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Offline MicroPsycho

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Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
on: January 03, 2006, 10:05:12 am
Has anyone played this game? It's ****ing amazing! I only wish the co-op was more than just "protect the engineer and gather energy cells" or that there were a larger variety of bugs in co-op.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #1 on: January 03, 2006, 04:05:04 pm
I played the demo many moons ago, and liked it a fair amount, actually. Never got the full game tho.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #2 on: January 03, 2006, 05:12:33 pm
I thought it (assuming this is the new FPs one and not the old RTS one) was supposed to be utterly, utterly awful and a buggy (ho-ho!) mess?
 

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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #3 on: January 03, 2006, 07:18:22 pm
Well, this is what the critics are saying about it

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/919812.asp I was also able to *ahem* aquire it a few weeks ago and played it for all of ten minutes before going back to some goold old FEAR and Half-Life 2.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #4 on: January 03, 2006, 07:27:35 pm
Last I played it (the demo), it was choppy and glitchy all to hell. Has that been fixed?
 

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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #5 on: January 04, 2006, 03:26:41 am
Oh, wait, I was referring to the oldish RTS game.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #6 on: January 04, 2006, 05:13:35 am
I remember getting the demo, something going funky with the video-options, and when I started up the game, the left third of the screen was a smear! A F--KING SMEAR. As in, it was as if someone had wiped a weegie over wet paint. Freaked me out, man...
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #7 on: January 04, 2006, 06:06:36 am
played the demo, rather nonplussed with it, it didn't really grab me any
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #8 on: January 04, 2006, 06:17:32 am
There's an FPS now? When did this happen?

The RTS is abandonware, AFAIK.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #9 on: January 04, 2006, 09:11:51 am
by the screenies, looks like Breed lite. only with a bit better shadows  :nervous:
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #10 on: January 04, 2006, 09:53:33 am
I'd prefer one that's closer to the book than the film.
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #11 on: January 05, 2006, 04:56:00 pm
Quote from: ngtm1r on January 04, 2006, 06:17:32 am
The RTS is abandonware, AFAIK.

Oh? Got any links?
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Offline pyro-manic

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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #12 on: January 06, 2006, 03:48:48 pm
Somebody posted the demo here a while back. I played it once, and hated it. Bad graphics, bad textures, bad sound effects, poor interface, useless weapons and bad level design. So no. ;)
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #13 on: January 06, 2006, 03:52:38 pm
Unfortunately I agree. It ran very sluggishly on my machine and although I wanted to like it (I liked the film... in theory an FPS based on it should be awesome) but I just couldn't do it. Ah well...
 

Offline MicroPsycho

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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #14 on: January 06, 2006, 04:34:28 pm
well, the full game runs a lot smoother than the demo. The effects are also improved from the demo and there are no technical bugs that I can think of.  And who doesn't like talking grenades?
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Re: Does anyone play Starship Troopers?
Reply #15 on: January 06, 2006, 09:40:57 pm
Quote from: Rson on January 04, 2006, 09:53:33 am
I'd prefer one that's closer to the book than the film.

That would play a lot like Tribes... well plus nuclear hand grenades ;)

But one based on the book would be a ton better. Fight rebel scum, bugs, etc.
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