Can anyone recommend me a good casual-competitive FPS?
Overwatch was one of my all-time favorite games, but I just don’t like OW2. I tried, it’s just not the vibe anymore for me. I tried a couple other hero shooters, like Team Fortress 2, which I couldn’t really get into. I’ve been thinking back to when I was last really into a shooter, and it was probably the original Modern Warfare 2 or Black Ops 2. Before that was Halo 3. I did also like Advanced Warfare when that came out.
These days, all of the popular modern shooters seem to be battle royals, which are fine (I liked Apex a lot for a while), but it’s not really what I’m looking for. Beyond that, they’re often F2P but loaded with microtransactions and shit. I am just so sick of that pricing model, I just want to pretend like it doesn’t exist. lol I’m fine buying a game outright, but if there’s a bunch of DLC or in-game currency of any kind, I’m out.
I’m also not looking for something like CS where everyone you play with is god-tier and is doing trick shots, cause that’s frustrating.
So I guess I’m looking for a classic COD/Battlefield-ish FPS with the modern touches (like leaning around corners, etc.), that’s either paid or free but does not paywall any content. It can be newer or older as long as it’s not hard to find matches online. I’m also not super picky about art direction, but it’d be cool if it had good graphics.
Aaaand the icing on the cake: if it can run on Linux (natively or via proton), you get infinite bonus points. It’s not a total deal-breaker if I have to switch to my Windows partition, but I do prefer Linux.
I know that’s a tall order. Is there anything good in 2023 that would check most of these boxes?
Battlebit Remastered is great. Plays like Battlefield and can have huge player counts. You can play on Linux as well (I do). The devs said that sometime in the future they would be implementing FaceIt anti-cheat that would be Windows-only, which wouldn’t allow Linux players on official servers, but community servers could just keep the Easy-Anticheat so you’d still be able to play, just on community servers. And the anticheat thing hasn’t happened yet and I don’t know when it will
You could try titanfall 2, its a bit dated but still has some players.
Supported with mods and custom servers with a client called Northstar.
Worth watching some gameplay vids of Battlebit and seeing if that looks interesting to you. Feels a lot like classic battlefield, but has very simple graphics.
Battlefield 4 is another option that I like, you can usually pick it up with all the DLC for really cheap.
@MangoPenguin Thank you! I will check out Battlebit. It turns out I actually own BF4 from a bundle a while back, so I’m def installing that! :)
Titanfall 2 is always fun, although maybe a bit fast paced for what you’re looking for. It runs on Linux through proton really well and has a pretty active community still - there’s a fan run server client called Northstar in case the official servers go down or are overrun with cheaters.
@julianh Cool, thank you! Def going to give this a shot. :)