The decision to make player characters egg-shaped is a pretty clever way of communicating that there are no headshots in this game, something that has always seemed a bit confusing to newcomers jumping into Quake in the post-Call-of-Duty era. The decision to release an esports-ready competitive shooter with no personality of its own on the Fortnite launcher wasn't quite as clever. Diabotical may as well have been dead on arrival.
It could still be lots of fun, of course. It's transparently a Quake III clone at its core, the movement and shooting were both as fun as always, and the original maps all felt adequately designed. But multiplayer shooters live and die on so much more than just the competence of their design. Slavish adherence to arena shooter tradition alone doesn't bring in new blood, as much as we all wish it could. Without the community to back it up, Diabotical became a mausoleum for its own ambition.
It could still be lots of fun, of course. It's transparently a Quake III clone at its core, the movement and shooting were both as fun as always, and the original maps all felt adequately designed. But multiplayer shooters live and die on so much more than just the competence of their design. Slavish adherence to arena shooter tradition alone doesn't bring in new blood, as much as we all wish it could. Without the community to back it up, Diabotical became a mausoleum for its own ambition.
ta okay
today i will try to resurrect my league of 40+ year old hardcore gamers
It's a very solid free-to-play Arena FPS on epic games right now. the only problem is....where's the players? It's like EVERY Arena shooter i've played so far suffers from that exact same thing each time. It doesn't make it any easier with SR level players who are the only ones around as they will be the ones literally dancing circles around you on the map while denying you every single item pickup. it's absolute madness. its no wonder why Arena shooters are not loved..or played at all these days compared to Fortnite and whatever is hot shit right now.
The fact that the market is so unforgiving just like the difficulty with this game when you're up against god-tier players, so at this point its either you play what everyone else is playing or sit in an arena on this game by yourself.
so...pick your poison
The fact that the market is so unforgiving just like the difficulty with this game when you're up against god-tier players, so at this point its either you play what everyone else is playing or sit in an arena on this game by yourself.
so...pick your poison
state of the art quake movement, dead game
duel is insanely fun. yes i know i could just play quake 3 instead.
fun but holy fuck my wrists
I really hate all this mastery pass, and daily challenge stuff and wish games would stop trying to manufacture addiction and take advantage of FOMO.
Even outside of that, the game is...fine? Arena shooters were a lot more fun when I was young and feel a bit shallow to me now I think, and when I tried the game none of the arenas felt like an appropriate size for 1v1 play which is sad, but it was a solid enough time running around with friends pew-pewing stuff.
Even outside of that, the game is...fine? Arena shooters were a lot more fun when I was young and feel a bit shallow to me now I think, and when I tried the game none of the arenas felt like an appropriate size for 1v1 play which is sad, but it was a solid enough time running around with friends pew-pewing stuff.