Nice man, I failed to mention also; you can host your game online so playing with friends, or having the game open is a thing. It's quite fun when someone joins the enemy team, they provide that little bit of spice to an otherwise, potentially easy mission. Doubly so if they comandeer a tank or something - uh oh!
Grabbed this for my wife whos a big Poke head and enjoyed FO:NV. What a steal for 9 quid. So far she's loving temtem (she's a ROM-hack kinda gal, and found other Poke-likes on steam a bit shit in X or Y regard).
IMO OG WoW and even the tiny bit of WoW Classic I played...STILL featured the best social pick-up-COOP-questing. Hell even the pre classic private servers I played still had a sense of community. Granted the later years were less social, covid really did a number on roaming chatters; I think everyone became more world weary.
After reading so much hatred towards retail WoW I finally tried it [as a Vanilla fan] and er, yeah it was ok but socially it was a ghost town outside of that weird Airport hub in the sky [Shadowlands]. My heart broke a bit when I did chromie time in Azeroth, not only were the zones like Westfall fucked up, I saw absolutely no one during my time questing in westfall. Just.....sad times.
Overall retail WoW was good on the tail end of Shadowlands, but the end game being just Mythic dungeon and Raids for a chance at maybe one bit of good gear is shit. I prefer more chill exploring, questing and a bit of collecting. Transmog farming was boring, and old quests were pointless as they weren't level scaled. So I ended up quitting just before dragonflight. Still have good memories of Vanilla's original 1-60 journey, but it's not that game anymore.
I saw so much love for Guildwars 2 over the years, but my WoW brain bounced off it so hard about three times. Until last Christmas, on a whim I bought the complete package and I found my new MMO home.
Exploration, XP for everything, level scaling and world events which makes every zone somewhat relevant. Easy and no gear-treadmill (your shit will always be good, forever). The story is linear and makes sense, unlike WoWs scattered expansion packs and timelines, jesus.
Plus, my human male is voiced by Nolan North, so in my head he's a teleported Nathan Drake from Uncharted now in a weird fantasy land lol. I'm not really bothered by side characters in these games, but i've grown attached to the cast too, the chemistry is pretty decent bless it's heart.
GW2 does some good account bound stuff too like your mounts, currency and masteries (kinda like skills for X things) all apply to toons so no repeat grinds/unlocks per alt which is absolute BLISS!
I also made a random friend-for-life after asking in map chat for a hero point train in the Heart of Thorns map. Any game I make a genuine friend gets massive marks, it's so hard to find good people in any game these days. GW2 is very nice in that regard, i'd recommend joining a guild, to which there are some nice ones in the NA region.
You can try GW2 for free, just give it a while for it to tick. It does some things differently and especially if you're coming from a WoW, gear mindset...you're gonna have to check it at the door. Loot is mostly materials and random shit like boosts. Your gold assets are tied up in those materials vs fat gold stacks from mobs.
I like logging on and map clearing when i'm in discord with my lads and we're waiting to play something proper. You clear maps by opening up the fog of war, collecting waypoints [teleports all over said map], hitting points of interests, doing favor hearts [very basic 'quests'] and hitting up vistas [quick, panoramic cutscenes of an area of interest]. It's so chill to whack a podcast on and do these, and you benefit greatly from completing them, more so if you do the whole map too.
I could be here all day waxing lyrical about GW2, it is the best MMO for me these days. I've still not completed the story since December, i'm currently on the start of LWS4. Still got End of Dragons and then the new expansion too, good feels!
And the best bit? Even if I don't return for months or years, all my gear will still be as good as I left it. No 'power creep' I believe the word is?
WWII fps/tps made by a small team. Did you like BF1942 maps and bots back in the day?
This is the first ‘bot game’ which is actually very good and wwii focused. Others like ravenfield were too spread out, scope wise, or too twee like Brass Brigade.
It’s just had Normandy come out and first person animations tweaked and it’s in a really good place.
Custom maps and soon to have custom assets on the workshop so workshop maps are about to blow up big style!
Would love to see more wwii game fans try it out, even off sale it’s FILTHY cheap. Can highly advise the recent Normandy DLC too, the quality of the maps are leaps and bounds over the base campaigns, Stalingrad is also very good too if you're an eastern front kinda boi.
Plex shares solved my streaming need and negated my laziness and hatred of downloading files to a penstock for my ps4.
£5 for everything I could ever need with a netflix like interface, and if for whatever reason something isn’t on…it’s obtained and visible to watch. Bliss!
I turned off NSFW entirely after wondering what the most recent nsfw community in my feed was. I saw one 'sissyboy chastity' ....yea time to turn off nsfw.
Uh oh. Those NSFW communities are working fast lol
Essentially, lemmy.world is an email provider right? Like Gmail.
And communities [or subs!] are forums. While these forum posts are made by people who are on the lemmy.world instance, every other provider [instance] can see them, provided the instance owner has not decided to block other providers [defederated].
As long as you are browsing ALL instead of Local [local only shows subs on your own instance], it's effectively reddit.
It may be worthwhile to make an account on an instance which features your country for Lemmy performance purposes, plus the local communities [subs, remember] may be very relevant for you, albeit probably very small in terms of users.
Signing up for lemmy.world is like signing up for shit, monopolised, slow internet in America? It has lots of customers, but that new upstart fibre company [small, fast instance] will let you see the same pages as shitty, slow Comcast.
(I'm not knocking Lemmy.world, just using it for this analogy)
That's what I make of the fed so far, pretty cool.
I like to use Hot for up and coming kinda posts, or finding random communities. When I get bored of that, I normally do one of the Top ones (Day, 3, 6 hours etc).
I did delete my main account and have been mainlining lemmy for my enjoyment, it’s great here and the upvotes and comments are really kicking off now.
I remade a Reddit account to only use for my googles for things (path of exile help atm)
If I do find myself replying, I’ll be using chatgpt to write the most nothing shit. I literally can’t use Reddit on my phone thanks to that awful official app.
Nice man, I failed to mention also; you can host your game online so playing with friends, or having the game open is a thing. It's quite fun when someone joins the enemy team, they provide that little bit of spice to an otherwise, potentially easy mission. Doubly so if they comandeer a tank or something - uh oh!