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Author Topic: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps  (Read 1209 times)

burningpet

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Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« on: February 08, 2014, 02:57:26 am »

Junkers is a small multiplayer arena death match game about driving jeeps, stir breaking and dominating other jeeps on a top down perspective. it was developed by the studio behind King Arthur Gold





The controls feels great and i think it could be really fun if it had more players.

There's really isnt much to say, just go a head and try it in your browser.

http://toto.thd.vg:1337/
« Last Edit: February 08, 2014, 12:35:34 pm by burningpet »
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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2014, 09:01:38 am »

It's fun, but a few flaws:
1) You don't start with a weapon
2) Spawn points are fixed

This means epic camping potential.  Get a gun, kill someone, wait for them to spawn, kill them again.

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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2014, 09:04:30 am »

A new game by the KAG developers?
I don't think this can be bad, I'll have to try it out sometime.
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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2014, 11:29:19 am »

This is crazy fun and constant excitement. The controls are a bit wonky, but maybe I'm just bad with vehicle controls.
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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2014, 11:49:09 am »

I haven't tried it yet but the first image immediately reminded me of Cannon Fodder...

Now that I've tried it the vidual style still reminds me a bit of Cannon Fodder. The controls are so wonky because it's rather uncomfortable for me to press the arrow keys as opposed to WSAD. Having WSAD for driving and shift for handbrake and spacebar would work nice, could theoretically play the game with one hand, but having keys on both sides of the keyboard would be great too.

A simple chat option would be nice too =p

So was I playing with another Bay12 just now?

EDIT: just played it a little bit more and it's actually pretty fun. My fingers hurt a little from the wonky controls but... I dunno. Seems like it would be way more fun with more than 2 people playing.

I like the idea of having to drop your weapon in order to repair your jeep, but hitting walls should be maybe slightly more forgiving?

Also, it seems kinda like the machine gun is a bit overpowered, but that could just be me. The bombs seem very situational, the homing missiles are fun but probably shouldn't be a one-hit kill, and the ramming powerup is really fun =D
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burningpet

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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2014, 12:28:34 pm »

I like when someone tries to shoot a homing misslie at me so i circle him and let his own missile kill him :D

Some of the maps, the circular narrow one for example, just don't fit i think.

Also, definitely need more weapon types and the option to type your name in.

i wouldn't mind a selection of taunting phrases as well.

Edit - i think that the wonkiness of the control is what makes them great
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Ozyton

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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2014, 12:45:28 pm »

Having the controls on the wrong side of the keyboard isn't what I would call great.

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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2014, 01:04:56 pm »

Is there some way to shoot before the weapons spawn? 
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2014, 01:06:34 pm »

Is there some way to shoot before the weapons spawn? 
Nope, you just drive around trying to get to the weapons you want before the other guys do =p

Or do doughnuts, that's what I do.

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Re: Junkers - Drive jeeps, kill jeeps
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2014, 01:38:59 pm »

Ah, I keep running into people who are doing so.  Impressive that they hacked it already, but somewhat annoying.
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