/arena/ - Arena FPS General

Overrated Maps Edition

A place to discuss all of your favorite oldschool and modern arena shooters such as Quake Live, Quake Champions, Unreal Tournament, Reflex, etc.

Play Quakeworld for free: nquake.com/
Play Quake 2 for free: q2s.tastyspleen.net/
Play Unreal Tournament 4 for free: epicgames.com/unrealtournament/
Play Warsow for free: warsow.net/
Link to Quake 2 Starter with Quake 2 and its expansions:
mega.nz/#!EAxAlSwa!9v0PQ7QgN60mXDptMqWXvdAC2srSCnb7pGPqZojG2QI

Quake Champions closed beta signup: quake.bethesda.net/en/signup
QC beta waves are each week and usually last for 3-4 days each starting on either Thursday or Friday. The beta is no longer under NDA.
UT4 Patch Notes: youtube.com/watch?v=rNE1XN6E1Cc
Quake Champions interview with Zero4 and Tim Willits: twitch dot tv/videos/144807974
twitch dot tv/videos/144852481

Slipgate to the previous thread:

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=9TegJ9SxFBc
youtube.com/watch?v=0fCpAuxrQ_I
store.steampowered.com/app/282440/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

facing worlds

im gay and i think nu-duel is too slow and +back

the edge
campgrounds

^
please ban this young male
better yet track his IP and rape his ass

kill thyself

debate me

I want to teleport behind Nyx.

I want to teleport inside Nyx

What's with afps and stream bots?
There's no other game that does this crap. Why would someone spend their time watching random crappy players play the same maps over and over?
Just saw that there's one for Reflex now.
It will just show people how dead the game is.

I want to coat Nyx in acid and sell her corpse's intact parts for good money, and eat the parts that are damaged

rude

I want to massage Nyx's feet with my tongue

>t. jewish lizard

Do any champions or items carry over now that the beta is ending?

unlocked champions - yes
unlocked vanity/guns/skins - maybe, maybe not

I would very much like to fuck Nyx while she is invisible.

>wait for 5 minutes to get a game, 30 second loading screen
>finally get in
>ONE MINUTE WARNING

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nu deal is pretty sucky indeed
and they sitll havent fixed the rocket launcher delay wich is so shit

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>invisible
she is in another dimension, that would probably cut off your dick

>another dimension
Then how come you can't see through walls?
Unless.
>nyx ability is to turn into 2D

I want to massage Nyx's feet and thighs after a long day of dueling, and then have consensual leglocking sex!

>dead

>lesbian vore
would watch

What am I supposed to do now?

aerowalk

>that's what ql_quake_tv is

Great, I've been on this stream getting buttraped multiple times.

can i be an arena shooter too

post accidents

kek iktf

anyone can share some lawbreakers codes so I can survive till next QC beta easier?

>Calling campgrounds bad
say sorry NOW!!!!

Oh mama!
youtube.com/watch?v=9TegJ9SxFBc

they need to bring that back, random growling isnt the best choice

if the slow ass characters in quake champions are allowed, why cant TF2 be an arena shooter too
>scalebearer = demoman shield
>clutch = that gay shield thing from overgay
>invisibility chick = TF2 spy
>visor = that wallhack ult in overgay

yeah he sounds like he is passing a massive shit or has gone retarded.

>im retareded:the post

>7464797 ▶
> (You)
>i disagree with the aforementioned post:the post

>gone retarded
thats kinda his lore, but I guess he is more insane than retarded

because every gamemode in that game is based around an objective that doesn't involve killing shit

more like his mom told him to get off the computer

xd

as you said insane not unga bunga it's the year 0 retarded.
kek

whats your thoughts on pic related?

i still can't get over the fact that QC ripped off the tf2 rocket launcher

>spire
>gif

absolute trash

nice crossfire pic

anyone want to play hldm?

disliking spire is heresy
i bet you like process better
im up for highlander, what does the DM mean?

half life deathmatch you dumb faggot

go back to your containment general, your game isn't an arena fps, fuck off

That's some fucking obnoxious editing

how is it not an arena shooter
>has classes
>has guns
>people shoot each other with guns
its pretty mediocre frags too, but the overall editing in the fragmovie is good
youtube.com/watch?v=0fCpAuxrQ_I

>all classes in TF2 can strafe jump and soldiers regularly use airstrafe in rocket jumps
>one class in Quake Champions can strafe jump

your shit game is not an arena shooter
fuck off

learn what strafe jumping means

She's too skinny not enough meat on her bones to be worth anything

>too skinny
>thiccest of the non-sorlag females
??

neither is QC

how do you call the thing where you press A or D in the middle of a jump to change direction? like in CPMA bhopping

>pick up guns, health, items in the level
>is a shooter

Only criteria.
If it was "can u do a straff jump???" or anything like that Unreal Tournament wouldn't be an arena shooter.

you can pick up guns powerups and items in CoD4 (Oldschool mode) and TF2 (Mannpower)

Oldschool has regenerating health pools and the only way to get weapons in Mannpower is still through loadouts, disqualifying both of those from the incredibly simple to understand criteria.

>the only way to get weapons in Mannpower is still through loadouts
you can pick up the weapons of dead enemies in tf2.

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>made up definition that fits your specific purpose

tell me more. provide an official source (i.e. quake or ut devs) for your definition.

overwatch is an arena shooter, prove me wrong.

fags here attack TF2 because /arena/ only has dead games

they're just pissed because QC turned out to be a moba/overwatch hybrid

That are still tied to class, and are introduced to the game by being selected outside of the match and aren't part of the level design. So it's not even faux-arena, nudoom multiplayer is closer to being arena.

>"made up definition" that just happens to be shared by most people in the AFPS community
If you want an official source from a Quake 3 dev, T. Willy co-designed Q3 and I'm sure you can get plenty of clips of him calling QC an arena shooter, if that's your supposed criteria for an official source. I'll give you an opportunity to bail out of that argument though because shooting yourself in the foot so specifically like that is spinning me into irony overload, I don't think I can handle it.

>I'm sure you can get plenty of clips of him calling QC an arena shooter
that is not what i was asking for, i was asking for an official definition of the arena shooter genre. protip: there is none. protip: ow and tf2 are as much part of the genre as qc. protip: you can not prove me wrong.

no ammo pickups
no powerups
you can win the game without killing anyone
some classes can't kill for shit because they're designed for support
endless blind choke spam because of said unlimited ammo

where is the official definition that says that arena shooters have to have ammo pickups?

'arena shooter' just means 'shooter in an arena', which ow qualifies for.

so what do I play now that the beta is down

you just can't accept the fact that your shit games are not arena shooters because they're entirely devoid of skill

ut4

not an argument. provide an official definition or get the fuck out.

>no official definition, but generally accepted definition
>I'll just define it as whatever I want!

Hey, this is what you were criticizing me for a post ago.

no sorry I don't play kusoge

>generally accepted definition
[citation needed]

>haha le no argument meme
Except it is, there is no official definition but there are genrally agreed upon standards and your baby shooters don't meet them

>there is no official definition
thank you, at least you're admitting you were wrong. as long as there is no official definition, all 'shooters' in an 'arena' qualify. even if they don't take 'skill' or otherwise not to your liking.
we're done here.

hey is toxikk good

no

i heard it's good, but like all arena shooters that aren't ql it has no players.

i'm noticing a trend with complexity and terribly unflattering team photos

>hurr durr in this context in which everyone fucking involved except for me understands what the words "Arena" and "Shooter" put together are supposed to mean it means something else, ackshually, because there's no official definition!
-Great internet semantics argument that, like all internet semantics arguments, serves a LOT of purpose and is very important.

If you like the idea of the UDK deathmatch template except with (very little) new art and levels slapped on it. Otherwise you'll get more lasting content out of a UT2k4, UT3 or UT99 map pack.

hiko looks good and swag looks better now (or at least not in that picture)

store.steampowered.com/app/282440/

Is the votekicking in QL really as bad as the reviews make it out to be?

having classes inherently disqualifies any shooter from being an afps according to the definition I pull out of my personal butt.

I never had that issue in over 100 hours

No

Thought experiment: so, after much deliberation we've worked out QC isn't an arena shooter. But still, here's the list of the universally accepted Arena Shooters that the term was originally coined to encompass:
Doom 1/2/3
Painkiller
Quake 1/2/3/4
Unreal, Unreal Tournament99/2k4/3/4
Reflex
Xonotic
Toxikk

>Traits most of these games share with QC:
-They're shooters
-Level design based around health, armor, weapons, powerups all being things you pick up that are on spawn timers
-Main gamemodes being centered around killing for score
-No limit or restrictions on carried weapons
-It's almost completely identical to one of them but with classes
>Traits these games share with TF2 and Overwatch:
-Uhhh you shoot
-Errr health doesn't recharge and maybe you pick it up sometimes???

Oh shit, looks like QC, though not an arena shooter, is still much more of an arena shooter than TF2 or Overwatch. But it's so close, there's every mechanic from an existing arena shooter inside of it. Wow that was hard to figure out wow.

>hi i'm a mobaquaker

add Half-Life Deathmatch

I've barely touched QC but I'd rather share a thread with mobaquakers than TF2 players. Yuck.

put your trip back on

Personally I think tf2 is a really good arena game, aside from hats(which keep the game alive, sadly), and stupid weapons that valve refuses to balance. I have the feeling if someone was introduced to valve in 2017 they'd probably think it was a pretty shitty company. Aside from that, tf2 is definitely the most entertaining game to spectate for me.
>inb4 loadouts
If your team is playing standard(without gimmicks) almost everyone has the same guns on opposite teams.

What trip? I don't think I've even seen anyone using a trip in these threads.

Ok shotgun in tf2 is an okay weapon at close range, but why does this frag vid cut to footage of a taunt of all things? Really takes away from the momentum(if there is any).

Picking up weapons is really retarded, causes issues with Uber(as you should know) and was only added because they added the csgo skins mechanic, which in no way helped the game.

who /fast/ here

sup

>has classes
Jesus. This is not what defines an arena shooter. And what you described is just a shooter. Though I agree that TF2 is afps.

Define fast.
To me CPMA is fast. Tribes is slow (with large distances).