Neotokyo

[schild]

Comes out friday.

http://www.neotokyohq.com/

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Edit by Trippy: client available via attachment

[LK]

I guess I'll check it out? You've been 2 / 2 on game recommendations so far (Demon's Soul, Anno 1401).

[Samwise]

 

[Trippy]

Is Capture the Ghost the only gameplay type?

[Megrim]

Oh wow, i had thought this was vapourware years ago. Good to see they are still working on it. 

[gryeyes]

Looks awesome, first time hearing about it.

[ahoythematey]

Hmmmm...might have to give this badboy a spin.  Been itching for a change from the same old nightly counter-strike/tf2.

[NiX]

Is Capture the Ghost the only gameplay type?

For now. They wanted to perfect one mode instead of cluttering the mod with multiple gameplay modes that were meh. There's a lot of maps shipping with the mod.

[Ookii]

Holy crap this looks awesome.

[schild]

Holy crap this looks awesome.

It has been looking awesome since we were in college.

[Stormwaltz]

Soundtrack for purchase here.

Interview with the composer here.

[LK]

I'll take one kick ass mode with many maps over many modes with 4 maps any day of the fucking week.

[Trippy]

I'm too old now to be playing CTF(G)

Especially since there's only one flag so I can't just sit back and defend our flag.

[Cadaverine]

Damn, the soundtrack is really nicely done.  I might actually pick that up at only $11.  And it looks like it's time to dust off the orange box...

[Lantyssa]

Is this just a multiplayer mod, or is there a story with it as well?  Maybe I missed the all important part, but I didn't actually see much saying what the game is.

[Trippy]

It's a team-based PvP mod like Counter-Strike. There's a little background story blurb on the Web site:

http://www.neotokyohq.com/about.html

[schild]

Damn, the soundtrack is really nicely done.  I might actually pick that up at only $11.  And it looks like it's time to dust off the orange box...

I did, it's exceptional.

I've gotten a lot of work finished with the whole thing on random.

[Lantyssa]

It's a team-based PvP mod like Counter-Strike. There's a little background story blurb on the Web site:

http://www.neotokyohq.com/about.html

Yes, but it says nothing beyond FPS and <story>.  It could be a single-player game for all the description they give.

[Surlyboi]

I'll take a goddamn single player mode.

Fragfests are awesome, but I wanna get into the world too.

[gryeyes]

Game Info-Noob hints

[Furiously]

It releases today, make sure you have the SDK for HL installed I believe.

[ahoythematey]

I think I'm going to be in the minority here, but I didn't really think much of the soundtrack. 

[gryeyes]

I think I'm going to be in the minority here, but I didn't really think much of the soundtrack.  

Either did I , but i will purchase it if the mod is awesome.

Edit: The link is dead due to traffic. And i cant find it on steam. Anyone have another link?

Never mind i found it.

[schild]

SQUEEEEEEEE. Getting torrent now.

[schild]

Oh, right, here: http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?returnto=%2Fmytorrents.php&id=3611

[gryeyes]

Yep I found it! 23% 

[Trippy]

Gah! Download speed so slow. Give up that bandwidth fuckers!

[ahoythematey]

seed you fuckers

[Megrim]

Direct downloads are up.

[bhodi]

Game's fairly fun.

I like support, thermo bound to the middle mouse button for easy spamming. Machine gun, 3rd row middle. Smoke grenades that you can see right through =  

[gryeyes]

I think we were playing on the same server. I kept getting "snagged" on the floor it seemed. Its a fun game cant wait to unlock all the goodies.

[Trippy]

God I suck so bad at this game

[Trippy]

Some initial observations:

* Not having crosshairs unless you are sighted is fucked up, especially since in the game world you are wearing special visors and your HUD provides other targeting info.

* The reload system is fucked up too. "Tactical reloading" is a standard technique practiced by military and police forces today. There's no reason to be tossing magazines away in the near future, especially in this sort of "special forces"-type engagement. Plus the HUD ammo display is all fucked up and it can be hard to tell how many rounds you have left when you are using your special vision.

* I swear the hit detection system is also fucked up It feels like the game is tracking projectiles rather than doing hitscan but that could just be the lag factor.

* Speaking of which laggers seem to lag the game for everybody else. I don't remember that being the case with Source engine games before, at least not to the extent it seems to be happening in this one.

* Game has the same sort of "the rich get richer" problem that Counter-Strike has. I.e. the better team will unlock weapons much faster than the team that's getting pwned. At least in CS you can save up your money.

* The uniforms are too hard to tell apart.

* The Red X when zoomed in triggers way too easily. I.e. even if you aren't close to hitting a friendly when sighted you'll still see the X and lose your crosshair. Makes it very difficult to sit back and shoot from long range when friendlies are in front of you.

* The pistol sucks.

* I'm not sure there's enough that's unique in this game to distinguish it from all the other tactical shooters out there in the long term. The "visibility" system is about all there is, at the moment.

* Can't really comment on the map layouts yet but the map texture work and modeling are very nice.

[ahoythematey]

The aiming does seem particularly fucked up, but I can't tell if it was by design or just some form of lag.

Early impression is that there are too many similar weapons, and a few clearly better than others.

Being able to fire while cloaked is a problem, particularly with the "railgun".

Movement is mostly okay, but sometimes feels off.  Might just be lag issues.

The rich-get-richer thing does seem more severe than in CS, where I can still do pretty well with the right pistol and paying attention.  However, that's something I'm sure will be changed by various server admins once they start toying around with mods.

Unless they have some much bigger maps, I'm not so sure there's really a need for the different squads.  Can't knock the game for building it in, though.

[Trippy]

Added client as attachment to first post.