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Starship Troopers Extermination - Fascism remains funny (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Starship Troopers Extermination just released a day or two a go. In this game sixteen players with absolutely dogshit guns, sub part jet packs, and 3 foot high barricade walls fight hordes of 15 foot tall space bugs for the glory of earth, humanity, and fascism.

I've only played one round of the game, idk if it's good or not, but the forum flame wars happening right now are hilarious. All the CHUDs who never found out that Verhoeven was laughing at them, and the die hard Heinlein enjoyers, are very mad that people are laughing at their politics and making fun of them. Much screaming of "THE CURTAINS ARE BLUE" and "Verhoeven is dumb and doesn't know what fascism is".

Making this game at this time is a bold ass move. In a single player game you don't communicate with anyone, but in a multi player FPS game you can have discourse. I look fondly ahead towards some of the epic gamer moments this game will surely create.

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[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just got the game. It’s so stupid and fun

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Word. Doing horde mode and someone goes outside the walls and dies and then everyone does to try to save them and dies, all while screaming lines from the movie at each other and firing wildly.

[–] ssjmarx@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I watched some gameplay. I know the mechanics are designed to make the players take risks and have fun, but the way "command" just gives you seemingly random and dangerous tasks of securing plots of land instead of just landing all of your reinforcements and equipment inside the defensive perimeter is very fitting for the universe. The people in charge are incompetent fools - and the mobile infantry are the ones who got tricked by them!

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It's great. The whole mission is just one big confusing clusterfuck. I have no idea where the objectives are or who is in charge, people are screaming lines from Aliens and Avatar and Starship Troopers and a dozen other movies on VoiP, running out of ammo is a constant problem, Everyone builds bases totally haphazardly so you don't even know when the walls come down and bugs come flooding in.

I've made it to the evac ship one time out of the four rounds I've played tonight. Just total, utter chaos, I love it.

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Love the idea that a dude who grew up in the Hague during WWII doesn't understand fascism. Verhoeven is a flawed figure but I think he understands fascism just fine.