Anyone Know Of A Pc Title That Has A Firefight Mode Like ODST/Reach?
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Playing since day 1. Still can't Comm.England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Looking for some multiplayer chaos that isn't L4D2 for a change.</div>I enjoyed playing ODST's Firefight mode with friends and it's looking like Reach will have <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/10/video-halo-reachs-firefight-as-previewed-by-bungie/" target="_blank">more of the same</a>.
But the majority of my friends are PC gamers and it's usually the same group of 5-10 playing the same games.
(Left 4 Dead 2, Trackmania, Company of Heroes Online, WoW, etc)
So I'm looking for a title that has something very similar. Wave after wave of enemies, chaotic but fun.
I'm surprised Halo 3, ODST and reach aren't PC titles as well. It'd boost sales and probably isn't that difficult to port over? (They did it with Halo 1 + 2)
So your suggestions are more than welcome, I've pointed a few friends in the direction of <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=111073" target="_blank">FireFall (as recommended by WhiteZero)</a> but with no details of dates for beta etc we're still looking.
Side-note: We've done the majority of L4D, L4D2 and Borderlands to name but a few.
But the majority of my friends are PC gamers and it's usually the same group of 5-10 playing the same games.
(Left 4 Dead 2, Trackmania, Company of Heroes Online, WoW, etc)
So I'm looking for a title that has something very similar. Wave after wave of enemies, chaotic but fun.
I'm surprised Halo 3, ODST and reach aren't PC titles as well. It'd boost sales and probably isn't that difficult to port over? (They did it with Halo 1 + 2)
So your suggestions are more than welcome, I've pointed a few friends in the direction of <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=111073" target="_blank">FireFall (as recommended by WhiteZero)</a> but with no details of dates for beta etc we're still looking.
Side-note: We've done the majority of L4D, L4D2 and Borderlands to name but a few.
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Other PC games I know of in a similar vein include Killing Floor. It also had the Defense Alliance 2 mod, but that seems to have died. There are a couple Source mods that involve one player controlling RTS style the AI hordes, but I can't recommend them in good faith.
There's always Sven Co-op as well.
Sadly that's all I got. But looking forward to Fire Fall. :)
Oh and maybe check out Iron Grip: Warlords if it's cheap. Or Red Orchestra (but that can be a bit hardcore).
They did it with Halo 1 and 2, which suggests they have a reason for not continuing the practice.
I can think of two possibilities, not mutually exclusive:
1) Port not profitable.
2) Profit from port does not outweigh profit from keeping the game 360-exclusive. Keep in mind Halo is an Xbox "killer app," a game that in addition to the revenue it generates through sales alone also provides value to the platform itself by forcing anyone who wants to play it to buy an Xbox.
Probably mostly the second one, with perhaps some of the first one thrown in as well. Halo for PC didn't sell that well. Halo 2 was crippleware, requiring Windows Vista to play even though there was nothing the game required that Windows XP didn't offer. This likely negatively impacted sales as well.
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dyslexic, there is this awesome game called Natural Selection, it has this mode called ns_ mighty have what you seek
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I've been wondering if such a mode would be possible via a mod in something like a GMod. I'll take a look on their forums a bit later.
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RO is a PvP game I thought. Not against bots.
Iron Grip had good potential, but the gameplay when I tried the demo felt flat. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I think it was because the AI was too dumb. After all, you are pretty much playing turret defense with the players as the turrets.
Iron Grip had good potential, but the gameplay when I tried the demo felt flat. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I think it was because the AI was too dumb. After all, you are pretty much playing turret defense with the players as the turrets.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->It's P+EvE with bot hordes on both sides. It's basically co-op FPS tower defence. And I agree that the AI was a big issue, especially considering it is PvE, but if it's cheap enough it's worth checking out for something a little bit different. As the OP has already played most things (including Borderlands) and is hungry for more, the 4-pack might fit their price bracket.
Maybe someone who bought the game can comment on the current state of playerbase and servers.
I've been wondering if such a mode would be possible via a mod in something like a GMod. I'll take a look on their forums a bit later.
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I havent played odst or reach, as they seem to require xbox. I dont have xbox and dont want it, so obviously I wont buy it just to play halo.
But one guy said it was hordes of ais attacking you, which reminds me of a few gmod gamemodes.
One would be zombie survival, another is onslaught, and I am sure there is more, as I only played a fraction of all the gamemodes there is for gmod.