Serious wargamer seeks steam outlet!

[undercovergeek]

I consider myself a serious wargamer - not the frowny faced grog of boardgames and military history type, arguing about the size of buttons on a uniform. But a serious gamer as in, if i look at my games collection, except the odd 4x game (that i play against me buddy Huw, and Bob if hed try!), they are all serious big session games - theres no point playing S2TW for 30 mins, or Pride of Nations - theyre all afternoon off, peace and quiet epics.

So after a week of fending off French people and commuting 2 hours there and 2 hours back (its a 9 mile journey, seriously!) i want to kill baddies in the face. Im driving home at about 4pm GMT and will be back at 2:00am. Now, thanks to SDR and Sim HQ i can do the serious squad gaming stuff over weekends - but thats reliant on a server time and everyone meeting up - what im looking for is a drop in, no mess, no trouble, multiplayer FPS - im not bothered about medals, rankings, KD ratios or an SP campaign - just shoot people and feel better!

My last FPS was BF3 on PS3 but it didnt quite have the same magic as BFBC2 for me - any suggestions welcome - pref PC

[LongBlade]

Call of Duty definitely has a progression of unlocks, but the multiplay can't be beat.

[spelk]

Defiance isn't bad for shooting people in the face.

Or if you want proper war stuff, Red Orchestra? Mare Nostrum?

Or Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Battles? If you want to musket someone in the face.

[bob48]

Defiance isn't bad for shooting people in the face.

Or if you want proper war stuff, Red Orchestra? Mare Nostrum?

Or Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Battles? If you want to musket someone in the face.

L4D2. There are plenty of us who have it, and its fun.

As long as Bison leaves the frying pans alone.

[MengJiao]

I consider myself a serious wargamer - not the frowny faced grog of boardgames and military history type, arguing about the size of buttons on a uniform. But a serious gamer as in, if i look at my games collection, except the odd 4x game (that i play against me buddy Huw, and Bob if hed try!), they are all serious big session games - theres no point playing S2TW for 30 mins, or Pride of Nations - theyre all afternoon off, peace and quiet epics.

So after a week of fending off French people and commuting 2 hours there and 2 hours back (its a 9 mile journey, seriously!) i want to kill baddies in the face. Im driving home at about 4pm GMT and will be back at 2:00am. Now, thanks to SDR and Sim HQ i can do the serious squad gaming stuff over weekends - but thats reliant on a server time and everyone meeting up - what im looking for is a drop in, no mess, no trouble, multiplayer FPS - im not bothered about medals, rankings, KD ratios or an SP campaign - just shoot people and feel better!

My last FPS was BF3 on PS3 but it didnt quite have the same magic as BFBC2 for me - any suggestions welcome - pref PC

I recommend the armas.  I'm playing ARMAIII at the moment, but ARMAII is a satisfying game, I think.  And it has a penumbra of mod-like things on Steam (Iron Front and DAy Z for example).

[bob48]

I think Geeks wants one where he don't have too think too much as it makes his 'ead 'urt.

[MengJiao]

I think Geeks wants one where he don't have too think too much as it makes his 'ead 'urt.

An arma in the editor lets you set up any mindless situation you want.

[bob48]

Sounds ideal then ;)

[JudgeDredd]

I consider myself a serious wargamer - not the frowny faced grog of boardgames and military history type, arguing about the size of buttons on a uniform. But a serious gamer as in, if i look at my games collection, except the odd 4x game (that i play against me buddy Huw, and Bob if hed try!), they are all serious big session games - theres no point playing S2TW for 30 mins, or Pride of Nations - theyre all afternoon off, peace and quiet epics.

So after a week of fending off French people and commuting 2 hours there and 2 hours back (its a 9 mile journey, seriously!) i want to kill baddies in the face. Im driving home at about 4pm GMT and will be back at 2:00am. Now, thanks to SDR and Sim HQ i can do the serious squad gaming stuff over weekends - but thats reliant on a server time and everyone meeting up - what im looking for is a drop in, no mess, no trouble, multiplayer FPS - im not bothered about medals, rankings, KD ratios or an SP campaign - just shoot people and feel better!

My last FPS was BF3 on PS3 but it didnt quite have the same magic as BFBC2 for me - any suggestions welcome - pref PC

I recommend the armas.  I'm playing ARMAIII at the moment, but ARMAII is a satisfying game, I think.  And it has a penumbra of mod-like things on Steam (Iron Front and DAy Z for example).

How can you "play" ARMAIII? There's no content yet - or do you use the editor?

[MengJiao]

I consider myself a serious wargamer - not the frowny faced grog of boardgames and military history type, arguing about the size of buttons on a uniform. But a serious gamer as in, if i look at my games collection, except the odd 4x game (that i play against me buddy Huw, and Bob if hed try!), they are all serious big session games - theres no point playing S2TW for 30 mins, or Pride of Nations - theyre all afternoon off, peace and quiet epics.

So after a week of fending off French people and commuting 2 hours there and 2 hours back (its a 9 mile journey, seriously!) i want to kill baddies in the face. Im driving home at about 4pm GMT and will be back at 2:00am. Now, thanks to SDR and Sim HQ i can do the serious squad gaming stuff over weekends - but thats reliant on a server time and everyone meeting up - what im looking for is a drop in, no mess, no trouble, multiplayer FPS - im not bothered about medals, rankings, KD ratios or an SP campaign - just shoot people and feel better!

My last FPS was BF3 on PS3 but it didnt quite have the same magic as BFBC2 for me - any suggestions welcome - pref PC

I recommend the armas.  I'm playing ARMAIII at the moment, but ARMAII is a satisfying game, I think.  And it has a penumbra of mod-like things on Steam (Iron Front and DAy Z for example).

How can you "play" ARMAIII? There's no content yet - or do you use the editor?

I've mostly played the ARMAs (and the original OPflash) in the editor for the last decade, so ARMAIII feels about like the earlier ones in terms
of basic play, though it is so much of major improvement so many areas that I can't go back to the earlier stuff. 

[JudgeDredd]

I'm still trying to work the editor out on the rare occasions I get to actually fire it up.

I can place some units and go in and battle, but can't seem to set triggers or get units moving yet...but I've not had alot of time on it to be fair to the editor.

[Nefaro]

Rooks just posted about Ghost Recon Online.

Perhaps you should check that out, UCG?

The good thing about these FtP online "arena" style shooters is that there are usually so many people playing, you just punch the Battle button and you're in a team multiplayer match in no time.  Although it sounds like GRO is still in beta so it may not be so simple.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I find that firing up Rising Storm and flamethrowering some Japs or bayoneting gaijin in the face to be quite therapeutic.  Just find an empty server with bots if you want that ducks in a shooting gallery experience.

[Bison]

Da

[W8taminute]

Try Battlefield Heroes:  http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/en/

Admittedly it's a cartoon shooter but it's loads of fun.  Not much thinking involved.