Global Ops First Impressions

I'm still at a loss as to why companies even bother making games that look so tacky and dated.

Urban Terror, a free mod for Q3A looks a THOUSAND times better than that. I mention UT because it's a damn fun mod (well I haven't played it in the past month or so, but it was damn fun and they just released a bunch of new maps so I'm sure that's more fun too).

Point is, if you can't keep up graphically, just Don't Bother Making It.

Oh and if you don't like UT just go play your silly "CounterStrike KEKEKEKEKE ^_^ AWP PWNED j00" crap.

0J

First of all, Maarten, what mushrooms are you on and where can I get them?


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The game recently started a 1500 player beta test
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It's 1000. It shows how much you've been paying attention.


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There are 2 levels included with the beta, and its either nice design with average to poor
textures, or bad design with average textures.
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Make up your mind, is it nice design and poor textures or bad design and average textures?
Last time I checked, there was no relation between level design and textures.


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It's not just the Lithtech engine, the art is just not up to pro standards.
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What do you mean "It's not just the Lithtech engine"? LithTech 2 is a great engine. At the moment I actually prefer the LithTech engine over all the other engines out there.


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As it is, it's barely above Counter-Strike levels. For a 2001 game to not be able to
compete with a game running on an engine from 1998 is just..bad.
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If you are going to make claims like that, you'd better back them up. I've never seen any game made with the original Half-Life that even comes close to No One Lives Forever, Aliens versus Predator 2, Global Operations or any other recent LithTech engine powered game. The textures are very detailed and are better than the fuzzy textures found in games using the Quake III engine.


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The only thing I really noticed is that it takes the game 5 minutes to realize that I timed
out from a server, and I think it crashed on exit perhaps once
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What part in BETA didn't you understand? You should be reporting those bugs on the beta forum instead of whining about them.


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The gameplay is good, I like it, but then so is CS's and people need a reason to change over. Since there isn't, it's almost a wasted effort.
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The original Doom has good gameplay too, so I guess all the first person shooters made after it were a wasted effort.

Friendly word of advice Maarten, get a new graphics card, the old ATi Rage really doesn't do the job anymore, it makes the textures look all fuzzy.

omg I love oyu

Wow, great contribution, kami. Keep up the good work.

Maarten, it's apparent you really haven't played the game enough yet to know how good it is. Soon you'll realize what an @$$ you made out yourself and delete the article, or you won't, in which case you're making an even bigger @$$ out of yourself.

What an unprofessional post Maarten, I guess the word "beta" doesnt mean much to you...
Oh well, maybe another site will actually look at the gameplay

Honestly I really value gameplay over graphics. If this game plays well and is cool online (read:NOT BUGGY AS ALL HELL LIKE CS) then I will play it.

counter-strike like gameplay is NOT a strong point :(

Yep, the textures make it look like a bedroom mod. And using 4 polys for an arch these days should be illegal.

Maybe they're trying to cater to a larger audience by having it not look good, lousy textures = speed, so pretty much every computer sold in the past year and a half can run this game without straining too hard.

Textures don't look that bad to me.

And as to the UT mod...the gameplay to that is horrible. People still trying to deny that Counter-Strike is a quality game...please get a life and move out of the "denial" stage.

this game looks pretty awful. is that the deer hunter engine?

How do the weapons handle? Do they spray everywhere, is there bullshit headshots, does it seem more luck than anything else after the first bullet (ala counterstrike)..

Or is there actual accuracy?

My first impressions of the beta:

First off it was very buggy.. You can't rebind the fire key and still have the game function, since firing is how you spawn, and rebinding the fire key is obviously broken.. I couldn't find a key that the 'forward' action worked with... I tacked my way down the streets like a sailboat (which is oh so much fun as you can imagine). Then I connected to a server in Quebec.. from NYC thats not too bad, I ping an average of 70 up there, but had a ping of 210, my lowest pinging server around. This is really unfortunate as in quake or CS I abhor pings above 60 and only find servers that ping that high in california.

So without all of those problems how was the game? Well the textures were low quality (on purpose to make the beta test download smaller? I don't know) and very pixelated. There were obvious and strange art errors like brick wall textures being rotated in strange angles.. It just made the entire thing surreal and fake feeling. The lighting was very dark even under lamp-posts and it felt very bland. The models of my teammates and enemies are... well.. they are modelled, textured, and animated like giant blobs of incoherent flesh. I felt like I was playing a tech-demo the entire time.

But this is a beta, and hopefully most of these things will be improved or resolved.. The one thing I really got from the whole thing is that it looks worse than counter-strike, has the exact same concept, is incredibly buggy. They'll have to really improve upon the gameplay to make this game worth having.

your english seems fine to me Maarten

How many players can join a server? I wish CS could handle 60. That would hellish fun. Maybe Global Ops can handle that many.

i guess all our poking fun at this game from looking at all the screenshots never did end up helping the game designers make it look a little nicer. That is too bad.

I'm on the beta, too (say hello to me Maarten!) and generally share his thoughts on the engine's graphical quality. It's kind of icky. I saw the game at E3, but I don't remember it being as it icky as it is. Must be my comp. But, it is better than Counter-Strike's, so I guess that's the whole point.

The gameplay is, however, why I play games and continue to play games even if they do like ass-y. The team and class element in this game is REALLY strong, stronger than even RtCW. In fact, the comparisons to RtCW's class are quite appropriate. GO does a bit better in this department, imho, because it's class distinctions (across 7 classes) and weapon selection provide for far more variety in gameplay. This should be what carries GO.

Obviously, it's still in early beta. From the sounds of it, I've experienced more problems than Maarten, but nothing to God-awful, no. They do need to improve the recoil effects and balance the classes a bit more. I'd also like to see people die more quickly, but then again, I play Ghost Recon most of the time anyways. :=p

jees, this game looks ugly

Strange. Barking really upped the quality of counterstike's textures. Weird they could not do that with their own game.

ow wait, it's the LICHTECH engine....nevermind.

hehe

well i wouldn't use the term "lucky enough".

Are you competing with Jack to see who can make longer front page posts?

the weapon models look quite nice.

Global Ops sounds good to me.