I suck at FPShooters

[indy007]

Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
Whats the run down on DoD?

What do you need?  HL and then the mod?  Are there monthly fees etc?

You need Steam. Download it, install it, plugin your HL cd-key. Click on Day of Defeat, and it'll auto-download & install. It's free. No fee to download it. No monthly. However, it does have a downside... you have to deal with the typical online gamer personalities that populate FPS games

[Martlet]

Originally posted by Nash
I've been playing this one called Vietcong... basically the only FPS I've really played for more than a few days. But, my k/d has gotta be somewheres near 1/10... if that.

It's like, I'll be lying in a bush kinda hidden with my gun trained on a small area where I know the enemy is gonna pop out of. When he does, he kills me. I just don't know how to get any good at these things.

Does anyone have any tips?

Also, besides Medal of Honor, what's the king of WWII FPS for online play?

WWII OL is the best for FPS, in my opinion.  I particularly like it because I can go fly, tank, or whatever if I get bored being infantry.

I use a game pad.  It makes the game much easier for old folks like me who fumble around the keys.

[Wotan]

Day of Defeat is great. It's the 'furball arena" of ww2 first person shooters.

You got like the action. None of that bull**** hide until some body happens by. I have played DoD almost every day since its beta. It's current version is dated graphics wise but source will update the graphics (see CS:Source).

If don't wanna drive tanks or have a map full of islands with 50 snipers laying in wait on a hill top (Joint Ops) you will love it.

I love rushing through the rubble ***** slapping allied farm bois with my spade.

If you don't like a fast paced 'spawn and kill/die' then you wont like DoD.

If you like to sneak around with a sniper rifle and night vision goggles you wont like DoD.

If you dont like to toss a grenade and have an enemy toss it back you wont like DoD.

If you dont like to crush skulls with the but of your rifle or with a spade you wont like DoD.

If you dont like small cluttered maps you wont like DoD.

If you fly p51s at 25k in the AH main you wont like DoD...

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Mickey1992
I like Joint Operations, but a problem is that grass does not render at long distances.  So even though you may be hidden in a patch of grass and the enemy in your vicinity can't see you, the guy 100 yards away can because he doesn't see grass at that distance.

Day of Defeat is great in multiplayer.  Call of Duty multiplayer was disappointing.

Ya, its a bummer with the grass thing, and i think it got even worse with the last patch...

[United]

Originally posted by -MZ-
Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory

Find it on google, it is free.

I've been playing this one a little bit.  Its full of 10 year old "uber 733t" kids, but its not bad if you turn off the chat buffer.

Its kinda arcadey, yet realistic in several ways.

Besides, its free, what could go wrong?

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Dux
What did the last patch do?

harder to hit and kill ppl, easier to spot ppl, and it added a bit more lag...

This resulted that the gameplay went from "sneak and kill", to run zig zag and bunny jump like any other FPS out there.

Its a damn shame if you ask me...

[Nash]

I went out and got Unreal Tournament 2004, installing it now, and then patching it to Red Orchestra.

Thanks for the advice, and indy007 - awesome tips - thanks tons.

[rabbidrabbit]

whats the story with Americas Army?

[Dago]

Vietcong!  I forgot about that one.  I was playing it during the free beta, had the wildest bug happen.  During one life, I was invisible to all the other players.  I could just walk up to them and stab them or shoot them, they never saw me.  I had about 25 kills when my connection broke.
That was a fun ride that day.

I play Battlefield Vietnam right now.  Flying the Skyraider is interesting.  Modeling not anywhere the AH level, but its fun.

dago

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
whats the story with Americas Army?

Good graphics, good sound, good model of weapons and player movement, but tiny tiny maps.

[Wotan]

Originally posted by rabbidrabbit
whats the story with Americas Army?

There's as many hacks for it as there is for Counter-Strike...

Anyone run into the new speed hack... Its brutal...

[rabbidrabbit]

are all the servers dominated by hackers?  just wondering if there is a fair fight anywhere with AA or its just hacked to death

[Nash]

I hit a snag trying to mod UT 2004 to Red Orchestra.

When I try to launch it, I get the error: "can't Find File 'rointro.ut2"

So I check the forums, and there's in fact a sticky about this very problem.... yet, none of the replies so far has found a solution.

Since a new version seems to have just been released, is this just the result of a bum one, and I should wait it out until there's a fix?

Or have you guys found a fix for this anywhere else?

[Nash]

Okay nevermind that. Fixed it.

Turns out that before installing the patch to the mod to the original you need to first install the patch to the original and THEN install the patch to the mod to the original. Something like that.

Anyways, I'm in.

Now I gotta prollem with my in-game screen shifted to the right about an inch or so. Gotsa strip of black on the left, and the screens cut off to the right. Went to the control panels to adjust it, but it makes no difference..... the shift is only happening in-game.

shreck do I ever suck at computers too. This is depressing.

[Octavius]

There should be an ingame option for screen adjustment in UT2004... I think...