F2P first person shooter

[Drane]

+1 

Imagine there could be battles underground for installations like tunnels, bases, and factories.

[xPoisonx]

In order for people to play the FPS, it would have to have really good graphics, otherwise they have no reason to be there and would go to a better F2P game. Don't see this happening in the next 10 years....

 

[Bruv119]

Chris they would be really easy to kill from a tank or aircraft and there will be an achievement for 10,000+ troops kills   Vlad the Impaler!  

Graphics don't have to be amazing just needs to be alot of fun.  Look at Minecraft for gods sake!

Don't get me started    these troopers could start digging trenches or setting up foxholes by cutting down trees    

Just think it will open up other things like running out of fuel in your spitfire parking it up and getting out.   Here comes a squeaker in his jeep with a jerry can to top your tank up after you put a call out on country for supplies.   Instead he steals your spitfire with 10% fuel and flies off in it.   You then take his jeep and drive back to the base with some explaining to do.   

[icepac]

FPS works now.

If I get shot down near any enemy field, I will creep up to the field and either take out a manned ack or hide at the rearm pad with the pistol.

Film of pistol whipping an ack while it is manned.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,204187.msg4870835.html#msg4870835

[Lab Rat 3947]

+1 for napalm

+1  


LtngRydr

[Chris79]

The more I think about the more I think the idea. I like the idea of being able to strafe, Bomb, napalm, and run over player controlled troops with gv's. I assume one would have the choice between combatant countries in terms of weaponry ect.

[wpeters]

Remember Haters  that you want HTC to go on with out change.  The lack of change and lack of change in the business model is whats going to kill the game.  Remember that many things that contribute to bringing more players in the introduction of new things.

Look at the numbers in the MA.


+1   To  some FPS fun. Like I said before maybe 3-4 different troops for the testing with many types to follow.

[Wiley]

Remember Haters  that you want HTC to go on with out change.  The lack of change and lack of change in the business model is whats going to kill the game.  Remember that many things that contribute to bringing more players in the introduction of new things.

Look at the numbers in the MA.


+1   To  some FPS fun. Like I said before maybe 3-4 different troops for the testing with many types to follow.

You guys do realize the level of effort you're essentially asking for is 'Create an entirely new game.' right?

Sorry, but look at that tank video and truthfully ask yourself if people would be interested in that even remotely compared to other free FPS's that are currently available.

Wiley.

[bustr]

Wiley,

Think Ferguson, New York City, and the recent 12 hour revolt.

Everyone has some part of the game they have never been happy with. Since HiTech and Skuzzy have been watching, and not MODing, or Ban hammering like with the 12 hour revolt. Everyone is getting their licks in against HiTech until something happens.

This FPS idea is not a bad idea in spirit. The willingness to tell HiTech that the water is too high in the ship by their professional estimation. And he doesn't keep them up to date about every little thing in his office, or even throw them life preservers. So he has to let their ideas save the ship or else, is what's wrong.

A few will push this into a BAN stick moment because they have axes to grind with HiTech, dragging the many with them. The same scenario with the 12 hour rule debacle, fortunately less orginised. But, mobs are tricky things believing anything at the moment that agrees with their feelings. Worse so if they have instigators willing to shout those things at every opportunity. My first reference to Ferguson and New York.

The real danger is the group following the few ax grinders, will become poisoned to enjoying the upcoming new game release. Strong feelings leave lasting impressions. And if you think about it, that's all any computer game is.

[wpeters]

You guys do realize the level of effort you're essentially asking for is 'Create an entirely new game.' right?

Sorry, but look at that tank video and truthfully ask yourself if people would be interested in that even remotely compared to other free FPS's that are currently available.

Wiley.

I see your point Willey, just remember this is what you call a long time investment.  I know it won't happen next month.  But as a potential Avenue to go down.  Look at how the numbers are down.  I see new names and new shades but not enough to really hit 400-500 people in the MA.  I may be crazy but to me this something I would like to see change.

Bustr I am sorry if I  coming across as a ax grinder. That is not my intention.  I just see niche in the market for this.  Because I hate to see this disappear. To me graphics don't mean as much if I am having fun. 

[bustr]

HiTech is building a new game.

To reach the alpha testing stage he already had his plan for the "finished product" a long time ago. All of these wishes are excuses to pile on HiTech for every little spit and unhappiness under the sun. It's like threatening a chef while he's cooking you a surprise dinner.

If the chef walks out the door you will be angry for not getting dinner. And if he keeps cooking, as things stand. You will keep threatening him because you don't know what he is cooking, so you want whatever comes through the door to be something you want.

The chef can't win either way. But, a good chef is a good chef. A bad customer is a bad customer.

[icepac]

The true enthusiasts who used to make up the flight sim player base.......the guys who used to spend hours writing the perfect boot that allowed the maximum memory available and spent just as long configuring modem strings for the best performance, have been replaced by the gamers who have zero patience and want the most heavily armed and fastest planes right now.....and want action right away.

Don't hate the game, hate the playa.

[Wiley]

The true enthusiasts who used to make up the flight sim player base.......the guys who used to spend hours writing the perfect boot that allowed the maximum memory available and spent just as long configuring modem strings for the best performance, have been replaced by the gamers who have zero patience and want the most heavily armed and fastest planes right now.....and want action right away.

Don't hate the game, hate the playa.

An awful lot of people want some semblance of a fair fight, and they aren't guaranteed it in a game like this.  You see it every couple minutes on 200, "Picker, gangbang, etc etc."  Whatever the specifics of the incident that caused the whine, it boils down to "That was unfair!"

People used to get a bit more fairness because a decent number of the guys on the other side would choose to play fair a lot more than people do nowadays.  See the tear stained, rose tinted wishes for the days of yore when people would "respect 1v1s" and let planes RTB when wounded and everybody said "Good fight" over 200 and they all sang kumbaya over vox as they played. 

That was all on the players.  The only thing that mechanically matters in this game is what you can do within the physics allowed by the program, and what you can't.  Everything else is up to the personal choices of the players in the game.

Most people are here to kill red guys (or take undefended bases, but that's another matter) as efficiently as possible.  Whether that's in a committed 1v1, a drag and bag for a wingman, a gangbang on a lone bandit that wandered into the middle of you is irrelevant, that's the situation that occurred.

It also unfortunately also results in a lot of people killing by ack drag or any of a number of lame tactics.  It's there, people use it.  People have differing lines they will and won't cross, but again that's all on them and nothing to do with the game design.

I don't want the game making everything fair for me at every turn.  It's up to me to put myself in situations I can survive, and watch out for the ones that get me dead, or not.  The point is it's my choice to enter combat when I know I'm likely going to get swarmed and killed.

That's what I want, that's what is ONLY possible in an open world game like this, and it's why I am here and not in one of the other games.

Wiley.

[The Fugitive]

I don't care whether its a "fair" fight, I just want a fight, and no having 6 guys dive on me, or being in a crowd of 6 diving on a single guy is not a fight.

[Tinkles]

HiTech is building a new game.

To reach the alpha testing stage he already had his plan for the "finished product" a long time ago. All of these wishes are excuses to pile on HiTech for every little spit and unhappiness under the sun. It's like threatening a chef while he's cooking you a surprise dinner.

If the chef walks out the door you will be angry for not getting dinner. And if he keeps cooking, as things stand. You will keep threatening him because you don't know what he is cooking, so you want whatever comes through the door to be something you want.

The chef can't win either way. But, a good chef is a good chef. A bad customer is a bad customer.

Superb description.

I would also give the 'bad customer' a double label. Picky Customer.