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First of all, the usual disclaimer: I did perform a search for 'blacklight' and found no results, so I do apologise if there's already a thread.
I'm not much of a fan of Team Fortress 2. There, I said it. I just don't feel like any of the classes really suit me so I'm always trying to make another class work for me. In BF3 I'm usually a Recon, but I play aggressively with a semi-auto DMR... That's the kind of role I usually take and there isn't really an equivalent in TF2.
Which brings me to Blacklight: Retribution. Are any of you guys playing it? It's free to play, built in UT3 I believe, and it bears more than a passing resemblance to Brink, except with a more Deus Ex: Human Revolution sort of design to the characters and no parkour silliness. It's also great fun, in my opinion.
What's great about it, though, is that although it's free to play (which means, or should I say tends to mean, you have to buy basically everything with real money), you don't have to spend real money on it at all to enjoy it. I think it's because the weapons are, on the whole, well balanced (did get sniped more than a few times though) and feel fun to use. It's great because you can play just one really mediocre round and earn enough GP (in-game free currency) to rent a premade gun for a day, so you can get to the good stuff almost straight away. There's full gun customisation, too, where you can choose a receiver (assault rifle, battle rifle, bolt action, LMG, SMG, heavy AR... there are others), barrel, muzzle, sight, magazine and stock, so you can set up a weapon just how you want. Buying all that stuff permanently with GP would take some time, but it can be done, much like Simraceway in that regard.
As for gimmicks, there's a vision mode where you can see through walls (but you can't shoot through them) and a powered exoskeleton suit thing with a minigun and railgun, which I've used once so far; seems to be a good way of distracting a whole load of guys from what they should be doing.
So yeah, I urge all you PC guys to give it a go, it's free after all. I was originally skeptical because, well, free to play games most often suck, but this really is one of the good ones.
I'm not much of a fan of Team Fortress 2. There, I said it. I just don't feel like any of the classes really suit me so I'm always trying to make another class work for me. In BF3 I'm usually a Recon, but I play aggressively with a semi-auto DMR... That's the kind of role I usually take and there isn't really an equivalent in TF2.
Which brings me to Blacklight: Retribution. Are any of you guys playing it? It's free to play, built in UT3 I believe, and it bears more than a passing resemblance to Brink, except with a more Deus Ex: Human Revolution sort of design to the characters and no parkour silliness. It's also great fun, in my opinion.
What's great about it, though, is that although it's free to play (which means, or should I say tends to mean, you have to buy basically everything with real money), you don't have to spend real money on it at all to enjoy it. I think it's because the weapons are, on the whole, well balanced (did get sniped more than a few times though) and feel fun to use. It's great because you can play just one really mediocre round and earn enough GP (in-game free currency) to rent a premade gun for a day, so you can get to the good stuff almost straight away. There's full gun customisation, too, where you can choose a receiver (assault rifle, battle rifle, bolt action, LMG, SMG, heavy AR... there are others), barrel, muzzle, sight, magazine and stock, so you can set up a weapon just how you want. Buying all that stuff permanently with GP would take some time, but it can be done, much like Simraceway in that regard.
As for gimmicks, there's a vision mode where you can see through walls (but you can't shoot through them) and a powered exoskeleton suit thing with a minigun and railgun, which I've used once so far; seems to be a good way of distracting a whole load of guys from what they should be doing.
So yeah, I urge all you PC guys to give it a go, it's free after all. I was originally skeptical because, well, free to play games most often suck, but this really is one of the good ones.