This is why I cannot abide the Halo series. I came to them having been raised on Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life. Halo was like moving through molasses.
Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month agoYeah growing up with that and quake 2 modern games always feels like im running in quicksand or my controls are broken.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 month ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Thankfully we have Xonotic
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Awesome I have never heard of this and I will be checking it out
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Xonotic is from a different reality were competitive movement shooters never died! It is the active fork of what used to be called Nexuiz.
Xonotic runs on the darkplaces engine, it isn’t just stylistically of the arena shooter era it is directly descended from quake and the lot.
Playerbase is small but consistent, Xonotic is very easy to download game (it is on several linux repos for one) so there are always new people wandering in and a solid community of veterans.
xonotic.org
High level gameplay is absolutely wild
youtu.be/pe5y-Kj6Ab4
Xonotic “defrag” is a community of people who just strafe jump race, Xonotic is very popular for that given movement given the buttery dream like highspeed movement.
youtu.be/PTp7DhsMpow
lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Very cool takes for the info. Yeah still to this day I use right click for jump in all my games from playing quake 2. It seems weird on modern shooters but old habits die hard. The new update to quake 2 has really injected new life into quake 2 ctf.