The Wastes

If you played the old gldsrc mod then you know exactly what you are getting, along with some fancy new menu screens, new game modes and weapons, and a dev team that clearly cares deeply for a game that should have been much more popular than it was. Hopefully this is the start of a long and successful reboot of "The Wastes"

This game is a failed project, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game or that the devs necessarily did a bad job. Rather the main issue with this game is that it is an online multiplayer that literally nobody ever plays. If there were say a campaign option or something you might stick around; but there isn't. It's meant to be a sort of nostalgic nod to old school shooters (where you can't aim down the sights, kind of like doom) and it does a good job of that I would say, but I can't in all honesty recommend it because, unless you're a fan of just playing with bots all day there isn't a whole lot to do (which in all honesty is okay but the bot AI isn't crazy good).

So this game is based on a very popular Haf life 1 mod with the same name. If you remember the mod stop reading and buy it! Its a multiplayer only game, but there are bots in the game some polish of the AI is needed for certain gametypes but DM works. The weapons feel great to shoot, as the devs stated this is the base game, and they intend to work on it for a long time. If you like the old school feel of shooters with a modern after taste( like sprinting) I would recommend buying this game. These modern things can also be turned off, and there are countless of game varitations thanks to the mutator system. There is also a melee and attribute system in play. The price of the game is fair if you think about how much garbage is getting here everyday. This has a lots of polish that other Early acces games in the 15 -20 dollars catergory Do not have. + all the post game content is free!!!!

I purchased this game a month ago, and have yet to find a single player online. Does anyone actually play this game?

This is not The Wastes. This is a cruder, uglier, unsubtle mess of random gimmicky features like dismemberment, vehicles and cannibal health restoration, but without the fantastic maps and intense, impactful gameplay that made The Wastes mod the best deathmatch I ever had the pleasure of playing. Very janky interface, can't rebind half the controls, ugly HUD, constant unnecessary music on by default that ruins the intense stealth that characterised the original Wastes mod's best moments. And I just can't figure out why they've replaced the maps with things that look uglier than Quake 1, in places, and that have no natural flow or interesting dynamics the way the ruined cities of the original played. I bought this on an impulse for my love of the original mod, but quickly came to regret it - and can't refund the gift edition I bought for a friend.

Do not buy this trash. It is a very low quality game by an incompetent developer. All the models are ported from the goldsource mod, exept the new player animations are crap. Feels like everything which goldsourse took care of in the original mod, was replaced with amateurish poorly designed stuff. Sound design is terrible. The burning fire sounds like gravel being crushed for example. All embient noises play incoherently. All 3 of them. The backround music is there for the purpose of obfuscating this, I believe. The gibbing is done very sloppily. An arm or a leg just randomly comes off on death sometimes, or a head gets detached. It really isnt as fun as it seems, as the gibs and corpses often noclip into walls and the floor. And blood effects are bad too. Also, if you change the gamma/contrast, it changes that on your entire computer. I regret buying this. It is not worth it's price, or any price. I would not recommend it even if it was free. This dev is not good enough to make an actual game. If you are interested, just play the half-life mod of the same name - you will not be missing ANYTHING. The weapons are exactly the same, there are more and better maps, and better gameplay, as it is powered with a good robust engine with all core mechanics already in place. Even the bots act almost identically. The only 'improvement' worth mentioning is that the bleeding now can be removed. The dev was blabbering something about the 'limitations' of the goldsource because of which that could not have been done, but why other mods were able to do this, action half-life for example, but for you some unpassable limitations exist? Maybe you just werent smart enough? Also there is a new separate gamemode where you play as a car with guns, if you care. Look, this is NOT an improvement upon the mod. If anything, it is by all means a downgrade. If you think it would be like original The Wastes, but on more advanced engine, you are gonna be dissapointed. Apparently, the dev thought that if he could make a somewhat good mod using goldsource, then he had the ability to actually build as good game from the ground-up. Well he was wrong. I bought this thinking that if he uses a genuine old engine id tech 3, then he probably knows what he is doing. That is not the case. Do not buy.

The Wastes is the greatest multiplayer FPS game you've never played, and it holds a special place in my heart. Years and years ago when I had a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Compaq that had some Athlon XP CPU clocked at 1.6 GHz, 512 MB of DDR SDRAM, and an AGP Nvidia 5200 FX that had.. maybe 64 or 128 megabytes of memory, the selection of games I could play was somewhat limited. I also had *no* money, so I had to make due with mods for games that I already owned if I wanted something new to play. Half-Life 1 mods consisted of the majority of these. I poured countless hours into The Trenches, Sven Coop, Firearms, The Specialists, and The Wastes. Out of all of those, The Wastes was the one that struck the right chords with me: the electrifying gunplay, the great art and sound design, and the fantastic post-apocalyptic atmosphere that all of the maps had. All of the controls for that mod are permanently burned into my muscle memory, and I practically know every little detail that all of maps and weapons had. Unfortunately, The Wastes community was tiny when I discovered it in 2005, but I managed to play it regularly with some people. Fast forward to 2016 - I'm looking around on Mod DB and I notice a news article announcing that The Wastes is being ported to a variation of the Quake 3 engine whilst being revamped and reworked. I could not believe what I was seeing, and after I read that article, I felt like I was a kid again. When the new iteration of The Wastes was released roughly two years later, that feeling came back in force, despite the fact that the first release had some significant bugs that were eventually patched out. Regardless, those blemishes did not diminish the wave of nostalgia I had. We live in an age of cookie-cutter AAA games today; the age of highly ambitious multiplayer Half-Life or Quake total conversions is largely gone. All AAA multiplayer FPS games today are alike in some way or another; none of them have the vision or creativity that were made by people trying to find their footing in the world of game development and not having to worry about suits restricting their work. If you want to know what mods for games like Half-Life or Quake were like circa 2002, give this game a try. These Vera Visions peeps are some real crazy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and I love it. Reviving a highly obscure Half-Life 1 mod (and putting it in a new engine) that's loved by only a select few - this is the ♥♥♥♥ I live for.

Good game, never got to play the Half-Life original, just needs some people to hop on and play, good classic FPS feel with reloading weapons. If you like Half-Life deathmatch you will like this. It just came out not to long ago, play it! Messing around with bots are fun because they aimbot. Weapons are very satisfying to use and hit people with.

This game is superb!

The Wastes was one of the many classic mods developed for Half-Life. It was a brutal post apoc blood-bath with a slick style and awesome custom visuals. Vera Visions; with support and blessing of the original development team, has recreated it as a full fledged game on its own engine. I cannot say enough good things about this game. Its a passionate love letter, its nostalgic, its faithful, but it isn't afraid to take risks and change for the better, there is chunks of new content including vehicles and huge plans in the works. It plays and feels just like you remember, but better. Completely worth the price of admission for nostalgic memories alone.