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Linux really is the reason I dont' play anymore. Thank you linux.
Same, never been happier.
I have met one person that plays LOL and does not actively hate it.
I honestly donβt believe you π
Then you woke up?
I tried LOL 10+ years ago and it felt like my input didn't matter, my hero was just watching those minions fighting.
It's more fun playing CS at least I have a chance of winning when I play with someone that's as bad as me.
I can see how it could be fun in moderation, esp if you've got friends to explain stuff. The only Moba that I actually liked removed a lot of tedium of regular mobas, then it shut down.
edit: it's kinda wild how both my favorite moba and my fav BR (that removed a shitload of tedium too) shut down, life is unfair sometimes
Have you ever tried Heroes of the Storm? It threw away a lot of annoying stuff from the standard MOBA formula. Not exactly alive as of now, but you can still play. That is until Microslop thinks it's servers are needed to train LLMs.
I tried a very similar gamemode in Battlerite, haven't touched HotS at all, might check it out, thanks
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I was just gonna say "LoL players tend to be fucking awful people", but, seeing that there are many recovered addicts in this thread...
...unironically challenges my assumptions and gives me hope that people in general can change.
Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux...
I love playing League of Legends, it's a great game. I just can't play League of Legends because of all the other people that play League of Legends
This is how I feel about most PVP games. I used to love playing smite and overwatch too, but then the player base ruined both of them.
I have not played in a while, but the last time I did play, Squad is essentially a milsim-lite, and it has an actually decent community.
Though I may be biased, as I was an early tester for Project Reality, way back in the day.
To make a long story very short, basically, a good chunk of the original PR dev team founded Offworld Studios, and basicslly just remade the same concept of a game, in Unreal 4, and more recently they apparently switched over to UE5.
I can at least guarantee that an average Squad playing experience is not going to be as suicidal ideation inducing as an average CoD playing experience.
I'm a league refugee that switched to Deadlock. My god it is so much better. Both the game and the community.
Now we just need to make Warthunder not work on linux...
Gaijin devs have us all by the crotch lol.
I would kill for a competitor game. I'd even be happy with a proper DCS arcade mod that let's you do the same stuff as WT realistic battles.
I recently watched a youtube video that explains, and I am oversimplifying here, but essentially...
They managed to reinvent a new kind of Russian Bias, by way of primarily two things.
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They apparently do not actually model the amount of time it takes, with an autoloader, to actually switch over to a different ammo carrousel, so switching ammo types and just reloading in general is far too quick
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The physics model for shell penetration/internal damage is basically broken in specific situations + several high end Russian vehicles are incorrectly internally modelled, so this results in many high end Russian vehicles being far, far more resiliant than they actually should be.
At this point, I only keep up with warthunder at all for the shenanigans.
It is truly masterful how they've designed the points and gold and combat systems to essentially constantly gaslight you into playing and/ot spending more, despite the actual gameplay basicslly being a bunch of rabid racists doing the opposite of anything resembling teamwork.
I can't say I am aware of a comparable aerial combat game, but, if you're interested in tanks, I have heard good things about Gunner Heat PC! (GHPC).
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They're not bad people they just care more about realism than military classifications. I enjoy every article I read about them.
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Not everyone who plays it is toxic, or addicted. Thereβs this gamemode right now, aram mayhem, queues are instant, everyone plays it constantly and itβs just a for-fun mode with ~15m games. I donβt think Iβve ever met someone actually be toxic in it.
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People keep hating on LoL, but there is one really great thing about it: it keeps a lot of the worst gamers ring-fenced away from other games.
Linux: Able to play DotA... Also a win for Linux
Having played lol for years, I tried so much to enjoy Dota, but honestly it feels like they donβt care to keep the game modern. On league when a champion gets old, they rework it. When visuals are not clear they make them clear. Usually all AOEs you can tell exactly where they end. Dota did not do this, so half the roster feels like all they do is variants of auto attacks.
Also the fact that every hero feels like a disgustingly OP version of a league champion (though in truth itβs probably league champions that are nerfed dota heros). Sniper has like 3x the range of Caitlyn, everyone wants BKB/Blink dagger, CCs last absolutely forever.
Maybe Iβm just not used to it, but playing dota tilts me more than league ever has. Honestly even ranked league is chill these days.
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Switching to Linux did break my addiction to gaming, though usually I play single player stuff. And then Steam started working, but fortunately crypto came along and made graphics cards shoot up in price and now LLMs have made memory and storage shoot up, so I haven't upgraded my PC in a long time. So that's kept me from going back. Now I just play little games on the Switch periodically. But I can't use those controllers for anything that requires lots of detail control or for long periods., so I don't play too often.
Gotta have a healthy relationship with a hobby.
Its one thing for it to be an important part of your life and you as a person... its another thing when it becomes your entire life, when you start throwing away other things, opportunities, relationships, finances, etc, to keep being intensely dedicated to it.
Yeah, totally. I've gotten much better at thst over the years for sure. But I know if something like a new Fallout game were to come out or something, I'd easily get sucked back in. So, whether or not it's clinically an addiction, I treat it like one. Fortunately, I have ADHD, so addictions are easier harder to create and easier to break. But there's still some compulsive behaviors that can pop up.
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As dumb as it may sound, Iβm disappointed I cannot play Halo Wars 2 anymore, makes no sense why itβs a Microsoft store exclusive.
fact: League of Legends used to work on Linux via Proton until R*ot games added anticheat.
So the community got so bad the developers had to intervene to take measures to prevent them from cheating each other out of fake internet points and people still play? Hrm... Doesn't sound like something I'd want to get into anyway.
The only person I know who played League of Legends was entirely toxic, now she's nice to me, but still, quite immature and a bully towards people she doesn't like.
So... still toxic. Just marginally less.
Yep...
Donβt forget Fortnite and pubg. Best thing thatβs ever happened to Linux.
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