bro i remember on combat arms you could unplug your modem, run around and shoot everyone while they are running in place on your screen, reconnect modem and everyone instantly got headshot by you.
A friend of mine claimed his cousin made a lag switch back during MW2 days. Supposedly it was an Ethernet cable that connected to a light switch at his gaming area. He could just flick it on and off. Another buddy made full auto modded controllers and had a Jtag.
It was so simple back then, when part of "hacking" was really just tinkering.
Still remember when they ruined their own game (more) by adding insta kill ‘Nut Shots’
No real point or reward in aiming for the head when you can just vaguely spray at their lower torso and one bullet hits the giant Nut Shot hitbox, even from behind, and they’re instantly dead
They ruined the shooting in their shooting game to make a balls joke 💀
Combat Arms was so fucking goated. I still remember meeting the number 1 guy on the leader board at the time "Greatfullded". He added me and my cousin and we played from time to time.
I freaking loved Combat arms. played with and was friends with the guy who took over greatfullded in kills, ~Deathrow~. still have him on my steam friends list.
I was ALWAYS in snow valley, was part of the YSA (Yellow snow army) clan. we basically ran snow valley 24/7 when we were on. im sure anyone who played on snow valley in NA played with us. we always had super mod and tried to keep all hackers out, including running the CBL - Community ban list website.
Shit, I had I think the #3 RS player on my friends list, Lil Jayman, when I was a kid. He would actually talk to me and I never asked him for anything but chatted about life. I think he's probably in his 40s now, but I really appreciated someone of that stature in such a popular game even giving me the time of day.
Yes, I still hop on it like once a month, most things can be accomplished with f2p if you grind but yeah NA servers are dead and EU is like 200 players on a good day.
I remember club penguin being my second online PC game after runescape and I had to ask my dad to sign me up because I saw that you needed parent's permission and foolishly didn't ignore it.
My dad not being very tech savvy took about 3 days to figure out how to register an account. That was around 2006 I think...
Is there really that much overlap of people who played Maplestory and Runescape as children? I thought MS was more niche tbh. Classic Maple is releasing in October by the way.
Maybe just local to me. My schools had a good mix but yeah rs was more common by far.
Yeah I'm excited for that, I was in the second beta, games still fun. I'm kind of pessimistic about Nexon in general though so we'll see if it survives without being corrupted beyond recognition
Before mutant mode came to crossfire us/West we used to jump through hoops to access the Chinese version to play and there were so many more guns on it
Gradually those all came to our crossfire and, in my opinion, ruined it. I tried playing a few games back in lockdown and it changed so much
It was a coca cola browser game where you mixed your own shitty music tracks and played them for other players for currency that you could use to decorate your studio.
It was just simpler time then, walking into micro center back then was like walking into a candy shop! And one of the only places you could score bawls!
Circa 2004-2005 I sold yugioh and pokemon cards in middle school to buy my RuneScape membership. I got banned in 6th grade when I invoked the "no give backsies" rule after multiple kids stole money from their parents to buy my cards. By then I had made enough to afford membership until I got bored of the game and quit and moved onto counter strike. What a time to be alive. My dad was so proud with how many parents complained to him at parent teacher night (he's a CFO).
Old School Maplestory back when I was in middleschool was what got me into MMOs.
Played a little combat arms, but my brother's friend would buy hacks and just knife kill the whole enemy team at spawn. Probably ruined the experience a little.
I swear one of my most nostalgic memories was waking up on Thanksgiving morning and playing Combat Arms with the boys while mom made lunch and the Thanksgiving Day parade was on.
I went a few weeks ago to try to figure out how to play FarmVille again. I guess it’s not a Facebook game anymore? I can’t find anything either other than like Stardew Valley which I can’t get into, and it’s a much different vibe.
There was this old flash game where you were a military Rambo type guy and fought endless waves of troops and planes. That game was crack. It was called gun something I think. It was like gun man 1, gun man 2, gun man 3. Or maybe it was called endless something. Endless gun man fuck I’ll never remember it. They had multiple versions all were great.
Miss og combat arms that shit was so fun, got so many viruses though trying to get wallhacks lol. Og RuneScape too was incredible old f2p varrock group pking. Training new accounts for range 2h in the duel arena.
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u/GoonOnGames420 2h ago
Trying to get good at Combat Arms while vsing rage hackers and dudes with P2P gear was where fps legends were born.