Insurgency Mod was released. Insurgency is a Half-Life 2 total conversion that has been in development for the last 4 years. It was released a few days ago, I wanted to play it for a while before I made up my mind about it.
What I Like.
I love the sniper rifle view. I’m pretty sure they did it in Red Orchestra, but the problem in RO was that the view was a tiny circle in the middle of the screen. In INS it’s massive, so it’s great. The only problem with it is that it gives really low FPS on bad computers. But that’s a good thing if you don’t have a bad computer because it means they can’t snipe for shit.
I love one hit kills. It’s near to what CS was like around beta 5, before the damage system turned more like TFC. I also love the fact that your bullets go where you’re aiming. I really fucking hate aimcones and all that shit. Basically, I love the harshness of the weapons.
I like that I’m good at it. Not great, but not last on the list.
The graphics are really good. I’m not a big fan of the art being the game, but it never hurts. At least two of the maps I’ve played have been really good.
The scoring system seems to work well. Players playing properly are at the top of the list, the jackasses prone in the spawn are at the bottom.
Moving with deployed MG. This just makes everything so much easier, and where’s the harm.
Limited Classes. Seems like it should be shitty, but it forces you to enjoy other roles.
What I Don’t Like.
Bugs. I don’t really think the “it’s a beta” shit justifies anything, it’s been in development for 4 years. Unless they started over again 6 months ago – and didn’t let the beta testers play this version – then most of the bugs should have been fixed months ago. But still, bugs happen, I know that. So, off the top of my head here’s the bugs I’ve come up against. Server crashes, Stuck in grenade throwing mode, Bullets firing too low – a lot of the time hitting the wall you’re looking over, Last player to join a server missing from scoreboard.
The team/class selection thing is kinda shitty. It’s a vgui box with numbers. Yeah it doesn’t NEED to be anything more than that, but at least let us cancel. [UPDATE: You can press ESCAPE to cancel selection]
The scoreboard is just the standard scoreboard. Again it doesn’t have to be more, but you expect something as basic as the scoreboard to be changed (again, within the 4 year dev period). Highlighting the local player’s name would be a huge help.. as would showing who your commander is etc. I don’t know whether that’s a part of the “remove useful features in the name of realism” stuff – but I’m sure a soldier would know who their commander is.
The movement can be shitty. I was constantly getting stuck on door frames because strafe is disabled when running (or strafe speed is akin to forward speed). Maybe disable sprinting when you run into something so you can strafe out of the way and sprint. Maybe this is just a ‘get used to it’ thing though. Apart from that the movement speed and everything else is pretty spot on.
Awful voice acting. Yeah they’re indie guys so you don’t really expect them to have Morgan Freeman voicing it.. but they must have noticed that it sounds like a 17 year old kid reading a comic book.
Summary
It took 4 years to make for some reason, and even when it was released it was riddled with bugs (even delaying the release by a day or two). Some areas lack polish, but others are really good. The gameplay is nothing new, it’s America’s Army on the Source Engine - but it’s free, so who cares. And now it’s out I’m sure they’ll be adding and improving it regularly.
To be honest, I didn’t expect it to be any good and kind of scoffed at the whole thing. But it is really good if you forget the 4 years dev time.
Source Mod Todd has the lowdown:
UPDATE: VIDEO NOW WORKS AGAIN
Might download this when I have the chance. No strafing?
It looks good, im going to download it and see for my self, but your review has certainly intrigued me. Certainly looks like they have paid attention to detail which is nice. Some smooth run animations would be cool… i guess we will just have to wait for an update(sound like anything else P:) Now just to wait for it to download D:
Liked the vid D: at the beggining i was just like wtf? but it was actually quiet funny.
“This game is a objective based game , but no one really cares they just kill each other” D:
i think the fact its a beta does justify most the issues…. they couldnt get morgan freeman for the voice acting but they did manage to secure Jake Lloyd the kid anakin from star wars….
In the video the running looks terrible, is that fixed at all? Or do the feet really not move well like that?
…boner.
Insurgency mod is brilliant, yeah it’s only a beta but it really has got great potential, needs a few improvements though on like the animation of the characters movements needs speeding up.
4 years? I suppose a conversion like this should take long, but 4 years?
I didn’t like it. The one shot kills really suck when you rush a room with 5 guys and you all get killed by one guy that was camping in the room. It sucks even more when you’re an American. Aren’t they supposed to have this thing called body armor?
Also, I hate the fact that the controls are really different. One of the things I liked about Source mods is that all the controls were basicly the same. I can change them, but I’d rather not have to spend 15 minutes trying to remap my controls to better keys and make sure I have every key mapped so I’m not in the middle of a firefight and realize I can’t crouch.
By the way, what idiot decided to make C crouch? How are you supposed to push it and still move around? (I know it’s that way in a lot of games, that’s sort of my point.)
I also don’t like the scope and the fact that it doesn’t hardly magnify at all. I don’t expect it to magnify like a pair of binoculars but shit.
I guess I’ll remap everything later and give it another try.
“it’s America’s Army on the Source Engine”
Ouch :D
I will definetly give it a shot.
That Linebacker guy was funny as hell though. When he was like “I am a Jedi, give me your gun” and topped it off with “Okay, I’m really going to show you how to play, ready?” .. runs around corner and falls over dead.
It struck me as insanely funny, and tears were coming to my eyes.
This mod is really great. Needs a little polishing, but other than that it is just awesome.
You obviously have no idea what the concept of BETA is
That video is fucking funny.
“This sign is says… hire people to kill your family”
You can cancel the team/class selection. Just press escape. They should have made it more clear though.
Haah you pretty much hit everything on the head there Garry. Including the shitty running.
I have some things to add though.
- Most servers dont have autobalance, so A LOT of people immediately join the Marines because, well, their the MARINES.
- The RPG isn’t badass enough. All the explosion is is a little thud.
- I dont know if the Alternative Stance and Ironsight things in mouse settings are SUPPOSED to do anything, but they dont. And I’m supposing TrackIR doesn’t work either yet cause its in there.
- For some reason on Fully High Advanced Video Settings, I can’t set my resoultion to 1280×1024. But I think thats just my computer.
- The people complaining about FPS should think about it. This game has Color Correction and HDR. Get the picature?
Also did anyone notice on the second picture the dead guys got a gun rammed up his ass?
I did. ^_^
You also forgot to mention the badass sounds, shame on you
This mod is more than worth the download, had some good fun on it.
The worse thing about Insurgency is the amount of spawn camping that takes place but I’m really enjoying the mod.
The problem with the doors is they didn’t add clipping brushes. Kind of interesting that a dev who is skilled enough at hammer to make those maps would forget something so vital.
Push ESC to cancel the VGUI menu…
Anybody care to tell me how a mod for a game could have been in development for 4 years if the game wasn’t even out 4 years ago?
The mod has been in “development” for 4 years, however the first couple of years of that were merely conceptual & 3d model work. No code, no maps – just concept & models. Mind you half of the models weren’t actually even used.
VGUI is just temporary – there is a fantastic VGUI in dev, it just wasn’t ready for the release.
garry unban me please!
I lol’d at the video. “ALLAH IS TELLING ME TO WALK INTO THE FIRE AND NOT FEEL PAIN”
I realize that it has a lot of bugs, but it really started to piss me off when it was supposed to be released this past Sunday night, and they delayed it because of the fucking grenades not holstering. Then it was released mid-day of Monday. They could have at least released it there, and then made up some kind of patch for it (like they are doing now).
Goddamn. You know what? They should have just handed this mod down to Garry, because Garry knows this shit :D
one of the really pissy things ive found is that when you select a class, even if it is available there is a 2/3 chance that u actually get it
This is the first version :D (i love it) first time i played i was nr 1 ;) i would love to play with u garry. And the running dosen’t look so shity as in the movie. A patch is comming soon so much will be fixed.
* ADDED: command “tkremove” and “tkdetect”
* ADDED: hint to suggest use of “cl_stancemode 1″
* ADDED: super-sonic bullet whiz
* ADDED: weaponsway after sprint
* CHANGED: alltalk is defaulted to “0″
* CHANGED: won’t suicide you when you select another squad
* FIXED: attacking with grenades while sprinting
* FIXED: RPG playing the wrong draw animation when not loaded
* FIXED: the client crash XYZ ^
* FIXED: the server crash XYZ ^
* FIXED: flashpoint and spraypaint in spectator is now disabled
* FIXED: can not longer cook smoke grenades
* FIXED: reloading the M249
* FIXED: small problem for people that do not have SSE support on their CPU
* FIXED: strange behaviour in shotgun reload
* FIXED: players connecting won’t instanlly spawn in the game
* FIXED: super-fast prone and unprone
* FIXED: unable to use grenade if attacking while going prone
* FIXED: suicide from explosions
– others
* FIXED: various FPS fixes
* IMPROVED: weapon sounds (ak47, rpk, l42a1)
* IMPROVED: various map sounds
copied from: insmod.net
OMG -”this video is no longer avaliable” o.O
It’s a beta (if there were no bugs, guess what, it wouldn’t be a beta) and I doubt the team is anywhere near EA style (doesn’t say a lot though because EA releases games with bugs.)
I wouldn’t complain… it’s a free mod. As long as you haven’t put any money into it you can’t expect it to be great. There’s no point in blaming you for all the mingebags in GMod 9.
Video No longer available? “Removed due to terms of user violation”? The hell..
Concerning the RO_scopes: IIRC by pressing f12, or using the scope details settings in the option, you can set the scope to be either an ordinary 2d-bitmap overlay, an almost screen filling 3d scope (the way you like it), or a small 3d scope with more peripheral view ;)
What I like: Your review.
What I don’t like: Idiots who assume too much and end up comparing Gmod to Ins (Insurgency and Garry. – Insurgency Forums) when all you did was make a simple review which from what I hear is quite accurate.
What happened to the video? I was at the end :(
Garry of all people should know that making a mod is very complex thing and It takes a lot of time and work to get things done. Modders are people who work on projects during there free time. Getting a team together and getting everyone to work is not as easy as it sounds. No one is paid and everyone has a personal life, you can’t expect a mod team to work at the same level as a professional studio and you can’t put a time on how long it should take to develop a mod.
Grr. I’ve downloaded the mod twice from two different mirrors and both times the installer was corrupted. I mean, WTF. Haven’t had a SINGLE download corrupt on me in a long time.
YouTube video is removed.
I’m going to download this mod now. Awesome.
Actually, the major bugs (like unable to reload the M249) popped up just a few days before the release of the beta. They’ve already got a patch almost completed.
I agree with garry here in four years they made these maps and all that but there production pipelines are most likely all screwed up and they may end up wasting time, it’s not there fault though, like at perfect dark source they have a hand full of maps and like 5 weapons of like twenty that are planed, all look nice but that’s not always what count’s
Why’s everyone so hyped up with this Insurgency? It’s only a T/C and even Steam has messages about it (it’s not as good as the Eraser mod/Garry’s Mod 8 were)
Insurgency is worth playing. It is a lot better than I thought than it would be. And its also free. It has very realilistic movements. Amazing graphics.
You “really fucking hate aimcones…”? But, what about Facewound? Hhhmmmm?
I love this mod, but I hate the fact that almost everybody in there is a pussy, always 10-11 in the Blue team, and just 5-6 on the Red.
I tried this mod out TOO relistic for me
BTW when is the next update i want fingerposable Ragdolls
Damn mod….So, I downloaded it from one of their sites and now I have WinAntiSpyware 2007 and popups…arg….
Wow, really cool mod. quite alot of bugs though :(
The artwork, like in the original menu screen is just awesome. Props to whoever drew that.
I agree Garry, the bugs are so horrible, the first time you connect to a server it shows the map info, then when the map changes, no map info just the basic Steam connection progress, it’s like they half failed and half succeeded.
OK, this “Source Mod Todd” video is avaliable now on YouTube: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=n2D6r7mNBAY Garry, can you fix that link in your post?
The difference between Mod development and game development is that you actually get paid for doing the latter.
Oh Garry du Ar***Gesicht mach doch mal wieder news (das ist bewusst GERMAN written)Pech wenn dus nicht lesen kannst
I do not like the mod because it is like Red orchestra, and that game sucked ass. It needs to be like Rainbow Six: Vegas but with no ads.
shame on you Garry. i played the first public version of your mod. It had a serious lack of polish and multiplay was buggy as heck. But i thought your game was really fun. I’m waiting for a lot of total conversions with small teams doing what they can in their spare time, and i will never say, “It took you so long to make THIS?”
I like insurgency cause I am also good at it somehow, the maps are more beautiful and immersive than Battlefield 2 maps, and the feeling that you better act like a real soldier (dont run down the street guns blazing) or you’ll die real quick. I think those are some of the same reasons you liked it.
I have problems with it and i took them up on their forums in a constructive manner. I never tore down their work. How many hours did you spend making insurgency?
@Laconic Youth
He isen’t tearing anything down, he is giving his opinion and some constructive criticism.
If you can’t deal with it without going into hurt-fanboy mode, i suggest you quit the internet.
Also, the first version of Gmod was just Garry messing around with the SourceSDK.
THIS GAME IS FUCKED UP I CANT EVEN GET ON THE SERVERS!
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS!
IT FUCKED UP!
Shut up ^
So Garry… About that next update… When the hell is it?! Jesus titty-fucking christ I want the update…
no new news ! Garry must be dead !
Garry u has ta get ze pathc!
America’s Army on Steam is free too, heh.