Unironically, CM is one of the most unique games that exists despite us constantly joking about how much it sucks

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We spend so much time shitposting about balance and memeing about how terrible everything is that I think we forget how genuinely unique this game actually is.

Name another game where you have asymmetric gameplay with 150+ players this complex. One side plays a traditional military shooter with squad tactics, supply lines, and combined arms. The other side plays a biological horror swarm with evolution mechanics and hive coordination. Both sides require completely different skillsets and strategies, and somehow it actually works most of the time.

Name another game where you can be a doctor performing surgery, a squad leader coordinating tactics, a pilot flying dropships, an engineer building FOBs, a researcher developing combat stims, or a fucking queen commanding an entire alien horde. And all of these roles matter. All of them affect the round. A good SL can turn a losing round into a win. A shit pilot can doom the entire marine force. The actions of individual players have weight in a way that basically no other multiplayer game achieves.

The emergent storytelling is unmatched. Every round creates unique situations that nobody planned. The frontline gets overrun and you’re doing a fighting retreat. Command abandons the marines and you mutiny. The queen dies early and xenos have to adapt or get wiped. A bald SO OB’s and accidentally kills half the frontline. A rifleman clutches an impossible situation. These aren’t scripted moments, they just happen because of how the systems interact.

Yeah, balance is fucked sometimes. Yeah, some updates are questionable. Yeah, rounds can be frustrating when one side steamrolls. But show me another game doing what CM does. You can’t, because it doesn’t exist.

This shouldn’t work. By all accounts, this game should not function. But it does, and when everything clicks and you get a good round with competent players on both sides, it’s genuinely one of the best multiplayer experiences you can have.

Anyway, buff marines, nerf xenos, maintainers are destroying the game, you know the drill.

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Well said. Wholesome posting.

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game sucks

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Planetside 2

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Erm, with planetside two its essentially three identical forces.

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facts, the community is also a huge part of what makes it unique for me. All these whacky people who put up with a lot of BS and keep coming back, really one of the most dedicated and unique communities I’ve ever seen.

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the game only sux if you play it for 16 hours a day

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yeah its uniquely buns

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That game absolutely stinks though, are there actually people who play it regularly that aren’t a victim of sunk cost fallacy, after they emptied their wallets into the game?

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SS13 in general is an extremely unique game that no other one has been able to replace, and CM13 is certainly a part of that.

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yeah but CM sux

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That image will never get old or not be funny. Good memories!

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Game being unique and game being good are not mutually the same thing.

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Game actually sucks i hate this game, see you next round guys :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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just play facehugger for dopamine

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Almost makes me not regret my playtime on this server. Good post!

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People hate queens screech and want to remove it, but they don’t realize screech is (one of) the thing that makes the game unique. It gives massive player impact to the queen and also disempowers everyone else. You can’t be a protag when your round can be ended with one ability.

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I’m leaving you to die to the queen soloscreech next time…

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sadar is this for the xenos.

Even on a dead hivemind, the only thing xenos will consistantly do as a team is doing SADAR callouts on hivemind.

the only issue is they suck more often than not.

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yeah but this game sucks though

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