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Title: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 26, 2014, 06:50:45 am
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The gun physics and movement are pretty damn spot on to real life with scope sway, recoil and bullet drop and accuracy.  If you carry a lot of weight, you move slower and if you are exhausted from sprinting, your aim is all over the place until you catch your breath.  Nothing new, as we have seen this with the Red Orchestra series, but the way they did it is probably the most accurate I have ever seen in a video game.  Oh, there is no x marks the spot hud, you have to use your iron sights, reflex or scope if you want to have a chance in hell at hitting anything. There is a laser attachment, for close in work, but its really not worth the weight on the outdoor maps.  The gun physics and movement is where this game shines, its like I'm at the range with how real to life the pistol, M4 and M1 shoot.  Your not going to be Rambo like in COD games.  Of course kneeling and prone give you better accuracy because it steadies you rifle.

So, far its pretty damn cool.  Its multiplayer only, except for the training missions, it's still in beta and actively supported by the devs with regular patches.  Ive played CS, CS:S and CS:GO and they all feel really unnatural in how you can take damage and run around the map like The Flash.  Don't get me wrong, they are fun in how unreal they are, but its not what anyone should expect in a combat situation and its not meant to be.  This brings a lot of realism to FPS, but not as deep and sim-like as the ARMA series; it concentrates mostly on the fun of infantry FPS without being bogged down in the systems and vehicles.  Its really biased toward team play and those with a group and a plan can dominate a bunch of lone wolfs in 8 out of 10 engagements.

Its worth the 13 bucks if you like a hard core multiplayer FPS.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Banok on January 26, 2014, 03:03:07 pm
yeah i want this but no money
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on January 26, 2014, 04:24:02 pm
Played the original mod. Was pretty damn good. Might get this.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 26, 2014, 04:26:53 pm
Been playing it. My favourite part is where it tracks shots fired. I've noticed that the most I've shot in a single round was as support is 75 bullets. That seems pretty low. Still, had 8 kills that round. And another round I had 17 shots fired and 5 kills with an AK. Most of the rounds I spend between 30 and 60 bullets.

The sound in the game is fantastic. When someone is shooting at you, you're terrified, because any of the bullets can kill you and then you hear the awesome sounds of bullets hitting the wall next to you and your vision gets all blurry. Being suppressed is actually a thing in the game.

Another cool thing is that on some servers it doesn't tell you whether or not you killed the guy, and some servers even have the scoreboard turned off so unless you saw the guy go down, you can't be sure. Which makes moving around terrifying. The scoreboard also doesn't tell you how many enemies are alive.

All moving is extremely dangerous and if I'm heading to an enemy infested area and generally running inside a room and attempting to gun down the enemies will get you killed instantly. Grenades are your friend when moving toward the enemy.

I don't know. To me it's great fun, especially if you find a server that actually plays together. It's one of the best multiplayer FPS experiences I've had in ages.

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about and should probably be ignored.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Tot. on January 26, 2014, 05:29:40 pm
Well I just purchased it and downloading now. If this turns out to be anything less than Rainbow Six Online I consider Khorin and his hype above accountable.  :wink:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2014, 05:41:19 pm
Hm I would get this  because it does look nice but Arma already fills the space for realistic shooter :/
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 26, 2014, 06:08:59 pm
Well I just purchased it and downloading now. If this turns out to be anything less than Rainbow Six Online I consider Khorin and his hype above accountable.  :wink:

Don't pin this on me. You should read the disclaimer that by reading this you agree that was there when you read the post the first time.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Leesin on January 26, 2014, 06:34:11 pm
Hm I would get this  because it does look nice but Arma already fills the space for realistic shooter :/

Apart from both being FPS's and striving for their own sense of realism, they're two completely different games, I used to play the Insurgency mod long ago and even then it was good fun, infact I had a lot more fun in that mod than I ever did in any ARMA game. But each to their own.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2014, 06:56:36 pm
Well yeah, I guess Insurgency is a lot more close quarters and different gameplay due to game modes. What else does Insurgency offer to make it stand out?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 26, 2014, 07:12:20 pm
Well yeah, I guess Insurgency is a lot more close quarters and different gameplay due to game modes. What else does Insurgency offer to make it stand out?

Well Khorin and I already listed a number of things. It will remind you very much of CS, but this makes CS feel very shallow and arcadeish.

The main plus to this over ARMA III? You can find a team and a firefight in less than 30 minutes.  :P
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Awea on January 26, 2014, 08:38:24 pm
Please stop use Steam. Unless you need it.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 26, 2014, 08:50:19 pm
Please stop use Steam. Unless you need it.

Steam is the best thing to happen for the consumer in the PC market since the advent of the mouse. Many players now have EVERY game they are interested in and at a 75% discount. They have bought games that they thought they might play but never have and maybe never will and are still happy with the purchase because it was so damn cheap. It is the social site for GAMERS. I've gotten so many great games after seeing someone else playing them on Steam that I never would have before. I can find someone right away to go play a multiplayer/co-op something because I can see who is online right now. And even if all of the above isn't good enough for you, one image:

visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Tot. on January 26, 2014, 08:50:54 pm
One thing gets under my skin while playing 95% of fps games out there, including ARMA, and that is their depiction of red dot or holo sights of any sort. Someone probably should kindly tell game devs how you actually use those and that when you're using it correctly, meaning both eyes open while scoping with your weapon, all you see is basically just a red dot. It's just so retarded that a system that in real life is designed to enhance aiming speed and awareness in games makes it even harder to aim than with ironsights because you have a giant box obstructing half of your screen.

Hm I would get this  because it does look nice but Arma already fills the space for realistic shooter :/

This has nothing to do with games like ARMA.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Leesin on January 26, 2014, 08:59:56 pm
Please stop use Steam. Unless you need it.

Please stop using the internet. Even if you need it.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on January 26, 2014, 09:39:54 pm
Please stop use Steam. Unless you need it.

Purge this heretic.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on January 26, 2014, 10:30:29 pm
How's the graphics though?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 26, 2014, 10:37:43 pm
Very graphicy, for sure.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 26, 2014, 11:01:42 pm
Your standard Source game graphics.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: BASNAK on January 26, 2014, 11:39:14 pm
Bought it and played it with friends. No one regretted getting it  :mrgreen: Quite fun

The water in this game is hilariously bad however
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on January 27, 2014, 12:34:30 am
Do i have to upgrade my GTX 780 to play this?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: bilwit on January 27, 2014, 12:46:38 am
Played the original, bought this one. After playing a bit of CS:GO honestly it fundamentally feels like the exact same shit as every other source game in existence. Pretty disappointing considering this was from the original Red Orchestra devs.

Your standard Source game First Person Shooter

Fixed.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 27, 2014, 02:13:26 am
Played the original, bought this one. After playing a bit of CS:GO honestly it fundamentally feels like the exact same shit as every other source game in existence. Pretty disappointing considering this was from the original Red Orchestra devs.

Fixed.

Except in Insurgency you aren't going to get shot up and sprint around the map doing bunny hops, all with unimpeded movement and accuracy.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on January 27, 2014, 05:40:51 pm
Played the original mod. Was pretty damn good. Might get this.

Same, the original mod was one of my favorite games ever.  I used to play CS from when it was in beta 5 (before it went gold) until about 2006 very religiously.  Played all sorts of HL mods (firearms, frontline force, DoD, TFC, and quite a few others I'm forgetting), and Insurgency was my favorite mod of all.  The maps were pretty good (but there could have been more, and been more dynamic), the game modes (conquest) were great too.  But the shining part of the game was the gun play and combat.

Source shooting games aren't all the same btw.  CS:Source was a fucking terrible game (bullets were random as fuck, especially compared to CS original).  Hitboxes sucked (arms didn't take damage for the first 6 months or a year), and then they buried in a patch note "arms can now take damage").  I never could get into CS:GO either.  Insurgency was always a fun game (The mod), so I imagine the stand alone game has to be pretty damn stellar as well (since the mod was also based on the Source engine). 
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Butan on January 27, 2014, 05:45:22 pm
As a 10 year long player of the Rainbow six series (dropped at Vegas and its stupid 3rd person view), I will definitely check this out!!!
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Freland on January 28, 2014, 10:28:13 am
Does this feature bots or is it only multiplayer?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Senni__Ti on January 28, 2014, 03:02:55 pm
There is a coop mode vs bots.
Does this feature bots or is it only multiplayer?

There is a coop mode vs bots.

Personally bought this game on a whim (~£7 for 4 copies, thought it might be nice for a lan game or with friends). I've never really played much CS (closest game I can think of), so I spent the first ~1 hour dieing more than anything. It's really intense, with satisfying sounds and bullet damage.

Personally, I've grown to love VIP.
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Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kalam on January 28, 2014, 11:06:56 pm
I'm not sure how it does on the realism front. So far, I didn't have to use real life sighting tricks a la ARMA to make any shots. However, it's definitely a lot of fun. Counter-strike for a community like this one, definitely. There's a tension involved in gameplay that few other shooters capture any more. Best of all, you can hop on for fifteen minutes and leave. Oh, and the 3 second dash works. Which is how I've come to measure 'realism' in shooters.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on January 29, 2014, 02:19:13 am
I'm not sure how it does on the realism front. So far, I didn't have to use real life sighting tricks a la ARMA to make any shots. However, it's definitely a lot of fun. Counter-strike for a community like this one, definitely. There's a tension involved in gameplay that few other shooters capture any more. Best of all, you can hop on for fifteen minutes and leave. Oh, and the 3 second dash works. Which is how I've come to measure 'realism' in shooters.

Also as usual with source games, you can use the server browser to hook up with Steam friends easily. That's how I found Kalam, but we were bad and so working together didn't turn out heroically   :P
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Banok on January 30, 2014, 05:10:16 pm
friend bought 4 pack so got it cheap. only played a few rounds but seems pretty good so far

also if your on the fence

Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Teeth on January 30, 2014, 05:17:46 pm
God I hate TotalBiscuit.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Butan on January 30, 2014, 05:39:49 pm
friend bought 4 pack so got it cheap. only played a few rounds but seems pretty good so far

also if your on the fence


Thanks mate, looks like what I wanted from DayZ and what I missed from all those half assed FPS of the past years in a box.
The graphics doesnt look as bad as they say it is, no problem for me.
The only bad point I could foresee is : are the servers loaded with people? Is the game a success in term of player activity?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 30, 2014, 06:01:33 pm
Currently no problem finding servers (I'm in Finland). There's tons. Can't say how long it'll last, though.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Tor! on January 30, 2014, 07:58:39 pm
I'm liking this game, would be awesome to play with more cRPG'ers sometime  :)
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Jarold on January 31, 2014, 02:49:12 am
Man this mod (or source mod) is old! Unless i'm thinking about something else.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Artyem on January 31, 2014, 03:04:22 am
Man this mod (or source mod) is old! Unless i'm thinking about something else.

You're thinking of the mod this is based on, the game being discussed here is a standalone on the source engine.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Butan on January 31, 2014, 03:20:13 am
Well then this game proves that (like many other cool games) you can grow from a mod to a standalone !  :P
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: bilwit on January 31, 2014, 03:42:30 am
You're thinking of the mod this is based on, the game being discussed here is a standalone on the source engine.

The mod is on the source engine too :I
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Artyem on January 31, 2014, 07:25:50 am
The mod is on the source engine too :I

I never said it wasn't, just clarifying that the standalone is on the same engine.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kafein on January 31, 2014, 09:21:14 am
Seems fun but I doubt I'd be able to tolerate it for very long.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 05, 2014, 09:04:51 am
Caved in, bought, enjoying it. Love the damage and the gun/bullets hitting stuff sounds. Character models are pretty horrible though, other than that, no complaints.

What is your favorite map and gamemode? For me it's Ministry map and VIP gamemode, since it's something different than capturing control points like in many other games.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: BASNAK on February 05, 2014, 09:19:59 am
What is your favorite map and gamemode? For me it's Ministry map and VIP gamemode, since it's something different than capturing control points like in many other games.

Ministry, when defending cache A as security in the underground parking lot. Because it's awesome hiding in the dark spots, not being visibile and picking them out one by one.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Rumblood on February 05, 2014, 04:04:39 pm
Ministry, when defending cache A as security in the underground parking lot. Because it's awesome hiding in the dark spots, not being visibile and picking them out one by one.

I've taken to RPG'ing that spot instead of even looking  :lol:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Butan on February 05, 2014, 04:27:13 pm
Loving that game. Tried it on a pirate version and powned bots, felt good.

Now humans are terribly more cautious about moving into your line of sight, but still was really fun to play.
I feel that knowing the maps perfectly is a very large debuff to new players, and buff to experienced ones, so at the moment I'm dying stupidly half of the time, wounding my teammates the other half.



I'm trying the support class and loving it, I really appreciate the suppressing effect of bullets in this game, like others stated previously, and I think I will build my playstyle around that.
But because of aforementioned problems (being a noob), I am mainly suppressing the sky and the ground and then dying to a good shot.


Once took a position that controlled a very long street in firefight gamemode, so I was being very cautious and sending bullets from my machine gun everywhere to keep possible enemies at bay.
Then I saw something move at my right and began suppressing fire. I was confident I could hit him if I persisted because he was in a corner of a shop which had only a few cover and a lot of glasses to shoot through.
So I tried to hit him/make him move by unloading my magazine consistently, then I began to hear someone rage about "hey stop shooting at me damnit! STOP FOR GOD SAKE!" but because we were like 15v15 I ignored it. Then since he was mostly screaming in synchronism with when I was pressing the mouse 1 fire button, I started to wonder if I wasnt suppressing a teammate all this time.

I was.

We won that round but I felt bad  :lol:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 08, 2014, 09:10:09 am
A very pleasant surprise. It's like a good Counter Strike. I just wish leaning was a bit faster/smoother á la CoD. Camping is rewarded a bit too much currently.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 08, 2014, 12:29:15 pm
A very pleasant surprise. It's like a good Counter Strike. I just wish leaning was a bit faster/smoother á la CoD. Camping is rewarded a bit too much currently.

Yeah that is true. I find that winning most Push (where you take A-B-C one after another) games is really hard, due to defending team camping (obviously). Super hard if that map is Siege, where you have to cross that big open road to get to A at start. We had to completely smoke up the entire street to not get killed while rushing there.

I am kind of sad VIP isn't played more.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Butan on February 08, 2014, 02:46:49 pm
A very pleasant surprise. It's like a good Counter Strike. I just wish leaning was a bit faster/smoother á la CoD. Camping is rewarded a bit too much currently.

I wish it was even harder to learn!  :D

Cant wait until I'm pro at this, actually I'm getting some lucky killing streak here and there but as you say, camping is largely rewarded - WHEN you dont know the map and dont focus enough (thats me).



Also it may be bad luck but I've been gunned down so quickly even with heavy armor, while having the "initiative" to run down a door gun blazing to my opponents. I dont know if its lag or its just because I always get the first bullet in my brain, but in most FPS I always tried for a aggressive playstyle of hip spraying accurately while moving/crouching as fast as possible, and atm its just not working too well in 90% of the situations (even if the opponents was unaware of my presence but just had very good reflex).

I love the gun shake/orientation on the screen when you arent in iron sight mode, I cant wait till I master it. Also began to tinker with the mouse sensibility and toggle/hold manoeuvers to see whats best.


One last interesting thing I noticed : the lightning effects.


Most times I've been completely powned is because I was in a bad spot, where my opponent could see me clearly and I couldnt due to the fact my screen was saturated with light.
Been in a situation or two where I had the same problem, but it was because the guy in front put a laser/flashlight to my face and couldnt see a fucking thing  :lol:  there is a ton of interesting gameplay like that...

Also, even though I love being the heavy support machinegunning my way to town, everytime you shoot with that kind of weaponry, your screen is completely saturated by lightning effects from bullets fired, and I've been killed so many times because I missed the first few shots and couldnt see where the fuck was my enemy going while I was firing  :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Tor! on February 08, 2014, 02:48:30 pm
Yeah that is true. I find that winning most Push (where you take A-B-C one after another) games is really hard, due to defending team camping (obviously). Super hard if that map is Siege, where you have to cross that big open road to get to A at start. We had to completely smoke up the entire street to not get killed while rushing there.

I am kind of sad VIP isn't played more.

VIP is definetely the most enjoyable gamemode, atleast for me so far  :P
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Senni__Ti on February 08, 2014, 04:13:08 pm
Yeah that is true. I find that winning most Push (where you take A-B-C one after another) games is really hard, due to defending team camping (obviously). Super hard if that map is Siege, where you have to cross that big open road to get to A at start. We had to completely smoke up the entire street to not get killed while rushing there.

I am kind of sad VIP isn't played more.
VIP is definetely the most enjoyable gamemode, atleast for me so far  :P

Was playing some of it last night, it seems at some point they removed getting supply points every round :/. Still pretty fun, just doesn't feel as rewarding winning the round.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 09, 2014, 02:22:12 am
I wish it was even harder to learn!  :D

Cant wait until I'm pro at this, actually I'm getting some lucky killing streak here and there but as you say, camping is largely rewarded - WHEN you dont know the map and dont focus enough (thats me).
It isn't really about knowing the maps, not knowing the maps just exaggerates the problem. When leaning is as weak as it is right now, the defender always has a huge advantage on the guy coming around the corner because you will see someone arm slowly poking out before they see you.



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Also it may be bad luck but I've been gunned down so quickly even with heavy armor, while having the "initiative" to run down a door gun blazing to my opponents. I dont know if its lag or its just because I always get the first bullet in my brain, but in most FPS I always tried for a aggressive playstyle of hip spraying accurately while moving/crouching as fast as possible, and atm its just not working too well in 90% of the situations (even if the opponents was unaware of my presence but just had very good reflex).
Run and gun works very well in this game because of the slow base movement speed that gets slowed even more when you take aim, plus the suppression effect. Laser dot thing is a bit overpowered, no reason not to take it as it gives a huge advantage in CQB. Aiming in this game is really easy, but people still suck at it, so the best way to deal with campers has been to just run in and overwhelm them.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 09, 2014, 06:52:44 pm
Wanted to play VIP, not one server with VIP below 100 ping :( Why do people avoid this game mode?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 09, 2014, 08:59:51 pm
Probably because of crappy VIPs who die in the first ten seconds.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 09, 2014, 09:03:11 pm
Yeah, that was my guess as well, but still ;_;
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on March 27, 2014, 05:25:21 pm
Big content update

http://www.playinsurgency.com/forums/topic/3491-march-content-update-molotov-spring/?p=30408
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Earthdforce on November 12, 2014, 11:32:00 am
Bought the recent humble bundle and I'd love if someone would take my free codes https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=sEUKa3PczyT2uGdt

Also have this key for just one copy https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=ryErAZGUsGm5TMDu
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Molly on November 12, 2014, 11:51:56 am
Bought the recent humble bundle and I'd love if someone would take my free codes https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=sEUKa3PczyT2uGdt

Also have this key for just one copy https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=ryErAZGUsGm5TMDu
Took one of the humble codes... I think... I've claimed it but it has yet to appear in my Steam list. Thanks anyway :wink:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: BlindGuy on November 12, 2014, 01:50:39 pm
People still play this? Wow. This is like Chivalry, tbh, pretty crappy free mod for HL2 than for some reason when they started demanding money, people payed, even though there are a dozen mods that did the "not very real realism" thing much better.


Also it may be bad luck but I've been gunned down so quickly even with heavy armor...

Have you bothered to look how much the armor does to reduce dmg. As in, check your dmg counters on the console? Because when I last played this it was reducing dmg by 3% to head, 5% to body (Well, 5.3 or thereabouts, I only checked it a couple of dozen times)
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on November 12, 2014, 05:32:52 pm
Bought the recent humble bundle and I'd love if someone would take my free codes https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=sEUKa3PczyT2uGdt

Also have this key for just one copy https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=ryErAZGUsGm5TMDu

Thanks a lot, I've heard a lot of good things about this game.  :)
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Tibe on November 29, 2014, 12:44:45 pm
It's nothing like ive ever played before. It aint nothing revolutionary. But it's not CoD, GO, Battlefield or ARMA. It is something....different. And I kinda like it. Thou yea. This is campers paradise. Proper leaning could fix that.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Casimir on November 29, 2014, 02:06:52 pm
Got a free key off a fellow temple, it's an enjoyable game and I'm especially keen on clearing out filthy campers with an rpg.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Leesin on November 29, 2014, 02:58:26 pm
The original mod for HL2 was brilliant so it's no surprise this is too, it's one of the only FPS's I can stand playing right now tbh.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on November 29, 2014, 08:16:26 pm
Original mod was better tho. It felt somewhat bigger.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Clockworkkiller on November 30, 2014, 01:14:00 am
I've met atleast 5 crpgers just in random pub games
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on November 30, 2014, 02:40:44 am
Was good for a while, but didn't have the depth to keep me hooked for long. The skill-ceiling is pretty low compared to games like CS.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on November 30, 2014, 05:09:58 am
Was good for a while, but didn't have the depth to keep me hooked for long. The skill-ceiling is pretty low compared to games like CS.

Cuz no aim down sights takes more skillz.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on November 30, 2014, 01:44:46 pm
Cuz no aim down sights takes more skillz.

In CS it does
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on November 30, 2014, 03:43:54 pm
In CS it does

Being no scope whores before no scope was even popular
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: [ptx] on November 30, 2014, 04:23:12 pm
Aiming down sights is skillz. I mean, it's hard, when you gotta press RMB to get max accuracy and that's it.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: LordBerenger on November 30, 2014, 04:46:34 pm
Aiming down sights is skillz. I mean, it's hard, when you gotta press RMB to get max accuracy and that's it.

Atleast it's not ridiculous. ''Look guis im firing an AWP from the hip or an AK from the hip guis''
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SeQuel on December 01, 2014, 12:27:41 am
Pretty fun game, I've been playing Co-op vs AI with my friend and its been a blast and surprisingly difficult.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Clockworkkiller on December 01, 2014, 12:36:40 am
Pretty fun game, I've been playing Co-op vs AI with my friend and its been a blast and surprisingly difficult.

come play pvp with the rest of us
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2014, 12:39:33 am
Cuz no aim down sights takes more skillz.
Has absolutely nothing to do with aiming down sights. Cod1 had a very high skill ceiling, higher than CS, but CS has a hundred times higher skill ceiling than current CoDs.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SeQuel on December 01, 2014, 04:21:39 am
Has absolutely nothing to do with aiming down sights. Cod1 had a very high skill ceiling, higher than CS, but CS has a hundred times higher skill ceiling than current CoDs.

CoD 1 (1.3) rifles only represent!
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: lombardsoup on December 01, 2014, 04:39:11 am
CoD 1 (1.3) rifles only represent!

Kar98k, anything else is shit
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on December 01, 2014, 05:36:10 am
CoD 1 (1.3) rifles only represent!
CoD1 RO was great. I got into it relatively late, when it was already way bigger than the AW scene.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Clockworkkiller on December 01, 2014, 05:44:45 am
Fuck Cod for pc! its all about Finest hour and Big Red one for the PS2, that was my shit back in the day!
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SeQuel on December 01, 2014, 10:24:36 am
Kar98k, anything else is shit

I preferred the Mosin  :lol:
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on February 22, 2015, 02:51:34 pm
Lets revive the thread, I offered two keys to latvian and Smithy for 3.20€ each. I played now more than 160 hours, and I'm going to keep playing this game. But as Smithy is American, and Latvian is a lazy potatoe, I find myself alone firing my AK :(
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Clockworkkiller on February 22, 2015, 03:34:38 pm
If any of you enjoy coop, try VERY NOT FUN SERVER, it's one I'm playing on, great group guys regularly playing and custom maps. Fun stuff
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 22, 2015, 10:49:36 pm
Any significant changes since release?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 22, 2015, 11:12:36 pm
If any of you enjoy coop, try VERY NOT FUN SERVER, it's one I'm playing on, great group guys regularly playing and custom maps. Fun stuff

but its very not fun
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on February 22, 2015, 11:22:10 pm
If you didn't play the game for a year or two, yes it did change a bit :

- UI changes
- night implemented
- molotovs/incendiary grenades implemented
- maps added and modified
- smoother gameplay
- weapons added
- survival gamemode added
- Insurgent side got cheaper prices for Kobra, and all those sights.

There's a year sum-up anyway when you get into the insurgency menu. Pretty much everything is here.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Clockworkkiller on February 23, 2015, 02:15:58 am
but its very not fun

thats what they want you to think, but its very fun


playing now btw
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 23, 2015, 03:07:47 am
Played some Insurgency again, it is pretty fun, refreshing compared to everything else right now.

I just wish they'd tone down the lethality a bit... I think everyone I shot went down in max. 2 bullets, and I went down in one because of no armor. 4ish bullets to kill with assault rifles would be perfect. Maybe 3. But right now it lowers the skill ceiling a lot when you just have to get lucky once with spray-and-pray, and if you get shot at by someone who you didn't see there's no chance to return fire before you die.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Jarlek on February 23, 2015, 05:15:56 am
Worth noting:

Last patch made a lot of server really buggy. Hope they can fix that soon :(
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Artyem on February 23, 2015, 10:06:19 am
Played some Insurgency again, it is pretty fun, refreshing compared to everything else right now.

I just wish they'd tone down the lethality a bit... I think everyone I shot went down in max. 2 bullets, and I went down in one because of no armor. 4ish bullets to kill with assault rifles would be perfect. Maybe 3. But right now it lowers the skill ceiling a lot when you just have to get lucky once with spray-and-pray, and if you get shot at by someone who you didn't see there's no chance to return fire before you die.

It's not CS:GO, you can't rely on shitty hit detection and weak assault rifles to get your kills.  The key to not getting horribly murdered in Insurgency is actually utilizing cover and using team work.  When our group gets together, we usually bring one guy with a LMG and another guy carrying extra grenades, you really have to work with your team to do well.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 23, 2015, 11:27:37 am
It's not CS:GO, you can't rely on shitty hit detection and weak assault rifles to get your kills.  The key to not getting horribly murdered in Insurgency is actually utilizing cover and using team work.  When our group gets together, we usually bring one guy with a LMG and another guy carrying extra grenades, you really have to work with your team to do well.
Yes, exactly -- CS:GO takes actual skills to kill someone. I don't see how that's "relying" on something. I quit Insurgency a year ago because it was too easy, I don't have a problem with it being too hard. On the contrary, it's too easy. And doing the exact opposite: sprinting around solo.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kafein on February 24, 2015, 12:14:29 am
and if you get shot at by someone who you didn't see there's no chance to return fire before you die.

I think that's intentional.

I didn't play a lot but it was an amazing time listening to ISIS music in voice chat. Cross this game with wolfenstein enemy territory and you'd get the perfect community. No seriously it's really refreshing.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 24, 2015, 08:13:16 am
I think that's intentional.

Of course it is. What Xant is saying is that it takes less skill like that, and it really does.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 24, 2015, 12:44:56 pm
Yes, it means no matter what, you will die if someone gets the drop on you, and in lots of maps, they will. And, also, it means it takes a lot less skill to kill other people, no real aiming required, unlike CS.

Either way, still having fun playing it. I think it'd be a lot better with guns being less lethal though -- some people were saying that on the chat too in a few of my games.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Casimir on February 24, 2015, 01:51:21 pm
The time to kill is a a lot quicker with the average rifles than in GO but probably comparable to the snipers, although arguably requiring less skill to aim.  The snipers in Insurgency are what ruin it for me, thankfully they are pretty limited in numbers but they make some of the maps simply unplayable, especially at night.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 24, 2015, 02:54:32 pm
The time to kill is a a lot quicker with the average rifles than in GO but probably comparable to the snipers, although arguably requiring less skill to aim.  The snipers in Insurgency are what ruin it for me, thankfully they are pretty limited in numbers but they make some of the maps simply unplayable, especially at night.
Yes, so much this. Some of the open terrain maps at night are just retarded because everyone is proning somewhere with a scoped rifle.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kafein on February 25, 2015, 04:37:58 pm
Of course it is. What Xant is saying is that it takes less skill like that, and it really does.

I don't disagree, but at the same time I think that the developers are going for more realism (or at least that kind of realism) which doesn't necessarily mean more skill, and especially not the UT2004 kind of skill. I think that this direction also has some value.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 25, 2015, 07:59:49 pm
I don't disagree, but at the same time I think that the developers are going for more realism (or at least that kind of realism) which doesn't necessarily mean more skill, and especially not the UT2004 kind of skill. I think that this direction also has some value.
Dropping down dead instantly from a single shot every time is hardly realistic either.

I'm not saying make it UT2004, but I think just increasing TTK by 1 bullet for assault rifles would already do wonders.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 25, 2015, 10:02:47 pm
I don't disagree, but at the same time I think that the developers are going for more realism (or at least that kind of realism) which doesn't necessarily mean more skill, and especially not the UT2004 kind of skill. I think that this direction also has some value.

Yeah it does, I like to play high lethality bullets as well sometimes. I think it works better in more open spaces / Arma-like, but still, Insurgency is a decent game.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on February 26, 2015, 12:48:16 am
I don't disagree, but at the same time I think that the developers are going for more realism (or at least that kind of realism) which doesn't necessarily mean more skill, and especially not the UT2004 kind of skill. I think that this direction also has some value.


It doesn't mean necessarily more skill, but it means more tactics, teamplay, reflexs, and everything you don't get in cRPG/other games nowadays, which is still great.

Dropping down dead instantly from a single shot every time is hardly realistic either.

Get shot by a AK in the chest/abdomen, and come back in one piece to tell us how you managed to keep running after that. You'd at least be unable to hold a gun in most cases, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 26, 2015, 07:49:58 pm
Get shot by a AK in the chest/abdomen, and come back in one piece to tell us how you managed to keep running after that. You'd at least be unable to hold a gun in most cases, that's for sure.
A SEAL was shot 27 times with an AK and survived. Also killed the guy who shot him. There's also this thing called body armor. AKs are not super weapons. And when was I talking specifically about AKs? And what special insight do you have about AKs? I have actually almost been shot by an AK-variant, so I think I probably have more experience about it.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: AntiBlitz on February 26, 2015, 09:31:57 pm
A SEAL was shot 27 times with an AK and survived. Also killed the guy who shot him. There's also this thing called body armor. AKs are not super weapons. And when was I talking specifically about AKs? And what special insight do you have about AKs? I have actually almost been shot by an AK-variant, so I think I probably have more experience about it.

he was a fat american, as all americans are.

Let me guess, was it in a bar fight?

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Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 26, 2015, 10:07:42 pm
Yeah, it seems OK if you have heavy armor and your opposition uses certain weapons, but still kind of random. I've started using heavy armor only and even survived some ambushes. Still doesn't help me, or the opposition, much if not using SMGs. 2 shots seems to do it mostly.

In comparison though, Arma 3 has a good system. Guns are lethal, but 1 hit kills are rare, and if you won't die from getting shot in the toe, etc.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 26, 2015, 10:43:20 pm
but 1 hit kills are rare, and if you won't die from getting shot in the toe, etc.

getting killed by going through doors visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kalam on February 27, 2015, 12:38:09 am
I'm going to poke in here and say most soldiers who get shot/hurt from shrapnel now survive. This is due to a number of complicated factors in medical and tactical training (as well as equipment) that have largely been introduced in the last 12 years. ARMA is definitely the closest thing we have, but no game comes close to approximating the number of factors involved in a wounded person. Most people who are wounded in combat do not shoot back. It is not rare to be able to shoot back, just less likely. That's what the rest of your unit is for. And admittedly, going prone with a scoped rifle is the best RL tactic in open terrain.

All that aside, Insurgency rewards (especially in Strike/Ambush) the use of tactics that aren't really required and don't pay off as much in other shooters.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 01:27:20 am
All that aside, Insurgency rewards (especially in Strike/Ambush) the use of tactics that aren't really required and don't pay off as much in other shooters.
People - not necessarily you - bringing up "tactics" and crap like that in response to making the TTK longer are just offering a false dichotomy, though. Guns being a bit less lethal would do nothing to lessen the importance of tactics. If anything, it'd make the suppression mechanic a bit more meaningful.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Kalam on February 27, 2015, 01:50:42 am
People - not necessarily you - bringing up "tactics" and crap like that in response to making the TTK longer are just offering a false dichotomy, though. Guns being a bit less lethal would do nothing to lessen the importance of tactics. If anything, it'd make the suppression mechanic a bit more meaningful.

You're right. I find suppression to be extremely useful now when I'm playing with someone I work well with, but yes. It would be more meaningful. I suppose I should state that when I say 'tactics' I mean urban tactics specifically. In this sense, Insurgency resembles nothing more than 'shoothouse' training with chalk sim rounds. Maybe even some paintball, but I've never played paintball of that sort.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Deltah on February 27, 2015, 06:31:59 am
People - not necessarily you - bringing up "tactics" and crap like that in response to making the TTK longer are just offering a false dichotomy, though. Guns being a bit less lethal would do nothing to lessen the importance of tactics. If anything, it'd make the suppression mechanic a bit more meaningful.
Did you actually just write that? BRB, flushing my eyes with bleach.

Let's take the blemish that is CS:GO for example here. Time to get all hypothetical in this bitch. You've been playing a few rounds and two players of similar and decent skill are guarding similar lanes. The map's design dictates that the other players have a better firing position and will have the drop on you if they are paying attention. One of the players has an AWP, and the other a MAC10 or an M4 or really anything that isn't the AWP because they all perform about the same in comparison. Which person's fire are you more afraid of risking? If you say the longer TTK weapon then you are obviously just arguing for arguments sake and no longer retain any credibility as a human being. If you feel "suppressed" when someone sprays a mac10 at you in CS:GO you should probably give up on gaming and take up something less stressful.

Honestly, the higher the risk, the more likely one is to plan ahead and attempt to apply some sort of strategy to the situation.
I hate to use myself as an example here, but I play most games on autopilot and blatantly run into most situations. I rely purely on my nerves and my luck. All thought is dictated to my subconscious.
When I play a game like CS:GO or some other arcade-like garbage(blacklight,titanfall,battlefield) I do just fine. Hilariously the only time CS:GO actually takes on difficulty is when the opposition is equipped with faster TTK weapons than I have.(cough, AWP, cough)

However surprise surprise, when I use that play style in a less forgiving environment(ARMA, Insurgency, RO2, AA) I typically get destroyed.
Now if I change up the way I play the game and actively think about the positioning and movement of myself, my team, and my enemy, I drastically increase my survival rate.

To speak on the whole "skill ceiling" argument, CS:GO takes more nerves than it does anything else. I can attempt to out think the other guy all I want. However in many cases I can get the drop on someone and because they have a weapon with a faster TTK, they can actually tun around and end me before my rounds have run their course through the broken hit detection system in place. In Insurgency, the playing field is considerably more even, despite both teams having asymmetrical equipment.
Let's break it down some more.

In insurgency, my enemy can move faster and has better concealment options. The timing of aiming at fewer more similarly colored pixels that are moving faster(longer ranges, functional concealment, faster player movement) takes more skill than aiming at said persons chest and relying purely on your ability to shoot in timed bursts to satisfy the absolutely ridiculous cone of fire that trash games use to simulate firearm functionality. In insurgency the enemy has nearly the same capability to terminate me just as fast as I can do it to them because of the faster TTK's on all of the weapons. That in combination with solid visual and audio affects make suppression an actual thing. When I play CS I may as well be playing airsoft with how low quality the sounds and atmosphere are.

Anything that takes a skill to do in CS:GO is certainly more difficult to do in insurgency. Feel free to type out some long winded or angsty pseudo-intellectual response that I'm probably not going to actually read or intelligently respond to because you don't merit it and I have better things to do. Also please don't even speak about the damage that weapons do to people in real life as it's irrelevant to gaming and it's rather obvious you have no idea what you're on about.


TL;DR: Just because you rolled a low intelligence modifier when you were born IRL doesn't mean you get to use "I'm bad at it so thus it takes less skill" as a valid argument.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 02:13:07 pm
Did you actually just write that? BRB, flushing my eyes with bleach.
I'm sorry if it was too complicated for you to understand.

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Let's take the blemish that is CS:GO for example here. Time to get all hypothetical in this bitch. You've been playing a few rounds and two players of similar and decent skill are guarding similar lanes. The map's design dictates that the other players have a better firing position and will have the drop on you if they are paying attention. One of the players has an AWP, and the other a MAC10 or an M4 or really anything that isn't the AWP because they all perform about the same in comparison. Which person's fire are you more afraid of risking? If you say the longer TTK weapon then you are obviously just arguing for arguments sake and no longer retain any credibility as a human being. If you feel "suppressed" when someone sprays a mac10 at you in CS:GO you should probably give up on gaming and take up something less stressful.
You should probably learn how to play CS before making CS examples.

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Honestly, the higher the risk, the more likely one is to plan ahead and attempt to apply some sort of strategy to the situation.
I hate to use myself as an example here, but I play most games on autopilot and blatantly run into most situations. I rely purely on my nerves and my luck. All thought is dictated to my subconscious.
When I play a game like CS:GO or some other arcade-like garbage(blacklight,titanfall,battlefield) I do just fine. Hilariously the only time CS:GO actually takes on difficulty is when the opposition is equipped with faster TTK weapons than I have.(cough, AWP, cough)
Wow! You should definitely join a team then and go claim the million of dollars in tournament money, since CS never even "takes on difficulty" except when you're facing an AWP. Soon, surely, we will all witness "Deltah" in the majors, killing people left and right. I await with bated breath.

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However surprise surprise, when I use that play style in a less forgiving environment(ARMA, Insurgency, RO2, AA) I typically get destroyed.
Then maybe you should learn to play. If you get destroyed in those games "with that playstyle", then you get destroyed in CS too. Hilariously enough, if you're actually a good player, the optimal way to play Insurgency is actually MUCH faster paced than the CS:GO optimal way, thanks to sprint and slide. In very deed, there are many places in Insurgency where you cannot look everywhere, so speed is your only and best defense. CS maps are designed differently. But what would you know about being a good player? Nothing, judging by the contradictory garbage you're spewing.


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Now if I change up the way I play the game and actively think about the positioning and movement of myself, my team, and my enemy, I drastically increase my survival rate.
Amazing. What a surprise. And yet... Quake 3 is the game where you need to think about that the most, and it's as arcade as it gets.

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To speak on the whole "skill ceiling" argument, CS:GO takes more nerves than it does anything else. I can attempt to out think the other guy all I want. However in many cases I can get the drop on someone and because they have a weapon with a faster TTK, they can actually tun around and end me before my rounds have run their course through the broken hit detection system in place.
LOL. See that? That's your credibility flying out the window. You just CONFESSED to being an awful player. What's your CS rank again? Silver 1? If you get the drop on someone in CS, you should be killing them unless you suck. But that is precisely what skill ceiling is about. It is possible to fail to kill someone if you suck -- I understand why this is something you don't want. Handicapped people want to handicap others too.

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In Insurgency, the playing field is considerably more even, despite both teams having asymmetrical equipment.
Yes, it's more even, because the skill ceiling is considerably lower. I already established this.

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Let's break it down some more.
I can't wait.

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In insurgency, my enemy can move faster and has better concealment options. The timing of aiming at fewer more similarly colored pixels that are moving faster(longer ranges, functional concealment, faster player movement) takes more skill than aiming at said persons chest and relying purely on your ability to shoot in timed bursts to satisfy the absolutely ridiculous cone of fire that trash games use to simulate firearm functionality.
Please, god, make it stop. Could you make it any more obvious you suck? Aim at said person's chest? Yeah, Silver 1, hello there, how're you doing? If you're having a hard time killing people in Insurgency you- well, nevermind, we've already established that you do suck. You don't even need to hit them, they get slowed and their aim gets hindered if you even hit NEAR them. But I understand that's a difficult task to you. To most of the playerbase, it isn't, though.
 
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When I play CS I may as well be playing airsoft with how low quality the sounds and atmosphere are.
And when I play football, I sometimes take off my shirt to cheer when I score a goal.... as relevant as you starting to talk about Counter-Strike's sounds and atmosphere.

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Anything that takes a skill to do in CS:GO is certainly more difficult to do in insurgency.
You are clearly not qualified to talk when your experience is limited to Silver matchmaking in CS.

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Feel free to type out some long winded or angsty pseudo-intellectual response that I'm probably not going to actually read or intelligently respond to because you don't merit it and I have better things to do.
Translation: you know I'm going to destroy you in my reply to you and you're making up an excuse (probably talked yourself into believing it too, easier for the ego) to not have to reply to my post. We all know you're going to read it.
 
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Also please don't even speak about the damage that weapons do to people in real life as it's irrelevant to gaming and it's rather obvious you have no idea what you're on about.
Had you been blessed with the intelligence quotient of a broken couch, you'd have noticed that it wasn't me who started talking about damage weapons do in real life. But, alas.


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TL;DR: Just because you rolled a low intelligence modifier when you were born IRL
That doesn't work as an insult, my friend, when we both know that's not true.
 
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doesn't mean you get to use "I'm bad at it so thus it takes less skill" as a valid argument.
Just like in every FPS game I play, I've been accused of hacking in Insurgency more times I can count, and I always get scores like 30-2. So hard, so bad.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on February 27, 2015, 02:32:38 pm
Did you actually just write that? BRB, flushing my eyes with bleach.

Let's take the blemish that is CS:GO for example here. Time to get all hypothetical in this bitch. You've been playing a few rounds and two players of similar and decent skill are guarding similar lanes. The map's design dictates that the other players have a better firing position and will have the drop on you if they are paying attention. One of the players has an AWP, and the other a MAC10 or an M4 or really anything that isn't the AWP because they all perform about the same in comparison. Which person's fire are you more afraid of risking? If you say the longer TTK weapon then you are obviously just arguing for arguments sake and no longer retain any credibility as a human being. If you feel "suppressed" when someone sprays a mac10 at you in CS:GO you should probably give up on gaming and take up something less stressful.

Honestly, the higher the risk, the more likely one is to plan ahead and attempt to apply some sort of strategy to the situation.
I hate to use myself as an example here, but I play most games on autopilot and blatantly run into most situations. I rely purely on my nerves and my luck. All thought is dictated to my subconscious.
When I play a game like CS:GO or some other arcade-like garbage(blacklight,titanfall,battlefield) I do just fine. Hilariously the only time CS:GO actually takes on difficulty is when the opposition is equipped with faster TTK weapons than I have.(cough, AWP, cough)

However surprise surprise, when I use that play style in a less forgiving environment(ARMA, Insurgency, RO2, AA) I typically get destroyed.
Now if I change up the way I play the game and actively think about the positioning and movement of myself, my team, and my enemy, I drastically increase my survival rate.

To speak on the whole "skill ceiling" argument, CS:GO takes more nerves than it does anything else. I can attempt to out think the other guy all I want. However in many cases I can get the drop on someone and because they have a weapon with a faster TTK, they can actually tun around and end me before my rounds have run their course through the broken hit detection system in place. In Insurgency, the playing field is considerably more even, despite both teams having asymmetrical equipment.
Let's break it down some more.

In insurgency, my enemy can move faster and has better concealment options. The timing of aiming at fewer more similarly colored pixels that are moving faster(longer ranges, functional concealment, faster player movement) takes more skill than aiming at said persons chest and relying purely on your ability to shoot in timed bursts to satisfy the absolutely ridiculous cone of fire that trash games use to simulate firearm functionality. In insurgency the enemy has nearly the same capability to terminate me just as fast as I can do it to them because of the faster TTK's on all of the weapons. That in combination with solid visual and audio affects make suppression an actual thing. When I play CS I may as well be playing airsoft with how low quality the sounds and atmosphere are.

Anything that takes a skill to do in CS:GO is certainly more difficult to do in insurgency. Feel free to type out some long winded or angsty pseudo-intellectual response that I'm probably not going to actually read or intelligently respond to because you don't merit it and I have better things to do. Also please don't even speak about the damage that weapons do to people in real life as it's irrelevant to gaming and it's rather obvious you have no idea what you're on about.


TL;DR: Just because you rolled a low intelligence modifier when you were born IRL doesn't mean you get to use "I'm bad at it so thus it takes less skill" as a valid argument.

wood tier detected
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Casimir on February 27, 2015, 04:45:53 pm
You guys all suck, shut up and go fuck yourselves.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 05:09:52 pm
You guys all suck, shut up and go fuck yourselves.
Now, is that nice?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Casimir on February 27, 2015, 05:36:55 pm
It seemed like the most constructive thing I could contribute
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Deltah on February 27, 2015, 09:23:45 pm
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And yet with every sentence you type, you prove that I may as well be talking to a pigeon in a parking lot. But hey that inferiority complex you have going there is pretty great. 10/10 would skim over and not actually read again.  8-)
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Artyem on February 27, 2015, 09:24:27 pm
ur bad at cs:go rofl noob

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

500+ words and all you did was tell him he's bad at a video game, nice.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 09:44:38 pm
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And yet with every sentence you type, you prove that I may as well be talking to a pigeon in a parking lot. But hey that inferiority complex you have going there is pretty great. 10/10 would skim over and not actually read again.  8-)
LOL didn't read what you wrote.

hope they all believe my ruse so i dont look dumb while unable to come up with counter-arguments

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

500+ words and all you did was tell him he's bad at a video game, nice.

Yawn, yet another fool who doesn't know what "ad hominem" really is. It's a concept in logic, friend, and you do not understand it.  For starters:

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Ad hominem fallacy quick chart
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NOT AD HOMINEM
- You're wrong
- You're stupid
- You're stupid because you're wrong
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AD HOMINEM
- You're wrong because you're stupid
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Your fallacy, my pally-pal-pal, is the ad hominem fallacy fallacy.
http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

And I'd like to know how Deltah did anything different with his 700+ words. Oh, except for telling us that he sucks at video games.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on February 27, 2015, 10:12:25 pm
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Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 10:14:13 pm
Xant to be quite fair, a lot of bullshit you type is simply....bullshit.

You state that others are mistaken in thinking things but you are as wrong just as much.
You do realize that the information value of your post is zero without citing specifics, right?
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on February 27, 2015, 10:21:59 pm
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Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 10:25:37 pm
I'm sure I could trawl through your entire post history but frankly i'd rather go and staple my balls to the M4.

Just stop posting with this 'superior than you' attitude, I find some of your posts amusing but half the time it's rather difficult to accept your points when you come across as a complete arsehole.
Then your post has no more meaning than me saying you post a lot of bullshit.

You'll find that I'm never the one to start with the attitude. I'm only an assholes to assholes, feel free to go through my post history to verify. This thread is a case in point: the conversation was perfectly polite until Deltah thought he saw his opening to assert himself (sadly, what his meager intelligence took for an opening was actually just an opening for him to humiliate himself), and I'm pretty sure you can agree he was clearly not interested in civilized discussion.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on February 27, 2015, 10:29:01 pm
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Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on February 27, 2015, 10:35:12 pm
Just because deltah took it upon himself to act like a tit doesn't mean you have to play the inferior card
Of course not, but nor does it mean that I don't have to. His whole argument was based on me "being bad"; I showed that it is indeed he who is bad. His inferiority is very relevant. If a man without legs complains that football sucks because it's hard to hit the ball with your legs in it, that man's disabilities are very relevant to the discussion. Especially if he tries to claim someone else is bad at football.

BTW, played a few matches of Insurgency today. 48-7, 35-9 and 25-3 were my scores. If only I knew how to play the game.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on February 29, 2016, 05:53:26 pm
Don't know if it deserves its own thread or not, anyway :

https://newworldinteractive.com/announcing-insurgency-sandstorm/

Finally getting rid of Source, thanks god.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on April 12, 2017, 03:20:06 pm
tfw you try to play Insurgency now and then but you're too good and get banreported+banned from the populated EU servers

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Steam ID: STEAM_1:1:58535112
Steam3: [U:1:117070225]
Community ID: 76561198077335953
Profile: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198077335953
Proof: http://host-a.net/u/fifty_steam/black in spanishflex.dem

I was trying to hard to catch this scumbag. I suspected him of wallhacking. I recorded him numerous times but had no luck until at one point he started spamming bullets at an enemy far away (behind a building) at the start of the game.

It's a short video, but a definite proof this guy is hacking. I always suspected him of hacking, he's top rank on all server I know he frequents and no wonder why.

This is his K/D (rank 8) after playing a day (more like an hour) in my server: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/579074999601650328/4E92CE1D955359EDC27BCB6A9C244E5920CC5152/

The same day I recorded the proof video.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Vibe on April 12, 2017, 03:35:01 pm
this is the price you have to pay to show the baddies how garbage they are, xant
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: njames89 on April 12, 2017, 03:41:27 pm
Rest in piss in peperonis in peace
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on April 13, 2017, 07:45:11 pm
Really looking forward to Insurgency: Sandstorm.

Probably my most awaited game after Star Citizen. Insurgency-like combat with modern graphics and none of Source engines ten thousand annoying quirks... will be very good.

http://newworldinteractive.com/insurgency-sandstorm-media-release/
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Algarn on April 13, 2017, 09:28:59 pm
Insurgency with more depth to it, made by good devs who don't rip people off by charging 110€ for all the content (looking at BF1). I'm definitely following the (rare) news on this game, since they will be implementing features like bullet drop, a single player (coop ?) campaign, etc.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: njames89 on April 21, 2017, 01:39:09 pm
110€ for all the content (looking at BF1)

Yeah but the game is pretty fucking sweet. Not gonna lie its over priced but only by about 30$ I would say. With all the expansions released it will be a pretty amazing product. Even now with only one expansion released I find it worth the purchase.

Mind you I play on PS4 and it seems like PS4 is the most successful of the platforms for BF1. Hear about a lot of problems with it on PC.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on April 21, 2017, 01:51:29 pm
BF is and has always been a shitty casual game, a babbu's first FPS
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: njames89 on April 21, 2017, 02:18:26 pm
BF is and has always been a shitty casual game, a babbu's first FPS

Did you ever play BF 1942? One of the best games ever made in its time. Mods for it were stellar.
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: Xant on April 21, 2017, 02:52:19 pm
The early Battlefields were pretty good
Title: Re: Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam
Post by: njames89 on April 21, 2017, 03:05:44 pm
I agree there but also several along the way have been very well done. BF2, BF3, Bad Company 1, Bad Company 2, Bad Company: Vietnam. All very solid shooters. I would say that Battlefield is the best mainstream FPS by quite a distance.

Big fan of BF1 the map making is some of the best I have ever seen though I am a little disappointing with the weapons they chose to add. Makes the game a bit too arcade like for my taste but still very satisfying.

Hardcore mode is also unfortunately missing a couple features that make it a bit too hard to identify enemy vs friendly targets.