One of the classes which hasn't been highlighted on POETV and has no identical character in TF2 is the Striker. He is basically a counter strike character with a hitscan assault rifle and grenades. His health is identical to the soldier/rocket (200).

I assume this is an attempt by the developers to say "ALL GOOD FPS GAME NEED HITSCAN GUN, RIGHT?" when all the long range hitscan weapons in TFC and TF2 are limited in other ways. The shotgun is short range, the minigun has short range AND slows you down, and the sniper rifle has a charge time and needs high accuracy to be very deadly. It's a design choice, which they can't even seem to be bothered to copy, much like they can copy the graphical style yet can't be bothered to understand why it was done in the first place.

Hitscan weapons are so Quake era.

I know the most practical excuse for their continued existence is that it doesn't require the same kind of packet transfer that a rapidly firing bullet weapon would require if each round were given both mass and velocity.

Still, you're stuck with either making it absurdly weak, or making it do tremendous damage at the expense of a vulnerability inducing reload time.

it's okay, the Striker gameplay video floating around shows them playing on a reskinned koth_harvest map so nobody can accuse them of too much originality

This is China. 5 pounds over constitutes obesity and requires reeducation.

"...those who steal IPs?..."

I think these Final Combat videos aren't really as entertaining as Valve's stuff, but I wonder why you are happy to point out the "IP theft" from the Chinese company and not look at where Valve got their inspiration from. Jean Reno and Paul Hogan might want a word with you.

TF2 : Paul Hogan :: Chinese TF2 knockoff : TF2


gmol figured it out, people. You can all go home.

Crocodile Dundee was a class-based first-person shooter?

Are we all going to pretend that the sniper doesn't remind any of us of Crocodile Dundee? Like there are no TF2 machinima recreations of Crocodile Dundee scenes with the sniper playing the obvious role? That the sniper doesn't carry a big knife?

My point being is that while the inspiration in these Final Combat video is quite obvious, they aren't really stealing anything here; just remixing a little.

A touch unfair to call the makers out as IP thieves, as if Valve cooked up it's own characters without any outside inspiration. In some cases, that inspiration is just about as obvious as it is in this video.

The sniper always seemed more like Robert Muldoon than Crocodile Dundee to me. Maybe it's just the hat.

I just find it odd that you settled on Crocodile Dundee as the point of genesis, where the character Paul Hogan is playing is based in part on a real person but also a cultural caricature he may have popularized in the US but by no means invented