Astaroth

@Astaroth@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly nothing will beat Warcraft 3 (pre reforged refunded) custom games for LAN parties.

  Some of my favorite maps: Warlock (any 1.0X version), either teams or FFA, Uther Party, Battle Tanks, Archer Wars Legacy, Survival Chaos, Legion TD, Farmer vs Hunter, Founders of the North, Hungry Hungry Felhounds, The Predator (Version FINAL), etc.

  Honestly there’s just too many to count and even remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s also a mod that makes it so you can have simultaneous turn enabled permanently, although it does allow for some quirks and bug abuse, but it’s such a massive time saver when every player can take their turn at the same time that its well worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  just google chinese ev car graveyard i.imgur.com/vjtkj6J.png

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me I just found it annoying that whenever we wanted to go in different directions one player would end up getting dragged back by the camera border. So many failed jumps…

  But that’s fair, if someone thinks that being able to get in the way of each other and being forced to cooperate better due to it adds to their enjoyment of the game then playing the games without split screen could be preferable.

  I just never considered that possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego games like Lego Starwars has already been mentioned and I will second those (especially the newer ones that have split screen).

  Divinity Original Sin is also great.

   

  Honestly most games I can think of have already been mentioned or don’t seem like that great of an option since it seems your partner isn’t normally into gaming.

  But I will suggest some anyway just in case

   

  Starcraft 2 has free online multiplayer which includes a COOP vs AI mode.

  There’s also a 2 player campaign adaption of Warcraft 3’s normally single player campaign. Although it might only be available for pre-Reforged.

  Also I didn’t know about it before now when I googled it just in case but apparently SC2 also has COOP mods for its campaigns.

   

  You mentioned having a Switch so I will recommend Advance Wars Reboot and Wargroove 1 & 2, although there are no COOP campaigns but you can play multiplayer maps.

  Besides Advance Wars Reboot Camp on Switch (or the originals for Gameboy, which you could play with emulator), there’s also an online fan site called Advance Wars By Web where you can play advance wars in the web browser, although there’s no single player.

  Wargroove is also on Steam and besides the campaign and regular game itself there are puzzles.

  And speaking of Puzzles, card games tend to have Puzzles. I haven’t actually played Magic, Yu Gi Oh, etc. so I can’t say for sure whether they have any, but there’s puzzles in Faeria. (I would’ve recommended Might and Magic Duel of Champions, it had some great puzzles, but Ubisoft shut that game down many years ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second the Lego games. Although the older ones (Complete Saga) & Lego Indiana Jones were annoying to play COOP because there’s no split screen.

  But Lego Star Wars Clonewars has split screen so you don’t get in the way of each other. I haven’t actually played other newer Lego games but I assume they will have split screen as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IKEA used to sell great mattresses, but when I had to replace my old one a few years ago they only had hard and semi-hard ones.

  And over time the mattress I ended up buying because they didn’t sell the one I wanted anymore sunk in and has formed an uncomfortable indent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats your favorite Main Menu music?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eclipse Vanguard 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warcraft III: Reforged Patch Notes - Version 1.36.1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I legitimately didn’t know it removed features and until reading the other reply and watching the linked videos I wasn’t aware of a lot of the changes or even the existence of features like rejoining matches. If I ever got disconnected from a match I just played something else even back in the day. I don’t remember ever having an option to rejoin a match, unless that’s specifically a ladder games thing. I don’t recall getting disconnected from many games though, but I know it did happen. Definitely not enough for me to have been upset about it.

  Warcraft 3 itself never had rejoin as in you could not close WC3 start it up again login and rejoin, but if you were having connection issues it would pause the game and wait a minute or so to give you a chance to reconnect before dropping you.

  Some private WC3 servers did a have better reconnection features added, like ENTConnect, but obviously those were obviously just for games hosted by their own bots (although you could still join these games from official battle.net lobby search until Blizzard nuked host botting a year or so before Reforged came out)

   

  But if you get Desynced there’s no waiting for reconnection, you’re just dropped.

  Because being Desynced means the game state on your client doesn’t match with the rest of the players, so to fix that the game would have to be rewinded until before the desync happened and no such feature existed in WC3.

  And the patches leading up to reforged and Reforged itself added a ton of desync issues.

   

  I’m assuming that’s what you’re referring to by missing network features because it still has multiplayer and I’m pretty sure it still has the chat lobbies although I never really used those back then and I don’t use them now either.

  LAN doesn’t exist. Ranked Ladder & profiles didn’t exist until 2022, and it still sucks and everyone uses W3Champions instead anyway, and the auto hosted in game tournaments don’t exist.

   

  As far as me saying the custom games were improved I’d say you’re the dishonest one if you’re saying that’s not the case. They definitely improved custom games and while I don’t know all the changes, an easy one to point out would be the saved ranking system that exists for line tower wars now. That definitely didn’t exist back in the day.

  Regarding custom games, the custom games are not made by Blizzard, they’re made by players. However in the patches leading up to Reforged Blizzard did add a lot of new functions that modders/map makers could use which were great additions, thus allowing for new cool stuff in custom games.

  One super obvious and huge change was that in version 1.30 24 player support was added, instead of the usual 12.

  But that doesn’t change that Blizzard then also made changes in Reforged that broke basically every existing custom map and they had to be updated to fix.

   

  There were some desync issues and saving games in single player was broken but for custom games version 1.31.1 (the last patch before Reforged) was the best patch, you had all the new functionality added to the map editor but a lot less bugs and problems from Reforged.

  Also there still haven’t even added the ability to play custom campaigns to Reforged lol. The few single player campaigns you can play in Reforged are thanks to people independent of Blizzard coming up with a work around and they’re technically just a series of custom games you play (although that is what campaigns are so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were your top favorite video games as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Warcraft 3, Age Series (AoE, AoE2, AoM, AoE3), Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)

  I played the first age of empires when I was 6 or 7 y/o and I’ve played all of the games besides AoE4 (including Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds).

  As a kid we had few crappy dell computers connected to just a hub (LAN without internet) and would play a lot of Age of Empires 2 and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2 multiplayer.

  Age of Empires and Red Alert were also games I would frequently play at LAN parties (although everyone was really bad)

   

  I played a bit of online AoE2 when AoE2 HD came out on steam but it was pretty bad so I stopped playing it. When DE came out I started watching AoE2 content but I’ll never play it because I’ve come to greatly dislike Microsoft over the years.

   

  I’ve replayed Need for Speed Most Wanted (and also Carbon) tens of times over the years, and I still play it every now and then (with mods now)

   

  The game I’ve played the most is probably Warcraft 3, I’ve played a ton of custom games on Battle.net (RIP) and it’s what got me a bit into programming since I liked making custom maps and making triggers eventually led me to learn JASS (Just Another Scripting Language)

  If Blizzard didn’t completely ruin Warcraft 3 with WC3 Reforged I’d probably still be playing it and making custom maps every so often.

  I have played a bit on private servers but it’s just not the same anymore.

   

  There’s a pretty cool Warcraft 3 open source project called Warsmash though so maybe one day I’ll start playing again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Already saw this a year or two ago, it’s a great watch and would highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet does watch it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How you worded this makes it seem like “if those games didn’t” refers to requiring subscriptions.

  I would suggest editing it to “If those games didn’t appeal to kids” or similar; if what you meant was that kids just plays what appeals to them, and those games “just happens” to be subscription games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Not the Skywalker Saga)

  Clone Wars is also really good, plus it has a lot better split screen which is great for 2p coop playing with your kid/nephew/niece or just being able to have 2 children play together instead of fighting over who gets to play and who has to wait for their turn that never comes

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really?

  I would’ve expected 3DS at most

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨abandonware empires⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could your average joe even afford to buy a single one of those handwritten books? Or even read said book for that matter…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to go mobile • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TWP is even better than just google translate because it lets you choose between Google, Bing, Yandex, and DeepL translations, if a translation looks sus you can take a look at what the other translation engines say.

  At least on PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have to wait 5~10 minutes on the loading screens before missions before when I didn’t have an SSD and only 8gb RAM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Warcraft 3 (RIP)

  Skyrim

  Xcom 2

   

  Honorable mentions: Mass Effect trilogy & Dragon Age series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam has proton which lets you play Windows games on Linux.

  You can use Lutris, Heroic Launcher, Bottles, or just plain WINE as well but for a lot of people the easiest way they know is to just add a non-steam game to steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking ME trilogy as well, but while ME1 is a great game it doesn’t really hold up in terms of graphics. ME2 and ME3 still look fine though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Addressing the boost in users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s probably also because people leave lemmy.world and lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else getting server issues?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had any timeouts but I’ve noticed that some images don’t load, so e.g. on some of the meme posts I have no idea what they’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, we need more games like AW and Wargroove

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used or heard of it before but apparently zoxide is only for cd command, do you happen to know if there’s some fuzzy match for in general?

  At the moment what I do is history foo | grep -i “bar”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah Fish tab completion works, but one thing I’ve noticed though is that tab completion for wrong case only works if there’s no option with the correct case

  e.g. if I have Downloads and Downloads2 then d with tab completion will become Downloads, but if I have Downloads and downloads2 it will tab complete to downloads2

   

  I’ve been meaning to look through the Fish documentation to see if I can change that and fuzzy search for history but never got around to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Advance Wars By Web

  Advance Wars is an old turn based strategy game, for the Game Boy Advance, and AWBW is a fan site to play AW online.

  I’ve gotten pretty into it ever since Advance Wars Reboot was announced, and being able to play it in the web browser means I frequently find time to play…

   

  Ironically I don’t play the actual AW Remake because in classic nintendo style the multiplayer is extremely lacking, only being able to play with players added to friends list, not being able to upload/download maps except to friends, and extremely limited map sizes for online maps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While fandom sucks (although I think it used to be fine before the redesign many years ago) and game companies/publishers are cheap, I still think 3rd party wikis is going to better, even shitty ones like fandom, because guess what?

  Just like every other ‘live service’ (or even just old games!?! if you’re Ubisoft) everything will be fine and dandy until one day some suit decides to shut down the wiki to cut down on costs and all that information and community work gets flushed down the toilet.

   

  With that said, instead of them making some wiki website, it’s nice when games lets you look up information in the game itself, without having to open the web browser and going to some wiki.