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TheBest, do gaming w Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Review Thread
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A new platformed to sink my teeth into. Im casually optimistic, but I have no attachment to the series, so I hope it lands well.

chloyster,

As far as I know it’s made by the Rayman origins / legends devs. Origins is my favorite platformer of all time and metroidvania is my favorite genre. So I am super excited for this!

chrisbrummel,
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bermuda, do gaming w 5+ man group games

Quake Live

Turmbaumeister, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 7th

I’ve given another chance to Lords of the Fallen as I’ve realised I might have held it to the absurdly high standard of the masterpiece that is Lies of P and it’s a fun game, I’ve just reached the last dungeon.

It has a ton of problems: the jump is terrible, the lock on mechanic is the worst I’ve ever seen, camera is bad, the only challenge the designers seem to know is to gank the player with 50 enemies all the time, quests can be failed by beating a boss too early, selling an item(no buy back) or opening doors, bosses are kind meh and so on BUT it somehow is still fun and good, it’s like it’s more than the sum of its parts. 8/10 and I actually would recommend it.

aciDC14, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

Being a TF2 fan is fucking suffering…

A_Random_Idiot,

being a valve fan is fucking suffering.

They used to make great games, but they have no need to anymore cause steam brings in $$$$Texas.

curiousPJ, (edited ) do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

Valve seems okay with TF2 mods on the older engine… See tf2classic.com

I feel like the TF2Classic ran into dmca issues earlier in their dev cycle as well.

Edit: yes they did twitter.com/tf2classic/…/1436328611485818880

Deiv,

Is tf2classic any good? I loved tf2, but the bots just made it unplayable

paddirn, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

Seems like they were already planning on stopping the project anyways, Valve’s DMCA just happened to come while they were already deliberating on it:

While we were discussing the project’s future internally recently, we already came to the conclusion to stop the development of the project due to the current state of the code being unusable anymore with s&box’s recent major engine changes, and that we overall moved on from it.

Sadly, this means this DMCA takedown is the nail in the coffin. We cannot bring it back and we’ve hit Valve’s attention, it seems like they definitely don’t want us to use their IP (which is totally fair and legal from them).

Kaldo, do gaming w 5+ man group games
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I’d suggest valheim but I’m not sure how is the performance nowadays, our rented servers struggled a lot with only 3-4 people and I think 10 is the max. Sailing was especially very laggy and glitchy because if it unfortunately.

HumbleFlamingo,

The issue with Valheim is it’s not really a dedicated server. It’s more of a shared saved game repository.

Whoever gets to a region first is the host, and everyone nearby connects to them. If that person has a slow machine, or high latency to the other players it can be really painful. When I was playing with friends, we banned one person from entering dungeons first because they had the worst computer in the group and it was really bad for the rest of us. Same thing with our main base, if they wound up the host, they’d disconnect and log back in so someone else would become host.

Coreidan, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

lol did these morons really think they were going to get away with literally trying to steal an IP? ROFL

Life lessons for these people.

Soulg,

This comment would only make sense if they were being indignant about it.

eskimofry,

Yeah, how dare they make something enjoyable for the community! Everyone should suffer under valve’s dragging of their feet over TF2 promises.

Coreidan,

Everyone should suffer under valve’s dragging of their feet over TF2 promises.

Ah so because Valve isn’t updating the game on an interval you’re ok with that gives them the right to steal IP?

You can make anything you want for the community. But if you do it while stealing an IP then that puts you in the wrong.

It’s pretty simple kid.

eskimofry,

IP laws should have a “use it or lose it” clause to be honest. Otherwise companies become lazy and repackage the same shit in a new skin that you have to pay for.

daniyeg, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

if there’s one rule to modding valve games, it’s “don’t touch GabeN’s hat and skin sales”. TF2 despite being a real mess and valve’s server being practically unplayable, still brings in millions of dollars of gambling money, and now that CS2 keys are not tradable TF2 keys are in demand for laundering money. of course they are gonna take down a direct remake of their live service game minus all the bots and shitty cosmetics.

Cethin,

Not exactly. Plenty of CS mods give players knife skins and things while on the server for doing things in the server. They only work while in that server, but Valve doesn’t care. Releasing a product that could be mistaken for an official product is not smart though. They just released Counter Strike 2 (which was called CS Source 2 for a long time) so they have to defend their IP from confusion. This isnt likely about money because this wouldn’t hurt that in the slightest. Who had even heard of it before this post? It’s just something they have to do legally.

bekopharm, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 7th
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I played “The Expanse” (on Linux PC) and I enjoyed it so much that I didn’t put the controller down for over 6 hours (beko.famkos.net/x/1CMPu)

Clbull, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

I’d be more supportive of Valve if Team Fortress 2 wasn’t a dumpster fire to play in 2024. The game is infested with bots that make anything outside of independently moderated community servers unplayable.

Even Counter Strike 2 has dogshit anticheat despite the boasts that VAC Live was a solution that could surpass Vanguard, to the point where the only good competitive experience you can have is to play on FaceIt or ESEA servers with their own ring 0 anticheat solution.

justJanne,

If you can only have a good experience by installing malware, you don’t have a good experience.

I really should finish building that nvidia jetson based hardware anticheat that’d allow anyone to cheat even in vanguard protected games with perfect accuracy for just ~150$. Ring 0 anticheat’s only use is to spy on you and yet people will continue defending it until someone’s proven just how useless it is.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t play Valorant, but I never heard my friend that does getting pissed at cheaters over there, compared to my friends that play CS2.

TwanHE,

Can only speak for the higher ranks of both games but cs2 is currently unplayable above 25k elo since its almost guaranteed to have 1 out of 10 players cheating. While i only encounter a few cheaters each season in immortal in Valorant.

theonyltruemupf,

I mean TF 2 is 16 years old. They just don’t really support it anymore. I can’t comprehend how it’s still in or close to the top 10 steam games by player count when it’s been dead for years.

Fontane,

It got 14 new maps last year and hit a new concurrent player count record. It’s not even remotely dead.

theonyltruemupf,

Yeah dead as in doesn’t receive much love from Valve

verysoft, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"

The GitHub DMCA report linked in that post seems fake to me. It's unprofessionally written and has many mistakes and inconsistencies across it.

KingThrillgore, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"
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If I had to guess a real reason why: a new TF game in Source 2, or something similar is in the works at Valve. It may never make it out of pre-production, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

It would surprise me if they did it to capitalize on Overwatch, which would show that Valve leadership can’t make an original idea, and is chasing an also-ran that’s not successful.

paddirn,

Team Fortress 3? Everyone knows that Valve can’t count beyond 3.

And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to two. No more. No less. Two shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be two. Three shalt thou not count, nor either count thou one, excepting that thou then proceed to two. Four is right out. Once the number two, being the second number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”

Kolanaki, do gaming w 5+ man group games
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Space Engineers.

Satisfactory.

Factorio (actually not sure what the MP limit is without mods; but I know there’s a mod that makes it infinite due to seeing the Spiffing Brit playing with like 300 people at once).

EVE Online (the bigger your group the stronger you’d be. Get 100 of 'em; start your own corporation)

Actually while thinking about what supports more than 4 it’s mostly creative games and MMORPGs (that know of). Damn near everything centers on groups of just 3-4 with the exception of the 5v5 competitive shooters.

queue, do games w Valve issues DMCA takedown for "Team Fortress: Source 2"
@queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I just wish Valve wasn’t pulling a Nintendo and not aiding the fans of a game they care about, instead of just sitting on it and claiming they are doing all they can for it.

How long has it been since we were promised a major update after Jungle Inferno? How long since Valve promised community fixes? How long since Valve delayed it with “we’re working hard on making it next update”? How long did Valve say they heard the community loud and clear about the bot crisis?

TF2 is my all time favorite game, but it’s no longer really playable in 2024. Casual servers are infested with bots, and there’s been no major changes to the game since 2017. I wish Valve cared about the game as much as the community still does dozens of years later.

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

why do peopoe bot?

berg,

To get in-game drops as far as I know.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Not all games need to be officially supported forever, tbh.

You can easily run your own server for it, so like UT99 or so, fans can form communities and play.

Basically, I’d rather them put effort into a Team Fortress 3, even though I know that’s of course utopian given we never got an HL3 either.

sosodev,

If they don’t want to support it that’s fine but they should stop releasing new micro transactions then

stoly,

They most certainly made a decision based on priorities and TF2 wasn’t a big enough one for them to jump on. If there were enough users who would pay clamoring for it, they’d move.

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