How To Downgrade Rounds The Game to Maintain Mod Compatibility

Recently, Rounds, a Steam game with a vibrant modding community, released an update that unfortunately rendered many mods incompatible. For those who heavily rely on these mods for their gameplay experience, this posed a significant inconvenience. However, there is a solution: downgrading the game to the previous version that is compatible with the mods. The Solution Fortunately, Steam provides a way to revert a game to a previous version, allowing players to maintain compatibility with their favorite mods....

March 24, 2024 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

How To Play RimWorld Multiplayer Coop

RimWorld is one of my favorite games. Its an unforgiving colony simulating, base building, strategy, survival game. The premise of the game is a few survivors have crash landed on an unnamed planet. You play the bodiless colony, overseeing all operations. This game is created by Ludeon Studious, founded by Tynan Slyvester. Tynan has written a book called Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences, which goes over all games, not just video games, breaking them down into components such as mechanics, fiction, and discussing what makes a game fun....

March 31, 2022 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

How To Play PC VR Games On Oculus Quest 2

I originally purchased an original HTC Vive and began collecting numerous PCVR games on the Steam platform. What was nice about this, was the HTC Vive allowed me to take advantage of my 2080 TI. Eventually I ended up purchasing a Oculus Quest 2, which opened up access to the Oculus store. The downside to this was I found myself repurchasing the same games I had already owned, on the PCVR steam store....

September 25, 2021 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

How To Build A Franken Quest 2

So what is a Franken Quest 2? A Franken Quest 2 is a series of modifications one can make to improve their Quest 2. Our goals are to improve the comfort of the device and prolong its battery life for longer play sessions. First things first, we have to purchase the base platform which is the Oculus Quest 2. One can elect for the 128 GB version, but I liked the larger 256 GB storage size....

September 24, 2021 · 4 min · Greg Hilston

How To Self Host Dockerized Pavlov VR PC Server

My buddies and I have been planning a VR night where we will be playing Pavlov VR, which is a first person shooter. Looking forward to the event, I’ve spent the time setting up our own person server running on my Unraid home server, so that we can pick the maps and game types that we’ll play. Since it took a few days, I figured I’d document the process so others could leverage what I’ve learned....

September 22, 2021 · 4 min · Greg Hilston

How To Self Host Dockerized Killing Floor 2 Server

How to exec into the container $ docker exec -it [container-id] /bin/bash How to edit the admin password Edit the configuration file at vim /serverdata/serverfiles/KFGame/Config/LinuxServer-KFGame.ini, setting a value for AdminPassword under the section [Engine.AccessControl] How to login to the admin while in game Press tilde in game and type adminlogin [the admin password] List of admin commands https://streamline-servers.com/billing/knowledgebase/70/Killing-Floor-2-Admin-Commands.html How to Enable WebServer Go to file /serverdata/serverfiles/KFGame/Config/KFWeb.ini and find the section [IpDrv....

March 25, 2021 · 1 min · Greg Hilston

How To Host A Private Valheim Online Multiplayer Server

Edit: Since writing this, Unraid’s official blog released a similar better post on this same topic How To Setup Valheim Private Server We will leverage a popular Docker image [ich777/steamcmd] which allows us to launch the Valheim multiplayer server. Warning The first time you launch the container, it can take a while for the game server to be downloaded. The GAME_ID environment variable we must use to pick Valheim is 896660...

February 15, 2021 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

How To Play Morrowind Online Multiplayer

Morrowind is one of my favorite games ever made and what introduced me to the Elder Scrolls series. I remember my father giving me a copy for the original Xbox as a gift and how I spent hundreds of hours exploring and never doing the main story line. One of my favorite aspects of Morrowind is how quests are not given to you in a “hand holding” manner. Rather than having a map with a quest marker, you will be given a vague description to follow....

October 12, 2020 · 3 min · Greg Hilston