Renegade was some of the most fun I ever had in a shooter. Truly a unique experience
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PunchingWood@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Battlefield 1942 always stands out to me as the one that popularized large scale online battles on big maps with vehicles. At the time it was revolutionary in online gaming.
Command & Conquer: Renegade came out around the same time as well, with similar features. I kinda wish that game had a sequel as well.
Another gameplay feature that comes to mind is the exclamation/question mark above NPC characters for quests. I remember it first from WarCraft 3, but I think it really kicked off with World of WarCraft to get adopted by many more games.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure I’ve ever had more fun with any game than I did with BF1942. It was just so much fun. There were games with smoother play and deeper mechanics and better graphics, but none were as fun. The dumb mechanics made it amazing, like being able to lie down on the wing of a plane and snipe people while your buddy flew, or dive bombing and parachuting out at 10ft above the ground to capture a point, or shooting the main cannon from a tank into a barracks that has 15 people spawned inside it, or piloting a goddamn aircraft carrier and running it aground to get to a spawn point safely. It was so stupid but so fun.
gibmiser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Was it the first to allow you to look on the map to choose where you respawn, specifically on teammates?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Battlefield 2 intruduced that one.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t remember being possible to spawn on teammates in BF1942, but definitely remember it as a first to select spawn points on map like Battlefield always did.
Katana314@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I remember an old BF1942 mod that had spawn selection; I don’t know exactly how far back the feature went, but it was around for a while before BF2.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
There were a few BF42 mods that, on certain maps with certain vehicles, allowed you to spawn in vehicles.
IIRC, Forgotten Hope had a number of para-assault maps that allowed players to spawn inside of the aircraft they would parachute out of.
I believe you could also do this in… I can’t remember the name of it, but the Star Wars themed 42 mod (which the BattleFront series either largely copied or was directly inspired by), I think it had some spawn-in-able vehicles as well.
Also BF Vietnam, the official game, used a similar concept of having ‘tunnel exits’ that could be built/placed by Viet Cong engineers, which were placeable spawn points, and the US had the ‘Tango’ … mobile river boat with a helipad thing… which was a mobile spawn point.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
desert combat? that was the shits
Pea666@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Battlefield 2142 had that, don’t know it that was the first one to do that though. Might’ve been BF2.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
I can confirm that you could pick spawn points in BF2 and BF2142.