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I just played some Insurgency, it sucks. :( by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 8:43am PDT
It's more of a bug ridden mess than Mercenaries 2(!!!!!!!!!!!!!), of course without building explosions.

The first map I played was the Baghdad map which was as shitty as it was when I first played this mod. In fact, there's a doorway that you can enter, and then it won't let you back out. Nice bug. It's not even a door, it's just a doorframe with nothing there, and it's not in a spawn point or anything, it's right in the fucking middle of the map. Also, for a "realistic realism" game that's so ultra fucking realistic, it's pretty disappointing to see that every fence in the game is pretty much an invincible shield, even when it's a fence that just blocks one part of the map off from another. They just want you to go around it, which is really gay. You should be able to blow open doors and gates and shit. This is the kind of mod you'd play in 1999.

The game has such a pointless irrational hard on for "realism" bullshit that there is no minimap and not even death messages, although yet there are still 3D objective pointers. If you kill someone, it doesn't tell you, and there is no way to find out UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD. Same for TKs, friendly fire is inherently on in this entire game, and most of the kills throughout the game are from teammates killing each other because the models are so generic and dust brown colored that the terrorists and the US soldiers look pretty much identical, with the sole difference being that Americans have helmets (and terrorists have towels, which can look pretty similar at a distance anyway). If they just made the models more distinctive and different this would be alright. The tags on friendly players are way up at the top of the screen where you can't really notice or see them if you're looking at the game, although I think this is okay because in a way you're supposed to identify a target before killing them, and be all DELTA TACTICAL OPERATOR and shit. It's kind of stupid but in a very slight way it works, but only as far as the map lets it work. Most of the maps are still late 90s era generic shit that are basically very narrow corridors and no interactive shit or anything distinctive about them. In fact most are just one long area, with two curves at the end for spawn points, and a bunch of shit fucked in the central area.

The HDR effects are pretty much the only impressive thing in this game, and that's just part of the Source engine, so it doesn't really matter. Everything else is very bland. Practically all of the guns are semi auto, everyone dies in one to two hits, and you respawn Day of Defeat style (at least it's not CS style). The one thing it does better than DOD Source is every gun is very responsive going back and forth to ironsights, like in the Call of Duty games.

Overall, it was sort of like that Unreal Tournament WW2 mod that was so completely ultra realistic that you couldn't really shoot anyone or tell what was happening, and no team made any progress over the other team.
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Did anyone notice they added some mods to the steam game list? by Worm 10/13/2008, 1:06am PDT NEW
    Re: Did anyone notice they added some mods to the steam game list? by Fortinbras 10/13/2008, 3:06am PDT NEW
        Exactly, there were some other good mods in development by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/13/2008, 3:09am PDT NEW
    Insurgency isn't really that good. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 5:48am PDT NEW
        PS: Synergy isn't that good either, although it is coop. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 6:36am PDT NEW
            I just played some Insurgency, it sucks. :( by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 8:43am PDT NEW
                Yeah, I haven't played Insurgency in awhile. by Worm 10/13/2008, 10:31am PDT NEW
                    They got rid of tracers. Also no health or ammo indicators. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 10:34am PDT NEW
                        I'm glad you told me before I loaded it up again, otherwise I would have fuckin NT by FREAKED Worm 10/13/2008, 1:15pm PDT NEW
            Just played a little Synergy. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 9:24am PDT NEW
                Re: Just played a little Synergy. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/13/2008, 9:42am PDT NEW
 
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