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Date:
5/10/2019 4:06:34 AM
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RE: I was ready to pay $10
After playing for 2 days now, I can recap by saying: This is a nice reproduction of the original game aimed at those who never tried any of the different source ports. Those coming from BloodGDX are only going to find some extra visual effects, 30% more voxels, some weird feeling player movement when it comes to inertia, a better approximation of the original color palette, an fov slider, much better mouse tracking, buggier CD music playback, less gibs, correct enemy damage, not so intuitive multiplayer and the very obvious oddity that this isn't actually running on Build.
It has its pluses, but it's certainly not without some minuses. Like BloodGDX, the project was based on reverse engineering so the feel is close for me, though some of the specific interactions the original had with the engine aren't 1:1. Extra crispy zombie sawed off punting and planting isn't quite the same for example, punting or planting a zombie where it would die in the original/BloodGDX doesn't do quite enough damage to kill it in this version, so either there's something off with falling damage or the sawed off has different behavior related to the engine change. Other interactions are intact and correct: Goomba stomp confuse-a-cultist/hellhound works exactly the same as it used to. As does crouch-a-phantasms.
Regrettably, I tried for 20 minutes but I could not get a single perma-flameguy going so this was the one thing that appears to have been fixed from the original.
If your memory of the original game is as distant as it seems to be, all of this is likely not going to be an issue for you. I'm sure the multiplayer problems and sound issues will be ironed out with patches. Just be aware that there's a perfectly good way to play Blood already available for the reasonable price of free in BloodGDX, though with this remaster being 5 bucks, that's about the prize of a pizza so if you don't already own Blood on Steam or don't have the original CD anymore then go for it, if you don't like Fresh Supply you can even download and drop in the BloodGDX files onto the remastered version's folder and it'll work just fine.
