucktwo]

Yes! i completely agree, i was even saying this to players before this topic was made. Whenever i host a small DM/TDM for me and my friends, i always use the default guns and some of the older addons (Ephi's shotgun, Kaje's sniper etc). I will NEVER use the gun packs that display ammo and makes you drop ammo when you die...

I'm happy people feel the same way as me, however it has been a while since i last joined a DM/TDM that uses the old school weapons.

[lordician]

Building stuff gets boring after a while and the style of Blockland makes FPS DM's and whatever such things a little bit different from general FPS DM's and whatever such things.
I can see why you say this, but this is a community driven sandbox game, originally based around building, but with it's great moddability, fit for other purposes such as FPS, DM's and whatever such things.

The point is, the high amount of FPS and such servers does not mean the whole game is driven around that.
It indicates that the majority of the players seem to like to visit such servers or just host them because they like it.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Insult to injury, with the millions of guns and weapon packs, there's no good weapons being made.

It seems that the sub-standard is having awkward hands jutting three miles away from your body, stupid ammo systems and IROD SITES

[lordician]

Insult to injury, with the millions of guns and weapon packs, there's no good weapons being made.

It seems that the sub-standard is having awkward hands jutting three miles away from your body, stupid ammo systems and IROD SITES

I do agree on this point.
Though partially.
I don't like really visible realistic based gun designs (especially not when they use the same kind of names (hell i dunno if the M4102 is a machine gun or what not)).
I personally dislike the 'more realistic' hands on design of some weapons (/weapon packs).
Ammo systems sometimes are silly, but if you got a good pack of weapons and have a decent ammo system, i am okay with it.
(T+T, though the ammo sadly bugs out sometimes it seems)
Iron sights are okay to me, but only if they have a good blocky style (just like the weapons).
But weapons without iron sights are okay to me too.

[Katadeus]

More default-style weapons would be great

[Uncle Bengs]

"is becoming", there has always been a large amount of weapon addons and DM servers

[Demian]

just curious: what is a kilometric forgetton?
1000 meter ton?

It's 1000 metric tons of forget.

[Tomcat]

It's 1000 metric tons of forget.

That's a ton of forget.

[RagnaTheBroedge]

Blockland is a sandbox game by design and features.
Just because its players use it for FPS purposes doesn't make it an FPS game.
There is nothing realistic about floating limbs and jet powered plastic figures.

basically
complaining about people doing what they want in a game that lets you do what you want is horribly stupid

[Megaguy2]

Did you only post this in GD so you could edit before it gets moved to drama?

[Awdax]

basically
complaining about people doing what they want in a game that lets you do what you want is horribly stupid

Cybertails1998

I wonder if there's a connection.

[King Leo]

I always build for the sake of building. And I know alot of people who also do that.

But sometimes you want to play with your creation as well, be it a roleplay, deathmatch or something different. Why shouldn't you be allowed to do that?

Blockland shouldn't be like an art gallery; "Just look, don't touch!"