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Hello, I'm interested into some good casula shooter's that work on linux. My only requirement is that they shouldn't EVER have to use an external launcher like ea ( have bf3 on steam and the ea launcher just doesn't wanna work ).

I played games like splitgate, halo infinite and battlebit remastered

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[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Was just playing Gunslinger:Juarez , it is well produced, runs perfectly and is pretty fun.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I finished that game 4 times, might be time for 5th time.

[–] Uncut_Lemon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Mullet Madjack.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 10 hours ago

Half Life 2.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Tf2 is the vwst war themed hat simulator out there

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is really fun and silly. Doom Eternal is also cool.

[–] radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

What issue are you having with Battlefield 3/EA? I just installed it last week I think I did it via Lutris

[–] nixxo@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Combat Master. Like CoD but simpler, no waiting, you start the game and end up playing in less than 2 mins, loading included.

[–] mathias_freire@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Alien Arena, Urban Terror, Xonotic

[–] Hubi 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can recommend Selaco. It's built on GZDoom and one of the best shooters I've played in the last years.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592280/Selaco/

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ion fury and Hedon are solid too, build engine and gzdoom respectively. Selaco though, sometimes it's almost hard to believe it's running on the doom engine.

[–] Hubi 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed, the technical side is super impressive. The 2D character sprites are basically the only constant reminder how old this engine really is.

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Xonotic, an open-source arena shooter

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

+1 for Xonotic. It scratches the Quake 3: Arena itch extremely well.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I remember playing that when it was Nexuiz (the first time). I may have to crank it up again now that I've been reminded of it.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Halo Infinite.. still works on Linux.

Battlebit Remastered is pretty fun but I have limited experience in that one.

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Battlebit is great for a couple of rounds of brainless fun every other night. I'm not yet on linux myself, but it seems to work well via proton according to google, and it doesn't use an external launcher.

[–] Kvoth@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of good ones here, but I'll add one I haven't seen, cube 2: sauerbraten

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

That's a name I havent heard in a while..

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Dusk, definitively try that

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

i was about to shit my pants that this wasn't mentioned. i love this game. and we're currently botless.

[–] madnerds@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is it actually easy to find a game without bots and hackers, or is it only on certain community servers?

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

So for now - fixtf2 worked! There are near zero bots and bot hosters and creators got steam banned. Last scream fortress 2023 was unplayable.... this year I almost cried as I was playing through my contracts with no issues.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Deep Rock Galactic. Rock and stone, miner!

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Seriously one of the best coop shooters out there. So much character, and by now there are quite a few different mission types making replayability much better than when it first came out. The constant updates are also nothing to scoff at, especially considering the games price.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have tried all these on Linux through proton.

Dusk - the OG boomer shooter revival game, should be the first game to try to see if you like these kinds of fps.

Amid evil - beautiful looking FPS instead of firing guns you fire unique magical weapons.

Ultrakill - extremely difficult movement shooter with a very interesting setting and lore. Its still not fully complete theres like a final layer thats still cooking but what's there is worth experiencing.

Selaco - FEAR inspired FPS built in GZDoom somehow. Tight movement, great gunplay, interesting enemy difficulty progression, superior AI that will flank your ass and hammer you with what feels like tactical actions, great interactive environments.

Turbo ultrakill- one of the most fun and bombastic FPS ive ever played. Play as a merc who gets turned into a living chainsaw as you ruin the plans of wannabe trancendent techno gods and run away super AI one bullet at a time

Cultic - plays heavy into blood and residents evil 4 inspirations to deliver a very mood atmospheric FPS with the best goddamn dynamite throwing mechanics since OG Blood itself. The single dev is really passionate and is constantly sharing updates to episode 2.

Ion Fury + ion fury aftershock A love letter to the best parts of build engine games of the 90s. Its incredibly well made build engine game with huge sprawling enviroments and too many secrets. The pistol with auto-lockon is hands down the best pistol Ive every used in any game. Aftershock DLC is even better than the base game.

Zortch - another passion project made by one person with an in-house engine coded just for the game. The enemy AI moves around a lot and the cartoony graphics and plot make it more of a light hearted title to have fun with like a game you would find on the N64. Its only 5$ and easily worth it.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Try Ravenfield. It doesn't get anymore casual than that. The most fun you can have with a battlefield like game without any of the BS.

Iron Maiden

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

Red Eclipse, although I'm not sure how large the player base is

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anger Foot natively supports Linux, and I'd consider the gameplay loop to be pretty casual.

To sum it up, you kick down doors and shoot your way through rooms while having hardcore EDM blasted at you. It has a Hotline Miami vibe to it, but is FPS.

Trailer with gameplay footage

[–] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

More like this type of game:

Mullet Mad Jack

Post Void

[–] sag@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Any Boomer Shooters like Dusk, ULTRAKILL, Zortch, Cultic, ROBOQUEST, etc.

[–] petrsimek1712@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If Sunset Overdrive by Insomniac is too casual and platformy, there are oldschool Quake games just remastered that can make anyone's blood boil with a pretty okay difficulty scaling.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is a casual shooter? As opposed to... a serious shooter?

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess as in a shooter for "casual gamers" as opposed to players that spend 10 hours a day to play CS or CoD online (or whatever is popular atm)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yup, so probably more Doom or Serious Sam and less Arma.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay I can definitely see how Arma is intricate. But if Halo is considered a casual shooter then CoD single player campaign would be casual too right?

Yeah, I'd assume so.

[–] schmaker@schmaker.eu 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@sic_semper_tyrannis @gigachad What about good old #UrbanTerror ?

I'm not sure if people still plays, but I used to have a lot of good fun back in the days 😀
youtube.com/watch?v=fO-YM9N3-C…

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

I played way too much Counter-Strike in college, and I don't regret a minute of it. Then I discovered the "that's so unrealistic bro" genre of shooters like Squad, Day-Z, Tarkov, and Arma, I never looked back.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

Would run and gun games count? If so, I strongly recommend the Neo Geo Metal Slug games. They're all sold emulated on PC (GOG for the no launcher requirement).

And on a more usual sense of "shooter games", Saints Row The Third (GOG and Humble Bundle) and UNLOVED (original version is a mod of Doom II afaik). And just a note, Saints Rows The Third, from some tests I did a while back, seems to have a memory leak issue in character customization screens when running under default Wine.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Ravenfield for cartoony/low poly acradey fun

Operation Harsh Doorstop for something more like Project Reality

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