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.
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Oh no.
What was it?
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.
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.
This is true it is interesting but when I get my ass kicked 9/10 times no matter the game I become uninterested
Inb4 get good
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.
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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.
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!
Aussnon has never downloaded GameRanger either and it shows. BfME 2 and CaC: Red Alert for eternity.
Gameranger is still a thing? Haven’t thought of that since my days playing ghost recon 1 in the mid 2000’s
The range of the game is infinite.
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.
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.
While you’re right that you can befriend them and they’ll remember you, our magpies aren’t corvids afaik. I used to bring plain cashews as part of my lunch and the local magpies were obsessed with them. There was one that would run along behind me whenever I walked outside, and she even followed me into buildings a few times.
magpies aren’t corvids
I stand corrected. I’ve even learned that before and it didn’t stick, maybe this time. Still damn smart and visually similar.
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.
For today’s lucky 10 000: https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=xzjxe1ST5vWgImkD
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 >.<
Thank you, I’m one of the lucky 10 000
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.
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.
I’m trying to train my son, who loves chasing pigeons, not to chase magpies because they remember you
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
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.
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”.
spiders everywhere, most expensive drugs in the world
TIL they don’t sell single player games in Australia…
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What do you mean
I can’t find details
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Well, imagine living in Europe where there’s millions of other players. Yet you play solo cause you don’t have any friends.
At least they have Path of Exile (IIRC PoE has aussie and a NZ server, because GGG is based out of NZ nearby)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even like 10 years ago I would frequently get a steady 30 ping in heaps of different multiplayer games. I don’t play as many games these days but I know enough people who play online, even in competitive shooters, who don’t have any issues.
Maybe they live in a small town somewhere, because at least in the bigger cities it’s not that dire.
They’re talking about getting matched to servers overseas. You’re definitely not getting 30 ping to Singapore, which in most cases is the best server you’ll get if there isn’t an Australian one.
Not sure which games they want to play that don’t have Aussie servers though. I don’t play any shooters.
DRG is playable up to 400ms easily. Rock & Stone brother!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
