Guides · VALORANT
How to Install VALORANT and Join a Server
Most games ask you to install them. VALORANT asks you to restart your computer, and sometimes to turn on two firmware settings before it will run at all.
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521 resultsGuides · Valheim
How to Install Valheim and Join a Server
The first troll that finds your house does not open the door. It swings a tree at the wall, the wall stops being a wall, and then the wooden roof falls in.
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Guides · V Rising
How to Install V Rising and Join a Server
The sun will kill you on your first day. Not slowly, not as a warning, and not in the way that games usually mean when they say an environment is hostile.
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Guides · Urban Terror
How to Install Urban Terror and Join a Server
Urban Terror looks like a realism shooter. Tactical vests, iron sights, bleeding wounds, a bandage you have to apply while somebody is trying to kill you.
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Guides · Unturned
How to Install Unturned and Join a Server
People bounce off Unturned at the store page. It is free, made of blocks, and its characters have no faces, so it looks like a weekend clone for children.
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Guides · Unreal Tournament
How to Install Unreal Tournament and Join a Server
There is a weapon in Unreal Tournament you fire twice. The Shock Rifle's secondary is a slow purple orb that does little. Its primary is an instant beam.
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Guides · Unreal Tournament 3
How to Install Unreal Tournament 3 and Join a Server
Install Unreal Tournament 3, open the server browser, and there is a fair chance you will see an empty list. That is not the game failing to find servers.
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Guides · Unreal Tournament 2004
How to Install Unreal Tournament 2004 and Join a Server
Unreal Tournament 2004 is faster than you remember, and considerably faster than you are. The movement is why, and it is worth knowing before you join.
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Guides · The Isle
How to Install The Isle and Join a Server
You have been alive for three hours. You started the size of a chicken and are now big enough that most things leave you alone. It took the whole evening.
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Guides · Terraria
How to Install Terraria and Join a Server
Terraria looks like a small game for about four hours. You chop trees, build a wooden box, and an unimpressed man moves in. Then you dig down.
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Guides · TeamSpeak 3
How to Install TeamSpeak 3 and Join a Server
You join a community's game server, play for an hour, and someone types "get on TS" and an address that looks like a website but is not. Nobody explains.
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Guides · TeamSpeak 2
How to Install TeamSpeak 2 and Join a Server
TeamSpeak 2 is not a game, and that needs saying before anything else, because it sits on a game server directory next to games. It is voice chat.
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Guides · Team Fortress Classic
How to Install Team Fortress Classic and Join a Server
A new Team Fortress Classic player first sees somebody cross the map impossibly fast, take the flag from a defended basement, and vanish again.
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Guides · Team Fortress 2
How to Install Team Fortress 2 and Join a Server
TF2 is free. This covers installing it, what the nine classes actually do, and why the community server browser is the more sensible way to play.
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Guides · SWAT 4
How to Install SWAT 4 and Join a Server
In SWAT 4, shooting someone loses you points. Not always. If a man is pointing a rifle at your team, you shoot him and the game agrees with you.
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Guides · Sunkenland
How to Install Sunkenland and Join a Server
There is no ground in Sunkenland, and that reorganises every survival habit you have. You cannot walk somewhere to find wood or dig a hole to hide in.
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Guides · Starbound
How to Install Starbound and Join a Server
The most common Starbound multiplayer experience is not exploring a planet with a friend. It is being refused by their server because your files differ.
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Guides · Star Wars Jedi Knight
How to Install Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Join a Server
Two players meet in a courtyard on a duel server. One bows, the other bows back, and nobody interrupts the fight that follows. None of that is in the code.
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Guides · Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)
How to Install Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Join a Server
You launch a fighter out of your capital ship, fly across open space with turret fire going past you, and put the thing down inside the enemy's hangar.
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Guides · Squad
How to Install Squad and Join a Server
The most important player in a Squad match is usually driving a truck of building supplies to a spot behind a hill, so the team has somewhere to spawn.
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Guides · Squad 44
How to Install Squad 44 (Post Scriptum) and Join a Server
The most important vehicle in Squad 44 is a lorry of building supplies, driven slowly down a road by somebody who volunteered for eight minutes of haulage.
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Guides · Space Engineers
How to Install Space Engineers and Join a Server
Your first serious ship will come apart. Not in combat, but because of a rotor attached slightly wrong, which turns a docking arm into a cloud of debris.
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Guides · Soulmask
How to Install Soulmask and Join a Server
Every survival game eventually turns into a job. The base and workshops are built, and now somebody has to stand at the smelter feeding it ore for hours.
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Guides · Sons of the Forest
How to Install Sons of the Forest and Join a Server
You will become fond of Kelvin, and Kelvin will walk into the sea. Kelvin is the soldier who survives the crash with you.
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