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Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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awesome! UT is probably my favorite PC shooter - have so many memories of running a LAN version of UT2003 back in high school and playing with a few friends during open hours. Don't know why, but the UT series has, for me, been more enjoyable than modern FPS games like CoD. I'd take UT99 or UT2003/4 or the more recent UT over any crap that EA puts out every year.

Xonotic may be of interest to you, it's a go-to for some of my friends and I.

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #28

awesome! UT is probably my favorite PC shooter - have so many memories of running a LAN version of UT2003 back in high school and playing with a few friends during open hours. Don't know why, but the UT series has, for me, been more enjoyable than modern FPS games like CoD. I'd take UT99 or UT2003/4 or the more recent UT over any crap that EA puts out every year.

I like AssaultCube even more. Unreal/Quake were always too fast and cartoonish for me. New-style shooters are too slow and realistic. AC is in between, both in terms of speed and realism, though more on the old side.

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #30

Cool cool cool ... though these kinds of browser proof-of-concepts have been around for a decade (more than a decade if you include Flash+alchemy running Quake). Is the browser coming back as a gaming platform yet?

Ugh I hope not. Battlefield 4 took a thousand steps back when they tried to make all the UI a web app If this shit becomes mainstream say goodbye to ever owning your data ever again

I don't want to "own" a 50GB platform-specific root-accessing game.

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #30

Cool cool cool ... though these kinds of browser proof-of-concepts have been around for a decade (more than a decade if you include Flash+alchemy running Quake). Is the browser coming back as a gaming platform yet?

Ugh I hope not. Battlefield 4 took a thousand steps back when they tried to make all the UI a web app If this shit becomes mainstream say goodbye to ever owning your data ever again

That started with BF3, and worked pretty OK there.

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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Cool cool cool ... though these kinds of browser proof-of-concepts have been around for a decade (more than a decade if you include Flash+alchemy running Quake). Is the browser coming back as a gaming platform yet?

One complaint about Flash was inefficiency, but are the alternatives faster? Complex Flash media could run on early 2000s PCs. Modern webpages cannot.

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #26

There's something about the pace of older FPSes that the new ones don't match. Plus, turns out realism isn't something I ever wanted in an FPS. I still fire UT99 up and play a few bot matches once in a while. Now I can do it in my browser?

There are loads of modern FPSes that match the pace of old, but only in the indie space, not AAA. I recommend Ultrakill (whose second act just released last month), which is very much worth taking a look if you reminisce for Serious Sam and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw63IVgYLDc

singleplayer fps, there's no arena fps with a particularly vibrant community, and if i'm wrong about that please please tell me which game i should be playing

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are loads of modern FPSes that match the pace of old, but only in the indie space, not AAA. I recommend Ultrakill (whose second act just released last month), which is very much worth taking a look if you reminisce for Serious Sam and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw63IVgYLDc

singleplayer fps, there's no arena fps with a particularly vibrant community, and if i'm wrong about that please please tell me which game i should be playing

Assaultcube

Re: Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)

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post #26

There's something about the pace of older FPSes that the new ones don't match. Plus, turns out realism isn't something I ever wanted in an FPS. I still fire UT99 up and play a few bot matches once in a while. Now I can do it in my browser?

There are loads of modern FPSes that match the pace of old, but only in the indie space, not AAA. I recommend Ultrakill (whose second act just released last month), which is very much worth taking a look if you reminisce for Serious Sam and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw63IVgYLDc

Those looking for this sort of experience should also take a look at Xonotic. It's an open source arena FPS with a decent number of servers online.
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