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> In the meantime Elite 4 with all its own flaws scratched my itch for multiplayer (I would have loved for that one to be more solo like First Encounter).

Are you talking about "Elite: Dangerous"? Any particular grievances with the "solo play"?

(My grievance is that it looks like they'll never "port" to the most recent versions of the oculus SDK/DK2 -- although I can understand why they'd want to settle for a (solid) proof of concept for now, and then wait with porting until APIs are finalized and consumer ready devices come out)

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Best Multiplayer game in that era was Allegiance from Microsoft of all people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_%28video_game%29

It was a multiplayer only game in 2000 with space ships and one commander who played the RTS side of the game. It was a MOBA/DOTA in space with a commander.

That's subjective :) I much prefer Independence War 2. It's superior to the old Chris Roberts classics imho:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_War_2:_Edge_of_Ch...

* https://www.gog.com/game/independence_war_2

* http://store.steampowered.com/app/359630/

There are still servers running for Allegiance (search freeallegiance) and some development, since MS open sourced it and allowed the community to maintain it, but you have to check on weekends to get a game going. It was a pretty good teamwork exercise, it actually required players to think tactically and stay coordinated to overpower the other team.

I am afraid of the learning curve and being married with kids I usually only play when I am not with any of them (AKA "Can't sleep" after wife goes to sleep) I love being with my family but playing > sleep is an easy decision.

Oh, wow - thank you!

I had completely forgotten about Allegiance until it was mentioned here. I'll have to dig it up and play a few games :)

Well, three things:

1. It needs a persistent connection. Now, I know it's just a little data here and there and whatever, but as someone who travels a lot in area where "internet connection" sometime means spotty 3G and walled garden wifi, it's a huge issue.

2. We're by design never going to get mods and player made missions/campaign and other goodies.

3. Overall even without clear things to point out, I can't help but feel like the game has been designed with that multiplayer system in sight and had to mold its balance / economy / gameplay around it, so a solo experience could be different (and possibly less "do your own experience with the other players, because the game doesn't have that much").

Still enjoy the game tremendously, but to be fair what I wanted was Elite 3 remastered more than multiplayer Elite.

> My grievance is that it looks like they'll never "port" to the most recent versions of the oculus SDK/DK2

I recall some hearsay on the Horizons stream about them updating their DK2 support, possibly before SDK 1.0.

There is a runtime switcher[1] which has overall positive feedback, but I haven't bothered to try it as I can't make heads and tails of the ambiguous installation instructions - might work out for you, though.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3paivl/rtu_package_...

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