This was the first ever game that I bought on steam and i have so much good memories with ace of spades. Unfortunately when the new update came everyone hated the game.
same with blockstorm, it was a great game with ALOT of potential, but the company that owned it pulled the plug, now there is almost nobody playing it, because of no content or updates. very fun game though. i think some servers are still up, if not you can still play solo IIRC.
@@20tigerpaw20 Blockstorm was a true classic. Shame Indiegala basically forced Davide (the main dev) to stop updating the game. Insufficient revenue generated, most likely.
3:30 Honestly, Ace of Spades was INCREDIBLE when all there was was a gigantic open set of hills and possible snipers absolutely everywhere. Working with teammates to undermine an enemy base and cut down its foundation was completely unique. So mad that it was killed.
@@Enol666 pcgamingwiki calls the playerbase "small but active" which is about right. it's never really my main game but i've still been playing it often for about 2 years now. you can get a full server on the weekends if youre lucky! any game with a dozen or so players can be pretty fun. im noaa in game, say hi if you see me lol let's make beautiful structures and sabotage the enemy together red team for life ✌
*Remember: * Openspades and Build and shoot both access the same servers, so it is completely up to your visual preference with which one you want to use!
i would inevitably start doing this after shooting people for a while and getting bored. rarely was i successful, but when i was, it was soooo satisfying. there was this one map i played on where one team started on a big boat and the other team attacked from a wide open stretch of ground, and me and a couple others spent the entire game just digging around the ship until the entire thing collapsed and the game basically became pointless.
This was quite literally my favorite game of all time! I would log on for hours after school daily back in 2011 and played Battle Builders until they shut down the servers WHILE I WAS PLAYING! I want nothing more than the original game to come back, and would be insanely pleased if another company would buy Battle Builders and make it actually playable. That would be a dream come true
I used to play Ace of Spades. The classic version that is, never the paid one. It had a very niche community, I'm surprised to see it had more than 2 million at one point. This video made me tear up, I really miss this game. The map design was phenomenal because each round would have different "established routes" souldiers would take from spawn to the frontline. Each map had a unique style of play. A focused frontline on bridge or pinpoint, the greek city with a lot of very flat buildings, maps with hills or (my favorite) the corridor map. Each round was a completely different experience. And most of all the game had the balance between building and shooting just right so that some were tunneling into the enemy base, others were giving suppressive fire and some build encampments or bunkers to reinforce the frontline. I still remember the day I once saw a whole lobby decide they wanted to see the bridge (on the bridge map) fall so almost everyone started digging towards that goal. What killed it for me though was the easy access to aimbots shortly before the paid one was released. You could download a working aimbot very easily (a LOT of YT tutorials) and many people had modified the gun models in the game files to have extremely long barrels so they'd see enemies through walls. EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot the satisfying sound of constant digging you hear around you. When it gets louder you start to panic and look at every wall, expecting it to open up and reveal a squad of 4 enemies, ready to shoot. There has yet to be a game that has this unique gameplay that AoS had. None really allow full world modification or make building / destroying so powerful.
I was astonished by how easy it is to cheat. You literally just need an injector tool and a mod menu. That's it. But damn, I know Build and Shoot and OpenSpades exist, but what I miss is that original bunker/construction map. You know the one, it has the huge mountain with the facility in it (which some TDM maps were based on), you have that little cargo shipping area by Green spawn, the mountain usually had a huge fort where they snipped down. Damn I miss the old maps the most, even pinpoint is dead. I like Hallway, but there is only so much hallway you can play.
I really don't remember how i found this game, but i played it for hours and hours and it was one of the first PC games i remember playing and it definitely helped spark my passion for video games that i have today. Im 18 now and it really didn't seem like this was like 8 years ago. Life moves fast.
Yup great game where you can have trench war and build fortress. I still remember when i build that peacefull buddhist sign that totally wasn't used in Germany by Austrian painter
I remember being trenched under the massive trees of a huge jungle. The careening firefights echoed around me as I aimed my rifle down a sightline, headshotting any enemies that would try to sneak the flank through the river. The game felt limitless and I was constantly running from foxhole to foxhole, observing the war play out around me. This was honestly more inmersive to me at that young age than Battlefield 3 ever was, go figure.
I remember playing this when I was like 9 or 10, I loved it, I stopped playing it for reasons I never knew, sad that it died to this kind of thing, its very sad how many games like this die this way
OpenSpades is not a clone... it's a "remastered" version that allows you to play on normal oldschool aos servers with others that use the buildandshoot client.
@@LucienHughes Yet it is not. It is a remade open source client that is able to interface with Ace of Spades Classic servers. I think there were some plans to develop OpenSpades into something more, but they have not gone through with that (yet).
@@jamstheshapeshifter Ok, first of all, rude. Second of all, I simply disagree with their definition of a clone. To me, a game clone is a game very similar or heavily inspired by a specific game. While OpenSpades is a strong case of being a clone, you can not play OpenSpades without relying on the original server software or the various open source server solutions built around the original server implementation of Ace of Spades 0.76 and earlier. You are still playing Ace of Spades 0.75 (most commonly used version) and while some of the client side logic may differ from the original Voxlap client (Which is still usable to this day), the server-side is as far as I know, the same. Again, to me, a game clone is a seperate game heavily inspired by or very similar to a previously released game. To me, OpenSpades is simply a fancy client to play Ace of Spades in. I do know they DID have plans to do way more with OpenSpades, such as adding vehicles, support for larger maps, deployable weapons and much more. But that has long since been abandoned. Edit: Here is the roadmap trello.com/b/3rfpvODj/openspades-roadmap Also words
There is a ace of spades robox revival called "ace of spadez" and i find it to be a nice revival of the original feeling, its what i turn to for nostalgia
@@lazyakuma1165 Well i don't see the pay to win side, i mean, it help the devs, but it is VERY optional, as i never paid something, and still had a incredible time
I can agree with this because some of the early rank guns can easily compare to the high rank counterparts, for instance the Henry rifle can easily out preform the high rank guns that could be seen as pay to win.
There was a gamemode like this except it was a 2v2v2v2 and you could dig up dirt and make a fortress (which i did) or dig underneath others’ bases but now blockland is dead and i miss it quite a bit
"Wait... classes and perks and dlc and skins are what makes things generic? this game was built on being unique simple and most of all fun... and we undid that? how is that possible, we added everything the moneymakers are doing!!!"
Used to play OpenSpades. I really like how the game devolves into trench warfare with mole people the longer the match goes. Like, you start on a map that looks like a town and by the midpoint every building is in rubbles, there are several unfinished baricades on streets and the game might be in a stalemate with people betting their luck on crossing a newly formed no man's land, WW1 style
I remember the trenches, the constant ducking to avoid the enemy bullets, the fear of an enemy granede and the adrenaline rush when charging, man that was a good game
the original concept is so simple that i could recreate it in 2 weeks in UE4, yet that was what's so good with it, it was incredible because of its simplicity sometimes, less is more wow, that makes me want to code again
True lol, this story is a pain point for me though. I had my own launcher I was maintaining. Then without notice the game sold to Jagex, and shutdown. Heartbreaking, and a hell of a plot twist. Considering I'm a SCAR Admin, and left Jagex alone.
My core memory of _Ace of Spades_ was getting really frustrated as a zombie player because one single human opponent had a jetpack and kept hopping from treetop to treetop. Zombies have no mobility and no ranged options, and the jetpack has infinite fuel (provided a cooldown). He kept that going for twenty minutes, and I hope he pisses nothing but calcium.
Ace of Spades is legit one of my fondest memories of a casual FPS. Even the valley map, which was literally a barren strip between two bases with massives walls on either sides, became a massive sprawling warzone with trench fighting forming a no-man's-land, and brutal tunnel combat as we tried to dig around eachother or under the rifle fire. Great time.
This map was so awesome. I remember some battles that had been going on for so long the corridor had become a huge mess of walls and bridges barely differenicable from the swiss cheese that were the walls. This was so fascinating to me.
That's kinda stupid. A lot of times, indie devs aren't always going to have the resources in order to keep supporting a game forever, so it just makes sense financially to just sellout sometimes. Sure, in a perfect world, every indie dev should (and would probably want to) keep overall control of their game, but that's just not realistic all the time. From the wiki page: "Aksoy was reported to have agreed to the deal due to his critical financial state at the time, though was subsequently offered a position in Jagex' Cambridge headquarters."
well im 7 months late but there's a roblox version of ace of spades, its called AceOfSpadez and its crossed between the original and the dead game, but i assure you, its amazing
@@kingofsomething3250 well i'm a year late but there's no point in playing a roblox game when you can just play the classic on "buildandshoot" website. top server is basically always almost full. the game isn't as dead as one might think
This game was my gateway into steam, I’m sad to see it go. I loved this game with all my 10 year old heart, I love playing the zombie mode mostly. Breaking the entire map by digging it from the bottom, building giant sky bases and then toppling them when you slip and fall. And it was always rocketeer on zombie. I have so many fond memories about this game, I had no idea about any of the controversy, all I saw was a gift card for ace of spades and thought it looked like minecraft. I adored it and it’s sad to see it go, Rest In Peace ace of spades
I remember making a Saiga-12 for this game, man, that was the closest thing to modelling. A thing I liked to do was repaint the soldier model to military green, leaving an arm band as only indicative of the team they belonged to. Man, it was so fun, sadly Jagex slaughtered it.
oh good these moments where amazing, all the enemy would go after you and your team menbers would cover you from the fire shooting,building walls and given their lifes for your. best game i remenber.
killing someone with a random pit in their tunnel. listening and digging on top of the enemy for an ambush. getting your tower/halfbridge/castle destroyed. awesome.
So my parents split up years ago. I went and lived with my mum, while my brother and sister chose my dad. When ever I think about them and my childhood. playing ace.of spades with them is one of the only thing I can think about. I miss this game. Rest in peace ace of spades. You were loved by lots. Someday Im sure you will make a huge return.
You can still play Ace of Spades Classic today! www.buildandshoot.com/ Also, if you want to take a break from reliving your old Ace of Spades memories, join KastCraft and play Minecraft with a great community! play.kastcraft.net discord.gg/j2sjVs3
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers this game, I didn't realize so many knew about I haven't met anyone else that had heard of it. I was so upset when it moved to Steam and was nothing like what it used to be, then it died. There has forever been a hole in my heart
I remember playing this game for hours. One of my fondest memories was playing all night sometime early September of 2011 before my first day of 10th grade. After many hours of fighting on the server, everyone decided to work together to level the entire map, which we ended up finishing 1 hour before I had to be up for school
@@SethSovi Because it's true, even if Terraria took inspiration back in 2011 the game has evolved to be its own thing since then... just watch footage from the 1.3 (especially after the first half of the game) and you'll see
@@diablo.the.cheater Not at all. Minecraft started being developped in 2009 while Terraria got in Alpha at the beginning of 2011... You're talking about the 1.0 of MC which came after
I used to play the jagex version of AOS back in like 2011 to 2013, I don't quite remember. I was still pretty young so I just had alot of fun playing it. I never knew the game used to be completely different, so thanks for making this video!
Jagex has always been the kiss of death. Growing up playing runescape but seeing the other games they offered besides that, you knew they were pretty incompetent but simply got lucky with runescape.
Oh no, I think you missed the part where they brutally murdered Runescape and now have a version from before they decided they knew better than the community.
@@WaterZer0 literally this. They thought they could change everything that made the game the game and it killed it. They're only alive now because mmos are addictive as fuck and we were willing to switch over.
1:40 okay but can we just take a step back and appreciate how rare and spectacular a fuckup it is to break a game so badly that you discontinue it instead of fixing it?
One of the best maps for this game was unironically a straight hallway created by two massive blocks with the spawns on either end, it always turned into massive tunnel warfare with each side quickly creating walls and barricades in the center hallway while also tunneling through and onto the top of the blocks where there'd be trenches and a second battlefield on top.
You SHOULD'VE showcased more about OpenSpades, the game still has that same feel but with better visuals, and yes I still play the game occasionally.. still from 2011.
@@beerend4575 try again now, with this video the game's gotten a bit of a resurgence. we had THREE full servers last night and tonight should be loaded.
Unlike most of the pixelated block based games made at the time, most were just created just to take advantage of minecrafts popularity, but ace of spades and terraria were the few games that had a chance and cool ideas.
I played a lot of the free game early on, when the steam one came out I loved the zombie mode. You'd buikd a quick base, defend with friends, people would die or leave the base over time, sometimes they'd be this random mass exodus where everyone stopped working and just ran for their lives, there were Rambo's, builders snipers everyone had a role and the zombies were a great enemy and fun to play as, it was my favourite game mode by far. Where did jagex go wrong? In my opinion is they changed too much to quickly, the game was built on a stable metta but changes like removing the flying jetpack for a normal jetpack, really angered the community. Every class should've been allowed to use the basic rifle, if you wanted to go back to classic in normal combat you had to play sniper which was annoying. I play open spades now, it's good fun and brings be back to 2011.
Ace of Spades is still, to this day, my favorite game of all time. Seeing this video sort of made me relive the experience of being crushed when it finally got shut down. I miss this game so much, I just wish it could come back.
Probably this is a Japanese player, because in Japan Milos was a meme BACK IN 2011. I just wonder what Japanes people think about West borrowing their nearly decade-old memes and believing this is something new.
Pep compare both because they have mining mechanics and cubes, but they never considered that terraria only have cubes because its a pixelated game and that you cant have a good survival game without mining aspects, i still dont know why they still say that terraria is a copy of minecraft or something like that when there is a huge difference between them
If anyone wants a game pretty similar to Ace of Spades, a free to play game came out on Steam, called Sector's Edge that's a really nice spiritual successor to it. It's basically Ace of Spades, but with creatable classes, explosive jumping, and the ability to create your own prefab buildings to place down in the middle of the match. It's quite good!
@@eMantheman14 yes omg, when the server hadn't been reset for hours, the entire map was completely destroyed and the top was just shitty drawings. I love ittt
I remember the first threads and how you had to open ports on your router just to be able to connect. It didnt even have a menu, it just immediately brought you to a server list.
You guys, there is a tribute game to the original Ace of Spades on Roblox called Ace of Spadez. It has a decend player base and is fun. They added a few things here and there like secret guns you can find and the have 3 classes based on the weapons that were present in the original: Marksman - snipers, Trooper - SMGs and MGs, Commando - shotguns. It is in Beta 2.6.6. and is still being developed. The classes themselves have no perks, unique abilities or tools, they are just there to make gun selection a bit easier since there is like more than 20 guns in the game and to have some sort of a gun selection system ig.
You'd be surprised at how SC2 still has so many players, it's still one of the most popular eSports in the world. The game is absolutely phenomenal and I wouldn't want it otherwise.
I remember when I was 12 that I would spend hours on this game building bases with a team and fighting off waves of real players and digging trenches and bunkers and yea greefers would come but it almost didnt matter. The game was so fun and I have a lot of fond memories of it and its sad that it was killed. It also felt like it was tactical even tho it was basically minecraft with guns, I remember it would just be a small squad of 4 and then one of us would randomly be headshot and hes just dead and we would all run for cover well one of us looks for the gunner. It would also be fun to take a small group of people and blow a hole into a castle or bunker and flank the enemy. The game will always hold a place in my heart.
Thank you so much for covering this tragedy. Ace of spades was legitimately one of my favorite fps of the decade, and I'm glad people feel the same way Makes me wonder why someone doesnt dev up a spiritual remake... (build and shoot doesnt count)
I thought one of the contributing factor to the failure of this game was the massive coke problem Jagex upper management has, but that might just be a rumour.
Aww man I really remember the exact moment Jagex released the game, one of the most dissapointing moments of my life, since I spent atleast 700 hrs in the original game :/ The community for the original game was amazing, it gave the players the ability to make the game just like they wanted to. I remeber making my voxel skins and playing in normandy, man those were the good days
To be honest, I had a lot of fun playing the Steam version, zombie mode was the thing that initially brought me. I even bought the DLC. The day when the game broke for me was when they introduced balance changes, jetpack guy was no longer fun and I think there were paid weapons as well. I visitited the it's corpse a few times down the line. At first, there were a lot of empty servers and the few remaining felt quite dull, then the game became literally unplayable. I had some fun playing the classic game but never invested as many hours into it as it was with the Steam game. It's just sad seeing something I enjoyed a lot in the past has ended up like this.
Had so much fun playing the original Ace of Spades when I was younger. The moment I heard the game was bought from Jagex sent chills down my spine as I already knew where this game was headed. Once the game got released on Steam with that $9.99 price tag I knew it was over.
I used to play the game when I was really young, talking like 9 yrs old with a friend of mine. He said it would be a fun game. It was amazing, every time we would come out of school we would play the game and it would be so much fun. I got very good at it (or at least I thought so) and my friend was even better (I remember being super pissed because I couldn't beat him). Time goes on and we still play the game sometimes. We started playing minecraft and it made us forgot about Ace of Spades and time went by. 3 years later I come to a birthday of my cousin (wich I admired very much) I thought he knew everything and so I asked him what games he plays. He starts showing a couple of em and when he opened build and shoot I was like wait I've played this before, doesn't it have a different name than build and shoot and he told me yeah, it's called Ace of spades but I don't like the new version of the game so I play the old version of the game called build and shoot. I go on my pc and I install the game. A couple of months go by and I had some money from my birthdat, so I bought ace of spades. I was devistated, the game I used to love and play alot turned into a pile of dog shit and I was very disappointed.
You can still play them!! The game and the servers are available on buildandshoot.com . You can play with the classic client or the modern looking like OpenSpades!
Honestly I loved jagex ace of spades. It had an amazing community and they had multiple game modes. Even the original! You could play the original mode in the new game. So many good memories.
I used to play a lot of Ace of Spades back in 2011-2012, even briefly hosted my own server. It was a very special game, with surprisingly tight and strategic gameplay built on top on very simple mechanics. A great example of when the whole is larger than the sum of its parts. You also hit the nail on the head when describing the atmosphere of the game. The muted default color palette, lack of music and the prevalent fog concealing the short draw distance, combined with the paranoid trench warfare style of gameplay, created a moody and bleak atmosphere. When the Jagex version was released, I was cautiously optimistic. I had felt that AoS was definitely an underrated gem, and much more than just "Minecraft with guns". Maybe with some money behind the project we'd get faster developments and some quality-of-life improvements. However, everything in the new version seemed antithetical to what made the original great. The aesthetics were changed from clean utilitarianism to wacky and colorful. The multitude of game modes were were mostly confusing, none of them being better than the original ctf variant. But the biggest issue were the changes in the mechanics. In the original game, building blocks was slow-ish, but destroying the built blocks at range was even slower. A block could take several rifle shots before being destroyed. Digging through the earth was also doable, yet rather slow. This lead to maps being dotted with small bunker structures, short tunnels and shallow trenches, while the basic layout of the map still dominated the gameplay. In the Jagex version however, many classes had abilities to destroy blocks easily at range with rocket launchers, drills and explosives. There was little point in building bunkers or walls, since the opposition could just blow them up faster than they could be built. One of the classes even had a jetpack, that allowed them to ignore the whole map layout and just fly over everything. This, combined with more complex map geometry completely destroyed the slow trench warfare feeling that made AoS unique, and made the game feel like a wacky chaotic Minecraft mod with guns. Thankfully, the community never truly went away, and even though the original name was lost, Build and Shoot is still going strong, with servers still populated. Even though the heyday of the game is gone, it's still worth checking out to this day.
Ace of Spades is such a nostalgic throwback for me. I played it around the same time I first started playing Minecraft in 2012, and I was introduced to it by the same group of friends who told me about Minecraft. It was an extremely fun game, even though it was simple. I would play it for hours and hours and I’m sad to see it’s no longer around. But the memories I have with it will always hold a special place in my heart.
I only have steam because of ace of spades, when I was young it’s all I wanted to play, but to see it finally gone and being talked about again is both sad and happy for me
I first downloaded the game about 7 years ago.I remember playing it a lot, and seeing a lot of players in the servers.Never knew that over 2 million people played the game.I had so much fun shooting from my base, digging tunnels, etc.As soon as the paid one went on sale, i bought it.I actually liked it a lot.I played it a lot.One day when i opened the game, i couldn't move at all.I was really sad, when i heard that servers were closing soon and that a game that i really liked was already dead.I hope that one day, someone will reincarnate the game, and people will begin to play the game again
I remember being 12 feeling so smart for digging a tunnel behind the enemy spawn
idk why its feel like u have all the patience in the world repeating "its all for my team,not a backer, its all for my team "while digging a tunnel xD
@@gastongl404 I was blasting "hey im a dwarf and i'm digging a hole diggy diggy hole" on my speakers
@@brickedtfupfitness omg i was thinking about that minecraft song
@@gastongl404 some good memories playing minecraft or ace of space on a summer night "it's a peacefull life"
OMG THATS THE ONLY THOUGHT I HAVE AS A KID
Dear god, I haven’t heard that name in years. Incredible times, those were.
Someone remastered the game on roblox!
There is new pre udated ace of spades called open spades! Its really addictive and the community just great
@@Cox15 Are you serious??? I legit just looked it up right now, thank you!
This was the first ever game that I bought on steam and i have so much good memories with ace of spades. Unfortunately when the new update came everyone hated the game.
Alex Mendoza same lmao
Ace of Spades didn't die.
It was murdered.
same with blockstorm, it was a great game with ALOT of potential, but the company that owned it pulled the plug, now there is almost nobody playing it, because of no content or updates.
very fun game though. i think some servers are still up, if not you can still play solo IIRC.
I hate that guy
Or like the main runescape.
just like Jeffrey Epstein
@@20tigerpaw20 Blockstorm was a true classic. Shame Indiegala basically forced Davide (the main dev) to stop updating the game. Insufficient revenue generated, most likely.
3:30 Honestly, Ace of Spades was INCREDIBLE when all there was was a gigantic open set of hills and possible snipers absolutely everywhere. Working with teammates to undermine an enemy base and cut down its foundation was completely unique. So mad that it was killed.
omg, this game in be would be amazing.
OpenSpades is somewhat active, it's the classic Ace of Spades experience
@@ScratchdHelp it really was
@@kieranhurst8543 i meant that it would be amazing to play if it was still active
@@Enol666 pcgamingwiki calls the playerbase "small but active" which is about right.
it's never really my main game but i've still been playing it often for about 2 years now.
you can get a full server on the weekends if youre lucky! any game with a dozen or so players can be pretty fun.
im noaa in game, say hi if you see me lol
let's make beautiful structures and sabotage the enemy together
red team for life ✌
I played this game so much when it was still on the website
the website's still up but it only has like 15 players total
@@CommanderSF actually has over 15 people reaching up to 50
Yea this shit was my childhood my computer could only run this sadly
em... can anyone help me out and tell me if my channel is any good any advise is welcome, im thinking of starting youtube again
Play Roblox ace of spadez
*Remember: *
Openspades and Build and shoot both access the same servers, so it is completely up to your visual preference with which one you want to use!
this comment should be pinned! thats awesome!
yes its true there is opengl and software option
I play this when i'm bored :)
Wow, I actually had no idea of that. That's really awesome and keeps the community together.
OpenSpades has a completely different movement and shooting spread set then classical AoS.
Boomers: you don’t understand what war is like
Me and the boys: *flashback to the trenches of Ace of Spades*
*Heavy breathing*
Girls: Men don't know what is pain
Men: ☝
i remember destroying the whole london map
That rush of adrenaline after having a rifle tracer whiz past by you the moment you peeked your head over the trenches will never be forgotten.
So he forgot the roblox recreation of ace of spades
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Someone who still remembers older version of AoS
A lot people have forgotten about this game.
But not us.
NOT US.
We will never forget! Never forget the tutorial! The cities! The people who built flags that looked like the flag on the minimap!
Never forget brothers
Anyone else dig tunnels down to the water to sneek behind enemy lines?
@@simmat6419 yup.
I still Play it from time to time tbh ^^
Oh gosh I remember myself digging for hours just to ruin the entire map and make everyone fall!!
Collapsing spawn, destroying bridges, killing your team with fall damage. Good times
i would inevitably start doing this after shooting people for a while and getting bored. rarely was i successful, but when i was, it was soooo satisfying. there was this one map i played on where one team started on a big boat and the other team attacked from a wide open stretch of ground, and me and a couple others spent the entire game just digging around the ship until the entire thing collapsed and the game basically became pointless.
i make that until today lol
i really love this game, so nostalgic
I remember the moment when I met enemies who were digging the buildings to make it collapse and we did it together
Chaotic Evil, nice
Ace of spades was a really fun game when it was free i remember spending hours playing with friends
ikr then jagex ruined it
Its still on the website
@@isaqtiesushi6405 But the playerbase is low sadly :(
@@LeGrosN0ob with this video, playerbase is probably going to ramp up to at least a hundred daily players for like a month or more, so
This was quite literally my favorite game of all time! I would log on for hours after school daily back in 2011 and played Battle Builders until they shut down the servers WHILE I WAS PLAYING! I want nothing more than the original game to come back, and would be insanely pleased if another company would buy Battle Builders and make it actually playable. That would be a dream come true
Yep. Just make a decent anti-cheat and this game can be played with pleasure again
Lookup buildandshoot
there is a good replica of that or roblox named arms of solitare
I feel you dude miss it too, i was 10 y/o playing this daily for years..
Closest I’ve ever felt to being in trench warfare in a video game. Even more so than WW1 games I played.
try the new game, looks really promising
You ever heard of BF1?
Try playing Verdun
Yeah same, i think it is partially because you had to dig the trenches yourself
@@crogallianbroadcastingcorp2861 BF1 hardly had any trench warfare.
I used to play Ace of Spades. The classic version that is, never the paid one. It had a very niche community, I'm surprised to see it had more than 2 million at one point.
This video made me tear up, I really miss this game. The map design was phenomenal because each round would have different "established routes" souldiers would take from spawn to the frontline. Each map had a unique style of play. A focused frontline on bridge or pinpoint, the greek city with a lot of very flat buildings, maps with hills or (my favorite) the corridor map. Each round was a completely different experience. And most of all the game had the balance between building and shooting just right so that some were tunneling into the enemy base, others were giving suppressive fire and some build encampments or bunkers to reinforce the frontline. I still remember the day I once saw a whole lobby decide they wanted to see the bridge (on the bridge map) fall so almost everyone started digging towards that goal.
What killed it for me though was the easy access to aimbots shortly before the paid one was released. You could download a working aimbot very easily (a LOT of YT tutorials) and many people had modified the gun models in the game files to have extremely long barrels so they'd see enemies through walls.
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot the satisfying sound of constant digging you hear around you. When it gets louder you start to panic and look at every wall, expecting it to open up and reveal a squad of 4 enemies, ready to shoot. There has yet to be a game that has this unique gameplay that AoS had. None really allow full world modification or make building / destroying so powerful.
All of this, yes. God I forgot how many Aimbots there were, though.
I was astonished by how easy it is to cheat. You literally just need an injector tool and a mod menu. That's it. But damn, I know Build and Shoot and OpenSpades exist, but what I miss is that original bunker/construction map. You know the one, it has the huge mountain with the facility in it (which some TDM maps were based on), you have that little cargo shipping area by Green spawn, the mountain usually had a huge fort where they snipped down. Damn I miss the old maps the most, even pinpoint is dead. I like Hallway, but there is only so much hallway you can play.
Theres a game on roblox thats exactly like Ace Of Spades
I play it all the time lol
The game was very hot there for a minute. Last time I played OpenSpades, it was still somewhat active.
I really don't remember how i found this game, but i played it for hours and hours and it was one of the first PC games i remember playing and it definitely helped spark my passion for video games that i have today. Im 18 now and it really didn't seem like this was like 8 years ago. Life moves fast.
ace of spades: "dies"
roblox community: *theres another one*
I was looking for someone to mention roblox ace of spades lol
Yup great game where you can have trench war and build fortress. I still remember when i build that peacefull buddhist sign that totally wasn't used in Germany by Austrian painter
I really want to spam this on the comments section so other people see
Roblox ace of spades is actually quite fun cuz the real one is well , dead
its pretty good it doesnt feel like roblox
I remember being trenched under the massive trees of a huge jungle. The careening firefights echoed around me as I aimed my rifle down a sightline, headshotting any enemies that would try to sneak the flank through the river. The game felt limitless and I was constantly running from foxhole to foxhole, observing the war play out around me.
This was honestly more inmersive to me at that young age than Battlefield 3 ever was, go figure.
I remember playing this when I was like 9 or 10, I loved it, I stopped playing it for reasons I never knew, sad that it died to this kind of thing, its very sad how many games like this die this way
@@d4s0n282 you can still play the original game at buildandshoot.com actually
you can still play the original game at buildandshoot.com if you ever feel like booting it up again
Someone: *breathes*
GamesRadar: "iTs LiKe MiNeCrAfT"
It's*
@@JorgetePanete bruh
@@JorgetePanete bruh
Game: You can lose
PC Gamer: "iTs LiKe DaRk SoUlS"
@@kenobiwanobi889 Indie developers: "This game is the Minecraft of the soulslike genre"
OpenSpades is not a clone... it's a "remastered" version that allows you to play on normal oldschool aos servers with others that use the buildandshoot client.
They literally call it a clone on their website
@@LucienHughes Yet it is not. It is a remade open source client that is able to interface with Ace of Spades Classic servers. I think there were some plans to develop OpenSpades into something more, but they have not gone through with that (yet).
@@Ozzianman So the creators of openspades are wrong? About what THEY call their own game? You stupid or somethin?
a "remade open source client" sounds like a clone to me lol.
@@jamstheshapeshifter Ok, first of all, rude. Second of all, I simply disagree with their definition of a clone. To me, a game clone is a game very similar or heavily inspired by a specific game.
While OpenSpades is a strong case of being a clone, you can not play OpenSpades without relying on the original server software or the various open source server solutions built around the original server implementation of Ace of Spades 0.76 and earlier.
You are still playing Ace of Spades 0.75 (most commonly used version) and while some of the client side logic may differ from the original Voxlap client (Which is still usable to this day), the server-side is as far as I know, the same.
Again, to me, a game clone is a seperate game heavily inspired by or very similar to a previously released game. To me, OpenSpades is simply a fancy client to play Ace of Spades in.
I do know they DID have plans to do way more with OpenSpades, such as adding vehicles, support for larger maps, deployable weapons and much more. But that has long since been abandoned.
Edit:
Here is the roadmap
trello.com/b/3rfpvODj/openspades-roadmap
Also words
There is a ace of spades robox revival called "ace of spadez" and i find it to be a nice revival of the original feeling, its what i turn to for nostalgia
Open Spades is not so bad either, Ace of Spadez is kinda pay to win tho
@@lazyakuma1165 Tru. However its still better than the jagex version
@@lazyakuma1165 Well i don't see the pay to win side, i mean, it help the devs, but it is VERY optional, as i never paid something, and still had a incredible time
I can agree with this because some of the early rank guns can easily compare to the high rank counterparts, for instance the Henry rifle can easily out preform the high rank guns that could be seen as pay to win.
@@lazyakuma1165 p2w what
YOU BROUGHT BACK THE MEMORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND TUNNELING OH MY GOD, FINALLY I FOUND THE GAME.
Zombie mode, Miner, Dig giant loop and then run in circles until victory!
@@jlinkous05 The old Ace of Spades, not Jagex' abomination
It was such a unique game and they killed it. Nothing has filled that void.
Openspades might do well
I'm not sure if you know but you can download the old ace of spades
Paragon player here, I know that feeling all too well
buildandshoot.com
There was a gamemode like this except it was a 2v2v2v2 and you could dig up dirt and make a fortress (which i did) or dig underneath others’ bases but now blockland is dead and i miss it quite a bit
Took them 2 FULL YEARS to realize that they've made a mistake
And then they repeated it
2011 Jagex/mod mark are some of the biggest villains in video game history
@@k-teezy6423 Andrew Wilson is the Bin Ladin of gaming
"Wait... classes and perks and dlc and skins are what makes things generic? this game was built on being unique simple and most of all fun... and we undid that? how is that possible, we added everything the moneymakers are doing!!!"
Used to play OpenSpades. I really like how the game devolves into trench warfare with mole people the longer the match goes. Like, you start on a map that looks like a town and by the midpoint every building is in rubbles, there are several unfinished baricades on streets and the game might be in a stalemate with people betting their luck on crossing a newly formed no man's land, WW1 style
A Few Years Later: Why Robokast's KastCraft Died: The Classic Minecraft Server with a twist
Lady's and gentlemen. We got em
Fletch Man ladies*
@Eberex Prankheiten thank you for your opinion a year later but the issue is, I don’t care
This was actually one of the best games ever
bilal geçer “was” 😔
roblox has a gret version with the same name
@@joemama4405 Yeah, I've played it quite a bit, its pretty good.
I remember the trenches, the constant ducking to avoid the enemy bullets, the fear of an enemy granede and the adrenaline rush when charging, man that was a good game
Are you talking about ace of spades, or an actual war?
@@sandisirritating4594 Well, both?
@@sandisirritating4594 ace of spades was that good
This just sounds like Verdun
Never played a game like it, so so good I NEED IT BACK
Ya'll remember changing the weapon skins and turning the grenades into pokeballs? :D
no.
Bruh
i used eggs
i was looking for that file recently
The Not-12-Minute-Answer:
Because Jagex bought it.
Game was 1,000x better back when it was some 16-bit indie shooter.
People who knew ace of spades when it died already knew that. The point kg the video is to explain what Jagex did to fuck it up.
Build and shoot is still active ive been playing it for 7 years now and there is still allot of players...
it was never 16-bit, though
Could be reduced to just: Jagex.
the original concept is so simple that i could recreate it in 2 weeks in UE4, yet that was what's so good with it, it was incredible because of its simplicity
sometimes, less is more
wow, that makes me want to code again
No one is really ever happy with Jagex tbh lol
lol
correct
Lol
LoL
True lol, this story is a pain point for me though. I had my own launcher I was maintaining. Then without notice the game sold to Jagex, and shutdown. Heartbreaking, and a hell of a plot twist. Considering I'm a SCAR Admin, and left Jagex alone.
The funny thing is, that they actually released another paid dlc when the game was already dead. I think it was 2 or 3 years ago...
rs3 lmao.
oh yeah, for the medic and CIA guy
There’s now a Roblox Ace of Spades
My core memory of _Ace of Spades_ was getting really frustrated as a zombie player because one single human opponent had a jetpack and kept hopping from treetop to treetop.
Zombies have no mobility and no ranged options, and the jetpack has infinite fuel (provided a cooldown).
He kept that going for twenty minutes, and I hope he pisses nothing but calcium.
Ace of Spades is legit one of my fondest memories of a casual FPS. Even the valley map, which was literally a barren strip between two bases with massives walls on either sides, became a massive sprawling warzone with trench fighting forming a no-man's-land, and brutal tunnel combat as we tried to dig around eachother or under the rifle fire. Great time.
This map was so awesome. I remember some battles that had been going on for so long the corridor had become a huge mess of walls and bridges barely differenicable from the swiss cheese that were the walls. This was so fascinating to me.
fun times in aloha.pk 24/7 hallway (I think that was the server name) back in the day
How I miss digging close to the tunnel to open up with grenade and rifle fire upon the enemy team unexpectedly
Ace of Spades was my first FPS game. It was amazing for me, and I will never miss it.
I play build and shoot once in a while, and it’s terrifying when you’re crouched down in your slit trench, with bullets flying overhead.
The worst part is getting jump scared by getting killed
This is a prime example of why indie devs should ignore most publishers these days.
Well there's a thing called money
Minecraft did that. And hell its still good.
That's kinda stupid. A lot of times, indie devs aren't always going to have the resources in order to keep supporting a game forever, so it just makes sense financially to just sellout sometimes. Sure, in a perfect world, every indie dev should (and would probably want to) keep overall control of their game, but that's just not realistic all the time.
From the wiki page: "Aksoy was reported to have agreed to the deal due to his critical financial state at the time, though was subsequently offered a position in Jagex' Cambridge headquarters."
@@marranin007 Yeah, not like Microsoft stepped in or anything.
@@bbeanli
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Also, there’s a Roblox version called AceOfSpadez. It tries to expand the game in a different way than what Jagrex did, and it works pretty well imho
its p2w, tho...
@@maritimeyoutubeengineer3354 ah, the downside.
@@maritimeyoutubeengineer3354 how is it p2w
@@darred2728 that sucks
@@darred2728 at least doesn't need Robux
I wish i could travel back in time so that i could be in the best times for ace of spades :(
well im 7 months late but there's a roblox version of ace of spades, its called AceOfSpadez and its crossed between the original and the dead game, but i assure you, its amazing
@@kingofsomething3250 playing it for a few weeks now its poggers
there’s build and shoot
@@kingofsomething3250 well i'm a year late but there's no point in playing a roblox game when you can just play the classic on "buildandshoot" website. top server is basically always almost full. the game isn't as dead as one might think
same man, same.
This game was my gateway into steam, I’m sad to see it go. I loved this game with all my 10 year old heart, I love playing the zombie mode mostly. Breaking the entire map by digging it from the bottom, building giant sky bases and then toppling them when you slip and fall. And it was always rocketeer on zombie. I have so many fond memories about this game, I had no idea about any of the controversy, all I saw was a gift card for ace of spades and thought it looked like minecraft. I adored it and it’s sad to see it go, Rest In Peace ace of spades
The zombie mode had so good soundtracks....
I couldn't agree anymore.
I had the exact same experience. I wish the community also tried to bring back Jagex's version as that is the one I played when I was younger.
buildandshoot.com
@@PJB4453 That's only Ace Classic, not Ace Jagex
“It’s classic Minecraft but you can join guilds!”
Me: uh so it’s factions
no it's classic Minecraft but you can join guilds
Emile Ettel uh so it's factions
@@lucca3113 r/woosh
Emile Ettel r/itswooooshwith4os
@@lucca3113 Got me there yet it is still classic minecraft but you can join guilds
I remember making a Saiga-12 for this game, man, that was the closest thing to modelling.
A thing I liked to do was repaint the soldier model to military green, leaving an arm band as only indicative of the team they belonged to.
Man, it was so fun, sadly Jagex slaughtered it.
Jagex and ruining games, name a more iconic duo.
EA and micro transactions
Kontek Zenya there is a bot problem but there are still plenty of real people
Bethesda and bugs
Valve and their inability to count to 3
Bethesda and Microtransactions.
Boomers: Gamers will never know what an adventure is.
Me when I snatched the Intel: *Heavy breathing, hands shaking* RUUNNNNNN
oh good these moments where amazing, all the enemy would go after you and your team menbers would cover you from the fire shooting,building walls and given their lifes for your. best game i remenber.
This brings back so many memories of my early gaming days...those were the best
killing someone with a random pit in their tunnel. listening and digging on top of the enemy for an ambush. getting your tower/halfbridge/castle destroyed. awesome.
NIGERUNDAYO
Me who just arrived at the fake Intel is cheering you on.
I remember playing this way too much to the point where aimbot accusations were thrown at me,
good times.
Same. I miss that game.
So you where that fucking sniper ! What was your fucking problem ? I just wanted to dig a tunnel
I loved being called out for hacks or aimbot, such a boost to my 11 year old ego.
The ol hackusations
Same. At one point I'd get votekicks against me almost every game, and people were calling me smgay all the time.
So my parents split up years ago. I went and lived with my mum, while my brother and sister chose my dad. When ever I think about them and my childhood. playing ace.of spades with them is one of the only thing I can think about. I miss this game. Rest in peace ace of spades. You were loved by lots. Someday Im sure you will make a huge return.
You can still play Ace of Spades Classic today!
www.buildandshoot.com/
Also, if you want to take a break from reliving your old Ace of Spades memories, join KastCraft and play Minecraft with a great community!
play.kastcraft.net
discord.gg/j2sjVs3
Is it just me or is the invite invalid
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who remembers this game, I didn't realize so many knew about I haven't met anyone else that had heard of it.
I was so upset when it moved to Steam and was nothing like what it used to be, then it died. There has forever been a hole in my heart
^^^^^^^^ I agree
4:48 “mom says don’t kill me” in the chat😂
Josh Slug MAMAAAAAAA UUUUU
Matkopoliceman uwuuu
@@tuttosalve8352 uwu
@@StilvurBee
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Lmao
I remember playing this game for hours. One of my fondest memories was playing all night sometime early September of 2011 before my first day of 10th grade. After many hours of fighting on the server, everyone decided to work together to level the entire map, which we ended up finishing 1 hour before I had to be up for school
"Minecraft that focueses on farming"
Bruh, do you even Harvest Moon?
Or in today's terms, Stardew Valley
@@KevinFromHPCustomerSupport hell yeah
@@KevinFromHPCustomerSupport Nah man, I'm out here playin Rune Factory.
I had the misfortune of wasting money on block n load, not knowing it was just jagex stealing ace of spades
wait did he just compare Minecraft to terraria?
**starts typing furiously**
Well both has blocks, building and crafting... and that's all
@@ikagura y would u say that?
@@SethSovi Because it's true, even if Terraria took inspiration back in 2011 the game has evolved to be its own thing since then... just watch footage from the 1.3 (especially after the first half of the game) and you'll see
@@ikagura actually Terraria es little bit older than minecraft
@@diablo.the.cheater Not at all. Minecraft started being developped in 2009 while Terraria got in Alpha at the beginning of 2011...
You're talking about the 1.0 of MC which came after
Ace of Spades is such a nostalgic game. It was so much fun playing it.
I used to play the jagex version of AOS back in like 2011 to 2013, I don't quite remember. I was still pretty young so I just had alot of fun playing it. I never knew the game used to be completely different, so thanks for making this video!
Jagex has always been the kiss of death. Growing up playing runescape but seeing the other games they offered besides that, you knew they were pretty incompetent but simply got lucky with runescape.
runescape survives cause there is simply no other similar game.
Oh no, I think you missed the part where they brutally murdered Runescape and now have a version from before they decided they knew better than the community.
Runescape has like 70% of the game locked unless you have premium membership
@@WaterZer0 literally this.
They thought they could change everything that made the game the game and it killed it.
They're only alive now because mmos are addictive as fuck and we were willing to switch over.
@@padmosss.voidstellar2525 The people who work on it need to be paid
1:40
okay but can we just take a step back and appreciate how rare and spectacular a fuckup it is to break a game so badly that you discontinue it instead of fixing it?
That's not so rare anymore, unfortunately.
One of the best maps for this game was unironically a straight hallway created by two massive blocks with the spawns on either end, it always turned into massive tunnel warfare with each side quickly creating walls and barricades in the center hallway while also tunneling through and onto the top of the blocks where there'd be trenches and a second battlefield on top.
1:56
"a furry artist is votekicking slender"
So, I tried to kick slenderman?
Furries being degenerates? Noooo! (!)
@@johnwest6690 furrryyy baaad!!!! XDDDD
OMG I HAVE LOOKING FOR THIS GAME FOR YEARS I USE TO WATCH THIS GAME SO MANY YEARS AGO THANK YOU SO MUCHCCHCHC :))))
You SHOULD'VE showcased more about OpenSpades, the game still has that same feel but with better visuals, and yes I still play the game occasionally.. still from 2011.
Servers are dead tho I try every week
@@beerend4575 try again now, with this video the game's gotten a bit of a resurgence. we had THREE full servers last night and tonight should be loaded.
@@beerend4575 dead? everytime i play there are a lot of people
@@Firebrass11 maybe that's why tried atleats 4 times every month but sometimes there was one Dude online
@@beerend4575 well try now/tonight. Can guarantee you there's gonna be people.
Unlike most of the pixelated block based games made at the time, most were just created just to take advantage of minecrafts popularity, but ace of spades and terraria were the few games that had a chance and cool ideas.
I remember in one match me and a couple of randos spent more time trying go knock down the giant bridge than actually fighting
I was doing the same with castles on hallwayv2
I played a lot of the free game early on, when the steam one came out I loved the zombie mode. You'd buikd a quick base, defend with friends, people would die or leave the base over time, sometimes they'd be this random mass exodus where everyone stopped working and just ran for their lives, there were Rambo's, builders snipers everyone had a role and the zombies were a great enemy and fun to play as, it was my favourite game mode by far.
Where did jagex go wrong?
In my opinion is they changed too much to quickly, the game was built on a stable metta but changes like removing the flying jetpack for a normal jetpack, really angered the community.
Every class should've been allowed to use the basic rifle, if you wanted to go back to classic in normal combat you had to play sniper which was annoying.
I play open spades now, it's good fun and brings be back to 2011.
Good times
Are there many players in openspades?
Ace of Spades is still, to this day, my favorite game of all time. Seeing this video sort of made me relive the experience of being crushed when it finally got shut down. I miss this game so much, I just wish it could come back.
you can still play the original game at buildandshoot.com, there's a somewhat active community over here
Man, I remember this game. I used to look it up all the time back in the golden age of RUclips...
May you rest in peace.
6:42
Look at the nametag... We might have a timetraveler at our hands
Maybe that person just knew Ricardo, after all the original Ricardo video is a lot older than most people think
Make no mistake, this is the popular version that is used for the video, 0.75, which is still played
@@jiggly821 That's probably it haha
Probably this is a Japanese player, because in Japan Milos was a meme BACK IN 2011. I just wonder what Japanes people think about West borrowing their nearly decade-old memes and believing this is something new.
@@tehValorin or it's Build n Shoot
Stardew Valley leaning over to Harvest Moon and asking "Why are they comparing me to Minecraft? Are they really that stupid?"
0:35 Terraria's full release was in the same year that Minecraft began gaining popularity
And way more in-depth with bosses, NPCs, Hard-mode after the wall of flesh is killed, Different powers and sets... etc etc
I don't even consider them the same genre tbh.
oldest public version of terraria is older than any public version of mc btw
Pep compare both because they have mining mechanics and cubes, but they never considered that terraria only have cubes because its a pixelated game and that you cant have a good survival game without mining aspects, i still dont know why they still say that terraria is a copy of minecraft or something like that when there is a huge difference between them
terraria was released before minecraft
If anyone wants a game pretty similar to Ace of Spades, a free to play game came out on Steam, called Sector's Edge that's a really nice spiritual successor to it. It's basically Ace of Spades, but with creatable classes, explosive jumping, and the ability to create your own prefab buildings to place down in the middle of the match. It's quite good!
Free ace of spades on hallway was the best way to spend 8 hours a day. Omg that map...so good
YESS
Dude that map was the best! Remember when people used to draw shit on the top of the map so we could see it on the ingame map.
@@eMantheman14 yes omg, when the server hadn't been reset for hours, the entire map was completely destroyed and the top was just shitty drawings. I love ittt
how can you call stardew valley minecraft when its literally harvest moon lol
Harvest moon is just minecraft but Japanese.
Ppl will call anything Minecraft if it's pixelated lmao
Or has any kind of blocks
Harvest moon is just a time-travelling minecraft clone. C’mon, past, get some new game ideas.
Yeah,even called terraria,fucking terraria similar to "minecraft" cuz it has blocks
I remember the first threads and how you had to open ports on your router just to be able to connect. It didnt even have a menu, it just immediately brought you to a server list.
You guys, there is a tribute game to the original Ace of Spades on Roblox called Ace of Spadez. It has a decend player base and is fun. They added a few things here and there like secret guns you can find and the have 3 classes based on the weapons that were present in the original: Marksman - snipers, Trooper - SMGs and MGs, Commando - shotguns. It is in Beta 2.6.6. and is still being developed. The classes themselves have no perks, unique abilities or tools, they are just there to make gun selection a bit easier since there is like more than 20 guns in the game and to have some sort of a gun selection system ig.
I remember playing this game with a friend of mine, literally some of the best memories of my life. Often switching between this game and StarCraft 2.
You'd be surprised at how SC2 still has so many players, it's still one of the most popular eSports in the world. The game is absolutely phenomenal and I wouldn't want it otherwise.
I remember when I was 12 that I would spend hours on this game building bases with a team and fighting off waves of real players and digging trenches and bunkers and yea greefers would come but it almost didnt matter. The game was so fun and I have a lot of fond memories of it and its sad that it was killed. It also felt like it was tactical even tho it was basically minecraft with guns, I remember it would just be a small squad of 4 and then one of us would randomly be headshot and hes just dead and we would all run for cover well one of us looks for the gunner. It would also be fun to take a small group of people and blow a hole into a castle or bunker and flank the enemy. The game will always hold a place in my heart.
Thank you so much for covering this tragedy. Ace of spades was legitimately one of my favorite fps of the decade, and I'm glad people feel the same way
Makes me wonder why someone doesnt dev up a spiritual remake... (build and shoot doesnt count)
A group of people have totally redone this game on Roblox, it's called Arms of Solitaire, and it's one of my favorite fps games on the platform.
I thought one of the contributing factor to the failure of this game was the massive coke problem Jagex upper management has, but that might just be a rumour.
this video gave me strong nostalgia and got me deeply sad
It can run on a toaster so we've always played it during IT class and we loved it.
*Hey you, youre finally awake,* remember Ace of Spades? 2011 was such a simple time
Aww man I really remember the exact moment Jagex released the game, one of the most dissapointing moments of my life, since I spent atleast 700 hrs in the original game :/ The community for the original game was amazing, it gave the players the ability to make the game just like they wanted to. I remeber making my voxel skins and playing in normandy, man those were the good days
Holy shit i haven’t seen that game in atleast like 8 years
Me fucking too
I always had this game in the back of my my mind, but I just coudnt remember the name
I was distraught when the website just redirected you to the steam site
To be honest, I had a lot of fun playing the Steam version, zombie mode was the thing that initially brought me. I even bought the DLC. The day when the game broke for me was when they introduced balance changes, jetpack guy was no longer fun and I think there were paid weapons as well. I visitited the it's corpse a few times down the line. At first, there were a lot of empty servers and the few remaining felt quite dull, then the game became literally unplayable. I had some fun playing the classic game but never invested as many hours into it as it was with the Steam game. It's just sad seeing something I enjoyed a lot in the past has ended up like this.
Just seeing the title and thumbnail brought so many memories back
"trenches of Ace of Spades"
*heavy breathing*
I still play the original build and shoot and or open spades. It's such a simplistic idea yet so fun and addicting
This took me so far back, I even remember buying it as my first game on Steam
I loved the game as a kid it had that ww1 feel to it. Something dark and eerie about it as you said.
Had so much fun playing the original Ace of Spades when I was younger. The moment I heard the game was bought from Jagex sent chills down my spine as I already knew where this game was headed. Once the game got released on Steam with that $9.99 price tag I knew it was over.
Ok
I used to play the game when I was really young, talking like 9 yrs old with a friend of mine. He said it would be a fun game. It was amazing, every time we would come out of school we would play the game and it would be so much fun. I got very good at it (or at least I thought so) and my friend was even better (I remember being super pissed because I couldn't beat him). Time goes on and we still play the game sometimes. We started playing minecraft and it made us forgot about Ace of Spades and time went by. 3 years later I come to a birthday of my cousin (wich I admired very much) I thought he knew everything and so I asked him what games he plays. He starts showing a couple of em and when he opened build and shoot I was like wait I've played this before, doesn't it have a different name than build and shoot and he told me yeah, it's called Ace of spades but I don't like the new version of the game so I play the old version of the game called build and shoot. I go on my pc and I install the game. A couple of months go by and I had some money from my birthdat, so I bought ace of spades. I was devistated, the game I used to love and play alot turned into a pile of dog shit and I was very disappointed.
you still play the original version?
@@Firebrass11 I do, but I don't have alot of time due to my study so I don't play it alot anymore.
Oh man, I used to love the aloha.pk arena modes!
You can still play them!! The game and the servers are available on buildandshoot.com . You can play with the classic client or the modern looking like OpenSpades!
The good old cs Maps ^^
Honestly I loved jagex ace of spades. It had an amazing community and they had multiple game modes. Even the original! You could play the original mode in the new game. So many good memories.
same
You can still play the original Ace of spades by searching "build and shoot" on Google. I used to do this back in time
I used to play a lot of Ace of Spades back in 2011-2012, even briefly hosted my own server. It was a very special game, with surprisingly tight and strategic gameplay built on top on very simple mechanics. A great example of when the whole is larger than the sum of its parts.
You also hit the nail on the head when describing the atmosphere of the game. The muted default color palette, lack of music and the prevalent fog concealing the short draw distance, combined with the paranoid trench warfare style of gameplay, created a moody and bleak atmosphere.
When the Jagex version was released, I was cautiously optimistic. I had felt that AoS was definitely an underrated gem, and much more than just "Minecraft with guns". Maybe with some money behind the project we'd get faster developments and some quality-of-life improvements. However, everything in the new version seemed antithetical to what made the original great. The aesthetics were changed from clean utilitarianism to wacky and colorful. The multitude of game modes were were mostly confusing, none of them being better than the original ctf variant.
But the biggest issue were the changes in the mechanics. In the original game, building blocks was slow-ish, but destroying the built blocks at range was even slower. A block could take several rifle shots before being destroyed. Digging through the earth was also doable, yet rather slow. This lead to maps being dotted with small bunker structures, short tunnels and shallow trenches, while the basic layout of the map still dominated the gameplay. In the Jagex version however, many classes had abilities to destroy blocks easily at range with rocket launchers, drills and explosives. There was little point in building bunkers or walls, since the opposition could just blow them up faster than they could be built. One of the classes even had a jetpack, that allowed them to ignore the whole map layout and just fly over everything. This, combined with more complex map geometry completely destroyed the slow trench warfare feeling that made AoS unique, and made the game feel like a wacky chaotic Minecraft mod with guns.
Thankfully, the community never truly went away, and even though the original name was lost, Build and Shoot is still going strong, with servers still populated. Even though the heyday of the game is gone, it's still worth checking out to this day.
3:22 that was ace of spades btw... free, and a lot of fun with friends. When they put a price tag on it, BOOM died.
Ace of Spades is such a nostalgic throwback for me. I played it around the same time I first started playing Minecraft in 2012, and I was introduced to it by the same group of friends who told me about Minecraft. It was an extremely fun game, even though it was simple. I would play it for hours and hours and I’m sad to see it’s no longer around. But the memories I have with it will always hold a special place in my heart.
I only have steam because of ace of spades, when I was young it’s all I wanted to play, but to see it finally gone and being talked about again is both sad and happy for me
I remember telling my friends about this game and they didn’t believe me :(
Thankfully BattleBit is reintroducing Ace of Spades-type gamemode through community servers!
I first downloaded the game about 7 years ago.I remember playing it a lot, and seeing a lot of players in the servers.Never knew that over 2 million people played the game.I had so much fun shooting from my base, digging tunnels, etc.As soon as the paid one went on sale, i bought it.I actually liked it a lot.I played it a lot.One day when i opened the game, i couldn't move at all.I was really sad, when i heard that servers were closing soon and that a game that i really liked was already dead.I hope that one day, someone will reincarnate the game, and people will begin to play the game again