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Posted June 24, 2021
Get ready to play a retro FPS with classic gameplay and vibe of romeric shooters from the 1990s including a fitting brown retro aesthetic. HROT is coming soon to GOG.COM!

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Posted June 25, 2021
Bought this on Steam.
Played through and enjoyed it.
Will definitely rebuy on gog.
Posted June 25, 2021
So does this game actually use the Quake 1 engine?
Posted June 25, 2021
From the store page: "A custom engine written in Pascal imitating 1990s software-style rendering with unfiltered textures and polygon jitter."
Posted June 25, 2021
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eric5h5: From the store page: "A custom engine written in Pascal imitating 1990s software-style rendering with unfiltered textures and polygon jitter."
Weird decision, considering the Q1 idtech is open source.
Posted June 25, 2021
I was skeptical of this one but seeing some previews and gameplay I like it a lot!
Posted June 25, 2021
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eric5h5: From the store page: "A custom engine written in Pascal imitating 1990s software-style rendering with unfiltered textures and polygon jitter."
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Crosmando: Weird decision, considering the Q1 idtech is open source.
Not really, considering an entirely new code base can provide more flexibility than some crusty old code artifact from the mid-90s. They might be imitating the style of ye olde Quake, but at the same time they'll also be able to do stuff the latter would probably have a tough time pulling off.
Posted June 25, 2021
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Crosmando: Weird decision, considering the Q1 idtech is open source.
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Mr.Mumbles: Not really, considering an entirely new code base can provide more flexibility than some crusty old code artifact from the mid-90s. They might be imitating the style of ye olde Quake, but at the same time they'll also be able to do stuff the latter would probably have a tough time pulling off.
Well, I don´t know, man, Crossmando might be right in this case - thing is, Hrot was programmed by one guy in Pascal (!), which is huuge hats-off, but also masochism of highest rank :D

I wouldn´t want to do anything in Pascal anymore :D
Post edited June 25, 2021 by Tarhiel
Posted June 25, 2021
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fronzelneekburm: Looks like a shameless Dusk rip-off and has a stupid title to boot (HROT sounds like someone sneezing).

Sadly, it still looks more interesting than 99% of the stuff released nowadays, so I guess I'll keep an eye on it.
That "stupid" name is czech for "apex". And your fps knowledge is lacking if you think it's a Dusk rip-off
Posted June 25, 2021
Just to make it clear. The HROT looks quite precisely how communism felt, back Czechoslovakia before revolution in 1989. I mean it didn't LOOK like it, the actual look was lot more grey (if you would take HROT video, and turn it greyscale, most of the city would look as it really did, hehe). But it felt like this. Like full of feces and only feces. And unreal, nothing was real. Especially the bits looking somewhat real/good were always fake facade, masking the real feces behind...

(of course I may be interpreting author's artistic vision in completely wrong way, but considering we both did grow up in the same country and probably around the same time, I think I got his message at least somewhat right ... but take my description above as my personal view how it was to grow up under communism and how things did [not] work)
Post edited June 25, 2021 by ped7g
Posted June 25, 2021
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eric5h5: From the store page: "A custom engine written in Pascal imitating 1990s software-style rendering with unfiltered textures and polygon jitter."
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Crosmando: Weird decision, considering the Q1 idtech is open source.
It is in a way, but I think it is cool to see people writing their own engines instead of every "new" game being same old UE, Unity, id or CryEngine with different assets. Kudos for the effort involved with that too.
Posted June 25, 2021
I was hoping this game would find its way here, eventually.
Despite the MAXIMUM BROWN, I'm really looking forward to it.
Posted June 26, 2021
One of the most spectacular gaming experiences I've ever had. This is day 1 material, folks.
Posted June 27, 2021
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Zoidberg: Quake running on Unreal? Do you really believe yourself clever insulting Carmack like that?
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Breja: Huh? I just said that Quake looks way better than this game. It would take some truly special mental gymnastics to take "your 25 year old game still looks cutting edge compared to this modern attempt at emulating it" as an insult.
The Joke ->
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Posted June 27, 2021
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Breja: Huh? I just said that Quake looks way better than this game. It would take some truly special mental gymnastics to take "your 25 year old game still looks cutting edge compared to this modern attempt at emulating it" as an insult.
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Zoidberg: The Joke ->
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Apparently. I still don't see it. But then, I know next to nothing about mr. Carmack, so I assume that's why.
Posted June 27, 2021
Curious about this game. Wishlisted.
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