Evening Reading: Celebrity Battlefield
I did just learn that Jeff Green will be there. That's cool at least. So while we're standing there, probably mystified by the whole scene, you can check out the best from today's Shack:
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replyAnyone else playing Shattered Horizon? It's quite fun if you give it some time, especially the new maps.
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Shooting dudes in zero gravity.
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Some people forget to read the requirements, too, which is fun to deal with.
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2001 called, it wants you to move on!
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i did just fine killing people and the maps were not really hard to learn. mediocre would be a better word because theres hardly any variety. one gun, couple different grenades, weak animations and sounds. the visuals were good enough and the menu was probably the prettiest menu ive seen in a game though ill give it that.
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Not much to animate. Sounds have been improved quite a bit. Hard to do anything else with the sound really.
The one gun thing isn't quite true. It has two modes: normal assault mode and sniper mode. Sure it's not CS with 4 million guns, but let's face it there was only one commonly used gun for each side with occasional flavor weapons.
I guess it depends on what you want. It's a zero gravity game with some interesting ideas with the grenades. One makes them lose a lot of combat effectiveness, one completely disorients and can be used as a semi-rocket jump, and another one that blocks the sensors. All very powerful effects if used correctly.
The variety complaint is also a bit strange. On pubs games like CS, TF2, etc, all only have like 5-6 popular maps, and in some cases are only slight variations (badwater/dustbowl/goldrush for example). Yeah all the maps here are in space, but some are very constricted and force close combat, others more open and others are a nice mix.
It's a multiplayer shooter. There's only so much variety you can have.
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Call of Duty is a series by a previously well respected developer. It's formulaic and based on idTech that we are all quite familiar with - so you're absolutely correct - a Call of Duty game doesn't need a demo.
However the Futuremark does not have a history of making "games". Why the hell does that make them above the "demo" scene - particularly since they always had demo versions of their benchmarking utilities?-
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You are a true gentleman
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Well it certainly looks awesome.. which is exactly why it can't run on my PC.
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This game is so damn fun. I love the ambiance, and once you get a hang of rolling + deactivating your suit (plus the immensely useful grenades) it becomes very much about matches of skill. Just like the Homeworld games, a third axis of freedom is great fun - strafing under people is one of my favorite moves. I highly suggest you give it some time if you don't like it at first, once you get past the learning hump it plays wonderfully.
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Well, it would be cool if the server list populated, but it wont. I get nothing.
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Ahhh:
"Cause found. This is/was a Steam side issue. It appears that the master servers crashed/were rebooted/got amnesia and somehow lost the information on all servers that were running at the time.
As soon as a server is restarted and it reconnects to Steam to the master server, it reappears on the list.
All FM servers are being rebooted as we speak. Non-FM servers will reappear as soon as they are restarted by their admins. If you have the servers in your favorites list, you can already play on them - they are still up, only the Steam master server doesn't know about them."-
Got it working. Holy shit it' fun. I love it. Looks awesome as well. Needs more stuff, but it''s cool.
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This game is confusing as shit :(
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