• candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        161·
        10 months ago

        I used hamachi because no one aside from me in my group of friends knew how to port forward, but it didn’t work on my network and it took me 4 years to figure out it was because at&t has it’s own network on it’s dialup modems by default.

        They still do that to this day with their fiber modem/routers! I hate it! And even if you do passthrough to have your own up for only your router, your ping is still never below 23ms because there’s two stop points in the chain, that and at&t’s dns resolution is ass.

        Damn internet oligopolies.

        • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          The nice thing about awful isp dns is it is trivial to make your router just serve cloudflare’s instead (1.1.1.1)

          • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            I think I’d have to change it in their modem but I’m not 100% sure, I remember having troubles the last time I tried this

            • RogueBananaEnglish
              21·
              10 months ago

              That is if u want it for the whole network but u can set dns in ur devices as well. It’s usually under ipv4 section for pc and connections on Android.

      • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        Terraria before proper multiplayer support was our prime Hamachi game. We had like 7-8 people from an internet forum playing on and off through our hamachi virtual network.

        Awesome times!

        • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          I played a lot of sup comm fa on there myself. I also used gameranger as a match maker for some of my more…busted…games.

        • 3ntranced@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          I still have my old terraria group instances saved with the eloquent passwords such as “butthole” and “42069” for ease of reference.

  • ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    651·
    10 months ago

    For those that didn’t use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.

    As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.

    • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
      281·
      10 months ago

      It was pretty much used the way people use Discord with a group of friends today. It didn’t have servers or anything like that, but you could hop on a call with a couple of buds and play games together.

      I played a lot of Halo Custom Edition over Xfire back in the day…

    • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      It also made it really easy to join your friends games before everything was on steam.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    387·
    10 months ago

    Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.

    • ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      111·
      10 months ago

      It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.

    • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      Why do you think it was better than Discord today? Didn’t get to experience Xfire so genuinely curious about it’s user experience.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        10 months ago

        It was very feature-rich. Literally everything discord offeres, but better implemented, and every feature was customizable - the in-game overlay being the one I remember most fondly. In addition to a VOIP indicator like discord has, it had a text-chat overlay too that my guild used a lot. We were spread out over multiple games, but we all had one unified in-game guild chat thanks to Xfire. You could resize and reposition everything in the overlay, and could set a keybind to toggle whether your mouse and such could interact with the chat windows or just click through it to interact with the game. It was clean as fuck.

        VOIP quality was outstanding. UI in general was customizable and also clean as fuck.

        It had a built in screen recorder.

        Everything was intuitive to use and easy to use.

        It was just really, REALLY high quality all around.

        Hope it makes a comeback.

        • tuoret@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          91·
          10 months ago

          What wasn’t feature-rich was the chat, just plain text, no emoticons or rich text or anything. Absolutely loved it.

          • yukichigai@kbin.social
            31·
            10 months ago

            Agreed. Cutesy emotes are great when you aren’t trying to concentrate on multiple other things at the same time. When I’m mid-game the only chat I read needs to be static and non-moving.

          • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            10 months ago

            It did a really good job of putting the stuff you actually want on screen, while staying the hell out of the game’s way!

  • sickday@kbin.social
    321·
    10 months ago

    Hell yeah. Xfire, Counter Strike Source, and Toonami made up the bulk of my childhood. I hardly hear it talked about anymore

    • ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      The only reason it came up again for me was I noticed it in some old computer files, ha! Used to be my most used application by far.

  • Asimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    10 months ago

    Man I’d forgotten about this.

    This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).

  • SwedishFool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    10 months ago

    This brought back memories I didn’t know I had. Gosh I miss those days, I wish I had downloaded all the clips I recorded before it died. I’m sad now.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
    131·
    10 months ago

    The gametime stats in Xfire were my first clue that I maybe needed to get off the PC once in a while and, as the kids say these days, touch grass.

    Was still kinda proud of myself though. Albeit a sort of shameful pride.

  • oryx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    God that brings back memories. I mainly used it for Halo CE back on Windows XP still in like 09-10. Joined a clan through Xfire that I played with a bunch. Used it a little for Minecraft too! Those days on CE were the best.