Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games

Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by Tyr42 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:13AM (#34000724)

Lol I learned about 'screen' (like tmux) from running a server.

I would ssh in, start it up, login with the game, certify everything was working, then kill the ssh and be confused the game dropped.

The instructions mentioned screen but all it seemed to do was break the scroll buffer.

Eventually I learned. That was fun.

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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by precommunicator on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:02PM (#34004043)

Same experience here, as a GTA SA:MP operator. That's probably how I started with commandline Linux

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Re:Epic is turning off online services and servers for some ... by clnq on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:07PM (#34007671)

Very same. SA:MP servers taught me to run a Linux server and to make gamemodes in Pawn (C-like). I got my first C++ game development job a few years later, and it has been a successful career since. Thank you, SA:MP.

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