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Operation Harsh Doorstop is my favorite fps, it is a semi-realistic vehicle big map shooter… but it has mod support and mods like Casualfield (which has active multiplayer servers) have much more Call Of Duty like gameplay. It is free, no live service crap. Even if you don’t like where the vanilla game is right now, keep your eye on it, it is an easy platform for other shooters to be modded on. Player population isn’t huge but there are consistently full servers. I also don’t think the realistic nature of the game makes it less accessible than a game like battlebit, since there is such a specific gun meta at certain ranges in arcadey games like battlebit, and everything happens so fast with constantly rushing smg players… it is actually really hard to break into when you are playing on even normal pub servers. Apex Legends is in my opinion the worst game with this. In a game like OHD though, an assault rifle with a scope can do pretty much anything well enough, though you might prefer a more specific kit for a situation, but there isn’t this crazy focus on constantly changing weird metas and gun balances to pump up paid skins for a gun that was just added… This is just a free moddable big map vehicle shooter with a server browser and barebones singleplayer, which is awesome.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop/
Halo Infinite I grew up with Halo 1-3, I don’t have any special love for 343, but Halo Infinite big team battle is the best halo multiplayer has ever been. Capture the flag is amazing with the warthogs the way they are balanced in halo infinite, I can’t stand microsoft lol but damn halo infinite is in a nice state now.
Splitgate Ok, player population isn’t massive, but this is a realllllly good game, even outside the portal gun mechanic. The gunplay is great and the jetpack is tuned perfectly. Can’t recommend it enough!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/677620/Splitgate/
Easy Red 2 Alright now I am just straight up lying, this game never has huge concurrent numbers, but you can give large numbers of forces commands pretty easy in the interface (like you can drive a half track up to an objective and order your squad to dismount and assault). It is another WW2 game… but this game actually strives for historical specificity in lots of areas that aren’t usually covered in WW2 games. There is a great diversity of armor, vehicles and fighter planes, the games is a blast and is a steal at around $10. Cross platform tooo!!! Great for bot bashing.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/
Xonotic is the best arena fps ever, playerbase is HUGEEEE E
ok but I love it
I like this indie game critic, he has a recommendation video for sale
As a genuine fan of video games as art and multiplayer video games as digital communities, seeing everything go to Discord, even open source projects, has been really sad to watch happen over and over again.
Honestly… Lemmy would be a FAR better platform to run a video game community on than Discord.
Fuck Discord.
Like… the format of Discord is fine (except if you are going to use it to manage a software project, it needs to be designed to facilitate technical support, questions about bugs, and facilitate creating an easily searchable wiki of info along with the live chat), I am fine with the idea but Discord has used its massive popularity and capital to completely eat entire swatchs of video gaming niches and not only is that scary, Discord SUCKS as a tool for handling complex communities with lots of moving parts.
Before someone defends Discord by saying “it works great for small groups of friends” let me pre-emptively answer -> true, yes it does work great for small groups of friends, that is what it was designed for originally probably right? Ok… but small groups of friends is literally the easiest possible usecase for a communication tool, if Discord was bad at that it wouldn’t be good at anything.
OHD vehicle overhaul mod steam workshop link
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947290153
OHD vehicle overhaul mod Guide (including how to spawn attack and transport helis in singleplayer)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3141572317
Decide for yourself, Bluedrake42 has a response video, and he provides a lot of examples. Honestly I find his explanation thorough and exhaustive enough that I don’t consider the accusations anything other than lazy mud slinging.
Still, it doesn’t look like there is any security risks as with some other chinese rootkit games that come out these days. Probably worth playing.
I mean that is because the way the developer asks for support is this
Also they’re selling bundles for like $50 on the store page.
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Pathetic, and the plan will backfire on even their contracts with corporations as any moment now all the data they are storing will be stolen in a truly massive data breach and Microsoft won’t even be able to do damage control effectively because they purposefully removed, broke and obsifucated local and secure workflows and focused everything on a subscription based model where everything including practically your social security number is entrusted to their shitty servers.
I think there is a good chance the EU could regulate on this.
What Microsoft thinks they can do in a situation like this is the same thing they have always done, hamfistedly and halfassedly walk back anti-consumer/anti-user practices until people calm down, rinse repeat.
Hilariously though this manuever relies on Microsoft not having any rivals in a seriously threatening position to flank when Microsoft begins to enter an enshittified vulnerability, which as much as they seem to be clueless about it (please keep being clueless M$), Linux is.
At this point I am not even sure Microsoft thinks it is better to run important windows software natively on windows rather than in a much more stable, reliable virtual environment inside of Linux or WINE.
Both are going to crash occasionally (we are talking about windows software after all) but when the part running Windows software in Linux crashes it isn’t anywhere as likely to sink the whole boat and crash the rest of the operating system and potentially lose a bunch of stuff.
I think clearly what Microsoft is gunning for longterm is to eat their operating system with a bunch of cloud crap that doesn’t even really run locally for the most part.
Which is why we need to burn this to the ground so there are consequences for Microsoft for betraying users this thoroughly and completely.
Do you part, give friendly helpful linux advice to newbies, share resources and have some fun with it!
Nah, it definitely is, in fact I have noticed a disconcerting number of indie games I REALLY like especially 3d games with physics engines are on the unreal engine.
I have always been a massive fan of at least the creative output of projects on the unreal engine, I don’t know much about the politics and details around how it is to actually create games on the unreal engine or anything though. I just don’t trust Epic honestly or whoever owns them now or rather I don’t trust the incentive structure… but yeah I wish the unreal engine success I am just asking how people see the state of similar engines in this moment.
“Gaming has been for a long time just an extremely digital thing that you do only by sitting at your computer and changing pixels or programming,” Kaya said. “Now we are in this age where anything can go into a video game, and when you put a lot of literally and metaphorically interesting textures, it just becomes a more interesting work. Stop-motion is a great way to do that.”
Hell yes, use technology to make videogames more human not less human!
Meh Soldak Studios has utterly schooled this fool at bringing interesting depth and richness to ARPGs without betraying or losing focus of the core gameplay loop and I doubt he has ever even heard of Soldak or any of their games
Din’s Legacy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/911550/Dins_Legacy/?curator_clanid=33045705
Zombasite
https://store.steampowered.com/app/408960/Zombasite/?curator_clanid=33045705
Drox Operative 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305310/Drox_Operative_2/?curator_clanid=33045705
Agreed, have you tried Eador Genesis tho?
In particular with the New Horizons mod.
The turn based battles are badass and very tactical, though it is hard as nails.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/235660/discussions/0/604941528481052450/
If you haven’t, check out the indie game Overload, it is a really fun Descent-like!
I haven’t played Warzone in years, great rec!
Though Beyond All Reason doesn’t let you design units, this family of RTS games are not designed like rock paper scissor affairs and there is an absurd variety of tools at your disposal, bombers, subs, stealth tanks, mechs, hovercrafts, cannons that shoot across the map, experimental units and more.
Also Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is similarly good.
Like how everything on the internet got smuggled into their training data?
yawn stop complaining US big tech, it isn’t a good look on you and besides if you are complaining that means you aren’t working and taps sign the sign you put up yourself in place of the old one we all liked (what did it say? “maybe don’t do evil”? I can’t remember anymore) says “results not excuses”.
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If I may leave you with a bit of advice, almost everybody hates your guts and honestly you deserve it.
Because that is part of the cycle of collapse and shock doctrine these corporations rely on to keep from being clowned on by moderately competent smaller game studios who actually are excited by the challenge to convince people to buy their art instead of shoving derivative slop down their customer’s throat as the cinematic monochoice for entertainment product category no. 1254…
If you mow the grass, the longterm benefit of preserving a strict monoculture is well worth the temporary mass destruction (from the perspective of the person driving the mower, it smells quite pleasant actually).
To be clear, the blades of grass are the smaller game studios on Microsoft’s lawn.
Kinda unfair to compare anything to Deep Rock Galactic, in core gameplay it is probably the best PvE shooter period.