I’m not competitive at all, it’s just tiring to me. The journey with the mod to defeat every enemy with 3 hits in Witcher 3 was pretty chill, still an amazing game. Jot that down, you guys with the “intended experience”.
I got to play FaF with a top ranked player Vs 8 of us low-mid tiers (and one total novice)
We were still pottering about setting up defences and he had filled his half of the map with factories and quickly killed 2 or 3 of us. We won but only because one of us had a gunship squadron going around the map edge and found his commander.
It’s quite astonishing what he did in such a short time.
It did kind of kill my enthusiasm for it though, an excession event where you realise you are just a pathetic minnow. Humbling
If you have Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, the standalone expansion to the original game, make sure to download the community-run Forged Alliance Forever (FAF) client.
A lot of quality of life changes, optimizations, better network code, mod support, custom maps released almost daily by the community, and it’s still actively played online even after twelve years.
All it needs is a copy of the game to verify, and it goes regularly on sale on Steam.
I like to play against the cheating AIx with one of my friends, and it never seems to get old.
I remember reading a thread about this on the FaF forums and I think one of the FaF clients does run on Linux. I think this is the current method of choice, but there are multiple ways to get it working and I probably used something else years ago, so its definitely doable.
I go into ranked modes to chill with games I enjoy. Why? I am (in games with a good ranking system) placed into games with others who play at about my skill level, which makes the game more fun - and I can usually play a full game in ranked, whereas people are more likely to quit early or just not try at all in quick play modes. Do people complain if I’m not meta? Sometimes, sure - but I just think about how they’re still the same rank as me anyways and I don’t sweat it too much. Its fun.
I met some good friends during my days of online multiplayer. I’m still glad those days are behind me. I’m pretty much exclusively a single player gamer now. When I do need to scratch the multiplayer itch I play boardgames with friends.
Not saying this approach is for everyone! But some single player games and some in person gaming may be nice to mix in. Anyway, whatever you choose to do, I hope you have some good experiences in the near future!
My friend group refers to Left 4 Dead 2 versus mode as “the grand finals” for this reason; the players in it treat it like it’s the most important event that’s ever happened in their life, and a single mistake is completely unacceptable
Don’t play COD 2v2 Gunfight then. This is where the demons go when bored.
They aren’t sweaty lobbies, despite what people think. They are usually ice cold assassins testing their tactics and skill against other ice cold assassins. Occasionally some new players wander in, and it’s a bad time for them. The tough ones take their 6-0 loss like champs. The cheaters cry. Not your thing? Play Valheim on an easy setting cooperatively and enjoy. Something for everyone.
This game was so crazy good. The only thing I would’ve like would be more meaningful tier one and two units. Our in-houses more or less skipped those and went straight for tier three. Dunno what the competitive meta looks/looked like though.
Or only selling the game in pieces but in such way that those pieces can only be bought in packs that force you to pay for the same pieces multiple times.
I’ve bought each of the three latest Hitman titles on Steam exactly once at regular video game price and gotten all the content of each game, plus freely received the collection of all that content in the “World of Assassination” consolidation. Plus the free and amazing rogue-like expansion taking place across all maps from all games.
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