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Haven't played it but 1st thing that comes to my mind is BeamNG.drive ;).

Mount & Blade?

On the contrary you seem to not want to use Discord for some reason. At least that's what I'm hearing... I've been using 'out-of-platform' communication tools for a very long time. Teamspeak 2, then Teamspeak 3 and finally Discord. Having a totally free server just for the sake of communication, which can have a number of channels for different purposes, completely customizable to your liking, done once and that's it - no need to manage that any further makes things so much easier. Whilst on Steam you need to join that certain group previously created or send invites to people you want to talk with. If that's just one person then sure, that will do. But for more people or creating a small community it will never be a thing. I can launch PC with the thought of playing particular game, join a channel created just for it, even if there are no people in it, and that's it. If someone wants to play they just join, say hi and we can kick it off any moment as a duo. Or trio, so on and so forth, completely maintenance-free. I can see friends just chatting and join in on the conversation, just for the sake of having a conversation even when we're playing different titles or not playing at all, just doing some stuff on the PC. We have a text channel visible for everyone on the server and can use that for various purposes. From sharing funny, interesting stuff we found on the net or otherise. To hook up for a gaming session somewhere further down the line or whatever else we want. And it's completely independent of whether I want to play a Steam, Epic, Origin, GoG, Ubi Connect (Uplay was a much better name :P) game or one with a standalone client. Plus there's no need to start any gaming client at all to see what's up. Just a ton of pros and no cons to be found...

I'd say the go-to method is Discord servers for games you're into. You'll find at least one person per server who will fit you characteristically, I'd say. Also, from my experience, Among Us, when played with the same people, seems to break the ice real quick. And some of he people playing games you typically play might jump into that one from time to time as well ;).

Definitely ABZU, although it's really short. Subnautica is really chill most of the time. I really enjoyd my time with Vanishing of Ethan Carter but it's another short one (2-3h) and from what I've seen What Remains of Edith Finch seems to have a similar vibe. I still haven't managed to start my playthrough of Outer Wilds but this ight interest you as well. Or dive deep into indie titles, there's a shitload of gems in there and ones which caught my eye were e.g. Spiritfarer, Solar Ash, Road 96, Existensis, Dordogne, Sable or some of the well known ones like Gris, Undertale, Papers, please, Disco Elysium

Old versions of titles included in GTA Trilogy are apparently coming back in their original versions to digital stores. https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-apologizes-for-gta-trilogy-issues-makes-the-old-versions-of-gta-available-again/

Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a very nice game but it's a 2-3h complete walkthrough. Long Dark was free on Epic a while ago, so maybe you or someone from your close friends already owns it. Am currently playing through this one myself (story mode) and I'd say it's a good game, but not really the 'journey' type. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is apparently reeeally short as well. As for the other ones I have no idea. What do you think about adding Return of the Obra Dinn to the list of potential candidates?

What your comment adds to the discussion? How it provides a counterargument to my comment? As far as I know both of these games have keyboard support and there's absolutely no requirement to use a controller on PC. It might be more comfortable, but I did cover that with 'just a matter of preference if one chooses to use something else'. I'm eagerly waiting for a response.

None. If it's a PC game, it has m/k support, so you can use it. There's absolutely no 'have to', just a matter of preference if one chooses to use something else.

And nobody mentioned first 2 Mafia games...

I don't get it. If you want to play it, then play it. What's stopping you?

A colleague of mine was constantly kicked out of the matches as well. None of the suggestions provided in some guides worked, even the 'clear cache' one which seemed more in-depth than 'fix the file integrity', 'restart connection', 'restart PC' etc. What actually ended up helping was found in a comment section of one of those articles and it was about disabling particle effects in options. I think in case of my colleague those were shadows, but my memory might not be accurate. While surfing for solutions I also found some comments from people who dealt with it via GPU drivers update/downgrade, although the majority had success while upgrading that obviously depends on GPU in question. Here's the article with the comment I mentioned: https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/rocket-league-crashing.html Copy of the comment (just in case article/comment gets deleted): Alejandro Dirksen • a year ago OK, I have had this issue since the 2020 release when it became free on Epic games and I actually thought nothing will work. Eventually, this combination below here is what worked: 1. Open CMD as administrator and type sfc/scannow. Make sure all issues are fixed or repair windows by reinstalling it using the media tool. Hopefully you don't have to go that far but I had to. 2. Run Epic Games or whatever launcher you have as an administrator. Do not run the Rocket league game as administrator as this cause the game to not even launch at all. Run rocket league in compatibility mode for windows 8. 3. Make sure your drivers are Up to Date. I checked all of them on device manager in control panel and one by one checked for update on each. 4. This is by far the most important step. After checking event viewer and the log files for the game, it appeared that the culprit was a particle component of the game so I turned off all particle effects including the weather effects and this is what finally stabilized the game and stopped the crashes. I hope these helps, note that these were not all the things I tried but were the most relevant in solving the issue. Hope that helps you ;).

Saints Row 3 Remaster is still free today on Epic. Grab it and check it out. Apart from that maybe MORDHAU or Chivalry to switch up that FPS a little bit? Forza, Fallen Order?

As a titbit - ok, interesting. As for the game - don't bother.

So I've got a Logitech Z533. Some time ago I noticed the problem - as the product was very close to end of the warranty period. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the receipt and complain. Now it's past that period anyways so I was hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction so I could get that fixed myself. So what's it all about? The thing is when I turn them on they work just fine but after a brief period (haven't counted that actually) the right speaker kinda 'goes off'. It still receives AC as it buzzes but doesn't give off any sound. It's definitely not a speaker problem as I tried switching left and right and it was still the same channel it wasn't working on. In this setup both speakers as well as volume control are connected to subwoofer. That volume control thingy has a jack input for headphones as well and when those are connected the right channel behaves just as speakers - no sound for it. I was wondering if it's maybe some resistor inside? As far as I know resistance changes with temperature so maybe when it gets hot enough no signal goes through anymore? Just a thought, might be too far off, though.