Monday, April 16, 2012

the sandbox shooter


A while back I started playing a game called ace of spades. It was a fun game with a few maps, one game mode, and three guns. It was a bit like a combination of Minecraft and Call of Duty. You could use blocks to build elaborate structures like in Minecraft it was mainly a first person shooter. So it wasn't like Minecraft where you can just build but it also wasn't just Cod because you could make shelter instead of having to find it. I quickly learned the basics of the game. The rifle was good for far range but not so good for close up encounters and could be countered from a distance. The SMG was good for both long and short range encounters but the recoil made it hard to aim. Shotguns are a lot easier to use at close range but doesn't go that far. If you got six kills then you got an airstrike. That was fun to use. There weren't many maps but my favorite was one called pinpoint. It was fun; I started a new strategy for the map that is now used a bunch.


The map of Pinpoint. It’s entirely flat but that's just part of the 
Challenge

The game got old pretty quick so I stopped playing. Recently though, I started playing again. I found out that not only were there a bunch of new maps but there were grenades and a new game mode. You could now fight to capture checkpoints. It was also harder to get an airstrike. These new features were a fun surprise and I had fun playing with them. After a while I got bored with the game again and was going to stop playing until I saw this on the server list:

look for the highlighted box


I checked it out on the wiki and it looks amazing. Basically, the zombies can jump super high but can’t shoot or build so they have to use spades to kill. The humans can quick build and the guns are strong from a distance but the closer the humans are to the zombie, the less damage his weapon does. I tried it out before I looked it up on the wiki, (playing as a zombie of course) but couldn't kill anyone because I was just trying to snipe the humans. I want to try it again and I hope you guys will give it a shot too. I’m even going to try to create my own server. If you want to learn more about the game read the wiki.
The server will be accessible at aos://grosoon once I get it up. Right now it’s just a normal map but I’m going to make it zombies. I like this game because it’s easy to play and get involved in. 


go build and shoot,
grosoon


all photos by me

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