Harsh Doorstop looks like it will be a fun homage to those old modded Counter-Strike 1.6 servers
Yeah except Operation Harsh Doorstop and the underlying Unreal Engine can take mods wayyy farther than modded Counter Strike ever could as it has vehicles and support for large maps :) . Hopefully the impact will be like how Battlefield 2 mods were the engines of innovation in the multiplayer vehicle shooter genre for years and years.
I did enjoy those weird Counter Strike servers, I got so bored of playing de_dust over and over and over again that I would always seek out the weirdest servers I could find just because it was fun to see new shit lol. I don’t think Operation Harsh Doorstop is going to blow up like Counter Strike did obviously, the gunplay in Operation Harsh Doorstop is good but not genre defining… but I do think that small niche communities of players who like certain kinds of vehicle based multiplayer shooters will absolutely form around the foundation of Operation Harsh Doorstop, and it will be those smaller games that rocket the genre of multiplayer vehicle shooters forward into a new era.
Lets just hope it doesn’t result in Epic being the gatekeeper to it all though and that some other developer like the Road To Vostok devs creates alternative platforms to build vehicle shooters on top of. I look to the Spring Engine and the fabulous Beyond All Reason rts as examples of how open source engines (or at least engines with a good SDK) built to facilitate game development in a genre can really have a huge long term impact even if the overall playerbase never skyrockets for any particular game built on the engine.
Thanks for linking the games you mentioned, otherwise I would never had bothered to check them out, and they both look amazing.
Hey, I love these types of games so it always makes me happy when I can raise awareness about them. Especially since Operation Harsh Doorstop is free, there is no reason not to give it a try even if it is just to check up on the progress of development.
Thanks for linking the games you mentioned, otherwise I would never had bothered to check them out, and they both look amazing.
Harsh Doorstop looks like it will be a fun homage to those old modded Counter-Strike 1.6 servers, and Vostok looks interesting.
Yeah except Operation Harsh Doorstop and the underlying Unreal Engine can take mods wayyy farther than modded Counter Strike ever could as it has vehicles and support for large maps :) . Hopefully the impact will be like how Battlefield 2 mods were the engines of innovation in the multiplayer vehicle shooter genre for years and years.
I did enjoy those weird Counter Strike servers, I got so bored of playing de_dust over and over and over again that I would always seek out the weirdest servers I could find just because it was fun to see new shit lol. I don’t think Operation Harsh Doorstop is going to blow up like Counter Strike did obviously, the gunplay in Operation Harsh Doorstop is good but not genre defining… but I do think that small niche communities of players who like certain kinds of vehicle based multiplayer shooters will absolutely form around the foundation of Operation Harsh Doorstop, and it will be those smaller games that rocket the genre of multiplayer vehicle shooters forward into a new era.
Lets just hope it doesn’t result in Epic being the gatekeeper to it all though and that some other developer like the Road To Vostok devs creates alternative platforms to build vehicle shooters on top of. I look to the Spring Engine and the fabulous Beyond All Reason rts as examples of how open source engines (or at least engines with a good SDK) built to facilitate game development in a genre can really have a huge long term impact even if the overall playerbase never skyrockets for any particular game built on the engine.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
Hey, I love these types of games so it always makes me happy when I can raise awareness about them. Especially since Operation Harsh Doorstop is free, there is no reason not to give it a try even if it is just to check up on the progress of development.