This Week in Gaming (Week 49)

[TheLostSwede]

Welcome to the first week of December and the first of advent for those that celebrate it. This week's AAA release is the 2024 release of a FPS shooter that first saw life back in 1998, but under a new developer and publisher. If this isn't your cup of tea, then you can try your luck in beating humans, demolishing things, surviving a bullet hell, finding your lost memories or pretending to be a superhero.

Delta Force / This week's AAA title / Thursday 5 December
Delta Force is back! The iconic series returns as the definitive free-to-play modern team-based tactical shooter and featuring three distinct gameplay modes: large-scale PvP warfare, intense extraction shooter action, and a remake of the legendary Black Hawk Down campaign. Steam link




Beat the Humans / Monday 2 December / Early Access
Beat the Humans is the turn-based tactical strategy game. Here you lead an army of aliens against invaders from the human race. Collect your squad, protect planets, strengthen your army with equipment and look for allies if you want to survive and win. Steam link



Antonblast / Tuesday 3 December
Antonblast is a fast-paced explosive action platformer that's all about destruction. Play as the enraged Dynamite Anton (or his cranked-out coworker Annie) and use your Mighty F'n Hammer to demolish bizarre worlds, tussle with screen-filling bosses, and steal your Spirits back from Satan. Steam link



Entropy Survivors / Wednesday 4 December
Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op. Steam link



Fantasian Neo Dimension / Thursday 5 December
Embark on an adventure to discover your memories and save the world from a mechanical infection. Maneuver your skill trajectories during battle, and dive into a new dimension with a unique twist on a classic RPG experience. Steam link



Marvel Rivals / This week's major release / Friday 6 December
Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter! Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe. Steam link

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[dj-electric]

Poll needs: nah, Path of Exile 2 early access, goodbye world.

 

[W1zzard]

Delta Force is back!

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE)

 

[Kapone33]

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE)

No thanks

 

[Space Lynx]

From what I have seen of the Twitch gaming community, Marvel Rivals may end up being a sleeper win for December. Streamers seemed to like it. Only indie games for me right now, since I am rocking my OLED 7840u ryzen laptop at the moment.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Does Delta Force has a Single Player campaign??

 

[TheLostSwede]

Does Delta Force has a Single Player campaign??

There's supposed to be a single player mode. How much of a campaign it is, I don't know.

 

[Why_Me]

Delta Force is the new and improved Battlefield.

 

[Pruny]

Delta Force is the new and improved Battlefield.

Win10 only , why??

 

[Why_Me]

Win10 only , why??

Where does it say that? There's loads of streamers using Windows 11 that streamed that game during the Beta.

 

[Drash]

Delta Force is the new and improved Battlefield.

Is this like GRAW/Rainbow 6/First to Fight, where you control multiples for team based but not multiplayer online? - they rocked, but so old now. I don't do online with real people (screaming 16 yo from my experience).

 

[Why_Me]

Is this like GRAW/Rainbow 6/First to Fight, where you control multiples for team based but not multiplayer online? - they rocked, but so old now. I don't do online with real people (screaming 16 yo from my experience).

Online multiplayer shooters such as Delta Force are a blast. DF also has extraction modes if you're into that thing.

 

[Solaris17]

returns as the definitive free-to-play modern team-based tactical shooter

damn.

 

[TheLostSwede]

No Delta Force for me...

 

[mechtech]

No Delta Force for me...
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Too far north lol

 

[TheLostSwede]

Too far north lol

Nah, all my game things are still in Taiwan, which seems to be restricting me from accessing some games.

 

[Random_User]

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Is this like GRAW/Rainbow 6/First to Fight, where you control multiples for team based but not multiplayer online? - they rocked, but so old now. I don't do online with real people (screaming 16 yo from my experience).

GRAW (PC) is still very playable. There’s a ton of maps done by now gone =TeamStealth= clan, and other people and clans. There are several active discord groups, that serms to have regular events, with GRAW, and GRFS, aand RSV 1&2.
However GRAW is not very DF similar. It's much slower and unforgivable. The two PITA moments, though, are view distance, and server maintaning.
Also, GRAW (PC) community was seems to be never about screaming teenagers, but rather always and completely consisted of very adult and grown up men and women. One of the nice features of this game.
The closest thing to GRAW (PC), was Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Since the developers themsrlves told, they took the best from it, and BF2142/2.

Is this like GRAW/Rainbow 6/First to Fight, where you control multiples for team based but not multiplayer online? - they rocked, but so old now. I don't do online with real people (screaming 16 yo from my experience).

Online multiplayer shooters such as Delta Force are a blast. DF also has extraction modes if you're into that thing.

The online Delta Force was called Joint Operations, and it perfectly combined all NovaLogic games, like DF4:BHD, Commanche 4, and Armored Fist in one single game. From my experience, this was first such grand combined arms project. It still is very much playable. The coop and PVP is still fine. The variable time of day, gorgeous landscapes, gigantic maps, cooperation, 128 player per server, all is there, since 2004.
The key feature of DF4/JO was its simplicity, and swift gamplay, while having many stuff other combined arms games were and are still lack altogether.
(like e.g. shoot from a mortar, while sitting on the rubber boat, running full speed on the river/sea. Diving, whitch seems is a complete taboo for EA/DICE. Hijack the hostile vehicle, by jumping from the "Little Bird", straight on the heads of the enemies. Or sitting/disembarking from a FAV that parked in a heli, two hundred meters high in the sky, and freely moving on board of any vehicle.
Also, the character appearence customisation, both male and female, etc.
The only issue, the game has no vehicle repair function.

The subject might look nice. Though I strongly doubt it will ever reach the scale of mentioned games.

Excuse me for an offtopic.