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Offline notbrain

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Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« on: Thu, 24 December 2015, 12:36:07 »
Looking for the best 1-1 (or 3-3, whatever) deathmatch FPS style game to play with my buddy in another state. Haven't played FPS games since the late 90s and for the last decade have only played Forza's and Project Gotham. Looking to rekindle the Quake 2 era and (ideally, but not required) including the ability to make your own environments and whatnot. What is out there now? Anything platform agnostic (I'm on Mac, he's on Windows, etc)? If it comes down to it I can build a Win10 gaming box though.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 24 December 2015, 15:05:50 »
Not sure about own environments and such, but my two recommendations are Team Fortress 2 and Xonotic.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 24 December 2015, 15:46:26 »
Alien Arena is based on the Quake engine with many improvements to it. Its fast its free and I think it runs on OSX too. Also has map editors and the rest.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 24 December 2015, 20:36:40 »
Give Tribes: Ascend a try.
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Offline xredman

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 25 December 2015, 16:34:23 »
You can try Unreal Tournament Pre-Alpha Season.
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Offline cseng

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 26 December 2015, 11:47:44 »
Quake Live is still around. Then there is Reflex.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 26 December 2015, 18:21:46 »
Having spent too many hours playing Quake 1, I'm inclined to say Quake 1 (well, Quakeworld).

Or Quake Live.. My roots are in Quake and original TF so I am a very biased person towards Quake overall.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 27 December 2015, 07:45:43 »
Starcraft
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 27 December 2015, 08:37:52 »
Quake Live is excellent, but would need to run in Wine, Crossover, etc for OSX. Plenty of tutorials how to get it running.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:11:46 »
Tribes Ascend, Unreal Tournament 4, Rainbow Six Siege.
I recommend these, all very solid FPS games compared to today's standards. Siege being more of a tactical shooter and the rest are old school arena FPS.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 29 December 2015, 01:56:46 »
There are still a few Quake games going around for 1v1.  CSGO is a solid fps team game.  Try picking it up again if you played any of the older ones. 
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 29 December 2015, 02:03:05 »
Quake Live
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 29 December 2015, 03:53:51 »
1v1  sniper rifle only, quickscope or die

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 29 December 2015, 22:03:35 »
The original UT99.  No question.  Deck16SE-IV.



Oh hell.  Now I made this picture for my desktop once again.  It is still awesome.
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Offline notbrain

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #14 on: Sat, 02 January 2016, 18:01:34 »
Quote from: Reigning Hell on Tue, 29 December 2015, 03:53:51
1v1  sniper rifle only, quickscope or die
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This is awesome.
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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #15 on: Sun, 03 January 2016, 05:00:58 »
Quote from: Snowdog993 on Tue, 29 December 2015, 22:03:35
The original UT99.  No question.  Deck16SE-IV.

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #16 on: Sun, 03 January 2016, 05:08:36 »
UT, Quake Live is fun, it was F2P now you have to pay for it, but its on Steam, so meh.


Tribes. I LOVED that game, i was in the Alpha and paid for Premium, now everything is free, so I'm peeved. They dropped a huge patch a few months ago after they completely dropped the game in support of Smite. Tribes is now an amazing game, but its too late. It has a really high skill ceiling so could be great for 1v1
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Offline Shapey Fiend

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Re: Best head-to-head/1-1/n-n online FPS deathmatch games?
« Reply #17 on: Sun, 03 January 2016, 12:00:21 »
I was always most partial to HLDM. When you start sailing around the level with the gauss gun and trying to shoot other people flying through the air in 3 axes it turns into some sort of 3d platformer skeet shoot of epic proportions.
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