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When I look again on my years of PC gaming, I understand they’re punctuated by a bunch of you needed to be there type of moments. It’s the kind of expertise that, for higher or worse, makes it an on the spot PC gaming traditional.
I’m instantly reminded of my early days in Rust, again after I naively wandered into open constructions and fell sufferer to entice bases. It took a number of embarrassing deaths, however ultimately I noticed there’s an entire technique round constructing fully-furnished pretend shelters to bait, entice, and kill rival gamers. Sometimes they run out of the basement and blow you up, generally they simply depart you to starve. Either manner, I can not thoughts my enterprise and I’m paying for it.
Spent hours modding a game and then not played it
Joshua Wolens, News Writer: Everything is in perfect balance. Your game is a tottering assemblage of upscaled textures, overhauled levelling systems, user-created quests, and fan patch after fan patch after fan patch. Getting everything just right has taken the better part of a weekend and multiple instances where you simply had to wipe your entire install and start over. You hit launch, get to the main menu, then… all desire to play evaporates.
This is PC gaming, baby. A wise man once said, “You know for me, the action is the juice.” The same thing applies here, but you have to understand “action” as ‘the process of spending many hours painstakingly installing mods’ and “the juice” as ‘the enjoyable part of a videogame.’
This hobby attracts tinkerers like a magnet draws iron filings, and sometimes we realise that what we actually wanted to do, when the urge struck us to fire up Skyrim playthrough #16, was give ourselves an excuse to download Mod Organiser 2 and see what the state of the game’s Nexus Mods page is. Embrace it. It’s part of what makes us what we are.
Rory Norris, Guides Writer: Hell, even in the rare event that you somehow manage to sustain interest in playing your newly modded game, there’s a high chance it doesn’t actually work anymore.
I’ve totally never completely borked my copy of Skyrim, The Witcher 3, and Stardew Valley because I installed so many mods in one go that I’d lost any sense of what each one did or checked if they were even compatible with each other. Naturally, I then spent the rest of my day trying to fix said issue, only for that spark to fizzle out.
Yep, I guess in these cases the urge to download mods I’ll never play just has a delayed reaction, and it really is the inevitable result whether they work right away or not. There’s still no breaking the cycle, though, and we all know it.
Been the victim of an incorrigible griefer
Tyler Wilde, US Editor-in-Chief: Being bullied by a teenager may be the ultimate PC gaming rite of passage, though ever since they started making games like DayZ where that’s the point, it feels like “griefing” has started to fall out of the gaming lexicon.
The phenomenon really peaked for me in Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike, the latter being the home of the famous “door stuck” video as one instance, though that is most likely simply my perspective as somebody who does not solo queue in aggressive video games a lot anymore—I’m beneath no phantasm that folks stopped being delinquent on the web.
There’s a tremendous line between jovial pranking and real cruelty, however sadly for the victims of griefing, there’s typically a optimistic correlation between the pettiness and persistence of the transgressor and the way humorous it’s for the remainder of us. The Team Fortress 2 wiki has an entire web page devoted to defining what’s or is not griefing, and simply studying about all of the documented strategies makes me giggle. Here are a few of them:
- Intentionally pushing teammates off ledges with a purpose to kill them or drive them to waste time getting again up.
- Pushing teammates out of a Teleporter to make manner for your self, particularly if you happen to’re a typically much less essential class. (e.g. a Sniper pushing a Medic out)
- Continuously obstructing a Sniper’s view by standing in entrance of them or utilizing particle results (e.g. flames/smoke from disguising) to obscure their imaginative and prescient.
- Attacking your personal teammates for lengthy stretches of time for no motive apart from to bother them, particularly with the Frying Pan.
- Following the identical teammate round for no motive.
- Impersonating a server admin.
- Calling ineffective votes.
- Constantly passing the intelligence to one another, inflicting spam within the killfeed about selecting up the intelligence, and continuously taking part in the Administrator’s voice traces stating the intelligence has been picked up, additionally doubtlessly inflicting lag on low-end machines.
Spent three hours troubleshooting
Ted Litchfield, Associate Editor: Search the problem you are having along with your new desktop construct. Google’s AI abstract: “You can actually eat a daddy longlegs every now and then and not run into any health complications.”
Scroll previous that. Windows assist discussion board hyperlink from 2019. The challenge described really does not sound very like what you are seeing. Read the thread anyway. “Most helpful” reply: “Hi MarkMan7, I’m a Microsoft-approved third party tech support specialist. I’m sorry to hear you’re going through that. Have you considered turning your computer off and on again?”
Reseat graphics card. Remove RAM sticks and put them again in one after the other. Unplug your onerous drive.
New Google search: “[issue you’re experiencing]” however with “Reddit” appended. Third end result, r/WindowsAssist, publish dated January 19, 2017. User FlibbertiGibbet69: “[describes the exact issue you’re having].” Three unhelpful feedback. One actually lame joke. Under a deleted remark: “Thanks, that fixed it!”
Unplug your monitor, plug it again in. Swap DisplayPort for HDMI. Connect to your motherboard as a substitute. Boot in secure mode. Reseat graphics card. Remove RAM sticks and put them again in one after the other. Unplug your onerous drive.
Whoops, seems your motherboard wanted a BIOS replace to acknowledge NVMe drives, despite the fact that it was manufactured with the rattling slots. Welcome to a common fraternity that spans a long time, continents, revenue ranges, race, creed, gender, and inverted mouselook choice.
Teamed up with strangers and somehow clicked
Andrea Shearon, Evergreen Editor: There’s nothing quite like throwing yourself at a difficult MMO fight for hours and clearing with friends, but doing that with a bunch of strangers just hits different. Venturing into the wilds of Final Fantasy 14’s Party Finder—a system for finding players with common goals—is probably my favorite pastime in the MMO.
One of my earliest feel-good examples goes all the way back to 2014, when the stormy primal Ramuh’s extreme trial arrived in Eorzea. It was nightmarishly hard compared to earlier trials, but I spent days using in-game text and sound macros trying to guide strangers through the fight’s hardest mechanics. I was miserable, but determined.
Eventually I found my saving grace, and some players I never met appreciated my messy text instructions, so they stuck around. We cleared the fight, and it’s a core FF14 memory since it was my first time successfully shotcalling. It seems most of my in-game buddies have similar fights where it all came together and clicked, giving us the confidence we needed to regularly brave Party Finder.
Went down the flavor text rabbit hole
Lincoln Carpenter, News Writer: The traditional, tile-based roguelike is already a canonical PC gaming experience on its own; none of us are truly alive until we experience a ritual death at the hands of some sort of vicious hieroglyph. While Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike of 2024, shares the genre’s penchant for existential precarity—celebrated by its Steam achievement for getting stoned to death by a baboon outside of an early-game dungeon—it’s doubly crucial for its ability to conjure an incomparable atmosphere through sheer text-based indulgence.
PC gaming, to me, is commitment to the bit, and few things commit as hard as the flavor text of Qud’s deep future. Creature anatomy, item characteristics, and procedural conversations are a rich tapestry of gratuitously florid prose and inscrutable reference, reading as emanations from a time so distant from our own that language itself has been warped and rewoven along mesmerizing contours. Salt scars form comet tails along the blades of carbide daggers; chitinous pumas are girt with “plates of firm and mingled fungus”; a canvas chair is “a movable wharf for the ass.”
In Qud, inspecting objects is a game in itself.
Bonded with squadmates as everything goes FUBAR
Evan Lahti, Strategic Director: In an age where every game releases on every platform and the consoles resemble PCs more each passing year, Arma remains one of the bastions of PC gaming’s spirit. The milsim is unapologetically intricate, one of those experiences where a veteran will hand you a list of 12 must-have mods to install before you boot it up for the first time. And yet, its main appeal is as a relatively relaxed, roleplay-friendly hangout with friends, an excuse to goof around in a massive military sandbox.
Being in a helo under fire embodies the way in which Arma’s realism manufactures fun. Individual rotors can be knocked out by AA fire. The engine is a discrete component that can be damaged or destroyed. Door guns can run dry of ammo. Which specific seat you’re in might dictate if you catch a stray small arms shot. All the while you’re at the mercy of the pilot, whose feel for the flight model will dictate life or death. Other than “RPG!” there’s no more satisfying military cliche to call out than “We’re going down!” before leaping out, hoping there’s enough space between you and the ground for your parachute to deploy.
Tyler Wilde: It’s not quite the hardcore simulation that Arma is, but there’s something very enjoyable about telling your squadmates “time to go” as you leap out of the spiraling Battlefield 6 helicopter you were piloting. Sea of Thieves is also great for this kind of experience: One time we spent ages trying to put out an inferno in the bowels of our pirate ship, only to later discover—as our ship sank—that someone had left dinner on the stove.
Not played a game because it was on one of those… other… launchers
Christopher Livingston, Senior Editor: I have a bunch of DVDs and blu-rays but I pretty much never watch them because it would mean getting my butt off the couch and digging through the shelf to find it and, oh yeah, also finding the remote control for the disc player, which could literally be in any one of maybe three different places. Oh, here it is. But the batteries are dead. Now I have to walk to the junk drawer for fresh batteries? All that to watch The Departed again? Screw it, I’ll just watch YouTube.
That extreme laziness means I’ll sometimes get a hankering to play a game I own, but bafflingly it doesn’t appear in my Steam library. That’s weird, I know I own it, what the… oh no. Oh, no. The horrible, horrible truth comes to light: I own it on another launcher.
Oh wait, now it’s sending me an email with a code I have to put in even though it just sent me an email to reset my password?
Will the Epic Games launcher still remember my login credentials? Not a fucking chance. Do I even have Ubisoft Connect installed on this PC? I sincerely doubt it. Does Origin even exist anymore? I can’t honestly remember. Suddenly playing this game means dealing with the backbreaking effort of trying to remember a password because the “remember me” checkbox apparently doesn’t actually function and maybe guessing it right on the third or fourth try but mostly likely having to reset it. Oh wait, now it’s sending me an email with a code I have to put in even though it just sent me an email to reset my password? Oh, and the launcher itself needs an update and a restart. Of course.
Screw it, I’ll just watch YouTube.
‘Gotten gud’ at a game barely anyone plays
Morgan Park, Staff Writer: If you have ever instantly bonded with a multiplayer game that seemingly nobody else sees the magic in, you’re in good company. I was a diehard Gotham City Impostors fan for a number of months in 2012. We all remember that one, right? The Monolith-developed FPS that pitted dorks in Batman and Joker cosplay against each other in faux-Team Fortress 2 arena antics? Well it was damn good, OK, and if it’d ever gotten a sequel or expansion, I’d still be playing it.
For a few weeks in 2021, I also reached an absurdly high rank in competitive dodgeball game Knockout City—a debunked brawler with timing and fakeout mechanics so specific to the playground sport that it was genuinely brilliant. Was it all that impressive to be good at a game that boasted a sustainable playerbase for like 10 days? Not really, but Knockout City’s dwindling pool of dodgebrawlers (that’s what your characters were called) meant that I got to experience a rarity in our modern age of matchmaking algorithms: meeting the same players over and over again until we either developed a mutual respect or fiery disdain.
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