d3Xt3r

d3Xt3r, 3 miesiące temu

I recently bought the OG Dragon’s Dogma for $6. There are a ton of QoL and fun mods that improve gameplay, no DRM crap, and the game performs really well overall. Zero reasons IMO to buy DD2 right now and put up with an inferior experience and Denuvo.

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu

I don’t know about second best, but it’s in the top 5 for sure. The other three for me being the Rogue Squadron series, Galactic Battlegrounds and tie between the two Episode I games (Phantom Menace and Racer).

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu

Heh yeah Galactic Battlegrounds is so unfairly underrated IMO. People who knew of it brushed it off saying it’s just a reskinned AoE - but there’s so much more to it. I fell in love with it all over again last year, after I discovered a couple of excellent mods: the first being Expanding Fronts, which brings new civilizations, units, maps, music and QoL improvements. The other being cnc-ddraw - which fixes graphics/compatibility/resolutions and does some excellent upscaling. The game is so much fun with this, been playing local multiplayer with my friends using ZeroTier and we have massive battles against bots, its amazing.

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

What’s the story line like (if there’s any)? One of the reasons why I like Diablo (1&2) so much is because of the atmosphere, the world building, the lore, the attention to small details. Especially in Diablo 2, for instance, things like cool random names for mini-bossess, the personality of the all monsters (like how the fallen make cute grunts and scream “RAKANISHU!”) - it feels like you’re fighting against real creatures which are alive. It makes the world feel so much more alive and immersive, and increases the replay value.

Now compare this with Diablo 4, where all the mobs just feel so generic and unimaginative - like you’re fighting a big bear called “beast”… like wtf. Also, the biggest problem in Diablo 4 is that the difficulty scaling is whack - you never feel like you’ve become powerful, because the monsters become just as powerful as you and it just feels like an endless, soulless grind. Even so called “legendary” items are crap and meaningless, they don’t bear any excitement at all - like imagine how excited you’d be in D2 if you got a Tal Rasha’s or an SoJ or something, or heck, even just one of the upper runes. And finally, in D2 you have some very memorable NPCs with iconic dialogue and voice acting. Even more than two decades later, people reminisce fondly about Decard Cain and all his epic quotes like “Stay awhile and listen!” - and I bet any D2 fan reading this would’ve instantly read that quote in Cain’s voice. D4 has none of that, it’s a soulless game. So how does Last Epoch fare in regards to all that? Specifically, what I want to know is how’s the:

• Story
• Music
• Environment/world building
• Mobs
• NPCs
• Loot

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu

Another option is to get Grim Dawn, and then get the Reign of Terror mod. It’s basically Diablo 2 recreated almost completely + some extra content.

But since you’ve never played Diablo 2, I’d recommend playing it first in some form (D2R or PD2) so you can appreciate the storyline (and the epic cutscenes) - and then play the Grim Dawn mod.

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu

My earliest would probably be Space Invaders on the Atari 400.

But I also did a lot of PC gaming around that time - Alley Cat, Paratrooper, Prince of Persia, Dangerous Dave, GORILLA.BAS, NIBBLES.BAS - these were some of the earliest DOS games I played and still remember them fondly.

When we got a NES later on, spent a lot of time on Duck Hunt. And Super Mario of course, but don’t think I ever managed to get past level 3. Still had fun though.

d3Xt3r, 4 miesiące temu

What did you not like about it, if you don’t mind me asking?

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and the server have been leaked as well.

The source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. Cheat makers typically don’t care about the code, they’d look at either altering the game files, and/or the memory space where the game variables are stored. Having access to the source doesn’t really help with that (well it may help them understand the compiled binaries a bit better, assuming they don’t know them inside-out already - we’re talking about a 10 year old game here).

But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.

If Rockstar coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified, or if the anti-cheat system is spooked/borked. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.

TL;DR: There’s nothing the worry about, online gaming (against randoms) will continue to suck as usual, best to stick to offline play or playing with/against a trusted friend circle.

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).

But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

No mention of TotK? Lame.

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

areweanticheatyet.com - a crowd-sourced database of games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with Linux/Proton.

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

Hmm, somehow I never really used 10BASE2/5 stuff.

My first memories of “LAN” parties was playing Doom, OMF2097 and other DOS IPX games over a null-modem cable (which I made myself by hacking up a regular serial cable - was so proud of myself when I got it to work lol). Of course, it was only limited to two PCs, but still fun nonetheless. After the DOS era, my first “proper” LAN party was over 10BASE-T (Cat3) during the Win 9x era, and then we quickly moved into the Cat5/100Mbps world. So somehow I completely skipped over coax LANs, even though I started with MSDOS, RS232 and BBS door games. Or maybe I used them unknowingly at school or something. But it feels really strange to hear others reminisce “fondly” about T-connectors and terminators, when even though I’m from the same era, I never even saw them. Or maybe I’m from an alternate timelime where they didn’t exist at all…

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

To add to this, I’d also like to recommend dos.zone - tons of cool, old school DOS games, playable right in your browser - and some of them even have mobile/touch controls, and even multiplayer support (like Doom, Warcraft etc)!

d3Xt3r, 6 miesięcy temu

Woah, wasn’t expecting to see this answer here! OMF is my favorite one hands down.

A close second would be the music for Jazz Jackrabbit.

d3Xt3r, 7 miesięcy temu

Really? Looking online, it seems to be taking ~30GB, which isn’t much relatively speaking (considering modern AAA games these days can be 100+GB).

Phones nowadays come with 128GB as base option, and typically even offer a 256GB model (eg the Pixel 8). So Warframe shouldn’t really be an issue for mobile gamers who typically buy beefier phones than the average.

d3Xt3r, 7 miesięcy temu

The replies here from a few months ago suggest 26-36 GB.

d3Xt3r, 7 miesięcy temu

The GPU driver manager sounds pretty useful. From a PC gamer’s perspective, it seems pretty wild that you could just switch between driver versions like this on the fly.

d3Xt3r, 7 miesięcy temu

Can’t wait for the updated Diablo 2 mod to take advantage of the new features!

d3Xt3r, 7 miesięcy temu

Bazzite supports dual-booting, so if you really wanted to, you could wipe your deck right now, install Windows, and then install Bazzite.

d3Xt3r, 8 miesięcy temu

But that only works if it’s good enough to get you hooked in the first place…

d3Xt3r, 8 miesięcy temu

Looking at all those fixes makes me glad I haven’t tried the new 2.x update yet. The question now though is, should I wait for a few more months to see if they fix more bugs? 🤔

d3Xt3r, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

PD2 Season 8 is looking pretty good, in case you’re interested.

d3Xt3r, 8 miesięcy temu

I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the campaign, it was just so soulless and grindy, I gave up halfway.

d3Xt3r, 9 miesięcy temu

Batman Begins (2005) had an all-star voice cast from the movies:

• Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
• Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
• Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard/Ra’s al Ghul
• Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes
• Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow
• Tom Wilkinson as Carmine Falcone
• Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
• Tim Booth as Victor Zsasz
• Mark Boone Junior as Detective Arnold Flass
• Ken Watanabe as Ra’s al Ghul (decoy)

d3Xt3r, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Even that transcript was a bit too long, so here’s a < 150 word summary by ChatGPT:

Unity Technologies, known for its Unity game engine, has been facing severe backlash for its recent decisions. Unity adjusted its fee structure, now charging game developers per install with retroactive terms of service changes. This move is expected to negatively impact numerous game projects. In addition, Unity removed their transparency GitHub repo and reversed previous community-centric commitments, leading to widespread industry anger. The CEO’s past decisions to maximize revenue raise eyebrows. Unity rejected a $20 billion acquisition offer from AppLovin in favor of a $4.4 billion merger with Iron Source, a mobile game development monetization company. Tomar Bar Ziv, CEO of Iron Source and a Unity board member, has notably sold around $20 million in Unity stock following the merger. Recent aggressive pricing models seem to mirror those adopted by Twitter and Reddit. Unity’s shift seems aimed at promoting Iron Source’s Level Play service and could significantly harm developers, especially in the mobile sector. Companies like Azur, Voodoo, and Century Games have retaliated by disabling Unity and Iron Source ad monetization. Unity’s recent closure of two offices due to threats from its own employee underscores the depth of its internal and external crises.

d3Xt3r, 9 miesięcy temu

Unity Technologies, known for its Unity game engine, has been facing severe backlash for its recent decisions. Unity adjusted its fee structure, now charging game developers per install with retroactive terms of service changes. This move is expected to negatively impact numerous game projects. In addition, Unity removed their transparency GitHub repo and reversed previous community-centric commitments, leading to widespread industry anger. The CEO’s past decisions to maximize revenue raise eyebrows. Unity rejected a $20 billion acquisition offer from AppLovin in favor of a $4.4 billion merger with Iron Source, a mobile game development monetization company. Tomar Bar Ziv, CEO of Iron Source and a Unity board member, has notably sold around $20 million in Unity stock following the merger. Recent aggressive pricing models seem to mirror those adopted by Twitter and Reddit. Unity’s shift seems aimed at promoting Iron Source’s Level Play service and could significantly harm developers, especially in the mobile sector. Companies like Azur, Voodoo, and Century Games have retaliated by disabling Unity and Iron Source ad monetization. Unity’s recent closure of two offices due to threats from its own employee underscores the depth of its internal and external crises.

d3Xt3r, 9 miesięcy temu

Unrelated, but anyone know if they fixed the problem of not being able to add the ‘+’ button to the macro sequence?

d3Xt3r, 10 miesięcy temu

• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (with the Expanding Fronts mod)
• Age of Empires II HD
• Serious Sam HD

d3Xt3r, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

pixel-art

• Chrono Trigger
• Octopath Traveller
• Final Fantasy VI

d3Xt3r, 10 miesięcy temu

Make sure you’ve enabled PEX, DHT etc, also update your tracker list using the lists here: github.com/ngosang/trackerslist