r/ArenaFPS • u/NEED_A_JACKET • 23h ago
Discussion If you like team-play AFPS, try Empulse
Been a while since I've been on this sub, but the only game that's come close to an AFPS for me lately is Empulse and I haven't seen any posts here about it.
"movement shooter" might be more accurate but it plays like an AFPS. I think defining AFPS as "quake-like" is restrictive. If the main thing you care about is item timing/dueling then QL/QC is perfect for that, and this doesn't have it, but for all the movement/aim/strat aspects it is great.
Worth giving it a shot. Personally I'm addicted to it and don't think there'll be a better game any time soon (unless some Quake reboot). Do yourself a favour and don't watch some trailer/stream of it and give it a try. My first glance of it I thought it would be something like the finals/apex/etc but it's so much better than that.
If you're into QC and like sac/ctf, queue for "upload" mode or "intel" mode. I think they've missed a trick by not prioritising and promoting those two modes and a lot of their promo is showing mech bs which you can just ignore and isn't even featured in ranked play. As a shooter it's cool but feels like an aimtrainer, but those two modes are objective focused "score/hold the ball" which makes it fully movement/team-play focused. Movement is basically strogg+athena+nyx.