Thread 718152110

why is it so hard to have a videogame where you play as a private contractor for a pmc?
outside the mercenaries franchise and the last 2 metal gear solid games, theres nothing like it
it's so goddamn annoying

>>718152110 (OP)
cant call attention to (((obama's))) foreign policy

>>718152110 (OP)
you can kinda larp as one in GR Wildlands but theres no base building mechanics, I agree we need more comfy merc sims

OH NO

>>718152486
Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize, you NEVER will Drumpf. Trump fucks kids btw.

does jaggef alliance count?

>>718154537
>>718154748
OP asked why they dont exist
https://archive.is/PDdEg
its your sacred cow nigger
you wont see any games about orangeman and Israels influence either
cant show the realities of american foreign policy
only non western devs like Kojima can

>>718154748
Obama getting the Nobel is a massive middle finger to anyone with a brain and confirmation that the Nobel is completely bullshit

Soldier of Fortune also exists.
1 and 2 are good games (because Raven Software), Payback must be avoided like the plague (Because Cauldron).
You are also technically a mercenary in Ace Combat the Belkan War.

>>718154005
So does Breakpoint, infact you are much more of a merc in BP than in WL.
Bernthal ruins everything he touches, unfortunately.

Also Jagged Alliance, you are literally a contractor, hiring other contractors with distinct skills, quirks and behavior, and earn money from liberating the land from the local bad guy and earn money from the local business, like the ore mines in JA2.

armored core
project wingman

>Farcry 2 is the only African mercenary game in existence and the only one there ever will be
I hate how modern game devs are all such politics conscious pussyassed college dropout socialist identity politics obsessed pussies. We will NEVER get interesting settings in video games that aren't just straight up fantastical bullshit ever again.

I WANT MY MOTHERFUCKING SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER WAR, CONGO CRISIS OR KOREAN WAR VIDYA AND I WANT IT RIGHT FUCKING NOOOOW!!!!

>>718154089
YOU DIDNT

>3rd / 1st person shooter set in a stragereal-type world during the 1980s
>5 different regions based on the middle east, SEA, south america, africa and the balkans
>you have to manage your logistics and equip each mercenary (imagine enlisted but without the endless grind)
>you can get cheap surplus equipment from the last great war or spend a bit more on shiny new toys and even experimental technology
>the story can be summed up as "a few shitholes fight over something that no one really cares about and you're just there to make money"

>>718152110 (OP)
Mattias was such a lame, tryhard character. Played the fuck out of the first game though. Never touched the second one.

>>718159439
Yes, yes... we've seen your "battlefield set in strangereal" Twitter post, FAGGOT.

>>718158825
The people have spoken and they want to be yelled at in South African ebonics.

>>718159706
>South African mercs don't call you a kaffir if you play as the Haitian guy
0/10 Immersion ruined

>>718159706
>White-ruled, Apartheid state South Africa
>Yelled at in South African ebonics
>t.historylet

>>718159576
It's not battlefield you fucking cunt, my game doesn't even have online features

7.62 Hard Life is the definitive merc sim, but yeah, I wish there were more FPS/TPS games

>>718159439
just play 7.62 High Calibre/Hard Life or Jagged Alliance, nigger

>Mercenaries
>The edgy bad boy badass is a fucking SWEDE with a mohawk
lol, LMAO.

Brigand: Oaxaca

Jagged alliance 3

>>718152110 (OP)
Just Cause is kind of similar.

>>718160284
Don't shit on Peter Stormare you little faggot.

>>718160206
Those games are more focused on low level squad management then running an entire company

>Look up Jagged Alliance 3
>Trailer has epic trailer voice guy
>DID YOU LE HECKIN' SEE THAT!? says an in-game character
>MERCENARIES FROM THE INTERNET!!!

Guess I won't be playing that. Reddit incarnate piece of dogshit.

>>718160284
it was made before sweden did cultural suicide
they were proud vikings before that.

>>718162387
Best book on this? I've been jonesing for something like this for ages.

I’ve never understood the hate the second game gets

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>>718161320
7.62 Hard Life if we want to get really anal about technicalities is as much of a mercenary sim as it is a smuggling, running a gold mine and "taking over a south american shithole for yourself" sim
fuck I miss playing 7.62, I really should get myself a laptop

>>718152110 (OP)
That is the entire fantasy of the bulk of mech games (that i play)

The armored core franchise and brigador come to mind quite easily, quasimorph isn't mecha though

Almost a good thread. Too bad it's already dead. Sad!

Is Jagged Alliance 3 good?

>>718168665
As a Zoomer that's hasn't played JA2 I enjoyed but I hate how there's basically an invisible timer that counts down to a certain event that basically railroads you into going into the endgame

>>718167965
have a picture of the everyday careyyou better have if you want to survive Algeira (the fictional south american shithole from 7.62)

>>718168665
It's okay, but I'm not sure if there are any good mods currently. Haven't touched it since release.

>>718168665
I love it. Can't guarantee you'll like it more than 2, but it's certainly the best in the genre since 2.

>>718169014
When you get the distress call, intercept the Butterflies squad that spawns before it reaches its destination sector, and then don't go into the other sector to hear the explanation when invited, and you can avoid triggering the endgame event until you're ready (or until you start getting close to The Major, but I assume by then you're ready to start the endgame.

>>718169902
I've never played any of 'em.

>>718169123
*everyday carry
also while I can in theory give a shitton of advice when it comes to 7.62 Hard Life, I'll be very brief since I only have my phone with me right now and I want to sleep for at least a few hours:
1. common sense applies to the game, so if you think shit may work, it likely DOES fucking work. the biggest example of that probably being smoke grenades, but there are lots of features about the game and even tactics that are poorly documented
2. get the portable food cooler ASAP, I am nearly 100% sure the quest for Willy Krauf only unlocks if you buy that item, and if you finish that quest you get yourself an Ural truck. you NEED it if you want to make the mine profitable, and in order to make so you can give it to the mine you also have to install the engine upgrade on it
3. the GAZ69 you get from the mine is possibly downright the game's worst car and you really should not bother with it, it will cost you loads of money on fuel
4. if any of the main characters are part of your team, you can tell them to take the car you're currently driving to your own base, which may be useful under some circumstances (the first one I can think of is when you buy the UAZ from Villarado, which is an actually fucking amazing early to midgame car)

one day I'll have to write a mini guide on how to utterly skullfuck 7.62 Hard Life, there are aspects of it such as how to get the mine up and running or which trades routes are the most profitable that have no guides whatsoever on the web

>>718170214
addendum to point 4: if you ask any of the main character mercs to take a car to the base, that merc won't be available at all for a week or thereabouts

also for the love of God use and abuse grenades of all kinds, and don't put silencers on beltfed machineguns

>>718169123
>the fictional south american shithole
>It's just Algeria with the "i" swapped around

>>718170519
if had to name a specific south american shit hole, I would guess the closest country to Algeria would be Nicaragua or something like that
that said a 7.62 take on Africa would be cool

>>718157516
Then why does Trump want one so badly to the point of willing to sell Alaska for one

>>718152110 (OP)
There's no PMC in Far Cry 2 but you are hired mercenaries.

>>718152110 (OP)
Well do you want to see it done in any other way? i think Mercenaries was pretty much near damn perfection.
>>718155456
You mean only Kojima can only make communist propaganda in which he forces the role of Che Guevara on you and brainwashes you into open borders. The Intercept were involved with aiding and abetting criminals like Snowden, stop linking your liberal traitor propaganda please.

The Modern Warfare reboot was pretty disappointing but I will say they did do Shadow Company justice and actually developed them as faction despite the fact their original incarnation only appeared in two levels in MW2

>>718171161
Everyone you fight in that game are mercenaries working for either side of that conflict, dummy.

I've been compiling an idea for a game with something at least adjacent to this. But rather than modern private military, the setting is mostly pre-industrial with earlyish firearms tech (like wild west where muskets are still common but revolvers and lever action rifles are becoming available) where melee is still a major part of battle. And the player character is outcast from society, recruiting other outcasts into a band that can be mercenary fighters or get up to banditry or just work the land.

>>718170706
>Algeria
*Algeira

>>718172789
that sounds a lot like Mountain Blade

>>718172973
The part that I described could easily be a mod for it, yeah. But that's only part of the idea. The other half is that it's built over a competent survival crafting game ("or just work the land") so you need to build the infrastructure and actually seek out your fights in a continuous world.

>>718152110 (OP)
I don't fucking know, quasimorph pissed me off by having no money
battle brothers is too aids with scaling
I JUST WANT TO BE A MERC

>>718172789
Medieval mercenarism isn't really talked about that much despite arguably playing a substantial part in wars during those times

Bump

>>718164685
could never get into hard life because of the forced rebel start
blue sun mod was good enough for me

>>718173228
Survival crafting has become an awful meme but for wild west mercenaries:
>company contracts you to develop gold mining operation in contested area
>establish a camp for yourself and your group of mercs from which to prospect for the big vein of gold and drive out everyone else looking to do the same
>build mining infrastructure
>repel bandits and competition's mercs
Could be cool. Together with managing the people and operations your survival crafting start has become a first person city builder.

>>718152110 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqIjEdCtvsk&pp=ygUPYmxhY2t3YXRlciBnYW1l

>>718176814
>505 Games
Yup, into the TRASH.

>>718175590
the forced rebel start is not only skippable (wear an Algeira army uniform, walk to Puerto Vieho) but also an extremely easy way to get shittons of gear and stats from the get go

>>718152110 (OP)
>try to replay this after not playing it for something close to 10 years
>completely forget even on pc theres this dogshit aim assist and aiming sucks in general
If any game deserved a modern port/remaster it's this one.

>>718152110 (OP)
OH NO YOU DIDN'T
first mercenaries was great

>>718160020
>>718160206
>7.62 Hard Life
Wanted to love that game but its such an unstable disaster

>>718158825
>I WANT MY MOTHERFUCKING SOUTH AFRICAN BORDER WAR, CONGO CRISIS OR KOREAN WAR VIDYA AND I WANT IT RIGHT FUCKING NOOOOW
No, you retarded sheep want the ameriturd propaganda version of it

The reason you aren't getting games about shit like the korean war is because accurate depiction of it would be the same shit Israel is doing in Gaza right now, bombing the entire country till no building remains killing even more civilians indiscriminately to defeat an "enemy" who was literally just resisting westurd imperialism

You don't want shit that exposes what a genocidal piece of shitstain your country actually is, you want a game where you are rambo gunning down le evil aggressor commies

>>718179296
>No, you wanted THIS ACKCHUALLY
Fuck off, don't put words in my mouth like you put cocks in yours. I said what I said, COCKSUCKER.

>>718179296
>I hate big mean americans a bloo bloo

Pmc
Purchased male cock
True meaning
Look into it

>>718179405
Lmao, you were just bitching about not getting more propaganda slop. Guess what, not even your rightes want to make more games like that because trying to lie about your atrocities does more harm than just shutting the fuck up about them

>>718179621
I think you might be schizophrenic. Reading into things that clearly aren't there.. do you often have such episodes?

>>718179296
Last time I checked the Korean War started because the Norks invaded the South
>Inb4 NOO THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO UNIFY THE PENINSULA IT'S NOT IMPERIALISM WHEN WE DO IT

>>718160020
Jankiest Slav Jank that ever janked

>>718179296
Butthurt chinkoid antennai typed this post, lmfao.

>>718179723
It feels like half the site is made up unhinged schizos who spew out nonsense.

>>718159439
Soooo jagged alliance but a shooter instead or tactics?

>>718168665
If you never played a JA game then year its great. If you played JA2 then youll probably not like it as much and go back to JA2. JA3 is at least better than JA1 and all the other slop JA games that came out after JA2.

I just want Battle Brothers but about being a mercenary in more modernish times

>>718182624
That wouldn't work because there's a pretty big difference between how mercenarism operated during the Middle Ages and modern times

>>718179296
dangerously based

>>718179296
>>718183834
Samefag

>>718152110 (OP)
anyone remember Boiling Point?

>tfw just saw Wild Geese for the first time
I need to get a merc fix.
And no Jagged Alliance/Mercenaries I've already played those.

>>718180272
Both sides were constantly staging raids across the border. The South Koreans also carried out public massacres of Communists in the South.
Neither was the aggressor, or rather, both were.

>>718164194
tell me, /v/, did you forget your promise to Marino?

>>718158825
The SADF is pure A E S T H E T I C and too much for this modern, gay earth.

>>718152110 (OP)
Why it is impossible to get this game anywhere?
Like it was pulled out so hard that only option to get its not is used copy from ebay.

>>718152110 (OP)
Most Battletech/Mechwarrior games should qualify. Also Soldier of Fortune 1&2.

>>718187937
>War on GAYRROR
No one cares.

>>718188487
The games were a pretty bad representation of the magazine

>>718187864
EA went as far as deleting it from people's accounts for some reason.

>>718191063
But why? Why delete game? Even if it's bad you still will get some poor sucker to buy it at full price or even at discount, making you some money.
Only real reason to pull out game would be copyrights like with LotR games, but as far as I know there was no copyright issues with Mercenaries 2.

>>718191848
No fucking clue, I had it on Origin and they deleted it when it became EA App, had to pirate it to play it again.

>>718192092
That's weird. I just checked my ea account and I still have mercs 2 in there.

>>718158293
mask u sumpthin nomad, how u goin burn local?

>>718158825
>Working your way through the 1970s Nigerian bush trying to find a contact who can get you over the border to Cameroon, where your family's relic has been hidden in a tomb.
>Guide is a cool soldier bro who's lowkey kinda zesty but also a badass fighting off bandits
>You get cornered and at the last minute your adversaries get run down by an elephant
You could probably do it in Asia, that's how you get the pitch greenlit, then you switch it to Africa in preproduction.

>>718179514
Too much effort went into that image to half-ass it. They keyed the screens and added the brothers as a layer underneath instead of splitting the image into 18 squares and fitting them to each screen.

>>718188487
Based picks, anon. Battletech always had that perfect cold merc flavor-working for whoever pays best while trying to keep your scrapheap of a mech running. Soldier of Fortune's jank was part of the charm too. Honestly surprised no one's tried to revive that kind of gritty PMC vibe lately. Closest we've had is probably the latest Ghost Recon, and even that feels sterilized compared to old-school SoF.

>>718152110 (OP)
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>>718152110 (OP)
There is bunch of janky russian games that are made out of jank stitched together by code that was written when drunk russian dev was hitting his keyboard with empty vodka bottle.
They are kinda fun(when they work) but it's also tactical game instead of tps.