History VideoGame / AceOfSpades

* SchizoTech: The default graphics for the rifle are loosely based on an M1 Garand/M14 from the Second World War, the SMG is clearly a Heckler & Koch [=MP5=], the shotgun appears to be a WWI trench-gun, and the grenades are based off of the WWII pineapples.

''Ace of Spades'' is an online multiplayer FirstPersonShooter with destructible, modifiable voxel-based terrain. To sum it up simply, it's what you might get if you were to cross ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''[='=]s class-based action and color coded teams with ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''[='=]s building blocks and boxy character models.

Originally a simple freeware game, the ''Ace of Spades'' IP was bought out by Creator/{{Jagex}} (of ''Videogame/{{RuneScape}}'' fame) in 2012. The game's creator was supposedly a Jagex employee and still involved in development at one point, but for reasons that are none too clear he seems to have moved on to other things. Jagex's version of the game offers new graphics and quite different game-play, and is now available through Steam for about $10.

The original, pre-Jagex version of the game is still legally available -- and still free. It also seems to have a playerbase as large as, or even larger than, the Jagex version. Because Jagex now owns the name ''Ace of Spades'', the community supporting the original version of the game has been named, in ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fashion, ''Build and Shoot'', and the pre-Jagex version of the game can be downloaded freely [[http://buildandshoot.com/ from their site]].

In the original, freeware version, the game takes place on a large map, which may be randomly generated or selected from a range of fan-made arenas. You play as a member of one of two teams, with the choice of weapons between a rifle, a sub-machine gun or a shotgun. Your other equipment consists of a spade (for removing and acquiring blocks -- and melee combat), 50 blocks (for building), and three grenades. The point of the game is usually to capture the enemy's intelligence a certain number of times (though several other game modes are also available). Both digging tunnels and building structures for cover will aid you in this goal. You may freely change the color of the blocks you place. A popular strategy is to build a foxhole in the side of a hill, using the same color blocks as the hill, and snipe from it with a rifle.

On Valentine's Day, 2013, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" DLC was released for the Jagex version of the game. This adds a new class only playable in two new gamemodes, with its own weapons. It also added new maps to go along with those gamemodes, a Chicago map and an Alcatraz map.

* SniperRifle: The Marksman class in the full Jagex version wields one of these. There are no dedicated scoped rifles in the original version, but the regular scopeless infantry rifle often pulls double duty as a sniper rifle of sorts (hey, SimoHayha did it).

* ObviousBeta: The game takes simplicity to the extreme, with only five weapons (six, counting the spade), two official modes, and one kind of map, not counting user-created maps.

* [[RedshirtArmy Blueshirt Army]]: and [[NotSoDifferent Greenshirt Army]]

Originally a simple freeware game, the ''Ace of Spades'' IP was bought out by Creator/{{Jagex}} (of ''Videogame/{{RuneScape}}'' fame) in 2012. The game's creator was supposedly a Jagex employee and still involved in development at one point, but for reasons that are none too clear he seems to have moved on to other things. Jagex' version of the game offers new graphics and quite different game-play, and is now available through Steam for about $10.

* RealityEnsues: For an FPS that looks like ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', it actually turns out to be a relatively realistic war simulator, with a great focus on construction and very fragile players.

* ZergRush: Less experienced players often default to this. [[RealityEnsues It seldom goes well.]]

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* UnbreakableWeapons
** There is, however, a rare GoodBadBug that can cause your rifle to "jam" until you switch weapons.

* SchizoTech: The default graphics for the rifle are loosely based on an M1 Garand/M14 from the Second World War, the SMG is clearly a Heckler & Koch [=MP5=], the shotgun appears to be a WW1 trench-gun, and the grenades are based off of the WW2 pineapples.