pbjamm

pbjamm, 4 miesiące temu

It all went down hill (literally) when fall damage was introduced.

pbjamm, 5 miesięcy temu

This War of Mine is a good game, but I found it too bleak to keep playing. I am sure that is part of the point, but I usually play games as a form of escapism.

pbjamm, 6 miesięcy temu

Oh. My. Goo.

pbjamm, 6 miesięcy temu

I worked for Interplay back in the 90s. It was pretty great for me, launching my IT career. Working in QA did temporarily ruin my ability to play games for fun though.

pbjamm, 7 miesięcy temu

I QA tested Carmageddon when I worked at Interplay oh so many years ago. It was one of the only games I worked on that I could still play for fun after. I think I still have my boxed copy.

BeamNG is a blast. Utterly unforgiving.

pbjamm, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

For me it was pretty great. I was young, did not have many expenses and enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and weird people. Play testing games got old really quick and it was rare that any game could continue to be fun after “playing” it all day every day. Carmaggedon was one of those few. It was not even a priority as it was part of a package deal that Interplay would publish it along with some other utterly forgettable game. Brian, the owner of the company, took notice of it when he came to QA one day and found a bunch of us playing a LAN game when we were supposed to be working on other titles. After a few years of game testing I was kind of burned out and was going to quit but got hired into the IT dept. Here I am almost 25 yrs later still doing IT, though not in the very volatile games business.

No regrets, it worked out well for me.

pbjamm, 8 miesięcy temu

Valve’s statement adds that players using DirectX 9, 32-bit operating systems or macOS “represented less than one percent of active CS:GO players”. Dumping these platforms makes sense from that perspective, but it’s a bitter pill to swallow for the Macintoshers amongst us or those who, for whatever reason, play on very old PCs.

from rock-paper-shotgun

pbjamm, 8 miesięcy temu

Playstation 5 setup should be a single login, then download and install firmware updates and before playing a game install another update.

These are the extra steps, and depending on the size of the updates, internet speed, and server (over)load they can take a very long time. PS2 was as simple as put disk in machine and play game, no updates required or even possible.

This of course meant that some times games shipped with show stopper bugs that got missed or ignored with no way to fix it. This was also abused, shipping with known issues so they could be on shelves for Xmas with the assumption that they would be fixed before the game was in the hands of customers.

pbjamm, 9 miesięcy temu

I will spend hours and hours playing against expert bots until I can consistently be at the top of the leader board. Then I be ready to play against humans and rank at the bottom.

I have been playing CS since 1.6 and every time a I take a break I have to start all over again.

pbjamm, 9 miesięcy temu

Bots seem to be set to “Drunk and Sleepy”. Changing bot_difficulty does not seem to make a difference.

pbjamm, 8 miesięcy temu

bot_difficulty 5

custom_bot_difficulty 5

Those seem to work. The standard 1-3 make no difference that I can tell. They are still very very dumb, but at least they do not hesitate 5 sec to pull the trigger and can hit a target.

pbjamm, 9 miesięcy temu

The art is approaching cosmic horror on its own, or at least existential dread.

pbjamm, 9 miesięcy temu

The speed can fluctuate as users pop on and off a server, but in general I have gotten excellent speeds (100mbps+). If ever I am getting poor throughput I swap to a different random server until I get what I need. I do not torrent with it though so I am not sure how it fares with that use.

pbjamm, 10 miesięcy temu

Their free VPN is good enough that I have not had to purchase their paid version, but I probably will anyway.

pbjamm, 10 miesięcy temu

Since you are looking to play single player you might also want to check out Minetest with the Mineclone2 addon installed. It is not identical, but it is an amazing substitute and free.

pbjamm, 10 miesięcy temu

Interplay…feel like I am in the Wayback Machine. I worked there for a few years at the time of Carmageddon, Fallout1/2, Descent, and some other classics. A lifetime ago.

I still have my Vault13 flask from Fallout2. Sad that I can not really use it anymore though as the printing is very fragile now.