Starship Troopers Extermination just released a day or two a go. In this game sixteen players with absolutely dogshit guns, sub part jet packs, and 3 foot high barricade walls fight hordes of 15 foot tall space bugs for the glory of earth, humanity, and fascism.
I've only played one round of the game, idk if it's good or not, but the forum flame wars happening right now are hilarious. All the CHUDs who never found out that Verhoeven was laughing at them, and the die hard Heinlein enjoyers, are very mad that people are laughing at their politics and making fun of them. Much screaming of "THE CURTAINS ARE BLUE" and "Verhoeven is dumb and doesn't know what fascism is".
Making this game at this time is a bold ass move. In a single player game you don't communicate with anyone, but in a multi player FPS game you can have discourse. I look fondly ahead towards some of the epic gamer moments this game will surely create.
The Heavy Gunner class gets what I've been calling an "Iron Miniskirt". When you use you class ability it pops out this little metal circle about three foot high that's supposedly a barricade for protection against seven foot tall murder bugs. Totally absurd. But gameplay wise it works really well. Usually the warrior bugs can kill you in a few hits, but with the Iron Miniskirt you can tank a lot of damage. You can position youself forward and tank the hate from an incoming bug wave so the rest of the team can focus on shooting. You can plug chokepoints. You can survive gunner bugs and grenadier explosions that would otherwise kill you. If the walls on the base defense come down you can pop your miniskirt and hold the breach long enough to clear out the immediate wave of bugs and re-build the defenses.
The whole game looks rough and messy but is fun to play. I'm excited to see how it develops, it could be a real gem with a bit of polish and some more game types (and please give the LMG like, idk, 9,000 more rounds of ammo I was constantly running out!)