Titanfall 2 servers were brought back online after being down for awhile.
I still play Starcraft 2 occasionally.
Titanfall 2 servers were brought back online after being down for awhile.
I still play Starcraft 2 occasionally.
Is there any community or a different set of servers to point to? Titanfall 2 was my favorite game before the DDoSes, and when I've periodically checked you can try matchmaking but there's nobody left to play with anymore. Is there a Discord or another set of servers or something?
On pc there's a thing called the Northstar client that was pretty active during the ddos times
I just found out about north star and looked into buying TF2, its $30 on steam! wtf I remember seeing it for like $3 before
I'm actually not sure, its my kid who plays. He was very excited and playing on xbox. I thought it was cool and unexpected but I guess maybe it died back down again.
Metriod Prime: Hunters.
It was the best FPS, arguably the only FPS, on the Nintendo DS. Nintendo has long since shut down their online service for the DS. However, if you go into your WiFi settings you can change your DNS to point to a server that spoofs Nintendo's credentials.
Thanks to this exploit you can play all the original DS games online with a legitimate game, on a legitimate console. There's even a discord for MP:H with a matchmaking channel, clans, and regular tournaments. (The same probably goes for Mario Kart DS)
Back 4 Blood was the game that served as the idea for this post.
I recently felt like picking up some cheap copies of it to play with a few friends, and decided to launch it once ahead of time just to test it out and see how it ran. I picked "Online" mode out of habit, feeling it would likely search for a bit before handing me 3 bots to play singleplayer. Instead, I actually got a decent group of people together several days in a row.
In B4B's case, while the developers visibly "abandoned" the game in news headlines, the form it exists in is very playable and generally bug-free, even if its ultra-highest-difficulty "endgame" allegedly lacks some refinement. It got a lot of outlash for not matching the playstyle of Left 4 Dead; having players use a deep system of roguelike-style upgrades. Since the enemies escalate in difficulty, those upgrades are often necessary and can connect with team strategy. It's now on PS+, and since it's crossplay, Steam players will get a lot of queue buddies. It's also playable with just 2 people since the other 2 characters will just be bots.
I gave up on B4B pretty quickly because after your team dies a couple times you're sent back to the beginning of the campaign, instead of the beginning of the level, like in L4D. Then everyone just drops out of frustration. Made trying the harder difficulties pointless. Was a really bad design decision.
Good luck for Combo Breaker 2025!
Heroes of the Storm is still up after it stopped getting updates years ago.
Funny enough, it still gets updated.
Best MOBA imo, no idea why it flopped (except pushing a pro gaming scene for an arcade title within the genre)
It should have been marketed as the moba you play casually with friends, and it would have done great
Age of empires 2. Still works.
My buddy still regularly plays EverQuest Online. These days, it’s sort of expected that you multibox and run an entire party, instead of just one character. He usually has his bots pulling mobs in the background of whatever other game we happen to be playing.
I haven't played in a number of years, but I'm pretty sure fan-made servers are still running for Phantasy Star Online.
I was playing the GameCube version online well over a decade after that console was dead. Blue Burst on PC is well supported too, I believe.
Crazy now to imagine a console game letting you input a DNS server and IP address for online play. But it did.
Battlefield 2 (and 2142 I think?) still have people playing the multiplayer. I ought to check it out one day
Where and how?? I thought EA and Gamespy shutdown the server trackers and shutdown the community server tracker.
I can't attest to how well this works but I've seen yt videos recommending videos of people running BF2 once in awhile
That is bloody awesome, thanks! I've probably got close to 1500 hours in the game across a few accounts. I definitely need to fire up BF2 again.
Call of Duty: United Offensive on PC. I just recently came back after a decade of not playing (and over 20 years after release) and the community is still there just smaller and the game is still just as fun
I haven't played for years now but NeoTokyo still has an active community.
Post Scriptum (now known as Squad 44) is still alive. A very under-appreciated game and they are trying to revive it with a new dev team who have been doing wonders but the active player count is still well below 1k.
EDIT: I realize I didn’t really interpret the question correctly on my initial read. This is meant more for old games, not sleeper online games that are just good in their own right without being live service. Perhaps a more fitting answer would be AssaultCube. One of the first multiplayer FPS games I played. There probably aren’t any official servers anymore, but community hosted ones were supported, so I’m sure it’s still around.
Straftat. Free to play, fast paced, 1v1 movement shooter. It’s a wildly under appreciated game that would hugely benefit from a small to medium sized, consistent player base. It does have a paid dlc, that mostly functions as a tip for the dev. The DLC has some cosmetics and a few maps, but it’s not really gatekeeping any of the fun of the game, plus it’s only $5 USD so I just bought it and considered it the price of the game.
Istaria, previously known as Horizons. Still the only MMORPG (to my knowledge) with dragons as a playable race.
Materia Magica has had a playable race called dracon since the 1990s. Back then it was called Moongate Online.
It's a MUD. The precursor to the graphical MMORPG genre.
And yes, people still play MUDs online.
Subspace, also known as Continuum later in its life.
Quake 3 and Unreal tournament both released before the year 2000 and still have an active community
City of Heros /villains is the one most shocking. Kept alive by private servers. God speed to that community
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