Don’t expect homm3 levels of greatness and longevity but I was genuinely shocked at how much I liked the playtest awhile back. I was planning to wait for full release and lots of reviews to even consider the game but I saw enough potential in the test that I want to support it in EA as long there’s no glaring issues day 1.

Absolute best way to avoid cheaters is playing games with private servers and community moderators, infinitely better in every way except it’s not always as easy as “load game and click matchmake”. Arma is my favorite, it’s even become my go to game for playing weird stuff like Halo and Star Wars content.

Tons of older stuff being kept alive purely by dedicated communities, like Battlefield 2/Project Reality, BFBC2/Venice, Titanfall 1/R1, Titanfall 2/Northstar, Battlefront 2 og/legacy mod, Battlefront 2 EA via Kyber, several old CoD projects including combining games.

Also community and teamwork oriented games like Bellum, Squad, Glory to the Heroes, Gray Zone Warfare.

Virtual Reality is really fun for shooters tbh, extremely rare to see actual cheating there but it’s a lot to get into at first.

Otherwise I feel like I’ve rarely if ever seen cheaters on Holdfast, Overwatch, Bodycam, Straftat.

Yeah I have my eye on Screamer too, thinking it might finally be the game that gets me to move on from Split Second lol. We need more over the top action racers, some middle ground between like NFS and Mario Kart.

My next purchase will most likely be either Yes Your Grace 2 (all about choices and story) or Beyond Sandbox (modding platform for VR). Also considering Everwind and Toxic Commando but I’ll probably wait for some updates. I can’t remember if Road to Vostok is f2p or paid but that’s a day 1 either way for me.

But several old purchases I made are paying off now, Bellum and Glory To The Heroes are finally in testing phases…oh and Gloria Victis is officially coming back next month, it’s like if Chivalry was a janky ass MMO and I fucking love it.

Yeah this would include WoW because drops are randomized and you can sell them and cash out with tokens.

Tbh all over simplified tech going away would be nice. Force people to learn and think to use devices and services, at least get away from the “app and console” type of mindsets.