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Banzai51, do gaming w How's gaming and streaming on T-Mobile home internet?
@Banzai51@midwest.social avatar

I’ve had T-Mobile 5G internet for several years now, and no issues. I’d say I’ve had to reboot the router more than with Comcast. But our area has also gone through a lot of tower upgrades. I’m not a competitive FPS player, mainly playing MMOs and nothing unusual. Streaming content has been fine. I also work full time remote with an IT job, and that hasn’t been an issue either.

It’s going to depend on how good your local signal is. T-Mobile phones in my area work well, while they don’t work as well when I visit my parents in another state. So the 5G Internet will follow suit. If you don’t have T-Mobile phones then you’ll have to pay attention to friends or reviews in your local area.

PriorityMotif, do gaming w How's gaming and streaming on T-Mobile home internet?
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

I installed an external antenna for mine pointed directly at the nearest cell tower and it’s fine with multiple streams going. Before I did that it wasn’t very good. The annoying part is that there’s no access to settings in the router. I’m considering going to fiber for an extra $30/mo just because of the router issue.

MystValkyrie, (edited ) do games w My AYN Thor

I’m so happy we’re finally getting a handheld that’s genuinely portable! I watched a disassembly video and really appreciate that the battery isn’t glued down, too. And have you all seen gameplay videos? Ocarina of Time 3D at 7x native resolution looks about as close to those Unreal 5 Zelda tech demos as we’ll likely ever get.

I skipped the Nintendo Switch line, but I’d eventually pick the Thor up to replace my 3DS. (If I don’t hold out for an Ayn Freya 😅 .)

ICastFist, do games w My AYN Thor
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Does it have a HDMI port to connect to a TV? Since it’s Android, I suppose pairing a new controller would be easy, so stuff you emulate from home consoles can be played with 2-4 people

Bane_Killgrind,

Some Android support video out over USBC so it’s not a stretch

mcforest, do games w Why would I buy this?

Maybe because there are still people who are not tired of Call of Duty, liked the predecessor and are still looking forward for a sequel and play it with their friends?

Oh wait, this isn’t even the newest CoD? Probably they just forgot to update the prices. Probably forgot it even exists because there is a new one.

snooggums,

Didn't forget, they just want full price forever.

mushroommunk,

Nintendo Intensifies

warm,

They dont want people buying the old games, even their 15 year old ones are still full price on purpose. They want you in the latest game each year, exposed to all the predatory extra-transactions, then they want you to do that again the next year and the next and the next... the games are not priced like that because they "forgot", it's a business strategy.

cron, do games w Why would I buy this?

Take a look at the reviews, and find this insanity on the top:

need to be connected to online services even when you just want to play singleplayer campaign, and keep getting connection errors.

Thanks, I’m out.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

So in theory.. you can not even play single-player campaign because of kernel level anti-cheat + internet connection. Even if Wine/Proton would allow you to start the game.

cron,

True. According to protondb, it is not possible to even start the game.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

What a shame. But to be expected..

melroy, do games w Why would I buy this?
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

You are missing the most important issue. It only runs on Windows!

sk1nnym1ke,

Nearly all games with a online pvp mode run on windows.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Not fully true. Yes a lot of games run on Windows.. But a lot of them also run on Linux, in some cases even Native, in other cases using Wine/Proton from Valve. See: https://www.protondb.com/

A lot of online pvp games do work under Linux as well. But then again.. AAA games are the most problematic.. because they just stuck, and get ignored by the devs/publishers. I'm looking at you EA!

TowardsTheFuture,

To be fair that icon doesn’t mean much of anything cuz you can just force compatibility in Linux and use proton, you just gotta manually do that in properties.

This is probably windows only because of kernel level anticheat though so it probably still holds up.

ImgurRefugee114, do games w Why would I buy this?

Play Necesse or Abiotic Factor. Both just left early access recently and are great real games for good prices and aren’t stuffed with the modern AAA bloat

Edit: I posted this just before reading the last paragraph… Well, glad it’s taking off lol

gens,

Ravenfield

MirrorGiraffe,

Been oogling necesse. Would’ve loved couch co-op with the kids. On a scale of 1 to terraria, how much do you enjoy it?

codexarcanum, do games w Why would I buy this?

This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.

warm,

AAA is just cash grab, they haven't been good or innovative games for a long, long time now. They are very good at marketing to the masses though and they have the pricing tiers laid out perfectly to extract as much money from people as they can.

They start off with their massive price tag like $70-80, plus the deluxe editions for $100-120 for any suckers who want a fucking extra skin. Then after a couple months when sales slow down, they put it on sale for like 20% off, then a couple months more, its like 40% off and so on. DLC has kind of fallen off, as they get people stuck in the battle pass and cosmetic buying loop instead (people are crazy).

If a AAA game looks interesting to you at all, you are literally best just waiting a few months or more, it's a win-win, you either buy it it's actual value or you get the reviews that its a disgusting broken mess or was completely over-hyped (it's these last two 99% of the time).

Steam sales are for getting them older games a bit cheaper, good indie games are worth their price tag multiple times over honestly so unless you are tight on money, I'd support the developer regardless of sales.

Zolidus, do games w Why would I buy this?

I got it on sale for 10 bucks last year. Great SP. Lots of fun.

s3rvant, do games w Why would I buy this?
@s3rvant@lemmy.ml avatar

Just nabbed Necesse now that it’s out of early access; looking forward to playing with my kiddos :)

TORFdot0, do games w Why would I buy this?

Buy the Call of Duty Warchest for $30 and play CoDUO with us. The best part about PC games is that you can still play the classics online!

BurgerBaron, do games w My AYN Thor
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social avatar

I don’t miss the crab claw pain trying to play with anything in the DS form factor and that d-pad placement looks rancid.

popcornpizza, do games w Why would I buy this?

I’ve always wondered what all the CoD or Battlefield games have that’s different between the versions? 😅 Because to me it’s just a bunch of people running around shooting each other in the exact same way. I can’t, at a glance, tell you which game or version it is, if I stumble upon someone playing it.

Same with the football, basketball, and American football games. Which version is it? Have the rules of the sport changed between years? 😂 Who knows!

On the other hand, I love survival crafting games, and with the indies you rarely tell them apart because they all look the same. 😂 So I shouldn’t speak.

SatansMaggotyCumFart, do games w Why would I buy this?

I want a Call of Doody game where you're running around downtown of a major city looking for a public bathroom while prairie dogging a big old shit kind of like Far Cry 2's malaria mechanic.

Lawnman23,

This is the way.

Rentlar,

With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.

treesapx,

I’ll support anyone who references Far Cry 2’s malaria mechanic. A game ahead of its time…

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