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  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    I’m just expecting the mechanics of the combat to be more realistic. Mainstream FPS games just refuse to simulate the deadliness of war.

    No, no. I understand. That rant was mostly for comic effect.

    But it does still boil down to fun, particularly for younger and newer players. The HP model gives players more play time once the guns start blasting. You see this in Team Fortress, Overwatch, and Fortnite games in particular, where fleeing from a salvo is still viable and pursing objectives other than just murdering people outright is only really possible if you can survive getting winged by a guy blasting away with a mini-gun.

    This sort of stuff you would expect to see in a historical game rarely happens where everyone runs around like Rambo

    No. But historical accuracy hinges a lot more on teamwork. And random-drop-in games rarely have that. So you get HP to prevent one side from getting immediately blown away and keeping people in it longer.

    • infernalCop [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah the requiring teamwork part is why I've only been playing buggy old games. You play the Squad clones which have flooded the market and you basically have to use a mic ingame. Games that try to go between BF and Arma and pull it off are pretty few. Dealing with g*mers can ruin the immersion as much as Rambo so I'm always glad when a game comes out where you can blow away nazis in MP that isn't so tactical it forces you to turn on voice chat and deal with toxic scrubs.