Anyone else disappointed with multiplayer?

[Player 17]

Besides the pretty graphics there's really not much special about it. Everyone is only using the smp, and when you go to a croweded server it's just chaos with everyone holding down the trigger. That's the style I actually like, but I was over the machinegun after about 5 mins.

Of course the gravity gun is cool...but can you ever really use it? Rarely, and unless you are willing to get picked off easily by the rest of the players who simply hold down the trigger.

Come to think of it, maybe I did see someone throw a grenade...once...

Sorry, but the only thing HL2 DM has going for it are graphics.

 

[SonicTitan]

Woah chester! It's awsome. You must have been playing on the wrong servers. All the games I've been playing have had a major gravgun element with people getting pretty good at returning grenades and other projectiles with it. Don't give up on it yet. Try some other servers and i think you'll find one of the best, most inovative deathmatches out there. Or maybe you'll never get to like it.

 

[mortiz]

May I ask what you expected? It is exactly what it's meant to be, Half-Life 2 deathmatch. There're only two maps remember, when some more maps come out that make use of vehicles and some of the lag bugs people have been experiencing are sorted out HL2DM will improve vastly, but as something that's an added extra, that we didn't expect we'd get anyway I think it's very good. I don't know what servers you were playing on but people were throwing granades all the time on the server I was on, and using the manipulator to throw them back provided a few laughs.

It's better than nothing at least!

 

[spencerjrus]

I found the Grav gun to be the most overpowered weapon in close quarters, if you have a big heavy object to carry around you are extremely hard to hit and you can 1 shot anyone near you.

 

[frusion]

im dissappointed because i cant even play it

 

[Mediocrity]

As mortiz said, it's certainly better than nothing, and I find the ZPE Gun adds quite a lot to gameplay. Those radiators in particular are deadly.

 

[The Monkey]

As mortiz said, it's certainly better than nothing, and I find the ZPE Gun adds quite a lot to gameplay. Those radiators in particular are deadly.

So are the cars.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

So are the cars.

Car.... Owns.

 

[Player 17]

Woah chester! It's awsome. You must have been playing on the wrong servers. All the games I've been playing have had a major gravgun element with people getting pretty good at returning grenades and other projectiles with it. Don't give up on it yet. Try some other servers and i think you'll find one of the best, most inovative deathmatches out there. Or maybe you'll never get to like it.

That is a good point. I definitely won't give up on it that easily. If anything, I'm sure some good mods will come out eventually.

 

[NikolaX]

Great work valve, much fun with Gravity gun

 

[MiccyNarc]

You don't see people using the gravity gun?

I always use it, usually have a 2 to 1 kill : death ratio, too.

 

[zapperio]

just you wait until you get into a one-on-one with someone chucking furniture. I was on a 8 people lockdown DM server and me and another guy must have chucked barrels, sinks, carts back and forth for about a minute with both of us catching the throw each time and chucking it back. In the end I started to quickswitch to the smg to wear him down between chucks and that was when he managed to ricochet a cart off a wall, into my side. Took me completely by surprise. I didn't realize how far you could ricochet things and it just adds another element to a DM that has the potential to be like no other.

 

[Wsh]

I'm far from disappointed. It's hilarious. It owns especially lan parties if you make your own maps.

 

[House]

i got 10 kills in a row using the gravity gun.

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

I can't stand DM so I'm obviously not impressed with it in the least. I can see potential for REAL mp modes and exciting gameplay, but DM is a boring frag fest.

 

[aeroripper]

some people are never happy

 

[Diablo2k]

Its okay so far, but im hoping that they release some new maps and gamemodes soon. Really need some CTF or other teambased thingy.

 

[`mOnkEh]

I prefer 'Co-op' and/or 'Gravity Gun-only'.

 

[evil.E]

Pretty much everyone else has already said it but if they fix the spawn camping & LAG this has the potential to be a very cool game. I'm just itching for a good CTF MOD/Expansion to come out.

 

[Ahnteis]

This is why DM isn't a very popular gameplay mode (in general) right now. It's just not that fun.

It's also why so many people said "who cares if they give us HL2DM".

 

[DarkStar]

Considering it was a totally free and unexpected gift from Valve to the fans, I don't see how it is possible to be dissapointed. Bitching about the quality is like someone giving you a lottery ticket, and being dissapointed by winning only $100,000 instead of a million.

 

[justmatt]

Considering it was a totally free and unexpected gift from Valve to the fans, I don't see how it is possible to be dissapointed. Bitching about the quality is like someone giving you a lottery ticket, and being dissapointed by winning only $100,000 instead of a million.

To say that this is a free gift...I don't know. We all did purchase the game and some would argue that a basic multiplayer feature should have come with the game at release. The fact that we're getting it late I think was intended to make people think it was in fact a free extra given to us out of the goodness of Valve's heart. I'm not denegrating the fact that they DID in fact give us DM, but I think given the circumstances, people have every right to express their feelings about it....RESPECTFULLY. After all, it's not easy to make a game like this is it??

 

[kilword]

heh

all i mostly do is roll grenades on the ground(alt fire) pick them up with the gravity gun real fast and shoot them at people hehe :cheers: BOOM!

 

[fumanshoe]

actually there's no good reason at all to bitch & moan about anything they do. if you don't like it or fear you may not like it. don't buy it. simple as that.

 

[M4yh3M]

Played DM today for the first time ... Fun as it gets for a DM! I had a blast ... horrible server lag on almost every server. Team DM and CTF are going to be great. Waiting for the HL2 version of CS:source, it would be a kwel mod! ... lets see how man ppl by the grav-gun! hahaha

-MayheM

 

[HateCrime]

I'm sure there will be a mod where the Grav Gun will be able to GRAB BULLETS in mid-air...

Delicious.

 

[qckbeam]

I've not run into any lag on any servers yet, and I'm talking in all out war with 24 players or so kicking around cars, monitors, sinks, shelves and barrels. I'm far from dissapointed. Not only is DM pretty fun in itself, it proves the we can have physics in an MP game that work as the physics in SP do. CS:S had me worried; I thought perhaps technical issues had struck down the idea of realistic physics in multiplayer. After spending some quality time with HL2: DM those fears were shot down.

 

[evil^milk]

do you have to pay for hl2dm? do you get hl2dm with retail version?

 

[NikolaX]

and MATRIX style mod with gravity gun picking bullets............:rolling:

 

[Kangy]

Every server I've been in has had a good mix of grav gun, sniper weapons (magnum, rocket launcher tower and crossbow) and automatics.

Great fun, I've just started to master the grav gun properly. My favourite was catching an energy ball, chucking it back and killing 4 people.

 

[Melkor]

I have never liked Deathmatch in any game I've ever played, ever. It's so boring. "Spawn, kill, die, spawn, kill die." HL2DM is fun for about 30 minutes until I get bored of the same routine. I hope some mod maker quickly puts together some sort of objective (any objective: Search and Destroy, Tug of War, Domination, Base Assualt, Capture the Flag, anything other than TDM or DM) and some sort of class system.

 

[Hypno]

I go back to CS:S; headless chickens shooting everywhere, no thanks...
Good technique though, Grav' gun is kind of new enjoyable weapon as well.

 

[Edcrab]

I despise DM as a rule, but this looks promising (although Team DM and any user-made spinoffs are more likely to hold my interest). Kudos to Valve for even bothering to release this.

Curses to Steam for not allowing me to download a dang executable. At least with a third party downloading program I get a working progress bar and the ability to resume things! I downloaded Codename Gordon fine (and that was also around 30 megs), why do they feel the need to force some sort of jiggery preload menu on me? What have I done to you?!

 

[Mac]

I must have bad luck or something because every server (3) I've played in was a lag fest. Very choppy, not smooth at all, people teleporting everywhere. This was with low ping (around 70) and zero packetloss. So something tell me the netcode needs a little more polishing.

 

[StAtiC]

I'm happy!

 

[iluyshin]

For DM fans i think some are happy, For me and lots of others it is a big let down.

 

[miked4o7]

It's the most DM game I've played, but I don't really like DM. I'm absolutely drooling about the possibilities of a CTF of Base Assault mod for this though. So much potential.

 

[Squeetard]

Not impressed at all. Spent most of last night and all of this morning playing it. Lags on every server. Tiny maps with way too many people on them. Can not kill someone with a full clip from the smg. Spawn die spawn die spawn die. With a few kills in between.

Bigger maps and better weapon balance might fix it.

 

[miked4o7]

try finding servers with less people. I had the most fun in servers where there were 6-10 people.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Erm... sorry to point out the obvious.


But not Everybody is gona like DM....


Just like not everyone likes capture the flag or whatever...



We just got this for free... We should be at least partly thankfull.











Technical issues will be patched no doubt. So quite worrying, whineing and posting and start playing!!!