Chaser MP Demo

I always look forward to new demos released on the shack. I get to hear "expert" criticism of a game from a huge pool of "high paid professionals in the industry" nitpik treble levels, the hue of blue used in the sky, and the fact that "the water looks lame".
Ahh, the shack, what would I do without you? I would never see armchair developers.

The other good thing, Is generally shackers have thick skins. Right? :-)

btw to those playing it, ya have to open the console and type what you want to say, theres no say button

crouch is defaulted to C (WTF?)
levels are far too small and cramped for a game this speed
weapon swap is super slow
cant weapon swap while reloading (i want to pull out my knife and stab him, but i have to reload first, again WTF?)
graphics are ok, but very brown/grey

You know everyone that nitpiks every FPS demo in the world for bening bland and generic is going to praise Doom 3 for being just that.

I would like to welcome another cookie cutter, boring and uninventive FPS to the PC family.

GG

My quick impression after a round through the maps -

I don't see much improvements from SP demo - Need more, much more boost for gun sounds and movements are still waaaaaaaay too fast for a game with guns like AK, MP, etc shit. If u can't make a distiction gameplaywise then better come up with something really really nice.

This game does so many things wrong weapon-wise. Like buckshack mentioned the pistol needs a lot more in the treble range to give every shot a loud crack, which is what a pistol sounds like in real life; other than that the pistol is fine. All of the automatic weapons have firing sounds that are completely out of sync with their firing rates; Cauldron used loops of multiple gunshots for full auto, but they brought the firing rates of all the weapons down to balance them, but forgot to re-do the firing loops. As for the acoustic quality of the firing sounds, the AK's firing sound is fine, but the M4 and FAMAS desperately need some more treble. Also, the FAMAS is way too fast; I remember not using this gun at all in the SP demo because it was so wildly fast and inaccurate, and because I burned through 200 rounds in less than two minutes.

What really takes the cake is the automatic shotgun: supposedly it's double-barrel, and a full magazine holds 16, but I shot it at a wall from about the equiv. of 20 feet and saw six closely-spaced bullet holes: http://www.overburned.com/arch/chsg.jpg
Furthermore, each shot only takes ONE shell off of the 16-shell magazine. Just wrong in so many ways, considering how Doom 2's double-barrel spat out 14 pellets. I guess they didn't want to overpower the gun, but they forgot to make it a bit inaccurate so it won't become the BFG of the game.

The last gun I tried out was a really long bolt-action sniper rifle which recoils about 30 degrees when fired without looking through the scope, but it recoils only about 5 degrees while looking through the scope. I'm still shaking my head at that.

So, needless to say, all things Chaser have been uninstalled and blacklisted from my computer.

Yet another game with "just another shooter" written all over it.

What does that small puny weapon with the "plus" sign on it do....add up numbers? A calculator-gun perhaps? Fascinating.

Wow, great graphics! Is that the HL1 engine?

if anyone is looking for a fps to dig their teeth into try Vietcong.

Nobody mentioned Counter-Strike knockoff yet?

I heard from a very reliable source that this internet multiplayer thing is really going to take off some day.

I wish JoWood would give us another Rally Trophy. Longer more realistic tracks would be a bonus. The graphics are already top notch.

i played for about 5 minutes and already i was sick of it....whoever was in charge of the weapon soundFX should be taken into the middle of a field and shot point blank so that he can understand what a gun actually sounds like.

i know these are "futuristic" guns......but god almighty why should they sound like toy lazer guns with low batteries!!!.......sigh

The most disapointing thing about this game is that the tech platform is great. It runs like lightning and IMO it looks great, lots of eye candy and shader effects, it's just that the game design is average at best. Same problem with a lot of games recently. Unreal 2 had a great technology platform, and really nice looking art/level design all around, but was still an average play. Devastation was the same thing. Great looking levels, and weapon models, but poor storytelling and average repetitive gameplay and horrible, gamestopping AI.

Okay, why did they stick 41MB of AVIs in an MP demo?

DELETED!!

I"m having fun, but I like fps's.

Downloaded, played, deleted. Ick.

I think there's an extra slash in the screenshot URL steve, not working after the //2

downloading now, i didn't try the sp demo out but i'm up for anything new.

Hope they changed the sound of the guns, the engine is great but horrible gun sounds. you need the weapons to feel like they have weight in your hands and sound can help that suspension of disbelief.

Damn its early
can't test this thing out

Sweet. Can I rape bots in the game?