Incline Ion Fury (formerly Ion Maiden) - Build Engine powered FPS by Duke Nukem 3D mappers - now with Aftershock DLC

[Lyric Suite]

Git gud.

Hit scan exists to ruin your life for a reason, so you don't get comfy with your "muh dodging skills" and you won't be able to just waltz through the game like a walk in the park.

 

[Roguey]

Git gud.

Hit scan exists to ruin your life for a reason, so you don't get comfy with your "muh dodging skills" and you won't be able to just waltz through the game like a walk in the park.

As I mentioned, hitscan is perfectly fine when used in the manner Doom and Duke use it, and terrible when it's a trial and error-fest.

 

[Jenkem]

Git gud.

Hit scan exists to ruin your life for a reason, so you don't get comfy with your "muh dodging skills" and you won't be able to just waltz through the game like a walk in the park.

As I mentioned, hitscan is perfectly fine when used in the manner Doom and Duke use it, and terrible when it's a trial and error-fest.

MARANAX INFIRMUX!!!!!!!!!!!!

CRUDUX CRUO!!!!

 

[PrettyDeadman]

How's the hitscan in this thing, like Doom/Duke or terrible like Blood and a million other mediocre 90s shooters?

For the record, it's not hitscan, almost all enemy attacks can be dodged if you're quick and move in the right direction.

Calling the best Build engine game "terrible", though...

So you are telling that Blood has wonderful hitscan? Especially on higher difficulties, where they add even more histcan cultist...

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Git gud.

Hit scan exists to ruin your life for a reason, so you don't get comfy with your "muh dodging skills" and you won't be able to just waltz through the game like a walk in the park.

Git gud vs hitscan enemies aka literally play popamole around the cover.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Ah, the hitscan meme.

Holy crap, I don't know one from two and am generally pretty retarded, but really want to discuss them shooting games with other people on the Internet and fit in. Whatever I'm gonna talk about? How about...

Hitscan. Hitscan. Hitscan.

Hitscan.

HITSCAN.

You know that one game that had hitscan enemies? How about that hitscan bro, amirite.

 

[Grauken]

Aside from Eurogamer, none of the prominent reviews emphasize or give credit to the game for featuring a strong female protagonist in a traditionally male-dominated genre, fighting against a male villain and the patriarchy as a whole.

Not woke enough

I'm woke now, I mean awake, she has some fine assets

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

How is the maximum difficulty compared to other Build engine games ?

 

[Melan]

How is the maximum difficulty compared to other Build engine games ?

Properly difficult. Did a few test runs of the first level late at night yesterday, and got my ass handed to me on Maximum Fury. Afterwards, I toned it down a notch, and it is about as difficult as most Build games - challenging but not impossible to iron man. Or, well, iron womyn.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Got this today, played through the first level. Gaem seems fine, but there's one thing so far that irks me a lot, and that's the lame enemy design. Generic cultists with guns are very uninteresting in the first place, but the fact that they also don't yell anything is even worse - not just for characterisation (MARANAX INFIRMUX, AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH), but also for 'gameplay feedback' - whether you get spotted, hit them, kill them, etc.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Git gud.

Hit scan exists to ruin your life for a reason, so you don't get comfy with your "muh dodging skills" and you won't be able to just waltz through the game like a walk in the park.

If a game's challenge is well designed, then the devs don't need to resort to cheap tricks to make things difficult.

 

[otsego]

I am finding two very annoying issues with this so far:

- The framerate seems to drop randomly either during gameplay or after a quick save. For some reason doing another quick save will solve the problem. Mem leak / garbage collection failing?

- There is very little feedback when being attacked. No sound, a barely noticeable screen flash. A lot of the times I'll be exploring a room looking for ammo and armor only to realize 15 seconds later that I'm being shot from some distant enemy I can't see or hear. Given how quickly health and armor drain on the second-hardest difficulty, this almost makes scrounging for those little armor scraps and health packs almost pointless in some scenarios.

 

[Jezal_k23]

My framerate doesn't drop often but it doesn't always feels as smooth as I'd have liked. Minor issue though.

I love the game otherwise, easily the most beautiful Build maps I had ever seen, and it plays really well.

Enemy variety gets higher as you go through the game, but the game lacks crazy weapons which were always a staple of 90s shooters.

 

[Jezal_k23]

 

[ZeniBot]

Enemy variety gets higher as you go through the game, but the game lacks crazy weapons which were always a staple of 90s shooters.

I would give ANYTHING for Duke 3d's Shrink Ray in this game. I'm disappointed they didn't think to add it. This very much is a shadow warrior style game through and through which is still damn fine but Duke's weapon variety is really what this game needs badly.

 

[mwnn85]

It definitely helps to acquire all the secret items in the first level if you're playing on the tougher difficulties.
It's a bit like Blood in that respect where you start off weak.

In the first level alone you can get 200 Heavy Armor, Double Uzi, Crossbow, those useless puck things, etc.
Plus the Blade Runner reference. Not much fun to balance on the vents and wires though so I just used noclip for the video.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ffTlSyMJYxYZt6hnmdphNS7Bmf_BEjOA/view?usp=sharing

Still wish the ammo capacity was higher though; Duke can carry hundreds of bullets.
I'd replace those shit pucks with something better - I don't see how they're any better than the bowling bombs.

 

[Mikeal]

 

[Jezal_k23]

I'm fine with the pistol capacity, but the damn shotgun kills me with just 48 rounds. I haven't run out of ammo yet though, as opposed to some reviewers complaining about lack of ammo.

 

[Jack]

I haven't had this fun playing a shooter since Blood. As people have pointed out since the very first demo the game is blander in terms of enemies, weapons, protagonist and so on and that's still true but even so it's miles above any FPS released in the last two decades or so. It's just a very solid game, just like they used to make them, and that's very exceptionally rare these days in all genres. The levels are fantastic both in terms of design and aesthetics, the gameplay feels great, the interactivity is there and it all comes together nicely. My hunger for old RPGs has been satiated with Grimoire which surpassed even the old. Now my thirst for a proper shooter has also been quenched with Ion Maiden. I'd never thought I'd ever play a newly made game that'd scratch that itch but here it is. WRATH might eventually further surprise me, but Quake is still seeing maps made and I never stopped playing it so it's not such a rare treat as this.

- Almost as great as the Build trinity, but that's unfathomably better than anything else on the market.

 

[Jezal_k23]

I really dislike mainstream media saying this is inferior in design to modern FPS games though. If anything I think that shooters have significantly devolved since the 90s, into you being a passive entity who presses W and watches cutscenes while occasionally taking a peek at some dudes from behind cover to shoot at them a little bit. This is to me definitely what a competent FPS game should actually be like instead of the complete boredom of CoD and the like. Nonetheless, I see people saying that Ion Fury is outdated and that FPSes have "evolved" beyond this. Their complaints are usually about getting lost for a few minutes.

 

[rohand]

Really love it but it's hard to top the absurd number of top notch Eduke32 community content that has since come out such as WGRealms, Roch and AMC TC
Apart from Blood and Duke himself

 

[Valestein]

Really love it but it's hard to top the absurd number of top notch Eduke32 community content that has since come out such as WGRealms, Roch and AMC TC
Apart from Blood and Duke himself

Hopefully this gets mod support to rival that.

 

[Jezal_k23]

I think it might. It uses the same tools the modders already know how to use.

 

[Valestein]

At the very least it should get a mod to revert the title screen to say "Ion Maiden".

 

[Wunderbar]

Someone (not me) have found the room from Silent Hill 4.