[na85]

The best gaming experience, even in games with known/available cheats, remains LAN plan. The publishers demanding that every goddamn game have a 5v5 ranked queue/matchmaking system with lootboxes and whatever else means LAN play is a thing of yesteryear. Frankly, so are dedicated servers.

I like competitive games, or at least I did when I was younger, but nowadays I yearn for some good-ol' tribes server community where you have 32 players playing CTF and there are actual administrators who are engaged with the community. If someone becomes a problem you just ban them from your server. Similarly if someone brings a friend to your LAN party and that friend is a cheater, you uninvite your friend and/or punch the cheater.

"Cloud gaming" sounds like a hellscape.

[boobsbr]

I was thinking of Tribes this week when I watching the Cursed Halo mod video https://youtu.be/dMxIjGjMJz0?t=240. There's a flying Warthog, a sedan and a limo.

It reminded me of the Heavy Personnel Carrier. Loading the HPC with 5 heavies armed with Grenade Launchers and Heavy Mortars was fun.

[ramses0]

https://www.playmidair.com/ ... there's a discord, but no true "play" community like you remember.