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FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online

The PvP mech battler is finally playable online in Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, and I talked to the modder making it happen.

Empowering certain players to distribute information and drawing stark boundaries between where you could and couldn't reach your team flooded the tactical playspace with so many possibilities even before you got to customizing mechs or outshooting your enemies. During that time, the servers would actually shut down for a short period (much like the downtime between Fortnite seasons today) during which players could only partake in online "free battles" that didn't play into any grander stakes or affect their rank. IBAC and a few other contributors have already solved some minor hurdles to make it easier for multiple matches to be running at once, but the project very much remains in its "duct taped together" phase: downloading a smattering of files, configuring a VPN and IP addresses, and so on.

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