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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not disagreeing with you, but does it?

  Honestly it looks (refreshingly) very much like those kind of games just with modern graphics and a load-out system

  Is there something I’ve missed?

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Out of Action’s big hook is its wild movement set: you can dodge, dive, dive roll, slide, wallrun, and double jump. The only thing you can’t do is, surprisingly, sprint. Getting around efficiently isn’t just about speed—it’s about chaining together maneuvers so you don’t faceplant into a wall and discovering shortcuts across the map.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Quake doesn’t have sprint and a lot of those kinds of maneuvers are straight out of shooters like that. Quake players also basically invented the wall-run and dive rolling was pretty common in UT99 IIRC too

      That description is literally what playing old school arena shooters is like

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I never recalled seeing a wall run in Quake, and now that I’ve looked it up, I think it’s the same words to describe two different things. Less “taking advantage of weird math for optimal speed” and more “kung fu action movie with guns”. They’ve got similar DNA, but this isn’t just Quake. For wall running in particular, think of The Matrix, which inspired GunZ: The Duel; the author seems to think that’s the closest touchpoint. I played the demo a while back as well, and I felt some influence from F.E.A.R., if that helps you.

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