15 Minutes of Verdansk Nostalgia – late March 2020. Not a slide canceller in sight! Just an old video of me and my buddies playing in late March 2020. We sucked, I know. In retrospect, this was probably the last era of having fun as a casual player in a competitive FPS.
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Man that’s incredible. The sound design, graphics, gunplay. Everything about the WZ1 engine was so much more immersive than the glitchy cartoon shit sandwich served up on garbage servers that we have now.
These are the kind of players I’m ok with having current level aim assist. Now Sam Sweaty abusing RAA so he can work on his PR of 35, no. Maybe aim assist should be on a sliding scale. The higher your k/d the less of it you get. That would be interesting.
Who am I kidding though, that would be more coding work. These clown devs can’t even fix the find a party feature. I hope they all get fired.
All I want for this game is the following:
1. Make vehicles more drivable/eliminate the fuel system and get rid of the redeploy zips
2. I want a return to this speed when downed. Give me a chance to get to cover
3. I would rather have a huge game file than deal with the upscaled mobile-friendly engine
Otherwise, I’m pretty good with the state of the game.
Slidecancle was a thing almost since release tho.
I don’t miss that 80 fov
The audio was not great in wz1 either but it would be a godsend to have it over the trash we have now.
I miss being able to see what I’m shooting at.
Nostalgia just hit hard. There is just too many things changed since the OG Verdansk era, pandemic, inflow of new clueless players, new exciting genre that can run on almost any PC/console. Add the awful design choices by activision and here we are.
I mansged to find a similar feeling with Helldivers 2 as it offers some unique freshness in gaming. But OG Verdansk will never be forgotten.
I don’t miss the stopping power rounds…
It was a game too advanced for its time, even if it was released today, the game would be successful. Sigh
The fact that you ran around with partial plates for as long as you did is WILD.
Fuck man everything about this game was so much better back then. I could actually see what I shot at, looting wasn’t a chore, the sound design, the weapon design, hell even the UI was better then
Not a slide canceller in sight 🩷
I miss not only Verdansk, but the original game itself. Even if they added Verdansk again it would still feel shitty and sweaty with the current movement and gunplay.
I have a few wins from May-June 2020 that were like this that I saved, it’s kinda amazing how different it feels when I play now. I was a bot but so was everyone else, no one knew how to abuse AA at the time, people actually missed shots. good times.