I'm pretty sure you can build an entire game in Unreal Engine's blueprint system now. Wouldn't have to ever type anything if you didn't want to.
Weird, I play other games with controller much more often than KB/mouse. Yet I can't stand Fortnite with a controller. Aim is never my issue anyway. Except maybe the snipers, something seems off about them. I've probably fired a total of 20 shots through them so it's likely a case of just haven't figured them out.
Battlebit supports a server browser, but have you seen their terms of service: https://agreements.battlebit.cloud/GameServerTos.pdf
Everything must be whitelisted and you are required to moderate it for speech, cheating, etc. It's even more ridiculous if you want to run an "official" server. If they had a Linux server I might still make a server with the game set up to my liking and throw it up and see how long before they ban it--because I've barely played that game at all and I certainly wouldn't be moderating much of anything.
That game might survive if it allowed wide open anyone run a server at all with nothing more than just pinging an API to list it on the browser. I wouldn't care if there was a "cheating is allowed" server even.
Community servers would save PVP gaming for me. The community part was fun too. You start to recognize people. I remember a MoH:Allied Assault server I played on, there was a guy that would chill in a certain tower and snipe. Once you played there a lot you just knew he was there. He was quiet but would banter a bit if you managed to get up into his tower and kill him. All in fun. Players that whined too much or were just generally annoying were removed and banned. It didn't take anything more than "you aren't any fun to have around." After a while you'd recognize the different players, because everyone came back to the same servers.
I'd run a server or multiple servers today if there was a game that supported it I liked. I don't think it will come back unless the right indie game comes around to do it, with people that are really worried about gameplay stats along with the devs needing more money grabs, it's just not going to happen.
I haven't played CS:2 since it was CS:GO. I think games have always been like that to a point, especially CS type games, but I really don't remember that well. I never really invested the amount of time to games in the early days of online FPS to hold my own in the "good" servers, but I used to enjoy games with server browsers that allowed different rules. There was lots of fun to be had in a night server, shotguns only, no snipers, whatever. Go in there and have fun and the people that needed to tweak everything to perfection weren't able to.
It does seem like a lot of people can't just screw around and have fun though. The height of my COD days, we would sometimes just go in with weird setups and laugh at our success or failure. I was mediocre skill at best, but one of my friends had some success at national tournaments (the in-person kind). He was good. We never cared to always be perfectly maxed out. I had a build just to shoot down helicopters fast so they couldn't get kills with them, or I'd go knife-only, or put that stupid riot shield on and just charge people. It was sometimes fun.
I actually blame the streamer culture for a lot of what I hate. That may very well be an "old man yells at clouds." Everyone that tries plays the same, it's a max build, certain strategy they saw some internet stream. As an example, I've been dragged into Fortnite by my cousin a handful of times. I'm bad at that game and I really don't do the building part at all. It's funny though, the good players all immediately start building these giant convoluted towers in every single fight. I've gotten a handful of kills just quietly going and finding good "natural" cover and angles and waiting for them to actually quit all their building shit and actually fight. You can almost see the deer in headlights look when after all that some guy pops out flanking them from behind a rock and puts them down. Why was I there? I was supposed to be sperging out building things.
I've got a pretty recent example. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It came out last summer and is a PVP horror. I played it the first few weekends we got addicted for a short while. I probably built up 30 hours in the first three weeks. When it's played slower it's actually a fun cat-and-mouse game. It was ruined pretty quick by speedrunning and just general assholery among other things though.
One thing though, it was released as a full cross-play game. Consoles and PC. It's not a game that a particular input, etc. would really benefit. At one point the developers decided to disable PC from the cross-play pool because of online screaming and moaning about all the PC cheaters. I'd seen maybe one in my entire time playing, and it wasn't even that egregious. There were plenty of "that guy must be cheating" type thoughts when I was hiding and found, but most of that explained away as I got better and realized there are more tracking mechanics and that's how I was found.
That move was the first big bullet that killed the game. You could see who was partied up in the pregame lobby. Many if not the majority of parties were cross-platform with PC players too. It was the player base. Steam data showed them losing half of their Steam player base overnight. They put it back, but the game was a corpse by then.
That it is, canon itself, my take is "who cares." Probably makes a dumb simpleton or whatever I'm being implied to be in another Fallout thread that I was going to respond to and decided it's a waste of time defending myself to the internet.
When they throw out everything and "update for modern audiences" though, that's about the largest red flag you can wave that what is upcoming is going to be awful.
I have always wondered why some people care so much. Like when Disney did their whole "the books aren't canon" thing. Really the only thing that bothered me from that was the symbolism of the new owner giving the finger to the past. I read tons of those books when I was younger, and at no point did someone sounding a trumpet and announcing they were canon make any difference to whether or not the book was well written and a good story.
The first time you played Fallout 3 was on an X-Box?
Yes. Go ahead turn your nose down on console, feel intellectually superior, or whatever else makes you feel good. It won't bother me.
I was only in Copenhagen a day and a half, I don't remember much. Stockholm sounds totally different though. I never felt unsafe there at all then, and I went all over. I'm curious to see what's different as I'm probably going to be in Europe later this year. I haven't been since before the Covid clownery. I was slated to go to Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary that year and it all ended up cancelled.
Looked it up on the map and realized I was there in 2018 for a little over a week. Stayed just up the road around Vastertorp. I went to that shopping mall one day to buy some shorts, because it was much hotter than I had planned for and wanted to be more comfortable. I think I only saw anyone brown on the train a couple times around there. I really liked it there.
The other side of Sweden, that was one different experience. I actually had to physically make space and shove people out of the way on the train from Copenhagen to Malmo. I was already on the train and the flood of muzzies were doing anything they could to stuff a train where I was already boarded comfortably. The police were actually stopping the trains and checking documents just past Malmo and made pretty much all of them get off. They looked at my American passport for about 1 second from a distance and I stayed seated on what was nearly an empty train now. So I guess, that flood of people made it's way to Stockholm.
Kind of you to assume he can count that high.
First thing I did was look it up, because I couldn't help but think someone was trolling us with some AI made up story.
Yeah they are the same for the most part to play. I think as someone else mentioned I did like the ruined DC a lot too. If I recall the first playthrough of NV I hit a game breaking bug and had to start over, so bad luck played part.
I do actually like them both though. I may replay both of them again over the next 12 months, maybe my idea will change.
you just didn't give a fuck?
Correct.
I can experience realism in the world away from games. I allow games to let me carry a backpack full of weapons in such a way that is not humanly possible, crash a car without myself or the car taking damage, and fly around unrealistically in the air with flailing swords chopping enemies in ways that would never make sense. I'm not going to get irritated over some water purification.
Ha, those guys always go out to display their buttcrack at the busiest time of day on a busy road where I used to live. There was a purpose built paved bike trail that went on for probably 20 miles nearby they could have gone on…
I didn’t even know that, assumed EA until I saw today. So even if it’s a miracle and extremely un-woke, it’s basically Assassin’s Cry since the are basically the same anymore. But with lasers!
Yeah, I think it goes back to when I was still a Reddit user ages ago on normie gaming discussions. It seemed New Vegas as the best Fallout, Souls(like) games are far and away the best genre, and The Last of Us is the greatest game ever were three of the opinions you must agree with if not wanting to get railroaded. Everyone here is smarter and capable of opinion it seems.
For sure. If I think about it I wouldn't be shocked if it's the series I've got the most time in of all single-player games. Definitely top 2 or 3. Even played 76 some, but we will leave that one be.
I've gone a little nuts in sales in the last month, I actually rebought Fallout 3 on GOG for $5 or $10. I haven't played it in a while, and only ever played the Xbox version of it. So I will be doing another replay sometime.
Haha yeah, I almost posted that sentiment on the thread about escapism vs woke games. I like to be a total badass in games. Even ones that border on realistic.
Forgot about it. Don't have Prime but I guess if I hear good things I'll take a sailing trip. The early promo stuff was full of red flags though
I'm the oddity yet again in that I liked 3 and maybe even 4 more than NV. 4's story kinda sucks though. A ton of it's criticism is legit, but I still liked the weapon crafting and gunplay better. Don't get me wrong I very much enjoyed New Vegas but I'd echo the bland.
A lot of it depends on what you're playing for. If it's a more detailed RPG with stats and factions and all of that, then New Vegas easily fits that the best. If it's a little more of an action shooter than 4. 3 is still my favorite if not for anything but wiping out the commies with Liberty Prime.
I'm sure my statement will be unpopular. Liking anything but New Vegas as the best is typically met with the same reaction as if I were grooming kids to be trannies.
the rape macarena
hahahaha
That's gotta be the perfect stereotypical Jew nose. I never peddle the muh juice narrative. I just thought it funny once you pointed that out, the first thing I thought of was a goblin, which leads right there.
I almost got curious enough to get "new" WoW whatever it was at the time about a year ago just to see. I imagine it's a shell of it's former self. I quit right around the Crusader Arena Trial or whatever in Lich King, came back to kill the then nerfed LK, played into Cata a bit and quit for good. That 2006-2009 run though was the only time in my life I ever played just one game.
All their reasons for begging for all those features was just asshats wanting to be asshats freely with no recourse. It was never that hard for me to build rapport with people in top guilds and get to join in on things occasionally even though I was never going to be able to invest enough time to be anything more than a second-tier raider.