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Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners?
An anonymous reader writes "I have been playing videogames for years, but only recently got a DSL line in my house and so have never played any online games before now, as dial up was always too slow. Now that I have a fast connection, I want to get into online gaming, FPS gaming in particular. My problem is that Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Quake and all the other popular games seem to be dominated by people using cheats, and by established clans of players who are a lot better than me. Are there any online FPS games or servers whose barriers to entry are not too high for the average player? I am looking for something that I can just connect to for a half an hour now and then when I am bored and can have fun with."
Legend of the Red Dragon on someone's telnet BBS. Oh wait..he said FPS! oops!
Those who can, do. Those who can't, go into business for themselves.
Keep your eyes peeled for Team Fortress 2! You will love it.
"Honestly, just get some friends together on a LAN and play. It's more entertaining than playing with a mass of immature idiots online anyhow. ;-)"
Compared to what? playing with a mass of immature idiots in your living room?
TruePunk | Games
GET OFF THE INTERNET, N00B!!!
/me desperately tries to avoid the troll-filter
I'm sorry but I call BS. It is standard procedure in any FPS, (but especially CS), to call anyone better than you a cheater and attempt to kick them from the server.
I do security
I first started to play it, and found that it was to diverse. There are TOO many things that you can do in it. So then I had to try everything, and what started as a couple hours of playing has turned into a 6 month obsession.
Every night I can't wait to get home from work, and load up my riffle nade and shoot some nazis. It's become pathetic. I dream about Enemy Territory, I get words like "Danke" and "Aufiedersien" stuck in my head. I continually chant "We've captured the old city, DYNAMITE the old city wall! They've captured the old city! We've captured the old city, DYNAMITE the old city wall! They've captured the old city!"
At work I try to needle nose my monitor, but that doesn't get my work done!
If you like having any social life at all. Stay away from ET, it's 100% addictive. It's worse then smoking.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
The last time I had the bandwidth to play an FPS, I only saw some goon jumping around wildly with an RPG for about 1.5 seconds before I got fragged and my screen turned red with my n00b blood.
Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.
seem to be dominated by people using cheats
While people using cheats do exist, they're not nearly as prevalent as you seem to think, you're just unable to accept that people are that good.
Take Quake 3, for example. I got tired of having my butt handed to me by people with the railgun. So, I limitted myself to *only* using the railgun. In time, I got pretty good. With more time, I got really good. With even more time, I got fan-freaking-tastic. When you're single, don't own a home, and have a 1-megabit pipe into your apartment, it's amazing how much time you can dedicate/waste on those things!
So, what did that get me? A bunch of whining cry-babies yelling "Aimbot! Cheater!" every time I killed them. After they did it enough to annoy me, I'd chase them down and kill them with the gauntlet. At that point, they'd generally just leave the game.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
Battle.net...
You will never see such a wretched hive of scum and villainy anywhere else in the galaxy. We have to be careful not to be pwned.
Honestly, just get some friends together on a LAN and play.
Some what now?
Its not in their backpack, thats a common misconception. In reality, all of the skilled players have just learned to fire a weapon out of their ass. I fart nothing but headshots.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Damn straight! I mean, who needs people? I find it so much more fun to play at my own LAN party, with all my life-sized celebrity cardboard cut-outs posed appropriately at each station.
They're not very good players, unfortunately. But at least they're not weenies.
everything in moderation
...and how not to be seen...
Ah, he was behind the middle bush.
"A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one."
Beginners should play single player first. Get yourself a copy of doom. Beat the game on at least hurt me plenty mode. Then beat doom 2 the same way. It doesn't take long. Then beat quake 2 single player on normal. Forget quake 1. Then beat half-life single player on normal. After that you should have amassed enough fps skill to rock the house.
Just because it has taken you 10 years to learn how to play a FPS doesn't mean the average geek reading this site will require that much time.
Doom I??? Doom II??? I haven't heard of anyone playing either of those games in at least 5 years. My god, they had a Doom release on the Atari Jaguar!!! Think about that!
I think you have dedicated way too much of your life to playing these games.
In the amount of time that has expired since Doom I came out, you could have gotten your undergrad degree, gone to medical school, AND finished your residency. You would be a real, licened, ready to probe the vagina gynecologist.
Lets get our priorities straight here. Games should be a minor diversion, not an activity which requires 15% of your life to master.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
dont necessarily need a lan, you could just play online with just them. that way, no lugging machines around and less tiem travelling. my friends and i play diablo2 like that. the guy w/o the router hosts the game and the rest of us just connect and play like its battlenet
use your turn signal! you people act like it's divulging information to the enemy
Team killing is always really popular. If possible (depending on game) throw gernades, light team mates on fire or generally stand around in peoples way.
If someone shoots you a lot and you cant seem to touch them, that means their cheating. Its always best to call them a cheater out loud. This will show the other players that you just want to play a fair game.
Monopolize. If your playing on a level with any 'scarce' items its probably best if you get to them first then run directly over to the enemy side and open up! Just to show them how leet you are (they'll apprecaite you donating the weapon too).
Talk shit. Players really respect a player who knows how to talk shit. If your losing, insult the enemy team! This goes great along with accusing enemy players of cheating.
Finally, if *your* using a cheat its probably best to start accusing enemy players of cheating *as soon as you log in*. Your team mates will apprecaite this and admire you for your honesty.
Don't forget to bunny hop! Good gaming!
Quack, quack.
do i have any chances to play online games with cable connection?
That sounds like a lot more fun than playing a FPS online...
Jon you big slothy monkey. Adam here :)
Also EX employee at S2games :)
I downloaded it after all you guys mentioned it. Played training for a few minutes. Shot my trainer in the head.
Now I'm in prison.
Seriously. It loaded a map, and now I'm wandering around in a tiny cell, and nothing has happened for five minutes. It's the most brilliant thing I've seen in my life.
There's a harmonica playing.
While I certainly can empathize (and agree) with all that you've said, I have to ask: Did this happen to you in the last thirty seconds?
In addition to your point, I can't fathom how anyone can really enjoy the game when they know they're cheating; I'd rather "Get My Ass Royally Kicked" than win the round/game/whatever using some cheat hack.
...but I can laugh now because you sound just like I do right while it's happening. With my usual attention to spelling and grammar lying comatose in the corner, riddled with shrapnel, you'll find me screaming at the monitor and banging on the keyboard. I get so flustered that my already-crippled 55-WPM typing plummets to around 20, and is still as riddled with holes as my poor character's cyber-body. Zedmelon the Online Gamer can be quite the poster child for rage-supressing medication.
YOu stup8id mother*($&@#!! Can't y0ou just pul;l up your panti3es and play fair?!?/1 what p9ossibvle enjoymeaint couildf you get ou5t of fragging me fr0om behind a wall .002 seconds after I spa2wned??!?! WHat the hell is your G0da^m problem?!? DId your mother jkeep you in the xcellaer as a child!??!
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I feel for you, GooberToo. I really do.
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