Insurgency - Stand alone on Steam

[LordBerenger]

How's the graphics though?

[Rumblood]

Very graphicy, for sure.

[Ninja_Khorin]

Your standard Source game graphics.

[BASNAK]

Bought it and played it with friends. No one regretted getting it  Quite fun

The water in this game is hilariously bad however

[LordBerenger]

Do i have to upgrade my GTX 780 to play this?

[bilwit]

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.

[Rumblood]

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.

[CrazyCracka420]

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). 

[Butan]

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!!!

[Freland]

Does this feature bots or is it only multiplayer?

[Senni__Ti]

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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Had one round in this small sandy town (playing as insurgents), our VIP was new and didn't move very far. Our whole team ended up running off and getting massacred, I was busy checking out the extraction points for campers. Realised it was just myself and the VIP left, the tension was insane as I tried to sneak back towards the VIP, while their entire team searched for us. Checking corners with leans, taking less known routes with lots of cover, slowly working my way back to the VIP. Finding myself just 20m away from the VIP (I believe he's prone behind a box), I hear footsteps. Stepping back behind a corner just as two of their guys come into the alleyway. Then before they know what's happening, popping out and hitting them with silenced SKS round each. Seeing I somehow landed both hits and they both went down, I slowly make my way back out and towards the VIP again. The dead chat is spamming at this point, mainly calling the VIP a noob .

Sure enough he's round the corner of a wall, behind a box. He sees me, and I start gesturing towards back where I came from (one of the extraction points), I don't use a mic and I have a bad habit of typing and getting shot, so I figured gesturing is the way to go . He slowly gets up and I start moving off, checking corners, seeing if there are any other enemies. Slowly retracing my steps, with the VIP in tow, we carefully wind our way through the narrow streets and houses. I can't believe my luck, we didn't encounter a single enemy on the return journey. As we near the extraction point, I decide to take a detour into a house and up through the second floor. Listening carefully for footsteps and slowly leaning and creeping round corners. Nothing. The timers getting pretty low and this point and the extraction point is less than 20m away, down some stairs and out into a courtyard. Double checking the VIP is behind me (he's under a table ), I slowly make my way down the stairs and poke my head out either side of the exit. Again, nothing. Increasing my pace, constantly checking my left and right, I bee-line for the extraction point. Before I realise it, I'm standing smack bang on A, the VIP sprints to catch up to me. Boom game won, I turn my camera slightly to the right, there are 3 enemies all facing away from A .

[Kalam]

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.

[Rumblood]

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   

[Banok]

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

[Teeth]

God I hate TotalBiscuit.