MicroSlop is so much better in preventing cheats and hacks. So much better.

A tale as old as gaming. Valorant has the most invasive anti cheat. People still cheat.

It's a miracle.

And besides giving up on crowd control epic roally and massively fucks up their products. There's the Desaster of lego fortnite, a potential mega seller, and it's drowning in bugs and the dumbest product management ever. Best part I've seen bugs spill over from lego to battle royale... Hilarious.

They really lost control of the code. No joke.

Wasn't that Rust? It was probably this too, and I didn't notice because I don't really play games like this, so I don't tend to keep up with news about them.

Red Dead Online players: You mean cheating isn’t the expectation?

Seriously though, RDO had the single worst cheating problem I ever encountered. To the point that the multiplayer was downright unplayable unless you had cheats of your own. People would constantly troll with full-map aimbots, combined with infinite explosive ammo and no reloads. You log in, and your character is immediately taking an explosive bullet to the face on every single frame.

You start in a campsite where you can’t be damaged, but the sheer amount of explosions and particles being forcibly rendered are enough to make lower-end systems immediately lag. And as soon as you step outside of camp, you’ll take damage from those explosive rounds and immediately die. So at the very least, a godmode cheat is necessary just to be able to play the game without instantly dying.

Surprisingly not much of an issue recently. At least not on community servers.

Sounds like advice for an addict... Maybe you're on to something 🫣 I thank you for your kind words. Have a nice day!

I just started downloading it. Thanks for your suggestion! 🫶

You're right, it's the 10% real players that make it interesting - and shitty at the same time.

I just went back to the classics, most of which are all free now to play online. the original Quake 3 Arena you can play on pretty much every OS for free now via ioquake3 and there are still a ton of servers for it. the original Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2004 are both available for free online play now and very easy to set up. I also prefer playing TFC over TF2. also the original HL Deathmatch is still a blast.

I THINK there's also a free option for Tribes 2 out there but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Will try that. The dynamics unfortunately are very different from multi player games - single player games get very predictable in short time...

Yep, several years ago. Wasn't my cup of tea at the time. Maybe I'll give it a second try...

Dealing with the personalities of other players was mine.

Yep, do understand that decision. It's a real pity as the dynamics in multi player is so nicely challenging, something that single player games miss, they become predictable very fast.