anyone know of any lesser known games with long standing dedicated communities? kind of like SS13 was back in 2010 before everyone found out about it

off of the top of my head:
>Empires
old-ass Half Life 2 mod from 2008 that's still supported and regularly played to this day. it's an RTS/class-based multiplayer hybrid like Natural Selection except it's set in a sort of retrofuturistic race war with an emphasis on janky source vehicle combat. it probably sounds like a fucking mess from that description but it's actually really fun, and AFAIK it's steam version is technically a standalone title now and doesn't even need HL2 to run it
I haven't played it in a couple years myself since I became a nightshift wagie but it still gets 50~ players each Saturday and Sunday and a few of them have been playing since release

>NeoTokyo
another HL2 mod from 2009, it's not officially supported (I believe the source code has been lost so the game couldn't be handed off to anybody) but still gets 30~ players on Friday pickup games organised by a steam group. it has an amazing art direction and setting based off of Shirow Masamune and it's gameplay is styled off of Counter Strike except with cloaking nip cyborgs, but unlike actual Counter Strike it struck a good balance between chaotic fun and hardcore, predictable, skill-rewarding gameplay rather than going full-bore into the "hardcore" aspect; meaning it has fun stuff that spreadsheet-brained CS:GO-era autists would screech at such as large team sizes, physics props, friendly fire and so on. also has a standalone steam version.

>Quake III Arena
doesn't really need an introduction, it's Quake and I believe the most active Quake title to this day. I haven't actually played any games of it myself but I assume it's heavily gatekept by a small, elite group that have been playing since release 25 years ago and are able to do shit like accurately map long-range airshot trajectories in their head from any angle, and I don't mean this in a "heh heh are you up for the challenge buddy" kind of thing either. also, still sold at $14.99 US despite being a quarter-century old

https://discord.com/channels/244237952199163907/244237952199163907

Neocron a mmorpg from the 2000s that's getting remade. I don't know shut about the game but I want to play it

https://discord.com/channels/142775664192389121/203637436453093377

Planetside

Dong dong never dies
Fighting game from late 2000s with best look in industry.

https://discord.gg/VV3aUdEh

>>1644957 (OP)
Like classic games or how long ago is "long standing"

Id argue SS13 still is. The game as a whole has been bleeding players since the ssethrugees settled in and lots of old mainstay servers have either been dwindling in playercounts or shut down. Never had any presense outside of the sseth video and that streamerfaggot who played for a couple months then got bored.

I do but I am not going to share.

>>1644957 (OP)
Blockland. Kinda

>>1675504
What do you mean by kinda?

>>1685658
It's mostly dead

I was going to say HellMOO but fuck I didnt realize it shut down a few years ago shit

Rest in peace

Movie Battles 2 mod for Jedi Academy

Halo 1 (the original pc version, not the remasters) still has active multiplayer, shit's fun but don't expect people to talk much

>>1687974
HATEmoo is still going I think, ironically set up the last time Crymore shut down Hellmoo
Not sure if Inferno still is though, which was set up at the same time

>>1644957 (OP)
I saw Microsoft Allegiance announce they're celebrating their 25th year the other day
It's a space fighter game, like Free space, has been community run for ages


Does Ultima Online still have a lot of player ran shards?
There used to be a very large role playing community

Theres tons of old source games that still have an active playerbase. These are some I recommend:

>Zombie Panic! Source
Remake of an old half life mod, humans vs zombies. Zombies kill humans that turn into more zombies, humans can board up and hunker down in buildings. The current dev team has a stick up their asses and are imbeciles when it comes to balancing. 2.4 and below are pretty unscarred from their faggotry, you should give it a try with friends.

>Fistful of Frags
Wild west shooter, with all the guns and fun from the 19th century. The firearms work accurately to the period, and it makes for really great gameplay. There's no easy automatic shooting, all of the guns take significant time to fire and reload which gives you plenty of opportunity to dodge, maneuver and such. Normally running around with melee weapons wouldn't work out as well or as fun in a more modern theme but here it works excellently because of the awkward guns.

>Natural Selection 2
Another remake of an old half life mod, humans vs alien scum. Humans get guns to shoot. Aliens get to evolve to higher lifeforms. Each team is given a commander who oversees the battlefield and has special abilities. Pretty fun besides from the community servers always being laggy, but that's probably just on my end.

>Obsidian Conflict
Half-Life 2 co-op mod, Sven for Source. Has tons of fun custom maps.

I dont I'm a prime newfag

>>1709137
>Does Ultima Online still have a lot of player ran shards?
Id argue theres too many. Theres a ton without any reasonable populations.

>>1719163
>>Zombie Panic! Source
Best source mod. I can't believe the devs handed their game over to retarded Brazilians.

I've personally got sunken into Rule the Waves 3, its an autistic shipbuilding game with a grand scale and huge amount of control. You go from 1890s ironclads to cold war era corvettes, controlling each detail of the ships armor, armaments, all the sorts. There's a general thread up in /vst/ semi-regularly.

Have you heard about SS14? Much better alternative to SS13

>>1644957 (OP)
SS14

>>1759251
>>1759280
fuck off shill

>>1644957 (OP)
FOnline2, its essentially ultima online (full loot pvp) mixed with fallout1+2

>>1660706
let it rot in piss

>>1644957 (OP)
The other byond games. Unlike ss13 it isn't pozzed and you can say any slur you want in global

>>1775752
>you can say any slur you want in global
I can do these things in SS13 servers as well

>>1644957 (OP)
Mabinogi
UO
Secret World Legends
I -think- APB still has players?
Dungeons and Dragons online
Let It Die (remake/sequel never ever)
Conan Exiles
EVE online (EVE is pretty well known I know but it very much fits the 'small but hyper dedicated autistic community')
Dofus/Wakfu
Everquest still has some very populated/dedicated private servers.
Star Wars Galaxies
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>>1687974
There is still a Hell shard up with a bunch of legitimate tranny devs, it came up shortly after Hellmoo went down. It's called Samsara, some new content but nothing crazy. I haven't touched it in about a year, maybe there's a lot more stuff now (almost certainly not)

>>1781386
Is Wakfu based on some anime/manga? I see its stylized as such but the devs are french.

>>1793138
No

>>1709137
>Does Ultima Online still have a lot of player ran shards?
There is even an UO thread on this board.

>>1793138
No but it has a cartoon

>>1781251
Do this on TGstation and find out what happens

>>1775752
I can vouch for this, a lot of customization and people who have been hanging around a decade

>>1719163
>Zombie Panic! Source
>Remake of an old half life mod, humans vs zombies.
Say The Name!

"Zombie Master" AKA "Zombie Master Reborn"
https://zombiemaster.dev/
dead since 2021 but you gatta mention that one it was such a neat and fun concept that I never saw the like of again.

Clonk Rage
Ysflight
Infantry Online

>>1644957 (OP)
EpicMafia (RIP) and its various forks (BeyondMafia (RIP), BeyonderMafia (RIP), /v/illageMafia, UltiMafia)

https://www.boardgame-online.com/

I remember playing this with some /b/rothers back in the day.

Neverwinter Nights

>>1845321
I remember playing the GMOD version of this. It was pretty awesome and was really fun for both the survivors and master.