What did you expect Ausnon? You literally live on a prison island. Maybe support immigration and get some more people in there so you won’t have to depend on other region’s servers.
Why play games with other people at all? People are like the worst
Because AI is predictable and boring (and/or cheats). The human element keeps games exciting.
Coop games can have good communities. Deep rock galactic is the prime example
Rock. And. Stone.
Stop playing competitive games and see how fast that changes.
Competitive gamers are assholes who just want to prove they are better than other people.
Sorry that you have such an experience; many online games have fairly toxic communities, others do not; and for every game you can find amazing and kind teammates if you look closely!
Honesty, I played WoW back in the day and was in a cool guild so I’ve had good experiences. I don’t have a network of people that I play with already and don’t have the time to go out and build one. I don’t love being on mic either so I know its a me thing. There are a lot of fun single player games that are really enjoyable.
No distractions from couch co-op and single player titles
The dream
Reject MP, return to story based gameplay
I mean… you can have both
Instructions unlcear, Dark Urge only party.
As long as its in separate games, sure. If a game has both single player and multiplayer, at least one of them will be shit.
Baldur’s Gate 3
I was thinking about coop
I don’t know if you really can though. Most multiplayer games are meant to be played over and over again, which block out the time that you’d normally spend on single player games that have a fixed ending. Back in the day, I played a ton of WoW and then moved straight to League. I missed like a decade of great single player games because multiplayer is such a trap.
Just play old games, lol
Well, imagine living in Europe where there’s millions of other players. Yet you play solo cause you don’t have any friends.
Anon forgot to mention that many local servers are infested with Chinese cheaters.
Many of them are genuinely highly skilled players.
Apparently that (and genuine cheating) is some part of Asian culture that brings the “I can’t enjoy the game unless I excel at it” mentality to a whole new level.
People who haven’t lived in China just do not understand their culture at all. It’s competitive to a degree we do not comprehend. Places in just sought after primary schools can have literally million to one odds. Universities are even more competitive. Ditto for jobs. The entire culture is built around protecting the individual and family at any cost. Students are expected to cheat if they can get away with it. It’s expected in business too. If you don’t cheat, you’re considered a fool who rejected a chance to elevate yourself. Cheating is a normal way of life in China. They don’t understand why we don’t like it in games.
With their demographics changing this culture may change too. Well, in 50 years or something.
Nah, I deal with a lot of China people at my workplace, and the culture has not changed. They still cheat a lot. They may work hard once in a while, but if they can cheat to get ahead, you can be damn sure they’re gonna do it.
Yes, I meant not now, but with a lag.
It’s not particular to China. It’s peasant culture. Peasant fairy-tales tell us about it. Russian peasant culture wasn’t much different (and still can be seen in some Russians). Western European peasant culture was similar too in medieval times and even more recently.
Most of Chinese are descendants of peasants, and also they had to survive in a very competitive environment.
When I used to play dota it was amazing the difference in difficulty between US west servers and SEA servers. 6k mmr us west was about the same as 4k mmr on SEA. Whenever the international was hosted in Seattle the US West servers would be flooded with Chinese players and I wouldn’t even bother playing because just get completely shit on
I played Genshin Impact once when it first came. The routing from Australia to Asia was so bad that it actually routed to the US first, than back to Asia.
I actually got better ping by using a VPN to Japan or Taiwan before connecting to the game server.
Technically, Runescape or at least OSRS has dedicated AU servers, and it is one of the biggest MMOs whether we like to admit it or not.
Yeah and regulars on those servers are the same 20 people just like the greentext says, the rest are world hoppers who will be there only very temporarily
AU servers are popping for maniacle monkeys and rock crabs.
Seriously though, AU servers probably have the same amount of regulars that the less trafficked USA servers have. You see the same names at GE and other hot spots.
OSRS is like the perfect game to play on high ping too. The game already has an inherent 0.6 delay without client prediction.
I’ve got an Egyptian dude in my clan that’s probably got the worst Internet possible. Even EU servers for him can be 300+ ping. You kind of just build up an awareness of tick delay and it’s fine.
spiders everywhere, most expensive drugs in the world
This is all bullshit lol. Wow and FF14 are the biggest MMOs and have oce servers with thousands of players. Dota has oce servers. Every fps game I’ve played has a ton of oce community servers.
Idk what games this fun-sponge plays but his vibes are lame af. Maybe he’s mad cause the 10 players he’s referring to don’t like him.
Outside of launch periods more niche games like Darktide, Tribes etc are reduced to a small core of regulars at best and are completely dead at worst.
Days after the launch of Dawn of War 3 I couldn’t find any OCE players… granted it was far more dead on arrival than the majority of games. And yes obligatory DoW3 was trash.
Big games and franchises are fine and I even host several servers with decent sized communities myself, (currently) Palworld, Project Zomboid and Minecraft.
I have an Australian buddy I play FF14 with and he joins me on an NA server in savage mode raiding no problem. His ping does cause a slight delay, but the majority of the time it has virtually no impact on his ability to perform the mechanics and clear the raids.
200 ping to NA? Lucky east coasters. In my wow playing days living in perth on the west coast I was main tanking at 300-500ms.
Out here ANTICIPATING shield taunt times
Well it is the most isolated captial city in the world
Bloody west-islanders with their land and internet.
600ms ping in WoW from NZ to West Coast servers was “good”.
RTS games are all dead
Is this post from 2014? Age of Empires is stronger than ever, since the release of the Definitive Editions and AoE4!
All right, name me another rts.
Well there’s Age of Mythology, which had a definitive edition announced a couple of years ago, and which just today they made an announcement of an announcement (don’t you love that those seem to be a thing now…) of more information coming up next month.
There’s a new Company of Heroes game that came out last year, and a shockingly high-quality open-source RTS called Beyond All Reason, and an RTS-ish Dune game from 2022. None of these really appeal to me though, as I just love the gameplay style of the Age franchise. So I don’t really know how strong they’re going.
Last year also saw the release of the finished version of the massive Battle for Middle Earth 2 mod Age of the Ring. That’s a game that you can’t even buy any more, from anywhere, and it still has enough of a community to support that interest. (Admittedly, personally I would include BFME in the “rts games are all dead” category, but perhaps it’s just not quite as dead as one would think.)
Stormgate is currently in closed beta!
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Great! It means you have more time to enjoy the beauty of nature!
Wait, it’s Australia.
I know it’s a running joke that Australian wildlife is so deadly, but genuinely, in my day-to-day, I almost never think about it.
Except for a couple of months in Spring. When riding my bike becomes a game of Russian roulette with whether or not I’m going to be swooped by magpies.
It’s more than a running joke, it’s hilarious when the yanks say it. They have shit loads of venomous spiders and snakes, plus fucking wolves, bears, cougars, alligators and crocodiles.
But you can just give em the old ‘at least our schools aren’t shooting ranges’ too.
For today’s lucky 10 000: https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=xzjxe1ST5vWgImkD
Thank you, I’m one of the lucky 10 000
Ha. Looks like YouTube is telling me I’ve seen this before.
I recall having seen it before, but my recollection was of a man. Might be thinking of a different video. (I think he also tried taking the helmet off, and that worked.)
Also, by the gods that helmet was absolutely useless. There’s a zero percent chance of it staying on in the event of a crash, as loose as it was.
Yeah there’s a few, I had to look through some other ones but to me this is the classic one haha. There’s also one with a 10 year old screaming his head off while escaping on his scooter >.<
Jerky. There’s a reason they call them the black and white mafia. Throw some jerky for them and they’ll remember you, corvines are damn smart.
The problem is that this only works if you have a particular magpie in your neighbourhood. If you’re talking about a dozen or more different magpies across all possible places you could want to go, it becomes completely impractical.
Eh, depends how much you hate swooping, but I’ve done it on a couple of 35-50 K loops I do regular with like 6 swoop points and jerky lasts so one bag is good for a season. One or two (occasionally three) stops and throws is good for the season, doesn’t seem that impractical, but YMMV.
I have forged a peace deal between me and the magpies that live in my trees a few years, it’s a tense relationship, but they don’t swoop me and I don’t swing a plastic rake at them.
We have Australian magpies here in NZ too, and I was always told to be cautious around them but I’ve literally never seen them swoop at anyone.
Is there something about the Aussie environment that makes them aggro?
Fun thing about them is there’s always two of the bastards. So when my kids and I see one we always make it a game to find the second one. It’s often quite a challenge
Even if you’re in Australia, servers are on the east coast, so playing from Darwin is hell.
Before I retired in protest, I managed to get to the highest competitive rank in Halo Infinite. Only when I moved to NSW did I realise how crippled I was.
I played Destiny 2 recently with some kid from Australia… he seemed like he was able to play online fine and I’m in the U.S.
Most FPS are probably fine nowadays, they’ve developed a lot of lag and ping compensation strategies. It might be a problem in a high stakes tournament with the best players.
It looked fine to you, but what was the perspective like on his end? Destiny 2 has a hybrid model where a bunch of stuff is done on the client to make overall experience feel smoother, even when latency is appreciable, but that still by necessity leads to all sorts of weirdness behind the scenes when the clients are catching up with the server and you start having hit registration issues, teleporting enemies and players, even though the client isn’t really dropping frames per se.
I’ve been playing online games in Australia since… I guess the original Xbox. Actually on PC before hand I think? Was the original quake multiplayer? I have strong red faction memories but I’m sure I played a few prior.
Anyway - this was likely true until the last 10 years, 5 if you were regional. It’s never been an issue with any big game - Warzone, PUBG etc. Even old battlefields have active AUS servers.
DRG is playable up to 400ms easily. Rock & Stone brother!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
