Cache__Bandicoot 124 points 2 years ago

Psst.

You didn't hear it from me, but there's a tool called the Peacock Project that lets you self-host (effectively) the backend for the game. Big up to the folks who put it together, it's a life saver

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Unknown_0671 76 points 2 years ago

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Cache__Bandicoot 3 points 2 years ago

Oh it's definitely a systemic issue for sure, I loathe it with a passion as well.

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piccolo 31 points 2 years ago

I remember way back when EA told everyone Simcity 2013 require always online because "the simulation was so advance, it had to run on servers!" Yet it was just 2 months later, people reverse engineered the "server" and i was able to play for game on my complete peice of shit laptop... so much for advance simulation.

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Khrux 19 points 2 years ago

SimCity getting absolutely annihilated from existence be releasing a corrupt flop of a game just before city skylines offered a much better base game out of the box is something I wish would happen more with games that singularly rule their subgenre (The Sims, I'm looking at you).

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RixMixed 2 points 2 years ago

Does this let you play freelancer normally? I assumed the online requirement was because freelancer could let you play on maps you don’t own.

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Cache__Bandicoot 1 point 2 years ago

I've been playing freelancer without issue, but I'm afraid I have no idea how it works if you only own, say, half the maps it uses.

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Tattorack 1 point 2 years ago

I will save this, because this would be great.

Does it work for other games?

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kautau 5 points 2 years ago

Peacock is very much a project to specifically self host the hitman server, though depending on the specific game you are asking about there are possible open source alternatives also

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rockerface 1 point 2 years ago

Seems to be made specifically for the Hitman World of Assassination

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