Utterly Mad

Yeah I do agree, but sadly even WW2 is getting ignored in favor of this PMC "future" warfare type shit. Honestly it was cool at first, but now it just seems so generic and dated. The guns are all the same fully-automatic bullet spitter, hitscan weapons, that you literally never have to worry about ammo. Guns in WW2 and WW1 were shitty, unique, and all of them had a different feel.

I'm hoping that those World at War 2 rumors are true, because if it is WW1 or WW2 I'll will gladly buy it despite the CoD name.

Now onto what you were saying about WW1, the problem I'm mainly seeing with it is this: the whole entire thing would work like a roguelike, which is a very niche genre. You'll be sitting in a trench hoping you don't lose a limb, get sick, go into shellshock, or getting gassed out. While the idea is interesting, the game would get boring quickly as an FPS, since most of the frontlines never really moved if you focus on the more famous trenches.

Honestly if it were in the style or Gods Will Be Watching or This War Of Mine, I could see it working perfectly. You control your squad and everyday something terrible could happen to them, when you head out to secure a trench it goes into RTS X-Com mode. You move from cover to cover, trying to avoid being shelled, taking potshots at the enemy. And if you're lucky enough and RNGesus smiled at you. The trench will be taken and the enemy won't notice that its gone. Then you'll be stuck in that trench until back up arrives.

Hell you could even have a base building mechanic to make the best trench ever. Setting up traps, digging out rooms and tunnels, and setting up guard positions like DF.

But as an FPS the deary setting might become to dull to look at visually. And your only real option in the fight would be to "camp" because you don't have the right weapons to legitimately run and gun.

WW1 MMO game. think about it, get the best players to take command of a given number of other players, and force them to work together to claim land and such. so, yeah, a good deal of the FPS experiance would be small scale skirmishes and snipe fests, and then the order to go over the top comes in. also, respawn several miles away from the front, so you try not to get killed, and just make the whole thing a big operation. mabye 400? players a server at a time. might be cool.

I wouldn't mind learning coding, but I think for what we're talking we'd need more then just one person.
From the sounds of it we'd be looking at an FPS of some sort, so we'd probably need a 3d modeler, then of course a coder, probably somethings I don't know about.
that is unless we make a roguelike of sorts, then we'd just need some coders.

Quote from: HS1342 on March 05, 2015, 01:26:32 pm

Set during the great war, you know, the war before the over-the-top sequel.

I think you mean the over-the-top war before the more modernized sequel.

/WWI joke.

You guys should try Verdun. It's not AAA, but if you get into the right game, it does put a fear of gas and machine guns into you. Also, you can indeed use the corpses of your fallen comrades for cover, though some whiney people consider this an exploit.

Besides, I need three good people for my squad who can accept that it's not about CODing it across no man's land before getting chopped up by maxims kill counts but teamwork.

Damn, I need to get a better PC already so I can run and play game like these. I also need a job... and money.

I have a spare Steam copy I was gonna give to a RL buddy before he made it clear it's not his sort of game, but my real gaming computer is on the fritz. Something could maybe be arranged once I get that sorted out.

I don't think the requirements are too high as it plays reasonably well on the girlfriend's crappy laptop. I have no idea what the specs on this are, but if you can run X-Com EU without much frustration you should be able to play Verdun.

Honestly if it were in the style or Gods Will Be Watching or This War Of Mine, I could see it working perfectly. You control your squad and everyday something terrible could happen to them, when you head out to secure a trench it goes into RTS X-Com mode. You move from cover to cover, trying to avoid being shelled, taking potshots at the enemy. And if you're lucky enough and RNGesus smiled at you. The trench will be taken and the enemy won't notice that its gone. Then you'll be stuck in that trench until back up arrives.

Hell you could even have a base building mechanic to make the best trench ever. Setting up traps, digging out rooms and tunnels, and setting up guard positions like DF.

I missed this on my first readthrough.

Just as a thought:

If anyone here can code, Xenonauts could probably be modded into something very much like this much more easily than a new game could be built. The combat system and stuff would be a simple re-texture, and I'm pretty sure most of that other stuff could be put into the worldmap somehow.

Yeah, from what I understand modifying an existing game is a lot easier since you've already got the groundwork done.
Though I think at this point we've moved into 'Last Man Gaming' territory here, since this thread is for venting frustrations.

I have a spare Steam copy I was gonna give to a RL buddy before he made it clear it's not his sort of game, but my real gaming computer is on the fritz. Something could maybe be arranged once I get that sorted out.

I don't think the requirements are too high as it plays reasonably well on the girlfriend's crappy laptop. I have no idea what the specs on this are, but if you can run X-Com EU without much frustration you should be able to play Verdun.

Quote from: ajwilli1 on March 05, 2015, 01:53:44 pm

Honestly if it were in the style or Gods Will Be Watching or This War Of Mine, I could see it working perfectly. You control your squad and everyday something terrible could happen to them, when you head out to secure a trench it goes into RTS X-Com mode. You move from cover to cover, trying to avoid being shelled, taking potshots at the enemy. And if you're lucky enough and RNGesus smiled at you. The trench will be taken and the enemy won't notice that its gone. Then you'll be stuck in that trench until back up arrives.

Hell you could even have a base building mechanic to make the best trench ever. Setting up traps, digging out rooms and tunnels, and setting up guard positions like DF.

I missed this on my first readthrough.

Just as a thought:

If anyone here can code, Xenonauts could probably be modded into something very much like this much more easily than a new game could be built. The combat system and stuff would be a simple re-texture, and I'm pretty sure most of that other stuff could be put into the worldmap somehow.

Can I have the game, please?

Yeah, from what I understand modifying an existing game is a lot easier since you've already got the groundwork done.
Though I think at this point we've moved into 'Last Man Gaming' territory here, since this thread is for venting frustrations.

Splitting now.

Fuck, now how do I move it to the right subforum?

SORRY I AM A NOOB MODERATOOORRRR.