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Soulwynd

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Lead and Gold
« on: March 20, 2010, 04:38:22 pm »
I was going to buy a pizza on sunday, but then I saw this game and went 'oh fuck why not' and so my pizza money went into a game I didn't full-demo first. Might regret it, as usual, but it's downloading right now.

I'm a sucker for old west games. -_-

Anyway...

It's on discount on steam, full game + access to beta. It's basically a old west team fortress 2 / CSS of sorts.

Some gameplay videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Hr0mrCgPk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7BfwukUU8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxrFrKS0BY

Hopefully I will be able to play tonight and tell more about it.
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Rakonas

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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 04:44:40 pm »
This game is out? I read about it a few months ago, wasn't really confident in it turning out good. All I know is that paradox makes it, which is good, but it's wild west shooter kind of game so no clue how good of a combination that should be.. Looking forward to knowing if it's good gameplay wise, though.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2010, 04:50:29 pm »
I have played about 30-40 mins of it and it really plays like a wild west mod for TF2. Not revolutionary, but for $15 it will entertain you for a month or two most likely.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 02:09:45 pm »
Bought it on a whim a few days back.
The server browser sucks.
I repeat:
the server browser sucks.

If they made it possible to see all servers, even if they are full, I would consider trying to play again... but for now I'm not going to bother. It seemed fun, but joining a 250ms server because it was the only one I saw and I didn't know if there were other choices worth waiting for a spot to open up really wasn't a pleasant experience.
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Soulwynd

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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 02:26:47 pm »
It really does. It's one of the reasons I haven't played it much.

The lack of dedicated servers was another issue, I don't know if they did anything about that.
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Goron

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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 02:33:24 pm »
Quote from: Soulwynd on May 11, 2010, 02:26:47 pm
The lack of dedicated servers was another issue,
Whelp, I didn't even know that was the case. It explains a lot, though.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 02:36:31 pm »
It utterly evades me why game developers ever think it's a good idea to cripple their games by not allowing dedicated servers.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 02:38:56 pm »
Quote from: Sensei on May 11, 2010, 02:36:31 pm
It utterly evades me why game developers ever think it's a good idea to cripple their games by not allowing dedicated servers.
Two words: console portability.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2010, 03:33:20 pm »
Quote from: Sensei on May 11, 2010, 02:36:31 pm
It utterly evades me why game developers ever think it's a good idea to cripple their games by not allowing dedicated servers.

The L&G team is working on them. (Of course they've been 'working' on them for awhile now. So expect dedicated L&G servers on a Valve Time schedule)
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2010, 04:16:01 pm »
What's with all the XP and ranks? I thought this was like Team Fortress.
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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2010, 04:24:30 pm »
Quote from: a1s on May 11, 2010, 04:16:01 pm
What's with all the XP and ranks? I thought this was like Team Fortress.

They're per round. So you always start at 1. As you level up during a round your synergy bonus gets better. So it doesn't really do anything for you, but makes the rest of your team better.
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Soulwynd

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Re: Lead and Gold
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2010, 04:50:10 pm »
Actually, they do something for you. Your own synergy affects yourself. so you have a bonus from being good and help your nearby teammates.
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