Remember Combat Arms?
Not really, I was more of a CrossFire kid.
>>730789672yeahsurprisingly fun, ruined by nexon
>>730789672>m4 cqb>sopmod>g36 valkyrie>L115A1>viper specialist, broken hitbox>ump45 + jump spamming>"elite mods" abusing power>pay2win>cheatersto be fair, there hasn't been a game with anywhere near the amount of weapons. CA was goated in that aspectI cheated so much in that game. there was remote kill where you literally shoot anywhere and hit some random player on the map, there was a cheat that brought every single rendered gun on the match near you so you can have access to guns you don't even own as long as someone's using it on the lobby, there was knife mod that swaped your knife for the minigun and gave it the same rate of "fire" that was unpatched for months, flying hacks, etc..there was an instance where no one would kick the cheaters and that was on those PvE gamemodes, we were lucky to get a cheater to help us beat those unfair rounds
>>730789830Is there anything they haven't ruined
>pay money to RENT virtual guns that may or may not give you an advantageCombat Arms taught young me about predatory monetization
>>730790035Kek for me it was maplestory in how you rented the cosmetics for 30 days on top of it already being insanely p2w. I believe they didn't release permanent cosmetics until 2012.
I was super into it late 2009-mid 2010. Played it sparringly after. I had cod m2 and bfbc 2 on console too, but there was something about ca.The UI change in lost its soul a bit for me. So many guns, that thunderous g36/g36ke..>>730789841Canwas the only time I ever tried to cheat in a shooter, I gave my mom's computer a small virus and she kicked me off until I was gifted my own shortly after
>>730789672the L96A1 still has the most brutal gunshot sound in all gaming
>>730790035I recall Battlefield Heroes doing the same thing and made it far, far worse when they realized their freemium economy was fucked up six ways to none.
>>730790035It taught everyone. Most have taken the wrong lesson, tho. It's funny how f2p used to be a separate category of poorfag games and now it's the norm that online games are free.
>>730790035you didnt pay much to rent and could pay big to keep
>>730789672it was cod for third worlders with toaster PCs mtx shit aside it was still fun though
>>730790035CrossFire had you rent out premium guns with real money, too. You could also buy regular ones for a big sum of free money and had to repair them. There were game modes where you didn't have to bring your own gun, tho.
>>730790035as a poor slav who spent his childhood on shitty F2P games like CA and various MMOs with pay to win up the ass, it was a wild ride seeing people in the west just fucking accept it as greedy kikes started slapping this shit on top of PAID games>bro it's not pay to win, it's pay for advantage!>just don't buy it bro, stop whining>it's not pay to win because you don't automatically win if you pay>show gratitude, whales are funding the game you playabsolute retardation
>>730791241Nigga the largest supporters of these dogshit p2w korean mmos are still to this day slavs. You go on a lineage 2 server or an archeage server that's still p2w as fuck and it's nothing but hordes of slavs still feeding into this loop, what do you mean? You guys are absolutely obsessed with dominating each other through financial means so don't even get me started. P2w pvp games in 2026 don't even have a population from countries outside of south american, east asian and slavic countries.
>>730791907>>730791241i never thought slavs and brown 3rd worlders would have something in common
>>730789672Viper was hot as fuck. A shame she never gained relevancy.
These f2p games would look like a circus after a couple dozen hours played. You start off with this clean military look but then you run into clowns wearing all kinds of silly gear
