• AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
    12·
    4 months ago

    I am surprised that 0 A.D. is not mentioned.

    Although initially unplayable, the game was fun in the mid-to-late 2000s.

    I haven’t checked it out in a while, but it holds high nostalgic value for me.

  • Swampman@lemmy.world
    12·
    4 months ago

    Space Station 13.

    Too many amazing moments and memories to even count, always more to learn. I love how the open source nature of the game means there’s many different servers branching off from each other, running their own custom versions of the game. Smaller servers “downstream” pick and choose which features they want to keep when the upstream servers implement something new.

    • Thomrade@lemm.ee
      7·
      4 months ago

      You might not be aware but there’s also a fairly content-rich successor project called SpaceStation 14! Its obviously nowhere near as featureful as 13 is, due to lack of development time but has a very active development community around it.

      One of the major (imo) improvements is a move to per pixel “real time” movement instead of the tile movement of ss13, it helps make them game feel much more alive and interactive.

      Definitely worth a look for fans of ss13, and its also open source and Linux compatible.

      https://spacestation14.com/

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      It’s not open source, but I do want to mention Barotrauma here – it’s not totally unheard of, but I don’t think many people realize that it’s a spiritual successor to SS13. Supports a lot less players, but still up to 12 or something on the bigger ships, and it manages to turn the absolute insanity of SS13 into a compelling survival game that still has plenty of goofiness.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 months ago

      I entered SS13 with the ssethtide and I stuck around past the worst of it but I haven’t logged in since probably 2021. Is it a good time to come back and see what’s up? I enjoyed high population servers and a lot of people were leaving with the tide around and before when I did. What’s an average server pop these days?

      The overcomplexity of the game is part of why I love it so much but it’s also what drove me off of it, because I couldn’t figure out how to run an offline server to practice roles and I wasn’t trying to do my first day of engineering or doctoring on a public lobby if I could help it. I had a lot of fun in Mining and Cargo and occasionally just faffing about as an assistant helping Botany grow weed or bringing monkeys to the chef - but I’d like to learn “a real job” one of these days (he says, knowing exactly how pissed off everyone gets if mining or cargo either die or are understaffed). And most folks didn’t usually seem inclined to adopt assistants, unfortunately. Remember folks, adopt wandering assistants and then spay and neuter them because unattended assistants will cook their hands off trying to break into the armory.

      • Swampman@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        I mostly play on tgstation’s european server Terry, which often gets up to 100 players in the busy hours.

        I know exactly the kind of anxiety you mention when it comes to having to learn a new role. That was partly why I also had the idea of installing a server locally to tinker with the mechanics in, which fortunately tgstation actually makes very easy. My problem then is that I only have like 10 minutes alone on the station before the power runs out, and I have to go set up the solar panels to continue my experiments. Turns out being solo crew on a space station isn’t all that easy.

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyz
      4·
      4 months ago

      Is this something like counterstrike/tf2? Seems interesting

      Edit: I see there are Assault Cube, Assault Cube reloaded, Xonotic etc. Didnt know there were so many

      • konalt@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        More similar to counterstrike than tf2, but I’d consider it more of a Quake clone. The (probably) less than 50 players only really play CTF nowadays.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 months ago

      I played this in high school circa 2013. There was a server up 24/7 that hosted an infinite loop of the Venice map that always had the highest server pop. You’d occasionally find other servers going, or be able to host your own and get randoms, but more often than not, I played a TON of Venice for about a year. Good times.

      • konalt@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        24/7 insta team Venice is still a thing! Normally less than 5 players on it nowadays though.

  • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml
    11·
    4 months ago

    I still haven’t tried it, but I’ve heard how great Veloren apparently is. It’s an MMO voxel game that takes inspiration from Zelda: Breath of the Wild and is written in Rust.

    • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Morrowind was Bethesda’s peak moment, so obviously foss engine keeping it alive to this day is awesome!

  • asm_x86@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 months ago

    Definetly openTTD. I love trains and its so cool to see your little trains drive around, load some cargo, etc.