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no community servers anymore and no admin tools. all bad temporal match-made aws servers at best; peer2peer match-making sessions at worst. no more mod tools or custom maps (which has lead to the collapse of hobbyist map maker -> pro map maker which has led to all mfps games having horrible levels these days). all pvp games are like some stupid battle royale meme poo poo or trying to immediately chase and force the ~6v6 eSPORTs~ dragon instead of letting it organically develop. dice is terribad. at least we still have good co-op games like deep rock galactic and new l4d3 is promising though the alpha had a lot of problems.
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Xaris posted:force the ~6v6 eSPORTs~ dragon instead of letting it organically develop. you have no idea how much 6v6 dogged the TF2 competitive scene here you have a game with all of these classes, but nah, let's have two soldiers, two scouts, a demoman, and a medic oddly enough, it turns out people didn't want to watch or participate with that poo poo, so it faltered
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yeah it's really really dumb. tf2 ezsports maybe could have worked as 8v8 at a min but never at 6v6. some games that instantly shot themselves in the foot trying to immediately be da esportz hot game de jour right from the getgo have included Evolve, lawbreakers, batteborn, and heroes of the storm god awfully tried to shoehorn esports in so bad dumping millions and it failing biggo time. lawbreakers was a really funny one but there's been a dime-a-dozen BR-esportz~ flops and CS-wannabe poo poo too. idk if valorant flopped yet
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Valorant chugs along, but I never hear about it; at least Apex is fun because it's Titanfall slapped onto a BR
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Couldn't play online games in the 90's or early 2000's because my parents weren't willing to buy a computer that was more powerful than a potato so I could play games. Eve online was fun with goons for a while. They would give you free ships and I would blow myself up in them and I was happy to die in battle because it was something to do. Otherwise Eve was a boring-rear end game which was more fun to read about than play. smarxist posted:
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i lost all my instant messaging info including my icq number a few computer upgrades ago. either i forgot to copy the info over or didn't care enough anyway the best multiplayer games were enemy territory and battlefield vietnam
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DOTA? gently caress that poo poo! Footmen frenzy!!!
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kingcobweb posted:DOTA? gently caress that poo poo! Footmen frenzy!!! *jaods u with mask of death rush* *everyone stalls and buys wand of massdeath and makes a killing on the very first footman engagement by turning a bazillion units into money*
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im too young for tribes 2 but tribes ascend came out in like 2011 or 2012, which was the later half of high school for me, and for most of that i lived in the middle of my poo poo rural town and had cable internet so i'd get off the bus and immediately start serving blue plates to n00blords online. but yeah speaking of modern fps, most of thme have good ideas but its just horribly hampered by trying to chase fortnite, or like valorant/overwatch/newer CoD games, they just have no loving clue how to design maps so they're either really boring or incredibly unbalanced (sometimes, both!). meanwhile look at almost any Insurgency map and even the weak ones feel like they had 200x the work put into it
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gently caress hi-rez for loving up tribes ascend and killing it to chase mobas with SMITE or w/e. Seriously what the gently caress is up with hi-rez it kinda helps that iirc insurgency came largely out of a big hobbyist/modding community as opposed to straight out of some pro corporate lord megaoffice paying jimmy the intern to poo poo out exactly 3 maps and ship it out the door in 3 months. that said im not a real big fan of ArmA-type gameplay type poo poo. usually prefer faster movement stuff like tribes/ns/tfc-2/savage games/etc.
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Xaris posted:gently caress hi-rez for loving up tribes ascend and killing it to chase mobas with SMITE or w/e. ive been playing this br called speallbreak which i can't honestly recommend because it lags like poo poo when it gets busy, but the reason thats a problem is cuz it actually has a lot of vertical movement and speed. otoh it doesn't have anything hitscan so its really hard to punish people for just endlessly running away from you, and they absolutely will
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Huh this is neat, apparently some nerds have taken basically Tribes now that hi-rez killed it and parred it down focusing more on core gameplay on stuff (hopefullyt) without p2w hi-rez bloaty junk. of course they can't legally call it tribes. although being f2p is worrisome because f2p usually means TRASH looks like it comes out in a month or so. I should keep an eye on that https://store.steampowered.com/app/1231210/Midair_Community_Edition/
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oh didn't know it was the second time around. first time seeing it. Seems like maybe more work was done with it this time around? who knows. the competition/multiplayer team shooter scene is absolutely dire right now and i get the feeling there's a lot of players out there who aren't into any of the current offerings. or maybe that's just projection on my part which i'm perfectly willing to accept being the lone wolf out of touch with society tbf it's really hard for indie/small devs to get multiplayer team shooters off the ground, even if they're pretty good. it's just hard to get a critical mass of players going and most importantly, sustained longer-term because usually you get one injection at launch and that's mostly it without the AAAA budget to advertise and Name Brand behind it where everyone gleefully drops $80 buckaroos each time there's an new cod/battlefield/mega billions in blizzard money-name even if it's trash (like BF5). that said some smaller stuff like squad/hell let loose/post-scriptum seem to have taken off well enough in recent years so maybe there's hope this time Xaris has issued a correction as of 08:04 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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look, there's not a single loving game out there replicating the game with the world's best movement, tribes. i don't care if its low-quality indie garbage, i'm playing it. do you have any idea how much i savored the short lived MP of cod advanced warfare.
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60 player tribes 2 servers were a goofy mess but also pure fuckin magic, everything i miss about dedicated servers
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Its kinda sad because it's never been easier or cheaper to spin up a server or vps.
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yeah dedicated servers used to be kinda pricy requiring donations to stay afloat, but now with the glut and abundance of mega-cheap  hosting and everything it'd be great. It's unbelievable that some games are still somehow peer2peer (lol vermintide 2 thanks fatshark). Plus somehow anti-cheat has actually regressed and lol some games don't even bother other than some token worthless stuff and of course no AAAA corp's money is spent even paying interns $7.25/hr to review reports. BF5 required you to use origin overlay, then be logged into the webpage, then using the overlay to go like 3-4 menus deep to find a tiny obscure report button which required opening chrome, and then just enterered the void. it was funny that 4 year old BF1 hacks could be loaded directly into BF5 right at launch, not even designed for it in mind, and still work completely. unbelievable Larry Parrish posted:do you have any idea how much i savored the short lived MP of cod advanced warfare. Xaris has issued a correction as of 08:18 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYbQIsAtlnY it’s not too late to expel the activision kulaks and make esports what it was always meant to be—subjectively judged artistic expression via physics engine; havok gymnastics a better world is possible
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Just came to me whilst pissing
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Smythe posted:Just came to me whilst pissing i dont think so https://icq.im/36338256/en you can try to do an number recovery or something. mine is long attached to lost @pacbell or @earthlink email tho im sure. maybe i had a hotmail briefly at some point but man ive long forgot what it even would be. probably something stupid like bearnova69x
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Smythe posted:Is 36338256 a valid icq #? that's my mom's phone number :/
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Xaris posted:*jaods u with mask of death rush* oh wow you remember way more of that game than i do lmao only unit name i remember is Avalanche, which i wrote a guide about countering when i was like 12 years old
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Foo Diddley posted:that's my mom's phone number :/ oh no wonder i know it too
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kingcobweb posted:oh wow you remember way more of that game than i do lmao also that there was about a bazillion hacked footman frenzy 4.7.1b versions out there where there was always a cheat in there for p1 or something. honestly it was a pretty bad custom because basically whoever fed first ended up making that team the winner, and usually first in gets sandwiched and feeds the rest. or everyone knows that and stalls and then you just buy that one OP wand that killed all the trash units and made a killing super upgrading your hero and dominating. but sometimes could be fun. My memory is getting hazy these days and knowledge is always just frustratingly-tantalizing at the tip of brain behind a layer of dense fog like a dark soul bosses and i'm stuck behind it but i know it's there and it gives me a mini-headache trying to scratch futilely at the wall like the chick from yellow wallpaper
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Xaris posted:no community servers anymore and no admin tools. all bad temporal match-made aws servers at best; peer2peer match-making sessions at worst. we laughed at mw2. whose laughing now
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thank you Smythe for this fine thread
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Xaris posted:yeah dedicated servers used to be kinda pricy requiring donations to stay afloat, but now with the glut and abundance of mega-cheap it died in like 6 months on pc
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Digiwizzard posted:thank you Smythe for this fine thread thank you for participating
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Victory Position posted:some real power here: saving consecutive BMPs to make a GIF ftw I mained bigfoot i think. gently caress those flying saucers
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footman frenzy has nothing on zergling blood
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net work error posted:I still use IRC  but my irc daemon is called discord for some reasonmIRC has really come a long way. its got all these fancy features now like sharing images in-channel, voice cat, sassy gifs, and direct pipe to the nsa database in st george uta
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Victory Position posted:WC3 TDs were the best, Skibi's owned, Gem TD owned have they patched reforged to be better or is it still a sin against god
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Lady Militant posted:have they patched reforged to be better or is it still a sin against god as far as i understand, it's still a sin against god
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