I'm trying to move away from service-based gaming, and I only really play two games, so that shouldn't bee too hard. I've found Terraria on GOG, but I'm trying to find a replacement for Counter Strike. Are there any good tactical shooters that don't require an account on an online service like Steam or Ubisoft? If you can't think of any tactical shooters, what about non-Quake-likes (like Xonotic)? I'm not a huge fan of movement shooters.
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Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 358d
Insurgency : Sandstorm
I think it requires steam but iirc there are community servers so maybe there are non-vac servers (which shouldn't require steam)
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 358d
Insurgency probably has the best human-like AI I've seen in a shooter game.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 358d
And human like damage. You get hit, you go down.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 358d
I don't think you'll find a replacement because the distinguishing feature for CS is that it's a service game that you can play online with other people, any game that is not a service game will not be the same, because the single player campaign will be finite and playing against bots gets boring very fast. But that's okay, as far as service based gaming goes CS is not bad, it doesn't require payment and at least last time I checked the micro transactions were all cosmetics so no pay to win either.
kubok@fedia.io · 6 pts · 358d
How about Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory? Old but fun. It used to have a mod named True Combat:Elite that was a counterstrike clone which was very much fun as well, but that seems to have vanished.
I also loved the old Delta Force series and I have heard good things about the ARMA series. However, I am not sure how much ARMA will work without Steam.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 4 pts · 358d
The tactics in Wolfenstein: ET were brilliant.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
Auth@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 358d
Squad is fun
fzz@programming.dev · 3 pts · 358d
Worms. It is definitely tactical shooter, but also arcade tactical ballistic turn based strategy, and doesn’t requires account.
seralth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
Terraria on steam doesn't actually require steam. Btw it's entirely drm free.
Most indie games on steam are.
Steam is just a download platform same as gog for most indie games.
orochi02@feddit.org · 2 pts · 358d
Then how do we play it? I tried before with an Account that dont have it and didnt work out. Do I Need to use steamless or sum?
meekah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 358d
Just navigate to the steamapps folder, look for Terraria.exe and have at it
At least that is my understanding of what the other comment claims
orochi02@feddit.org · 2 pts · 358d
Im pretty sure you Need some steam dll or sum to start the Game that way
meekah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
That would be DRM, the original comment claimed absence of that. I have no idea what's true, I just tried translating for you.
orochi02@feddit.org · 1 pts · 357d
Yeah me neither, still thanks for the effort
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
Ready or Not, maybe? Pretty cool with a realistic bodycam mod.
Or go back to SWAT 4.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
maaneeack@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
The COD2 single-player campaign is good. Any of the boomer shooters like Doom, System Shock. Far Cry, Arma, maybe UT.
https://www.gog.com/en/games?genres=shooter&tags=tactical&order=desc%3Abestselling
winety@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 358d
Does Arma run well on Linux these days? I remember trying to run Arma 2 on my Linux box back in the day and failing.
augustus672@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d
Reforger seems to work as well as it does for me as my friend who games on Windows. I've never had any issues running it.
maaneeack@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
gaming on Linux has come a long way, proton is great and can be used outside of steam, like with Lutris or Heroic Launcher
vikingtons@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 358d
mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online · 0 pts · 358d