From a team of modders who’s minds don’t work quite like ours, that includes members of the JailBreak: Source and Fragout teams, comes this utterly bonkers take on slingshot powered zero-g deathmatch.
While it’s only an alpha, it’s perfectly playable, and if my first impressions are anything to go on, great fun to boot – if utterly hectic in a maniacal sort of way. It’s also entirely playable with one hand, which might be a plus, I suppose. Or a foot, if you’re feeling particularly brave. Whether you’re the least bit interested or not, it’s only 30 or so megs, so you should have downloaded it by now.
How does it work? The only weapon, tool, or leverage you have are the deadly roller mines of HL2 – they’ll act as transportation, ammunition, and general havoc dealing tools in this mess.
You use the RMB to “grapple” onto the mines that float haphazardly throughout the levels, thus launching yourself at stratospheric speeds past your opponent’s stupefied faces. LMB allows you to “absorb” a mine, then allowing you to fire it at your opponents, either in blue, low damage, homing mode, or red high damage death ball of doom. Remember kids, red is bad, m’kay?
Frankly, I had no idea what was going on in my first game, but hey, I was travelling through space being assaulted by deadly flying death-mines. If we can get some good servers up and running, this looks like it has the potential to be endlessly entertaining.
Glad you’re loving it! :D
More servers will hopefully pop up sooner or later.
I think in your excitement you reversed the key setup though hehe.
No I didn’t!
*stealth edit*
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Ninja!
Haha! What a amusing post! Well written, thank you very much! :)
The amount of ball-related puns in the servers was insane :D