The new Delta Force doesn’t appear to be focused on those huge maps and potential long engagement ranges that made the original so good.

@user-ow1wi4ny4w

8 ай бұрын

And noones even notices that... I cannot understand how this game can look good to anyone who knows what Delta Force was about, or has played it. This looks to the dot like BF, mixed with a little of COD and Rainbow Six. With operators included. Please, take it away, bury it. NOW.

@mver191

8 ай бұрын

@@user-ow1wi4ny4w It will be complete crap.

@fastertove

8 ай бұрын

@@user-ow1wi4ny4wI completely agree. It looks like they just used the Delta Force name.

@Ronbotnik

8 ай бұрын

​@@user-ow1wi4ny4wDelta Force definitely doesnt deserve to get dug out of its grave, just to get turned into a BF clone and get put right back in. Its a bloody shame

@KingKrouch

8 ай бұрын

So from what I understand and can see, this series reminds me more about ARMA than any of those games, would that be true,@@user-ow1wi4ny4w ?

The thing that truly blew my mind with Delta Force 1 way back when I first played it was that there was no "out of bounds" on the map... if you wanted to walk for 20 minutes in order to get to the top of the mountain on the other side of the enemy base for a better sniping position, well, you could!

@joe--cool

8 ай бұрын

Haha, we did the same thing. I remember the map itself repeating when we tried it. But the other player was still 20km away. Even if it was the same building the players weren't there. I think you could still hear shots though. I doubt they tested it for bored LAN kids, lol.

@fridaycaliforniaa236

8 ай бұрын

So damn cool, I remember this =)

@willnailbomb

8 ай бұрын

I remember being blown away by the huge open landscapes in Delta Force. Made the maps of all the other FPSs I’d played up to that point seem tiny by comparison!

@ic3olate

6 ай бұрын

Was thinking of this for the entire video, glad to see others shared my amazement. I remember wondering why that game alone had that distinctive "fuzzy" look to it when I was a kid. I would go to the repeated terrain sections of the map to explore the area without any threats, but they gave me an eerie ghost-town feeling too.

Playing Delta Force in multiplayer co-op is one of my best gaming memories of the time! Fighing side-by-side with my friend, tactical approaching, etc.

The "land warrior" tagline for Delta Force 3 is probably a reference to the US Army's Land Warrior program, which was a late-90s to mid-00s initiative to create a networked fighting force using portable computer systems, augmented reality goggles with built-in HUDs, and other commercially available gadgets and gizmos. It was a bit ahead of its time, but eventually evolved into the kit that US soldiers carry today.

@CMDRSweeper

8 ай бұрын

You sir are totally correct! Back then the OICW was all the rage with it's grenade launcher in the media we had as the latest tech. There is a reason Soldier of Fortune 2 wanted to slap it in there in their game as well.

@Spacemutiny

8 ай бұрын

Yes!!! I remember this being a thing.

@FlyboyHelosim

6 ай бұрын

Indeed it was. The featured OICW gun is a dead giveaway, as that was integral to the Land Warrior project. Some units in the U.S. Army even used that release of the game as a training simulator.

I spent wayyyy too many hours in that first mission of Delta Force! Pretty sure if I loaded it up today, I would still know where all the enemies spawned! Thanks for the nostalgia. I played this at my grandpa's house in the middle of the night after they had gone to sleep. He recently passed and this brings back some good memories of him teaching me to play it.

Multiplayer wasnt mentioned for delta force. A modem connection and king of the hill made my entire afternoon. One of the first multiplayer games over the internet i ever played.

I’m so surprised there is so little coverage of this Franchise or any of the Novalogic games across KZread. Very happy to see this.❤ There had better be voxels in the new game! And yes, I’m kidding, it’s a soulless F2P cashgrab with no self-awareness by the looks of it. 😂

Playing DF on 320x240 with turbo off at a lan party was a must. The second anyone moved it was shown as a massive pixel on the hill and you did see 5 tracers to it, then you followed the other tracers until it died out and then you waited for that next pixel to move... Good times.

It would have been good if you had mentioned 'Joint-ops'. That game was absolutely insane and the number of people who could play in a server back then with little lag was amazing.

@chewu

8 ай бұрын

Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising was the game that made me buy my first GPU. GeForce FX 5200, amazing stuff.

@MrWherg

8 ай бұрын

I spent so much time on that as a kid, I can't believe it doesn't get the acknowledgement it deserves, providing fire support from a chinook while dropping off a medical team at the objective was incredible

@MrRudePolite

Ай бұрын

@@chewumine too! And that was one of my reasons too. In fact it came with one of my graphics cards! I don’t remember which one though

Delta Force 2 was so hilariously buggy. This was before game manufacturers would make regular updates and bug fixes. You just had to work with what you got. I remember one hilarious bug during multiplayer games my name would show up on other people's screens as "NullPtr()". So that ended up being my gaming name from then on.

@rtmclean484

6 ай бұрын

Ah NullPtr(), sounds like an error handling piece of code for a program written in C or C++, basically telling the program that the memory address that is being pointed to is empty/has no value stored in it. In C we call a variable holding a memory address a "pointer" thus Null pointer = NullPtr

@garyingle4689

5 ай бұрын

To be fair novalogic did regularly update DF2. I played online on two different versions of the game. The updated version was 1.16.something. Brilliant memories and I think there's still a few servers still up with a small community still playing.

Well that's a nostalgia trip, I remember playing these as a kid and loving them - excited for the new game!

@QuickQuips

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. I remember playing this and sniping everywhere.

@bladesofseven

8 ай бұрын

I'm very leery about the direction the reboot will take. In some cases it'd be better to let sleeping dogs lie.

@engineerbot

8 ай бұрын

@@bladesofsevenespecially if there’s going to be a mobile port. Gives me bad vibes.

I remember playing the first Delta Force as a kid in a local gaming cafe, expecting it to be my usual shooter where I just waltzed in and mowed everything down. I remember long walks in large maps before I got my ass kicked so many times.

Pete, thank you so much for covering this franchise. Not many people mention it and it needs more love. I picked up DeltaForce Land Warrior from a charity shop, CIB looking brand new, for about 50p. No, not last week. This was back when it was brand new. Score! And I loved it and to this day, I can't think of a game on the same scale. Even Battlefield often doesn't feel as vast. I look forward to looking at the new game. Had no idea, and I had been thinking DF needed a remake. Awesome! Great video as always. Great to see you Tubing more often again. :)

DF2 was an amazing game, I remember playing it with my friend and they wanted to try it themselves so naturally I copied the .exe onto a floppy and my friend told me it didn't work. I had no idea about how computers worked back then but that's pretty much where it all started for me. I also had next to no understanding of english at the time so playing through the missions was a struggle. I guess it being pretty much the only game you have gives you a lot more motivation to figure it out. I also remember being blown away seeing Delta Force Black Hawk Down a few years later, that felt like a technological marvel at the time I need to give these games another shot on proper hardware, I did try them on a modern machine a while back and they certainly have a few issues

BHD is one of the best games I ever played, loved it!

I still remember playing most of the Delta Force games in the 2000's on my Pentium 4 PC. I was totally amazed by the scale and complexity of the series. The underwater rifle blew my mind 🤯

The late 90's was such an amazing time to be a gamer. What I wouldn't give to relive that time.

@another3997

8 ай бұрын

Yes, there was still a lot of fertile ground to be explored in the gaming world back then. Lots of new genres and varying gameplay mechanics, combined with rapidly advancing technology, brought us some great games. But, the early 2000s brought us some massive advances too. Big, open worlds, with ultra detailed 3D environments and complex, multi faceted gameplay. Far Cry and Stalker were great examples.

Man, I remember spending HOURS playing Delta Force! It always ran smoothly, had some of the best graphics of its day, and was a ton of fun! Hearing the sound effects and seeing the voxels in action in this video really took me back, thanks!

I was obsessed with DF:LW. Had knee surgery in 2001 and had lots of time on my hands, so I got pretty damn good at the online games they hosted.

holy crap i haven't thought of delta force in ages my papa (rest in peace

Man, my Dad loved these games when I was a kid (he's from the military); it's probably the reason why I have a soft spot particularly for Call of Duty campaign modes-some of my first ever PC game experiences were of ancient FPS games and tank sims!

As an OG Delta Force fan (played 1 and LW a metric tonne as a kid), this franchise will always hold a special place in my heart. This is also helped by me going back to them on Steam a couple of years ago and doing some speedrunning. Even managed to get a couple of world records on LW. These are fantastic games and they deserve so much more love and recognition in my biased opinion. I just hope that tencent can manage to not fuck up the new one...though I feel like I'm going to need to stock up on literal mountains of hopium/copium for that one.

Don't forget Joint Operations, which was released late in the day by Novalogic. Epic scale battles and brilliant gameplay!

@chewu

8 ай бұрын

People always talk about Battlefield back in the day. But Joint Ops was up there.

Loved these, with task force dagger being my favourite. I also loved the little cardboard keyboard covers in the big boxes!

Let's hope this can stay true to the originals otherwise it's just Tencent ruining more games. Some of my best early gaming memories were the Delta Force series, with 100s if not 1000s of hours in Black Hawk Down multiplayer hard to remember since I would come home and play until the wee hours of the morning like clockwork.

@Ronbotnik

8 ай бұрын

its hard to be optimistic when all the footage and buzzwords for the reboot make it look and sound absolutely nothing like the classic Delta Force games shown. Idk how im supposed to get excited about a Tencent BF clone with Delta Force's name slapped on top

@joe--cool

8 ай бұрын

To be frank the footage of the new game looked like another generic live service game. Too bad a real single player + Co-Op sequel might have been cool.

@briannajoyyy

8 ай бұрын

@@joe--cool I agree the end mission in Black Hawk Down was truly amazing! And from all the footage I've seen too it just seems like more of a generic FPS BF/COD clone so Tencent can take advantage of Delta Force name and not doubt tarnish it!

@bagustesa

8 ай бұрын

i'd bet it would feature microtransactions.

@NeverlandSystemZor

8 ай бұрын

I was a BEAST on multiplayer as a sniper... I LOVED BHD. Had countless hundreds of hours in it. EVERY weekend my brother and I (half way across the country from each other) would get online and play for 4-6 hours.

I was in a DF/DF2 clan. There were huge LAN parties for DF2. It was my favorite era of gaming.

@danyoutube7491

7 ай бұрын

We didn't get the internet until 2006, so DF2 was gathering dust a bit for me by then (having completed it long since), but I was surprised and pleased to see my brother trying out some online multiplayer. I think he got killed and was in spectator mode, I remember we were panning around the landscape for different angles to view the fierce firefight in which dozens of players were involved. All the fire was focused on a narrow building a few stories high on top of a small hill. Initially he was the only one with internet in the house, so I didn't get around to playing DF2 online. For me DF2 was a very enjoyable singleplayer game.

Great vid 👍 Played Delta Force on a 4 PC link cabinet they had setup in HMV in the west end, it litteraly got me to buy my first PC, pentium 2 350mhz with a nvida riva 128, what a machine 😊

So glad to see a new video. Keep it up! Love your content. :D

Delta Force was the first online FPS I played. Was over a 14.4 modem connection. I remember having to lead the lag to hit anything. Odd I got pretty good at it :P

Delta Force 2 is one of my favorite FPS and I still play it from time to time. Great game.

the tech support lines for Novalogic were outsourced to the company I worked for, along with other games companies. Basically telling someone torestart their router, install a patch and update their drivers for 12 hours a day

I own the original DF games, great to see someone else out there appreciated them. Back in the day I felt like I was the only one I knew playing them.

@danyoutube7491

7 ай бұрын

I didn't really know anyone playing them either. I don't think my brother played it, though the general genre was certainly up his street (I remember watching, impressed, as he played Project IGI, another good shooter with big outdoor environments. Hidden & Dangerous was another favourite for both of us and of course Battlefield 1942, which we only played against bots because we didn't have the internet).

This was such a great time to be a gamer.

I really remember this game so well. One of the few games that actually had bullet drop and extreme range sniping for a PC game. I still have my copies.

I've spent so mch time ont he Novalogic games ! F-16, F-22, F/A-18, Armored Fist, Comanche 3, Delta Force... The Voxel Space 3D engine was really amazing for its era 🥰🥰

While I easily remember the box art on shelves back in the day, I just wasn't interested in military shooters until Battlefield 1942.

Loved these games defo a big part of my childhood. Also cant wait to visit your new wee venue 😊

Great video. Would love to see more retrospectives of 90s game series’. Stuff from Looking-glass perhaps. 😍

These games were great and are oft forgotten. No games of the time had the ‘infinite’ landscape. Nice video I was well into these at the time, tho you skipped DF BHD which was huge and not just an add on etc. introduced vehicles etc and was massive online, tho that was perfected later by Joint Operations which was another good ‘Delta Force’ game, tho by that time Battlefield etc were taking off. Looking forward to the new game.

Came out in THE year... 2000. After 23 years 2k is still THE year.

the minute tencent was mentioned all interest i had in that game evaporated.

Back in the day I was blown away that you could use satelite photos to make your own height maps for the environment.

39 seconds in and there it is! 20 years i waited, but always tried to remember that damn awesome game from my childhood. i thought i lost you for ever. thank you

You kinda forgot Joint Operations, which was just amazing for its time. We had 256 player battles in a tournament called "International Conflict". It was glorious.

When Voxels where a thing ... miss those times ... the most known game build on this Voxel tech was OutCast , and its weird that in 2023 we will finally get a sequel to it ...

Props for the Dwarf reference. Great video I remember these well

Mostly an advertisement for Tencent shoverlware that does not even come close to the original; a futuristic setting, no large maps but rather skirmish or CounterStrike-like play... Tarkov.

Tencent... That explains it. This is just another soulless COD reskin, sharing nothing in common with the Delta Force games i loved as a kid 😢

"Always with the triangles". What a brilliant reference to Red Dwarf. I wonder how many caught it!

Loved the DF games, My 1st foray into online play was with DF. Played with a team on Blackhawk Down. And had a server for Joint Operation the DF spinoff.

Ah Delta Force, i remember playing the demo of it from a PC magazine CD that came with tons of demos (Nocturne, Unreal Tournament, Battlezone 2, Rainbow Six Rouge Spear, and many more) I remember that my PC lacked the power to run the game properly, my PC at that time was shy of 16 MB of ram with a mere 8 MB of integrated graphics, but for the few seconds i could play of it (with frames in the single digits like a powerpoint presentation) i was amazed about this odd tech called "Voxels" back then, my young mind couldnt understand about "pixels with volume" and the fact that if i wanted i could literally break a hole into the enemy's base and keep blowing everything in my path and the terrain could deform and destroy with accuracy, it was mindblowing seeing such realistic way of handling damage to the enviroment in a video game.

My dad loved Delta Force 2, and showed it to me and my brother as a kid.

Played blackhawk down when I was little all the time. I remember discovering ArmA on youtube when I was a teenager, it was a video just showing off a 2v2 pvp game between a couple people fighting over an oil pipe in Takistan. Having mainly played call of duty to that point, I was blown away by the realistic gameplay and animation, and instantly reminded of the old delta force games. Now I've got over 2k hours in the arma franchise, over a quarter of my entire playtime on steam. Thank you for covering this, the franchise is near and dear to me. New one looks awful, I'll stick to ArmA now lol. Looks like they couldn't help but copy the zeitgeist in making an obnoxious twitch shooter instead of choosing to not abuse the franchise name.

The first and only Delta force I've played was Delta force Land Warrior. I was blown away by it scale. And never knew it uses voxels for that. (Honestly i had no idea about voxels back then any way 🙂) It was some pirated CD i got from someone. Cause in begining of 2000s, was hard to get licensed games in Ukraine, and market was flooded with pirated copies (yet for money, but no one cared about that). Now i have Delta force Land Warrior on GOG. Very nice platform to buy some realy good old games. Thank you, Nostalgia Nerd for remind me about it.

Man, I remember these games. I spent sooo much time in BHD multiplayer. Anyone else here remember GI Jane's Games?

Don't forget the greatest voxel game of all time - Outcast.

Delta force Land Warrior was named as such due to a trend in gaming around that time where the US military had these flashy weapons programs and these military games would put them front and centre. There was another big one around that time that i'm struggling to remember that had a game named around it too.

@FlyboyHelosim

6 ай бұрын

The U.S. Army actually used DF:LW as a training aid.

Love the video, great stuff! It actually was the first FPS I played as a child that actually looked and felt realistic. It is my first love when it comes to FPS. Never been a big fan of genres such as DOOM and Quake, always liked the military setting for shooters. The new game does not look all that interesting to me though... But I'll give it a try when it comes out before I judge

I LOVED delta force 1. Firing an m203 into the enemy spawn from yours and through exact doors.. skill in of itself. Loved it.

Delta force black hawk down was the best of them all. Surprised you didn't include it at all.

I actually played Delta Force with colleagues back in 2000 when we had breaks on the job. That was fun :D

Man, I still have these games laying around! In fact, I stumped upon one of them the other day, looking for a movie, in my Blu-ray collection.

Real blast from the past. I did not expect this.

The sniper online servers & maps for Delta Force 2 were epic.

Had a lot of fun with the first Delta Force game back in the day. I loved Quake, but this was obviously very different. The slow pace and the threat of being killed by just a few bullets made it exciting in a completely different way. It almost feels like yesterday. Hard to believe 25 years have passed... 😄

Delta Force 2 was my first full PC game. It absolutely blew me away, Played it online and still remember the buildings that you could glitch into to cheese other players. Nova logic also made Joint Ops which was like Delta force, and Battlefield had a baby.

Look up Thunder Brigade for a sci/fi themed game with similar engine (completely written in assembly). We here in central europe totally did not have early 3d accelerators because cannot afford them - so with my pentium1 I was so happy that I could play these games like Thunder Brigade (owns still in box) and delta force (altough only had a demo). Also if you look at these - they seriously look more impressive than polygon games of the same time! It is just that 3d accelerators came from an other technical direction so it was very hard to accelerate these with them. Also look up new modern voxel engines with destructible terrain and vehicles and engine demos for that! I am a bit sad they did not make a though move and buy up some of the best of those and make delta force voxelfully great again - but I do understand the risks of course...

Loved Comanche and Delta Force growing up, good memories.

I still play these games from time to time. The biggest hurdle is turning down the mouse sensitivity a ton, since I don't think the devs were thinking about mice with 12,000 dpi resolution back then

That looked very cool sir!

I was on a DFLW team that competed in some tournaments, great fun :)

Delta force made me an fps lover for ever and it introduced me to online multi player which was such a new thing at the time.

Always with the triangles. Red Dwarf. Loved that episode.

I discovered the series with Delta Force 2, having played a demo from a magazine CD I think. I was hugely impressed, parachuting into this vast undulating environment and shooting the few enemies below me to secure my immediate surroundings. The huge outdoor environment, the varied terrain, the tall grass- grass, which really looked like grass and within which you could be obscured from view - were all ground breaking for me because I had only had my first PC a short while. This was one of my highlights of my early PC gaming days, along with Medieval Total War, Operation Flashpoint (which rather eclipsed Delta Force 2 in many ways, but DF2 still had the lovely voxels!

@FlyboyHelosim

6 ай бұрын

I never realized back in the day but found out a few years ago by accident... DF2 actually has fully destructible buildings! Guard towers, base buildings, bunkers, etc. can be killed with either the LAW rocket launcher, satchel charges, or artillery strikes!

12:47 Deuz Ex is my favourite game. So under appreciated especially when compared with Deus Ex.

you forgot to mention Delta Force: Urban Warfare for PS1, but honestly thats probably better left unmentioned

Onto accelerator cards: I'd LOVE to see a Nostalgia Nerd episode on 3Dfx's story, its rise and fall. There's quite a lot of content to cover

The original Delta Force still has an active small userbase. God, I love those voxels.

I never got to experience other than the demo of DF1 but boy I played it to death! The sniping and shooting grenades with the M4 was fantastic! I longed for DF2 especially because of the ability to hide in the grass and whatnot, but I didn't have the hardware for it, so DF experience for me started and ended with DF1 demo. Nowadays I've gotten the DF bundle from Steam so I can finally experience all that I missed over 20 years ago.

Jesus this has taken me back - I forgot all about this series

I used to play this in a LAN café. Finding a good hiding in high gras on a hill and wait for the other player to move. I MEAN WAIT. It was waiting for the other player thinking an other spot might have enemy's to shoot and move.

@joe--cool

8 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah the difference between a player and a cactus was 2 pixels.

Man I loved this series specifically 1&2. Land warrior was the last one I played and it just didnt grab me like the first 2 did.

@AnthonyEvelyn

8 ай бұрын

Because DFLW wasnt as immersive as the first two games.

The Delta Force series is a seriously underrated gem in military FPS games. I still play DF: Xtreme and a couple of mods every week. That new Delta Force game looks horrible, like that terrible Comanche reboot that came out a few years ago with no spirit of the original games. One of my most anticipated games by NovaLogic that never released was Delta Force: Angel Falls, which should have come after DFX2.

getting that 1.2 km headshot after 5 tries with the .50, with the target frantically spraying in my direction, good times

I'd consider Delta Force to be the progenitor of not just milsims, but also large open world FPS games in general. I mean DOOM basically spawned the linear, corridor shooter. But stuff like Far Cry, ARMA, Sniper, Squad, even Battlefield owe their existence to Delta Force.

Omg I had the first 3 in big box form. What a blast! Online was a mess, stack claymores at the dept and crash the server. So fun

I remember in Delta force 2, before the patch if you had a ghillie suit and were more than 100 meters away, you were invisible... Or something to that effect... In multiplayer.

Wow. There’s a game I haven’t thought of in a long, long time. We used to play DF:LW at some LAN parties. Setting up that IPX/SPX network.

It's 2023 and no woman has as of yet graduated as a special operator. Glad to see the original Delta Force was so current year.

I loved how suicidal Charlie team was.

I fully played Delta Force 1 to 3, loved them totally, a real blast from my past :)

Listening to the video in the background whilst I do other things and hear "VAUXHALL Space Engine", expecting to see Richard Branson's Cavalier SRi

Black hawk down multiplayer on sniper customer servers was amazing.

Comanche 1 was awesome. Now I just got the newer'ish Comanche on Steam for a great price. Glad to see there's still alive and well.

Loved playing Delta Force across lan with a mate. Another at the time, Project IGI - thoroughly enjoyed those 2 games.

This brings me back to when I played the Delta Force 2 demo on my PC in the late 90s not understanding what a video card was. It was my moms work computer and had an ATI Rage or something like that. The game ran at about 1 fps and I just thought thats how the game was.

Before watching, my guess (having played it when it came out, less I'm thinking of another game) is probably voxel usage and giant areas for the time... I was young, but remember it was hard, and had different graphics than other games I'd played, and larger more open levels Again maybe Im thinking of something with a similar name that I played that on the box or something was like "using voxels (something) better graphics and realism"

I'm surprised you didn't mention the modding community, it's still going strong, 25 years later. And yeah don't get me started on this new game that's just reusing the name without having any connection to the gameplay of the series.

It always breaks my heart when someone mentions shooters from 1998 and doesn't mention Unreal :(

@DeanCalaway

8 ай бұрын

The obligatory "what about" comment.

@Diablokiller999

8 ай бұрын

@@DeanCalaway Someone has to carry the burden

Man, I miss Delta Force. Land Warrior was one of the first titles I played as a kid, and Novalogic really did seem to know how to make the series work for a time.