• candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        121·
        2 years ago

        I used hamachi because no one aside from me in my group of friends knew how to port forward, but it didn’t work on my network and it took me 4 years to figure out it was because at&t has it’s own network on it’s dialup modems by default.

        They still do that to this day with their fiber modem/routers! I hate it! And even if you do passthrough to have your own up for only your router, your ping is still never below 23ms because there’s two stop points in the chain, that and at&t’s dns resolution is ass.

        Damn internet oligopolies.

        • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          The nice thing about awful isp dns is it is trivial to make your router just serve cloudflare’s instead (1.1.1.1)

          • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            2 years ago

            I think I’d have to change it in their modem but I’m not 100% sure, I remember having troubles the last time I tried this

      • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        2 years ago

        Terraria before proper multiplayer support was our prime Hamachi game. We had like 7-8 people from an internet forum playing on and off through our hamachi virtual network.

        Awesome times!

        • 3ntranced@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          I still have my old terraria group instances saved with the eloquent passwords such as “butthole” and “42069” for ease of reference.

        • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          I played a lot of sup comm fa on there myself. I also used gameranger as a match maker for some of my more…busted…games.

  • ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    471·
    2 years ago

    For those that didn’t use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.

    As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.

    • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      It also made it really easy to join your friends games before everything was on steam.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    266·
    2 years ago

    Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.

    • ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.

    • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Why do you think it was better than Discord today? Didn’t get to experience Xfire so genuinely curious about it’s user experience.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        2 years ago

        It was very feature-rich. Literally everything discord offeres, but better implemented, and every feature was customizable - the in-game overlay being the one I remember most fondly. In addition to a VOIP indicator like discord has, it had a text-chat overlay too that my guild used a lot. We were spread out over multiple games, but we all had one unified in-game guild chat thanks to Xfire. You could resize and reposition everything in the overlay, and could set a keybind to toggle whether your mouse and such could interact with the chat windows or just click through it to interact with the game. It was clean as fuck.

        VOIP quality was outstanding. UI in general was customizable and also clean as fuck.

        It had a built in screen recorder.

        Everything was intuitive to use and easy to use.

        It was just really, REALLY high quality all around.

        Hope it makes a comeback.

  • Asimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    Man I’d forgotten about this.

    This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).

  • SwedishFool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 years ago

    This brought back memories I didn’t know I had. Gosh I miss those days, I wish I had downloaded all the clips I recorded before it died. I’m sad now.

  • oryx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    God that brings back memories. I mainly used it for Halo CE back on Windows XP still in like 09-10. Joined a clan through Xfire that I played with a bunch. Used it a little for Minecraft too! Those days on CE were the best.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    The gametime stats in Xfire were my first clue that I maybe needed to get off the PC once in a while and, as the kids say these days, touch grass.

    Was still kinda proud of myself though. Albeit a sort of shameful pride.