I got thinking about this when I was looking at stuff generally on steam it's amazing how I can't even find a run of the mill multiplayer shooter these days. Yes I know there's crap like PUBG but that's spyware now as well and it runs like potato because the maps are too big. Apex has the same problem, spyware, Call of Duty, already ranted about that, they try to make you give your phone number just for the privilege of logging into your own account the glowie cunts.
You know the games industry is in the shitter when they're not even bothering to put out a typical shooter and they've decided that third person walking simulators for the sake of ticking off diversity boxes. These are not difficult genres to do and they could probably retain a playerbase if they made them playable but they can't even manage to do that anymore.
I guess Helldivers 2 technically counts which is why everyone is playing that, but you know the playstation account nonsense. CS:2 is an obvious one but the lobbies seem to be filled mostly with bots and Turkish players now.
any online game is going to be spyware nowadays, if you are worried about your data or your privacy, I recommend having different machines for your personal and professional life and your gaming.
ah yes, the don't be Atrioc setup. Simple and effective. Highly recommend.
No choice really is there? At least if you're going to be buying from game studios.
Disregard multiplayer, return to single player.
I'm gearing up to give Stalker GAMMA a try this weekend, given my free time. We'll see how that susses out.
Let us know if there is any wokeness in it. I used to really like the STALKER games before the emergent-looter-extraction-survival genre took off.
stalker fans got angry (in an ironic, but tangible sense) Anomaly added a singular female in the entire game, who for all intents and purposes acts like anyone else aside from having eyelashes and blonde hair.
unless GAMMA does something completely out of left field, there is probably negative woke in it
Helldivers II uses a kernel-level anti-cheat malware.
Yes, yes it does. And sadly, that’s the least of their problems.
Remnant 2 isn't bad at all tbh, I'd skip this newest dlc though but the base game and first dlc are excellent.
Helldivers 2 as you mentioned. DRG is a very solid team shooter.
But there's not going to be any modern type shooters in the bunch. That genre is pretty much more poison than well at this point, and that's every bit as much the fault of the players as the devs/publishers.
I love HD2 but it fits 100% into the category that OP complains about.
Put it on a VM. That's what I do.
Still playing DOOM and DOOM 2 with dosbox. Still fuckin' fun like it was 1993.
It just pisses me off that's the only real shooter option we have for the most part in terms of classic gameplay and not having an anti-cheat riddled co-op online only game.
The games being advertised aren't all that difficult to make and it's funny because I remember checking out discussion around AAA titles in general and how studios keep betting the farm on them and failing. Like the others I would much rather see some smaller good titles filled up with plenty of content than big open world games constantly that play like they're early access. It really doesn't make a lot of sense these days to make massive games.
There’s always Duke3D.
Haven't even touched that for years, from what people are saying it's still the same bot infested shithole it was.
I'll take bot infested shithole over rootkits frankly.
Pub servers are pretty bot infested, but there's a lot of active community servers out there.
Also, it recently got an upgrade to 64-bit, so it's better optimized.
It's your fault for playing AAA.
The indie scene continues to grow. There's been a whole lot of great shooters in the last couple of years. I'm talking singleplayer.
I agree, I need to poke around more, it's a shame it has to be this way though, remember when people would queue up at stores past midnight for a game?
I did that once for GTA V on the ps3. It was a bad call.
Helldivers 2 has rootkit anticheat built in.
I've been enjoying Boltgun, and Space Marines 2 has a new trailer.
Space Marines 2 looks surprisingly masculine, like it comes out of 2009 for the Xbox 360, but with today's graphics.
I wonder if there is some kind of hidden diversity nonsense tucked away, or if they are actually making a game to make money from actual fans?
They've been working on it for a while. I'm guessing they're too cheap to make it DEI.
I thought the level design and difficulty curve on Boltgun left a lot to be desired. There was a solid core in there but they fumbled it so goddamn hard.
Yeah, I am stuck at a part I think is near the beginning. It was building up, and suddenly I am being swarmed and need to clear the area before I can move on. Death Knights are transporting in, and the button moves are really awkward to use.
When I have to start doing laps around the arena searching for the last enemy and can't find them for a good five to ten minute stretch, you know you've botched your level design.
Probably not. It's a constant arms race against cheaters.
It's pretty dated now and personally I'm played out on it, but if you're considering things as old as CS and Apex then Hunt Showdown is still a solid game, albeit not exactly a generic shooter.
It's less spyware than some I guess, but it seems you really are out of luck these days if you want a remotely competitive multiplayer game that isn't running snooping anti-cheat programs at all.
The reason the anti-cheats are kernel level is because the cheats are also kernel level.
CS also has always had its pro players/anyone who wants to play actually good ranked use FACEIT client because normal CS has always been botted to hell.
The more I think about it the more I feel they're going to simply kill off multiplayer gaming especially with how you've now go phone number requirements being a thing and we're inching closer and closer to the perfect internet society that boomers like Jordan Peterson dream of. It's only going to be the indie titles that do anything decent anymore but I do wonder with all the online safety crap we're going to see regulations get set up big time.
Not a game per say, but a community mod project to bring one of the best WW2 shooters to life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-CGNyCgp1Dg
Pro Tip: Don't even bother trying to give yourself an aneurysm playing CS:2, it's as bad as everybody says it is, you can't even really log in for a simple defuse session once or twice now, the script kiddies wallhacking have multiplied big time and I think it's partly due to the holidays.
Welcome back, the wall is right over here.
Admittedly, it does make me laugh a little when his sentence pretends to be relevant for the first four words and then veers into his spam.