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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tfw shoot red cylinder in game and nothing happen.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

What you do is make it spring a leak.

[–] dlsloop@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bonus activation when your friend is standing right beside it

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

To remind him that all maps are FF maps

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Half-Life 2 9mm is one of my favorite guns in all of gaming. The sound and feel of it when you pop metrocops' heads is just so satisfying imo.

[–] TheLightItBurns@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can automatically hear the sounds of popping that handgun off 4-5 times and hearing the Combine soldiers go down.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

pop-pop-pop-pop-pop

microphone screeches and radio static

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Doom 2 map 23 named "Barrels o'fun". If you played it you remember it.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

I already hear the map specific music.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of my favorite mods is called DoomRL Arsenal and one of the things it does is add different kinds of barrels. One of them is a nuke, and although it's very rare, you usually get at least one when playing that map. I've got some hilarious memories of trying to avoid certain death

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of my favorite COD maps I worked on was in BO6, it was a border checkpoint with lots of cars that would explode with enough damage. But if one car exploded, it was close enough to cars near it that it would trigger chain reaction explosions. We reported it as a bug, they returned it with Will Not Fix, and then changed it when the sweaty players started complaining after the map went live

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fallout 3 has tons of exploding cars as well! There's a highway next to a raider camp, with many derelict cars, trucks and buses all in close proximity. One of the raiders in that camp is equipped with a missile launcher and a complete disregard for their own safety, and it's common to get sent to the moon if they see you as a missile hits a car and sets off a gigantic chain reaction of mushroom clouds.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That part where you slide them down for the barnacles to grab before you explode the barrels on them is such great game design

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That shit made me kind of hate Half-Life: Alyx.

I mean look, no one can really claim explosive barrels are the peak of game level design. But the only interactions in the first 3 hours of that game were "Use pistol on headcrab/barnacle". HL2 kept you to a pistol, but it also teased you into shooting the environment more than the cops, even if in retrospect they were being happily suicidal for Overwatch. It was a lesson in the kinds of variety other FPS's tend to inject at around the 20 minute mark by giving you a shotgun at least.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes it's frustrating in games where I want to save ammo and travel very quickly through an area, but in HL series and Garry's mod it was perfect.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hardest part of trying to do a stealth run.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Redeploy barrel

[–] lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Here you have a vídeo about barrels in gaming https://youtu.be/LMYEE8lvlvA

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The computers and office chairs in Goldeneye 64 going up in orange fireballs when you shot them was peak satisfaction.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

And the tradition continues in Agent 64.