http://www.dystopia-game.com/ (http://www.dystopia-game.com/)
Anybody played it? It's an absolute blast once you get the hang of it and funner than sourceforts :D
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Only one map though, and chances are it will get boring after a while.
It seems NS could learn something from the Dystopia Dev team:
Our work doesn't stop here. Over the next week we hope to have an update ready
for release to fix up a couple of bugs which snuck through into the demo version. After this our next biggest priority is to release more maps.
There's no 3 month hiatus, no down website for long periods of time, and lots of communication of what's going on.
More than the loss of newness and excitement of the NS world, I think people are just as tired of the lack of dedication the dev team has had to the community (sorry, tanke), and especially the seemingly poorly organized UWE and Mod team.
I'm just as excited about the DYS team's communication and enthusiasm as I am about enjoying the game.[...]
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Don't get too eager. Do you really think they're going to write "yeah we're gonna find a hacker to attack our forums to give ourselves a convenient excuse for shutting them down and then we'll leave 'em that way for an arbitrary amount of time?" I doubt it. There was a time when NS was the hot new thing that everybody was talking about and the NS developers (Flayra first and foremost) were worshipped like rockstars. Don't just rashly give your heart away to somebody who might just snap it in half and toss it over their shoulder.
Heavy classes kill everything with thier minigun, and are pretty much useless with either other weapon,
Minigun reduces mobility so much that you can just snipe them around corners or grenade them. I always take ion cannon as heavy.
Or maybe I just suck at the minigun. I've just never done nearly as well with it as with the ion cannon or sniper rifle (yes, I don't find mediums useless either).
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I didn't mind the sniper although I found the AR overall more powerful... remove the heavy class from the game and mediums are fine, but 1v1 mediums always seem to get smashed by heavies and on the other end they are usually only able to match if not slightly outdo the damage that lights do. Given the choice I would rather just light for the extra speed bonus and extra implant slots.
Minigun does slow the game down for the heavy a fair bit, but it allows you to decimate most opponents in a fraction of a second without much concious thought about how precisely you are aiming your crosshair. Considering the heavy is so much of a tank that it is rarely hard to hit anyways, the lack of a bit of movement speed isn't usually an issue if you pick your battlegrounds well and don't let stuff sneak up on you unexpectedly. And how can you call the current rocket launcher balanced?