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Isonzo, Italian Front. I’m an old school CS:Source, Halo CE - 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2 guy and this is the only shooter that’s been tolerable for me in years. Shame it has a small community but you can play with bots, which frankly in this day and age I’d almost prefer given the shit online communities. To me it’s a nice balance between full milsims like HLL which I don’t have the time or patience for anymore or the nightmare that is modern CoD.

Other than that I play BF1 and BF5. Pretty much all I can stand.

amazed to see no one said hell let loose

Kid? Modern Warfare 2?

Oh man how did I get so old

Every other not so much futuristic COD? Battlefield? Ubisoft did made their own COD called XDefiant but they already shut it down.

the kind of shooter I like

Thought you meant this at first

The new battlefield (battlefield 6) looks promising in that regard. There's quite a bit of focus on smaller maps and infantry gameplay, which has upset the die hard battlefield fans, but is going over well with the general audience. The call of duty modern warfare series was also rebooted in the last few years, as a return to the gameplay mechanics of the original modern warfare games, some of the original characters returned. But it's not as good as the originals, and the plot is even worse than before. But modern warfare 2019 shouldn't be that expensive if you just want to have a try at the modern warfare reboots and see if you like it.

FEAR is the only game that comes to mind for what you describe, it's nothing super fast paced not too tactical and slow like ARMA. It's got bullet time, guns feel good to use, maps are alright, lot of civil infrastructure, warehouses, and office spaces.

I play a lot of half life mods and could recommend some of those, but there's a handful on steam so it's easy enough to check them out. Not that half life is super tactical but it's never required any super fast moves.

Arma 3 is kind of a maybe. I say it with years of muscle memory for the controls and only really play with friends vs ai.

If you meant for multiplayer I got nothing. I liked battlefield, the combined arms took a lot of pressure off having to be super good.

Go play Trepang2

Might be a hot take but I also loved and played the crap out of the original cod4 and mw2. Like a lot, and was really good at it with a great group of friends. Closest I got to that feel (and in some ways it even surpassed it) was the mw2 remake (not mw3 with OG mw2, but mw2 from a few years ago). The pace was much slower, maps were solid, and the gunplay and connection all felt like the originals I grew up on. And shotguns were actually viable but that’s just a thing I like

I put in as much time into that game as I did any of the original ones and it brought back a bunch of my friends too. We played for almost the whole year it was out and even met some new friends. It’s a bit of an older title but it’s under the cod umbrella game now and there’s still a player base. Was the highest peak player count cod ever had too, which goes to show how prevalent it was and how many people it probably brought back. There is mtx but it’s generally tame I think, just avoid buying skins

Closest thing I can think of might be something like insurgency sandstorm, which is pretty old at this point but is still receiving updates.

Squad/hell let loose are good, but are a different format entirely than why you’re talking about.

Battlebit was good for a bit but I get the impression that things have gone a bit haywire there.

Possibly battlefield 6 will be good, hasn’t been released yet.

the finals

if you’re open to a non-war-sim, ratchet and clank is about as arcadey pew pew as it gets

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