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[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 75 points 2 months ago

I don't know why, but I find it really amusing that articles about tf2 still use screenshots from the beta (iirc that muzzle flash particle effect on Heavy's gun was only in TF2's beta)

[-] dbaner@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

This always happens. The first pre-release screenshots are the ones with the most views so tend to appear at the top of Google searches. Guaranteeing them to be used in most news stories for years to come. Which gives them more views. Which gives them a higher Google rank. Etc...

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 67 points 2 months ago

Wild to know it was still running on 32 bit.

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

The only game I recall releasing a 64 bit executable in 2007 was Crysis.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

well the transition to 64bit on games took a good while, and this game is almost two decades old

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Guild wars 2 released 32bit on 2012 and 2016 they released 64 bit. Helped a ton for lower tier cpus.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

Added 64-bit support for Windows/Linux client and server

Not yet at least, but we can hope. Has Valve updated any of their games to run on 64 bit macs?

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think both Portals? I’ll have to check tomorrow

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Is it coming back to macs?

No because Apple does not care to support any gaming Macs but iPhone games. Most importantly, they don't support Vulkan. The MoltenVK wrapper attempt from Valve turned out to be not working so well. It's on Apple to support Vulkan and not break binary compatibility every couple of years.

People who can afford overpriced Macs can also just get a Steam Deck.

[-] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Apple does a weird half-assed (or not even half) attempt at "proper" gaming on Macs. They released their Proton-like compatibility layer 1-2 years ago now, but it's targeted at developers to help them "port" their games over and there isn't really a user-friendly way to simply use it with any game (plus the results are very spotty, further considering that developers are supposed to make adjustments to their games).

I don't think Apple wants to support just about any game to run on their platform. The games themselves aren't the problem for Apple, but rather that established gaming store fronts don't bring Apple any money and they'd rather sell these games on the App Store.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

exactly, apple don't care

[-] sp6@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Considering Counter-Strike 2 completely dropped Mac support, I highly doubt it

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I always hope though.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago
[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

macOS. Apple dropped all 32 bit support and it killed my steam library years ago

[-] kralk@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Proton doesn't work on Mac? I just assumed it would.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Nope, it did initially but I think some Vulcan issues killed it.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

What about other jewelry? Does TF2 run on engagement rings, or pendants? What about brooches?

[-] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

In what state is the game nowadays? Is it just the veteran players and nothing else?

[-] Terry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago

Depends on what mode you're playing.

Primarily, there's casual matchmaking, which actually is full of new players. Sadly, especially in off-hours, there's also a lot of bots hosted by some mentally unstable script kiddies (no joke, they buy in a bot hosting framework and just pop that on a VPS somewhere) dedicated to ruining the game for everyone with aimbots, mic and chat spam etc. They abuse the fact that Valve hasn't updated the anticheat in what feels like years. Regardless, there are still tons of healthy games to be found and bots usually are kicked within seconds.

Additionally, there are community servers which, depending on the actual community playing there, can have bonkers veterans or absolute noobs. These servers often are modded, too.

[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

I've met one guy who took responsibility of crashing coordinator server and he was bragging about it before crashing clients of everyone who remained on the server. He was like "uh oh no more Le funny video game? Awww what a shame" I swear they're all psychopaths.

[-] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My experience about a year ago. Try to hop into a game and find people complaining about bots and just vote kicking people constantly, then I got vote kicked. Join some more games that vary from people just standing around taunting, to more vote kicking, and everyone wearing stupid looking hats and shit. I used to love the game back in the day, but I gave up on it after a short time, it just felt unplayable.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Terry summed it up well.

I still have fun with it, plenty of full servers to be found.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Is THIS the heavy update? LoL

If yall don't like TF2, you could always come back to Tean Fortress Classic.

I remember seeing this video about TF2. It was originally going to be less cartoony. I kinda wish they had kept going that realistic route.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

If it did, it would have been forgotten like the dozens of other military shooters.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

You didn't get your fill of this game playing Gears of Halo: Modern Duty?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago

I was so hyped for TF2. By the time it was actually released I didn't even play FPSs anymore.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

So much for me expecting a CS2-style makeover to be released as TF3...

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[-] kworpy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Awesome! Now update your anticheat

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