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Liero 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...
I've played Noita ( https://noitagame.com/ ) for quite a bit, and lately it clicked to me, that the core mechanics of the player and environment come from Liero. Though Noita is a single player rouge-lite, it has wands instead of guns, but environment is destructible, and explosions work the same. It's much deeper, both in mechanics and in lore, it has actual levels with progressions, but I was curious why did I enjo…
Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Little ragdoll soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.
I'd enjoy it more if it was WASD + mouse aiming and shooting
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Sweden as well, me and my friends played it frequently to distract ourselves in CS class.
What school did you go to? We played this _a lot_ at Norra Real, Stockholm XD
Related: Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676 - April 2020 (86 comments) Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668273 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)
I assume our hero dang has some automation in place but sometimes I dream about him rembering all posts and carefully linking the beloved topics with past occurrences.
Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Little ragdoll soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.
there is now a soldat2. but there is also "butcher", kind of a single player successor to soldat from the same creator
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See also: LieroX/OpenLieroX We played LieroX a lot at school as we could add a bunch of fun mods to it and it was networked. I think at the time, LieroX had just came out too, so it was fresh compared to Liero.
Also NiL ("NiL isn't Liero"), a re-imagination of the game running on Linux: http://web.archive.org/web/20001007120330/http://www.linuxwo...