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Nah fuck the political implications, the message is %100 correct. The current FPS games don’t give the same enjoyment as I used to get from the old MW3/CS:Source era, and I really enjoyed Splitgate 2 and truly think it can change up a lot of things in the FPS space.

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bogpunk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There are a million other ways to express that sentiment.

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chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean yeah but really no. The political implications are too big to ignore here. Especially given the event being in LA with all the shit going on. Also like as a particularly targeted person in this fascist administration, it really doesn’t feel great for people to use fascist iconography to make a stupid joke!

Also like splitgate 2? Really? The game that during this announcement announced a battle royale mode? The most tired shooter mode since hero shooters? And the one that had $145 microtransactions on launch? This is the savior of fps gaming?

Nah

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- Lumbardo@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Are you able to leave your house? People are going to wear shit and make jokes. There is no use getting hung up on things that are well out of your control.
  
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  - Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior
    
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  - chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And I am also free to think the joke is in bad taste and to refuse support for a game that makes jokes that make light of the shit situation I’m in :)
    
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- FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So this is a little off topic but is SG2 any good?
  
  I was in love with splitgate 1 at launch then stopped kinda played off and on during the last season and put down the game after they announced they’d stopped. I played some of the closed betas and stuff just felt off, 1 felt like maps were designed with portals in mind offering sight lines and some risky areas if you were gonna shoot thru portals, but 2 felt like they made a pretty cross between a hero/ability plus arena shooter then slapped portals on it, and it just didn’t feel like splitgate to me.
  
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  - Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Its not very good
    
    I mean, abilities? OK, why not.
    
    Different classes? Well, ok I guess?
    
    But like, I can’t get into a match where anyone is using portals. In the only arena from SG 1 you can actually See some intent in being Portal oriented, but in all New areas they just dont make sense to usw. The Objectives are placed completely Outside of any Portal areas, and even where they are placed its just like „If you run to the other side of the Map and back, you can flank some random angle no one will ever use
    
    And why make every classes weapon different?
    
    Also, power weapons are just not worth picking up, every 2. Player is a bot, and the game itself feels pretty soulless with this corporate arena vibe that the finals have done better already.
    
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    FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah you’ve just summed up what I’ve been struggling to put into words it just feels off
    
    Ngl if it wasn’t splitgate and remove the portals I think it could have been a good f2p shooter that’s a little bit of arena.
    
    I was never good at portaling in 1 but it was fun, during the closed betas it felt like a way to shave off a couple seconds running instead of using it to flank or get wierd angles
    
    Also yeah it felt very… sterile idk… like it was made for esports both in lore (which isn’t bad) and irl
    
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Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The “We didn’t know it would be taken as a political statement” BS is just damage control

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Isn’t Splitgate 2 going to be a BR? Or is that just an optional mode? Because I don’t see diving straight into the dumpster that is Battle Royale as making FPS great again, even without the political undertones.

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- PrinzKasper@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The main mode is a 4v4 arena shooter, the BR mode is new
  
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- CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s an optional mode for those who like it, I found their team fight modes more fun.
  
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  - drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    It’s an optional mode for those who like it
    
    They probably said that when they added BR to Fortnite too.
    
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FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Cs source was an abomination though. The hitboxes were insanely large. Cs 1.5 and 1.6 was the best ones. Cago/cs2 are good too.

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- CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  idk but for me none of the CS games feel as smooth to play as CS:Source.
  
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  - FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Even csgo/cs2? Because they’re way smoother than source. Animations are way less jerky and more fluid.
    
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