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.
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.
Worms. It is definitely tactical shooter, but also arcade tactical ballistic turn based strategy, and doesn’t requires account.
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)
Insurgency probably has the best human-like AI I’ve seen in a shooter game.
And human like damage. You get hit, you go down.
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.
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?
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
Im pretty sure you Need some steam dll or sum to start the Game that way
That would be DRM, the original comment claimed absence of that. I have no idea what’s true, I just tried translating for you.
Yeah me neither, still thanks for the effort
Squad is fun
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.
You can get the earlier Arma games up to A2 on disc which afaik don’t require steam, they run from their own launchers. Arma 3 has a physical edition as well, but during activation you have to link to Steam.
The tactics in Wolfenstein: ET were brilliant.
Ready or Not, maybe? Pretty cool with a realistic bodycam mod.
Or go back to SWAT 4.
Seconding for SWAT4. It’s available on GOG and still has an active modding community. Imo the AI is better in this game than in Ready or Not, although RoN is certainly more visceral overall.
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
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.
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.
gaming on Linux has come a long way, proton is great and can be used outside of steam, like with Lutris or Heroic Launcher
I know a good one I found was Operation Harsh Doorstop, which is a fantastic AA game made by Drakeling Labs (owned by Connor “Bluedrake42” Hill). I hadn’t played it in a while though. An open-source option is Unvanquished, which is not a movement shooter, but I think is based upon Quake 3 with the Daemon engine. That’s what I found, though.
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