INFANTRY - Free again

n00bit

Yap, been about....4 or 5 years since it went P2P? Well, its finally free again. No more 30-min guest crap. They are also in the process of putting out a map editor so players can make their own maps and submit them to be voted on and hosted. To those of you who remember the good ol' days of this game...they're back. Minus our lovely Twin Peaks map sadly. Personally, I'm hoping that someone makes a new TP map w/ the editor.

To those of you who have never experienced Infantry, i'll give ya a little background info on it. To begin with, its a top-down shooter. You log in, pick your class (Infiltrator, Infantry, Sci-Ops, Heavy Weapons, Bio Chem, Medic, Engineer or Squad Leader) and begin to pwn. The game began in 1998 with the Infantry Alpha version ran by Harmless Games. From there it enjoyed about 4 years of prosperity. Then in 2002 I believe, SOE bought it from HG and made it P2P. While this is a great game, paying to play it just wasn't worth it, especially when they got rid of the Twin Peaks map. It will be rough starting at first as you need to learn the basics and definitely how to circle strafe.

The most popular map ATM is Extreme CTF. It maxes out at 150 players per arena. It is basically a giant game of CTF. Players can form their own teams and try to capture all 4 of the flags scattered about the map. For those who don't have a team to play with, the game has default teams that are made up of those who didnt choose a custom team. Once you get a flag, you then find a good place to set up your base. Hopefully you'll have an engineer to set up turrets and a SL/Medic to summon. After that its all about defending your flag while trying to send people out to capture the rest. The first team to hold all 4 flags for 60 seconds wins the round and is awarded a nice bit of cash and experience.

In any case, I hope some of you who haven't played come and try it out. Be sure to give it a chance, it can be a bit tough before you learn the ropes, but once you get the hang of it you'll have a blast. As for those of you who used to play before P2P...welcome back .

You can find the game here http://infantry.station.sony.com/en/main.jsp.

Laserwolf

Ahhh memories......

I also miss the space ship one quite alot....

Elapsed

I played CTFX for 2 hours last night for the first time in a long time. My team was about to win only to be ruined by a single hacker killing off the entire team. I LOVE INFANTRY

n00bit

Haha yeah, nothing like being about to win and having 5000 plasma shots fly everywhere. S'all good, I read they're planning on starting IP banning as well as an automatic banning system. Kinda like in WoW where if you move too fast it d/cs you...or in this case, shoot too fast.

Elapsed

It's an old problem. IP banning does nothing since most people's IP are not static.

n00bit

Originally posted by -Jaguar-


It's an old problem. IP banning does nothing since most people's IP are not static.

Mine is T.T

Anyways, played all of today and didn't run into any hackers. Come join us! 150-man CTF games are quite enjoyable.