some dude made a game a couple years back like 2011, jesus christ, where you are either green (good guys who build bridges and fight for your freedom) or blue (dirty tunnel digging scum, probably smell from all the dirt they dig, hide in holes all day) in what was basically the most fucking traumatizing block game ever made
originally (or, well, early on, I don't remember the update timeline) you had a rifle, shovel, pickaxe, grenades, and blocks the map was random every time (though it maintained some consistent elements, like a river on green's side of the map and mountains on blue's), the fog was super fucking thick (still is), and you had no idea if you were doing to hear the sound of your head being blown open at any time while you tried to grab the other team's intel and run back
this game actually encourages tactics like camouflage or building trenches because if someone domes you with a rifle you're done
later updates added a SMG/shotgun and custom map support
I think the game has lost a lot of its purity thanks to the custom maps because most servers run tower of babel (the intel is on a platform in the sky so both teams have to make a fuckhuge tower/staircase to it)/other shit, and the maps often aren't as open to creative play
there's some decent popular maps out there, and sometimes hallway/pinpoint can be fun, but otherwise there's basically one classicgen server and it needs a shot in the arm to get a game started
jagex bought the game while the dev was working on a patch with some new stuff and released an entirely new, different game on steam that didn't really resemble the original - I thought it was fun enough, but it completely missed the point of the OG game and it didn't really catch on
to their credit it later got a classic ctf mode that's essentially a recreation of the old game (0.75) and a map editor and shit, which is cool, it's kinda unfortunate that it died
also when the game was originally picking up steam there was this awesome quote unquote roleplaying people did where they made propaganda posters and shit
dirty fucking blues keep digging holes and shit fuc kyou remove stinkyl blues
we should play it some time, it's like -4MB and can run on literally anything
the download page has a launcher which can be used to download the "official" clients (0.75/0.76, the ones the original dev was working on that run on voxlap) or openspades, an opensource version with fancy graphics (fucking volumetric fog and shit I kid you not) that connects to any server - i'd personally recommend the OG client because it has a LOT of charm/atmosphere and i'm not kidding when i say it'll run on anything, plus it's fairly easy to mod if you want to powergame and make your rifle ironsights just a dot
most people play on 0.75, I think there's like one 24/7 0.76 server and i've never even played 0.76 so who cares
pretty old and memey trailer here if you want some gameplay, unfortunately it was made after custom maps got added so the atmosphere isn't really there
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this is like wurm in that i would shit my pants if we got a bunch of people to play, but this is far more viable because it's a. free and b. way less commitment, you can download it and be up and running and having fun in less than 5 minutes
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^ is old as fuck, there's only a shovel now - pickaxe was used for single blocks, shovel was slower but destroyed the block above/below as well (this is just relegated to lmb/rmb now)
tips:
-like I said with the shovel above, use lmb and rmb for digging modes, but keep in mind that only lmb digging refills your blocks (you have 50 of them)
-you can walk into your HQ to capture intel and be fully healed/rearmed
-the rifle is the best gun in the game fuck you if you disagree the rifle can one shot anybody, is accurate on the first few shots, and is also the coolest gun
-green is the best team in the game fuck you if you disagree
-blocks that are not connected to the ground will collapse - don't build a 1x1 tower up into the sky and then put a bunker on top
-you can shoot blocks out to destroy them, along with the obvious grenades/shovel - the rifle is able to destroy a block in 2/3 hits and the shotgun shreds them up close
-being a sapper is a legitimately good idea, along with digging trenches, building bunkers, etc. - thinking about where people will come from and how you can use the terrain/buildings to your advantage works amazingly well
-you can change your block colour with arrow keys, and if you hit E while aiming at a block you'll copy its colour - this used to be the pro strat for building invisible bridges over water (since the colour is the same, it's not visible on the map, which lets you sneak around better) but it also works for camouflaging the tops of buildings
-if you dig a bunker into a hill, copy the colour of the ground and build a wall inside that faces the hole with that colour - it makes it much harder to spot the bunker as a result
-for whatever reason the resolution options in the launcher are limited, just press "view on disk" and open the config to put in your resolution
