EPTFPS/RTS Hybrids that You Know Of
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DocNemesis
Philippines446 Posts
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sleeepy
Canada777 Posts
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infinitestory
United States4053 Posts
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cascades
Singapore6122 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
edit: curses, ninjad | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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krazymunky
United States727 Posts
On May 23 2011 15:49 sleeepy wrote: Natural Selection: greatest HL1 mod to exist. NS 2 also being made. Natural selection is only a RTS for one person. the commander for the marines. Its a FPS for everyone else playing | ||
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MadNeSs
Denmark1507 Posts
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Thoramas
Singapore152 Posts
On May 23 2011 15:49 sleeepy wrote: Natural Selection: greatest HL1 mod to exist. Until they patched in Combat mode =( | ||
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Excessive
Denmark151 Posts
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rkffhk
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Mob
Austria152 Posts
i ask because most of you are talking about really old titles it seems, and i would like to play a hybrid like that too. | ||
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ubersoph
United States56 Posts
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redFF
United States3910 Posts
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game) Really underrated game it was pretty cool. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkfall_Online | ||
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Matt44au
Australia26 Posts
EDIT: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Assault | ||
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MooseyFate
United States237 Posts
At the most fundamental levels, these two games combine RTS and FPS play better than any other game I have seen or played. It really depends on if you like Fantasy (Savage) or Sci-Fi (Natural Selection). Both games have fairly equal amounts of shooter, melee, and RTS gameplay. Like someone has mentioned, the RTS element is only for the "commander" or leader of each team. This role is usually chosen at the start of the map, and on public servers, it is usually the first person who decides to hop in that seat. If the commander sucks however, most servers allow a team to vote-out their commander so a new player can take control. For both games, when you sit in a commander seat, the game looks and plays almost exactly like an RTS (collect resources with peons, build buildings, research upgrades) except that your military units are other players, not AI controlled, so when you give them an order to "move here" or "build here" you are making a suggestion to them (which they see on the HUD) but they can do their own thing and ignore you. These games are at least a few years old now, and will not have any where near the player base that games like SC2 or CoD currently have, but in general the players are a lot more helpful and team-play is seen more commonly in public servers. That's sort of the trade off you get when you play niche games like hybrids : fewer players, however the players tend to be of higher quality (as griefers get bored easily). Last I checked, Savage 2 was completely free and had a few servers that were always populated. Natural Selection (my personal favorite) is a lot older, is a free mod for Half Life 1, but has hardly anyone playing. Natural Selection 2 was in Beta last I checked, and looked like it had a lot of potential to take the place of the first one. | ||
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Firesilver
United Kingdom1190 Posts
Savage was one of the first games to start doing this hybrid mix and in my opinion is the best game out there if you like that type of play. The only thing I will say however is that Savage 1 is more hardcore and has alot of pro players still playing it, and some servers will dislike newbies playing the RTS role, Savage 2 is definitely worth a try though, and it being free is great. | ||
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Catch]22
Sweden2683 Posts
On May 23 2011 15:49 sleeepy wrote: Natural Selection: greatest HL1 mod to exist. Pretty much this | ||
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