I'm amenable to luanti with voxelibre.
Though I don't like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you'd hear about in a drug commercial. "Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death"
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Oh this one here will keep you from having a seizure everyday, but you'll shit your pants every 30 minutes. So the choice is, do you want to roll around on the ground looking like you're trying out a weird pop-lock break dance, trying to eat your tongue, or do you just want to crap your pants on a regular basis. You pick.
Project Zomboid is a blast, especially when you really dig into the options for changing game rules. You can basically craft your own custom zombie apocalypse. You can decide how the virus works, whether zombies are slow or fast, whether they have good eyesight, good hearing, how strong they are, where they spawn. You can change loot rarities, how long it's been since the outbreak started, when the power gets shut off, etc, etc.
Im kinda confused there. On steam the devs recently posted an update, that MP is now available, but it seems that it has been for a while?
Was it in beta up until now or was it fan made?
So, they had multiplayer, and it worked very well, but then they went through a whole bunch of major reworks to underlying systems that broke multiplayer, and they basically went "Yeah, that's gonna stay broken for a while until we get all this shit done, please be patient."
The devs typically take a long time between releases, and the latest version, build 42 came out this year (4 years after build 41), and initially this new version didn't have MP support. So the recent announcement is about adding MP for build 42, but MP was already available in previous versions.
Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining
They are between builds.
B41 stable has been out for ages with multiplayer support. It's the current version and what you get if you don't opt in to experiential builds.
On unstable builds, the devs remove multiplayer initially until they think it's good enough. B42 unstable is in active development and just recently added multiplayer support.
B42 is still a bug-ridden crapshoot though, stick with 41 if you want to play online.
Yeah, the Steam update got me thinking MP was totally new, so I was planning to try that with some friends. Guess I'll set up an B41 Server then, thanks!
We've spent last few months playing Enshrouded. The dedicated server is a resource hog tho, even on an empty server it'd use a ton of CPU time. Still lots of fun with a few friends exploring and building stuff
Veloren has been a blast on my family’s self hosted system.
This looks intriguing! How does it compare to Minecraft?
UT2004
I need to do this, good memories!
It might get a little simpler to host and busier to play again in the not too distant future if the announced free fanmade re-release works out!
In the style of those games, self hosting a Vintage Story server is extremely easy to do. Extremely easy to customize, well documented wiki.
I've been running mine for over a year with zero hassle on a tiny server.
Factorio
My two most popular public game servers are Necesse and Rimworld Together. Neither have many public servers.
Vintage Story with mods. Vintage Story is a minecraft-like wilderness survivor game focusing on long term survival, not just "eat berries". it's under active development. https://mods.vintagestory.at/vsds the server docker image if interested.
Palworld and Terraria, particularly with Tmodloader, are fun options.
Could try hosting a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). I tried to host an Evennia server last year but could never get it to work properly. Wasn't a big deal though cause it's not like I had any friends who wanted to play, lol.
I set up a BBS with legend of the Red Dragon! Only runs locally right now but pretty cool to see running.
Haven’t heard Red Dragon referenced in a very long time. Loved that game.
Every now and then I will jump back into whatever flavor of MUD seems interesting for a few weeks. They’re so much fun but like you say, nobody plays them.
I've been thinking about hosting a Quake II server, lately.
EDIT: Or Unreal Tournament. Both were my jam back in the day.
I've had a blast with AssaultCube couple of years back.
Spun up a server, played with some friends, then random people started showing up and we played with full server for hours.
It was so much fun, I hope I find free time to do that again.
Looks like old school counter strike 1.5!
It feels more like Quake, but with less guns.
Still lots of fun, and maps go from neat arenas to absolute bonker creations. One of them is a soccer field... pure bloodbath that one. Another has one gigantic tower, one team spawns up, other down... It has a lot to offer.
Final Fantasy XI is still a beautiful game and is self hostable, but as with most MMORPGs, you need lots of people to get the full experience. Luckily if you're hosting your own, you can always mod settings to make yourself lvl 99, turn off enemy AI, teleport anywhere, or whatever.
I ran a fairly popular RTCW server back in the day... Insta-gib and sniper rifles only. Good times.
Space Engineers?
To add my own two cents into this mix.
RuneScape classic with the fan made OepnRSC
And Final Fantasy XI ... kiinnddaa. Not sure if that one's feature complete yet or ever will be. But there's a fan server effort for it like RuneScape.
Bit old, but pretty much everything Source Engine is self-hostable isn't it? Most of them even come with a pre-configured SRCDS (SouRCe Dedicated Server) you can download and run right from the steam launcher.
I know I ran a GarrysMod server for quite a while; piling a shit ton of mods on it. Plus any source game you've got installed, Garrys Mod can and will use the resources/assets from.
Space Station 14 is a blast. If you're really interested in hosting it though you might need a larger friend group. I think you'd need maybe 10 or so people before it actually feels interesting.
Edit: There are plenty of public servers to play on too.
Starseige tribes? Trackmania?
Trackmania can be self hosted? I'd love a friends-only score board and custom track rotations
Valhiem
Mindustry
Still going...
I must dig out my copy of Doom3 and see if those servers are still going...
Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart or Doctor Robotniks Ring Racers. It's a good time if you have friends and there are still regular players online.
Project zomboid
V-rising
A sort of diablo-style game where you are the bad guy vampire. Very fun, but the damn server doesn't pause time when it is empty, so I can only spin it up when I plan to play, not have it on all the time like valheim if my friends want to jump in without me and play
It would be nice if we could disable the decay mechanic entirely for singleplayer and small servers where we don't need to worry about real estate squatting.
Heroes of Umbra (maple-story-like)
Veloren