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No Oddjob crouching! Paintball mode and Proximity mines. Thinking back at that single centered joystick + D-pad makes me wonder how we ever played it to begin with.
Circle strafing, camping, and screen watching.
Honestly the controls were never the problem since the game has generous auto-aim, the problem was that the N64 chugs with four players.
The problem was designing just the right cardboard contraption to actually block our view of one another so we could have fog of war
The definition of a screen watcher is someone who thinks everyone screenwatches!
Slappers Oddjob only.
Putting proximity mines on the ammo crates and then immediately picking up the crates so they respawned and the mine was invisible was just... chef's kiss
That's so evil
what
IIRC mines wouldn't be triggered if it was yours and you interacted with them in some way. But because the way Goldeneye handled objects like the ammo crate, anything that was considered "a part of it", such as the mine, disappeared so a new one could spawn. The overall game code knew the mine was still there so if another player grabbed the ammo crate, thus interacted with the mine, it would detonate and kill the other player.
Hope that explains it.
This inspired me to fire up the N64 and try it. First attempt, I blew up the mine accidentally and lost all my health, so you can definitely trigger your own mines. Second attempt, I placed it and picked up the crate, and the mine disappeared! And it could definitely blow up in that state too. But when I tried it again and let the crate respawn, I could see the mine again. So, shrug?
But I'm impressed, I never knew about this till now.
Thanks for confirming! 20 years later, memories fade lol.
We just didn't know any different! Compared to the precision of FPS games that we're used to now, it would probably feel like painful slow-motion to watch our old Goldeneye matches...