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Just curious which "dated" FPS you're playing.

Planetside 2 (2012), and formerly the original Planetside (2003). They're both heavily community-oriented games. 2 has gameplay somewhat similar to Battlefield.

Edit: To expand on what I mean by community-oriented, here's a genealogy of the different outfits (equivalent of a clan/guild) on one of the Planetside 2 servers: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/887173952080863253/91.... Once you're used to the game mechanics you slowly get drawn into the metagame of complementary or conflicting personalities, outfit history, schisms, cooperation, drama, competitive play, leadership, and so on.

Lol, when you said "dated", I thought something pre-2001...

Same here. Was really hoping to find an old persons club where I could relive my memories of playing Duke Nukem 3D via modem :)

Urban Terror used to scratch this sort of itch for many.

Low gravity CTF in Urban Terror was the best. So many good maps where the right jump, curve, and slide could be done from flag to flag. So satisfying.

I have fond memories of running Platoons in Planetside 2. The semi persistent world dynamics, combined with squads and then squads being able to firm platoons, and the map marker system. All of it felt very unique and polished, and not something I've seen replicated elsewhere. I was sad when it started to die out.

Not the parent, but I still regularly (let's say once a month) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003) [1] with a number of friends, although it has now a community that keeps developing/maintaining the open source code [2], so I'm not sure it if counts as dated

[1] https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territo... [2] https://www.etlegacy.com/

ET is still alive?! How active is it nowadays?

Yep! I play on the FA and Team Muppet servers, and at peak times during the day the server will be almost full (60 players).

But, that's kinda it, I doubt there are ever more than 1k people online at a time. But those same people have millions of XP (I actually have a PR open on the client ATM to abbreviate the XP in the scoreboard, which I think we finally need after 20 years lol)

If you play, make sure you use the etlegacy client, it is backwards compatible with many fixes/improvements.

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