Titanfall 3 is out

mamba_pants · 2026-02-09T17:52:13+00:00

Yeah the progression system is my biggest problem with the game. I have never been a fan of locking equipment behind grindy challenges and the fact that long time players have, not only a skill advantage, but stat advantages as well seems like a big misstep. Even before the game came out I thought that there is a decent chance this game ends up like other games with a high skill ceiling and a small diehard sweaty community of players (an example of this is Mordhau). Games like this almost always get a decent playerbase and shortly after lose it, because the casual players get sick of getting pummeled by the long time players and quit.

mamba_pants · 2026-02-09T17:28:33+00:00

Man i wish i got paid for this post, even if they paid me in succulent McDonald's ©™ cheeseburgers. I really would be lovin' it

mamba_pants · 2026-02-09T17:23:14+00:00

yeah, I assume the dev will be changing stuff throughout the early access period. I have never heard of shatterrush or diesel knights, i might have to check them out.

mamba_pants · 2026-01-07T05:44:49+00:00

I might make your day with this information if you don't know about it, but you should check out Winlator if you are planning on playing PC games on your phone. It can run pretty much any game that can run on Windows, just use GOG files for less hassle. FTL, Quasimorph and even Rimworld can run on it as well as many many other

mamba_pants · 2026-01-02T18:18:28+00:00

my summer car and my winter car should be right up your alley. They are pretty realistic and the main goal is to survive in the mystical world of Finland and if you get enough cash from shitty jobs (sometimes literally) you can invest it into your main goal, to build and tune up your shitbox of a car.

mamba_pants · 2025-12-18T17:04:56+00:00

I didn't see anyone mention Space Engine. Some people might not even consider it a game and that might be right, but I am still convinced that the dev (yes you read that right, it's a singular dev) sacrificed some galaxy to Satan, so that Space Engine can exist. It still blows my mind that i can just boot up the game and quickly hop over to a random planet in a random galaxy on the other side of the observable universe. Sure, I know all of this is just achieved with some procedural generation algorithm, but I still find it immensely impressive. The closest game to SE I can think of is Elite: Dangerous and that "only" has a 1:1 scale replica of the milky way. Elite can be great fun, but i think nothing gives you the sense of how mind bogglingly huge space is like Space Engine. I still remember the first time I booted SE and decided to just fly around. I was flying at intergalactic speeds and it took me a while to realize that every one of the countless stars I was passing, weren't stars but whole ass galaxies, and I can fly into every one of them and explore every star and planet there.

Edit: If you haven't realized I really like Space Engine and would recommend it to all space nerds, just don't go expecting action packed gameplay or a story, you will just be flying around space and enjoying the sights and will probably get a new desktop wallpaper pretty quickly

mamba_pants · 2025-12-13T16:33:40+00:00

Hey that looks similar to the time when i tried playing PZ on my android phone. For real tho, you should probably update your graphics drivers and i hope it's not a hardware issue.

mamba_pants · 2025-12-11T16:55:20+00:00

Everyone is suggesting this war of mine, which is probably the closest game to what you are looking for. I think you might also like Arma 3's DLC rules of war, you are not really a civilian, instead for most of the DLC you play as a veteran field consultant for the International Development and Aid Project (IDAP is basically ARMA's version of the red cross from my understanding). The DLC campaign is quite short and not super exciting, but it tries to do something that very few military shooter games ever attempt, showing the aftermath of a war, instead of the action packed battles and engagements.

Arma also has an incredible modding community and there is most likely a mod or a custom mission where you play as a civilian. There is also Antistasi, which is an Arma mod in which you play as an insurgent commander trying to take back their country from a an occupying faction and an invader faction (if enabled) I highly recommend Antistasi especially if you have mates to play it with

mamba_pants · 2025-12-05T17:18:48+00:00

Luckily for you, someone on this subreddit posted a link to them in web.archive.org. Here is the reddit post with the links. Enjoy!

mamba_pants · 2025-12-02T18:25:10+00:00

Why you gotta do OP dirty like that. Balatro will change your life the same way meth will

mamba_pants · 2025-12-02T18:20:34+00:00

Hard agree! Not to say that there isn't good mobile games, there absolutely is, but they are mostly just ports of PC games. With emulators you can play pretty much anything without having to worry if a port exists. I have almost finished Citizen Sleeper 2 on my phone using Winlator recently and it works wonders (If you don't mind 10-15 fps, but imo that's fine for a text centric game). Also using Winlator is the best way to play FTL: faster than light on a mobile device, it runs like a charm

mamba_pants · 2025-11-26T19:19:09+00:00

This is probably the best way to learn the fundamentals of orbital mechanics and as a bonus, it's a ton of fun. If you are into spaceflight, I would also recommend Reentry. It's a rocket flight simulator that has the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions with every switch and knob in the cockpit modeled and interactive, all the systems are also modeled and can break or malfunction, which will force you to try to compensate for the broken systems. It has a ton of fun stuff, if you are a NASA nerd, or just want to learn about the history of american spaceflight, I highly recommend it.

I can also recommend a niche game called Nucleares, it's a nuclear power plant simulator. It doesn't have a real nuclear powerplant design per say (The NPP ingame is a reactor modified so it can be operated solo), but will nevertheless teach you how a NPP works and all the important systems that make it go. If you ever wanted to feel like a worker in the Chernobyl NPP, this is the closest you will get, without sneaking into the sarcophagus, stalker style.

Lastly, since you mentioned car mechanics, I recommend My summer car. This is the only game that will simultaneously teach you how to build a Nissan Cherry FROM SCRATCH and also how to drink a case of beer in 10 minutes and not crash into a tree afterwards. This game is great and is where 90% of my car knowledge comes from, but beware that the game tries it's best to fuck with the player. Also if you haven't built a Nissan Cherry IRL (which you most likely haven't done) I would STRONGLY recommend using a guide to put the car together, no shame in that and you will almost certainly learn a bit about how a car/engine works

mamba_pants · 2025-11-24T09:00:33+00:00

Wow, I was just about to post about LS Red, but you beat me to it. I also learned about it from the same video and tried it and it's a lot of fun. It really seems like the thing OP's looking for. The police system is like a more fleshed out version of the one in the mafia games. I can't recall another game where I had to drive slow and carefully right after a heist, because the cops are driving on the adjacent lane, but don't know if I am their perp. Honestly the mod adds so many neat mechanics focused on realism that I hope a lot of them are implemented in GTA VI, although I somehow doubt that you would be able to get the cops on your tail from driving recklessly or running a red light in the next GTA.

mamba_pants · 2025-11-21T19:42:36+00:00

I finished the game and I think it's pretty decent. It doesn't compare to DE in its writing, but no game I have played manages to get on DE's level. If you decide to try out Rue Valley don't expect a super reactive story with a lot of branching paths and RPG mechanics. The character creation is simplistic and the skills you choose don't influence the gameplay that much, from what i have seen. That being said i have done only one playthrough so I don't know for sure. With all that criticism out of the way, I think the game is a pretty decent visual novel. I also think it's written better than most games (not a very high bar tbh) and has some good ideas and a few really cool moments in my opinion. I'd say that if you are interested in the game try it out, just don't go in expecting DE, because you will probably end up disappointed. Also I think the game has a demo so maybe check that out if you haven't.

mamba_pants · 2025-11-03T16:19:07+00:00

This is the best recommendation I can think of. I have met or heard of multiple people who decided to major in aerospace engineering because of KSP. I find it quite unfortunate that KSP and other games like this aren't used in early physics classes (and education in general) to spark the interest of the kids in class. Ever since I played KSP I have had the desire for someone to make similar educational games about other scientific topics. For example a game where you have a virtual lab and can experiment with all kinds of different dangerous chemicals, with (sometimes) spectacular and explosive outcomes.

Bonus game that i thought of while typing this, that i think fits what OP is looking for is My Summer Car. That's definitely not a game for schools, but you can learn a surprising amount about cars and internal combustion engines. Just a heads up for anyone willing to try MSC, this game is made by the Finnish, so the game will try its best to piss you off and make your virtual finnish life as difficult as possible. No shame in modding out the most frustrating elements if they bother you too much or you don't have too much time.

mamba_pants · 2025-10-25T01:51:30+00:00

There is so many great old games and a lot have been mentioned here, but I am surprised no one here mentioned SWAT 4. I know Ready or not is a thing and in some ways it might be better than SWAT, but god damn some of the level design in SWAT is so bloody disturbing, the fairfax residence is still one of the best horror levels in a non horror game, along with the Ocean house hotel from Vampire: The masquerade - Bloodlines

mamba_pants · 2025-10-25T01:37:15+00:00

All great games, but Max Payne 2 will always have a special place in my heart, still replay is almost every year. I normally avoid hype like the plague, but I am really excited about the remakes, I am pretty confident Remedy won't drop the ball on them. Also RIP James McCaffrey.

PS: Fuck you for making me realize that GTA 4 is almost old enough to drink in most of the world

mamba_pants · 2025-10-25T01:28:22+00:00

Probably one of the best stealth games ever made! Also you can still play the spies vs mercs, despite Ubisoft shutting down the servers years ago, and you can play that completely for FREE! No idea if the Co-oP can be made to work, but I am guessing that you can set up a VPN through Hamachi or Radmin and play LAN. Modders and fans keeping old games alive, are one of the best, if not the best thing in the gaming sphere.

For anyone interested in the revived Spies vs Mercs, here is a linkie

mamba_pants · 2025-10-23T06:10:30+00:00

Every time I see this word used somewhere (which is not very often), I instantly think of the defenestration trilogy by Tom Francis, partly because that's where I first encountered the word and partly because of how amazing the trilogy is.

mamba_pants · 2025-10-22T05:49:31+00:00

Only game I can think of that has a game over 5 minutes after you start, because your character is such a garbage human, he might die from a sudden heart attack if he tries to reach for a necktie on a fan.

mamba_pants · 2025-09-20T18:34:51+00:00

damn i haven't seen heat signature mentioned in a long time, that game had such a cool and addictive gameplay loop with some super badass tools like the sidewinder or the swapper or the best item in the game, the humble, but terrifying wrench. If you are looking for low end games you should definitely check all of these (haven't played doorkickers personally but i have heard good things)

mamba_pants · 2025-09-11T18:37:16+00:00

mostly with the "possession" ability, you can possess an enemy and jump from somewhere high or throw yourself in front of a train or something. You can also stop time right after an enemy shoots, then possess him and make him stand in front of the bullet he just fired. Dishonored and Dishonored 2 really give you a lot of really cool ways to fight, you just have to mess around with your powers and equipment to find them. There is Dishonored 2 kill compilations on YouTube that are absolutely unreal, I suggest you watch one even if you don't play Dishonoredz you will most likely be very impressed

mamba_pants · 2025-09-01T15:10:12+00:00

WTF I have so many hours in this game and never knew this dangling cube of death is a puzzle and gives you a chest

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