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No, Liero is real-time as opposed to turn-based.
Are there turn-based clones?
Plenty. I always liked Pocket Tanks. And there was an online game called Gunbound, but it was a little bit pay-to-win.
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#52And it was so hard! You had to have the perfect coordination moving and digging while aiming, shooting, roping, dodging and switching weapons and checking everyone's health. Sometimes all at the same time!
I feel so lucky to have played it on a slow amd 20+ years ago, because banana bombs and big nukes slowed the game down and gave you the perfect bullet time matrix fight experience.
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#53Looks like the classic Soldat [1], except uglier, only 1v1 and less interesting maps... [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/638490/Soldat/
Liero was one of the inspirations for Soldat
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#54So many good memories from high school! Gaming in the computer lab was banned in theory and the teacher always tried to delete any games found on these machines. So we always kept about a dozen 'hidden' copies on each machine.
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me too! Together with Ski free and star control
Ah, Star Control II still ranks as an all-time favorite.
Star Control II lives on as "The Ur-Quan Masters":
"The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page."
https://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Works on most modern operating systems and even has community add-ons and remixes.
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#56I'd enjoy it more if it was WASD + mouse aiming and shooting
Try OpenLieroX
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#57Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age! [1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...
Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.
It was played in Norway too.
My younger brothers played it a lot.
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#58Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age! [1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...
Happy to see my own game “Oikeutta Eläimille” in this list.
I made it in turbo pascal in about 1 week, uploaded it to a BBS and it started to spread. Then pretty soon I saw it mentioned on TV and that totally blew my 16 year old mind.
I can make something and the world will react to what I make? Cool!
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#59Loved playing Worms as a kid, not so much Liero. But before Worms, it was really Scorched Earth[0] that got me introduced to the genre. And with which I must have spent untold hours. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)
I loved Scorched Earth! Don’t know anyone else who ever played it.
I can instantly recall the strange beeper sound effects of some of the powerful weapons that would blast multicolored noise everywhere.
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#60Fantastic game. One of my favorite multiplayer experiences, besides San Andreas, classic UT/Q3 and some Tron based lightcycle game that was basically fast 3d multiplayer snake.
Armagetron!