Is Paladins ever coming back on Mac?

[XXXTENTACLES]

It has been quite a while since Catalina have been released and yet I have no word if they're gonna bring it back to Mac, is there a news on this or if they have totally abandoned the Mac platform support?

[MegaHunts]

Doubts there any chance of paladins coming back to mac,

[✨Saint✨]

To avoid a wall of text, check this:

https://www.paladins.com/news/developer-update-macos-support-for-paladins/

I hope this helps.

[Zarinthal]

i know this isnt a perfect solution, but there are hundreds of desktop computers on amazon and newegg that will run paladins and similar games with ease and cost $100-$150 + $50 GT 710 graphics card. look for:

more than 2 cores at least 3 Ghz
8GB RAM DDR3 (not DDR2 ever ever ever)

yes paladins will run on 2 cores at 2.8Ghz but its gross. it looks bad, it can be clunky and there are other free games out there that will benefit from it.

more than a 250GB HDD (you dont need more for paladins, you dont need SSD for paladins)
the video card in the paladins requirements is super cheap, but most refurbished computers you will find cheap use integrated graphics. while this will poorly run paladins like hot garbage, it wont cost much to go above that minimum reuqirement.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
as you shop computers, this will tell you what included graphics card is close enough or better than the required minimum from the systems you look at. youll notice the minimum graphics card for paladins is waaaaay down at the bottom of the list, should be hard to beat

again, not a perfect solution for a free game, but there are lots of other games that only run on windows and are a lot of fun. sure, you can gamble on the integrated graphics in computers on those sites, but they are a huge risk with little remedy if they end up not being abe to run paladins, and that price range is mostly integrated grphics from 10 years ago, so probably a real bad idea. plus, when you get a better computer down the road, youll have the old refurbished one to tear apart and rebuild for the learning experience.

for $150-$200 you can get windows 8.1 or 10, a 4 core CPU over 3Ghz, 8GB RAM, plenty of hard drive space and the GT 710 which you may have to install yourself, but its super easy and there are 100 youtube videos for it. some of the refurbish places give options to add a graphics card for a modest fee before they ship it to you, which is nice.

[Zarinthal]

oh yeah, and discountelectronics dot com, just message them and ask if theyll install a graphics card for you. easy website, decent prices

[Vassago Rain]

1) download windows 10 from microsoft.
2) install windows 10.
3) get bootcamp.
4) boot windows 10.
5) play paladins on your mac.

You'll have to suffer with the windows 10 watermark.

[akahatokii]

you already have a mac, just buy a low end PC and it will run on potato

[Enspi]

What's a Mac?

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by Eclipse:

What's a Mac?

its what people still play casual on

[Nefser]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

...more than a 250GB HDD (you dont need more for paladins, you dont need SSD for paladins)...

I have to say, I completely disagree on this. SSD's are great!

People really need to add an SSD, as a great investment for their PC, to keep everyone from waiting for you to load up the data prior to a match. I am stunned about how 7-8 people can load and be ready in a few seconds and then have to wait ages (comparatively) for the last one or two people to load.

Additionally, they are SO cheap these days, esp. used, and make a MASSIVE difference not just to Paladins, but to most games AND the basic operation of the PC overall. It's a huge benefit.

This is especially the case for people that have medium to slow PCs, as it is actually the one single upgrade that will provide the most bang for the buck (overall impact on PC - in and out of games), without having to try to consider upgrading the cpu, motherboard, graphics card (if the power supply can cope, isn't a waste compared to CPU, etc.).

You don't need a massive one either, as you can pick and choose which games benefit the most and/or you are playing the most and keep those installed on it and all the others on the HDD (that you'll still be able to use).

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by Nefser:

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

...more than a 250GB HDD (you dont need more for paladins, you dont need SSD for paladins)...

I have to say, I completely disagree on this. SSD's are great!

People really need to add an SSD, as a great investment for their PC, to keep everyone from waiting for you to load up the data prior to a match. I am stunned about how 7-8 people can load and be ready in a few seconds and then have to wait ages (comparatively) for the last one or two people to load.

Additionally, they are SO cheap these days, esp. used, and make a MASSIVE difference not just to Paladins, but to most games AND the basic operation of the PC overall. It's a huge benefit.

This is especially the case for people that have medium to slow PCs, as it is actually the one single upgrade that will provide the most bang for the buck (overall impact on PC - in and out of games), without having to try to consider upgrading the cpu, motherboard, graphics card (if the power supply can cope, isn't a waste compared to CPU, etc.).

You don't need a massive one either, as you can pick and choose which games benefit the most and/or you are playing the most and keep those installed on it and all the others on the HDD (that you'll still be able to use).

when suggesting someone buy a new computer to play a free game where every dollar counts, and considering the benchmarks i took from paladins when upgrading from a 7200RPM to a sata SSD, its not a particularly worthwhile investment. sure it helpes, so does a better CPU, GPU, RAM, LAN card and motherboard, but in context, you are way off base. but yes, if everything else is up to spec, an SSD is a great cheap upgrade. think about context before jumping into the sales pitch. considering what im offering is the cheapest avenue that i know of to buying somehting certified and capable of playing paladins, SSDs shouldnt even come up except to say dont bother. if youre wafer drive was lagging on paladins, then i would say your drive was pretty cluttered, but then most of what you said made you sound technologically illiterate akin to a salesman reading you the ad and the box, rather than explaining anything useful

[Nefser]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

when suggesting someone buy a new computer to play a free game where every dollar counts, and considering the benchmarks i took from paladins when upgrading from a 7200RPM to a sata SSD, its not a particularly worthwhile investment. sure it helpes, so does a better CPU, GPU, RAM, LAN card and motherboard, but in context, you are way off base. but yes, if everything else is up to spec, an SSD is a great cheap upgrade. think about context before jumping into the sales pitch. considering what im offering is the cheapest avenue that i know of to buying somehting certified and capable of playing paladins, SSDs shouldnt even come up except to say dont bother

Who says when every dollar counts? People monetise all the time, making silly excuses for what they can/can't afford. Spending $$ on coffee, extra lives in CandyCorruption, buying apps for their phone. Buying skins/gems in games.

When I made my suggestion, I gave exactly the reasons the benefit gives them. By not doing that, and saying a HDD is 'fine'...well, that essentially untrue. Nowadays, people don't need GB's of space, except for games. If they can afford all those games (for $1-15), plus all the extras I just mentioned above, then going for an SSD at half the size of the HDD is a great investment and will improve the overall performance.

Buying a cheap PC, with cheap components that perform only "ok" or poorly is doing a rather great disservice, as they will wonder why "I can't play this and this runs so slowly I can't play it, etc.). Not to mention that the OS itself (and browsing the web, etc.) will also be affected.

"Invest in a ok to good PC, otherwise don't waste your money. Potentially better off with a console." I think that's a far better thing to say to people, otherwise you're offering very mixed messages (and very mixed results for the user).

[Zarinthal]

the message was clear: cheapest option to play paladins on a PC. i stuck to that and you seem to keep missing it. the original post was about paladins on Mac. i offered the cheapest alternative i know of, therefore your suggestion is irrelevant at best, and a distraction for people who actually want that cheapest build to run the game. 500GB HDD can be had for $20, whereas the SSD equiv is minimum $50 unless you go waaaay off brand, which is unwise. that $30 difference is very significant in the context of a computer that costs less than $200, and yet you act like $30 is asswipe money to people who play a free game. i was already on the border of relevance since most people arent going to buy a computer for a free game, like i said before. between the OP and my post, your suggestion has literally zero place. you said "People really need to add an SSD" which isnt true and then "Additionally, they are SO cheap these days" which is only true if you have the money, not true for everyone. idk, maybe your parents work for an SSD manufacturer and you want a raise in allowance? just try to pay attention to context to avoid derailing conversations. you want to disagree with me about SSDs? fine, but that argument has literally zero context in the discussion, no place at all. if they said "i have $XXX, what should i do" then yes, weighing the benefits of an SSD makes sense.

at the end of the day, if i were building a new budget machine from scratch to play free and light-load games like paladins, i go with a $90 ryzen 2200G (or even a $60 athlon 200GE), an older $60 B450M motherboard, 8GB RAM for $30 and i like to have at least 500GB hard drive space which i can do with a $20 HDD or a $50 SSD, which on a budget that $30 still makes a huge difference. since a 2200G CPU has 500 core integrated graphics, no need for dedicated GPU so a $40 400 watt PSU is still overkill, and i could probably get away with a $30 300 watt. add in the cost of a case and accessories and its still an overkill system for paladins for under $300 with plenty of upgradeability down the line, yet the cost difference from HDD to SSD is still a significant percentage for something that barely affects performance in paladins and is ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY.

now that ive cleared up any potential confusion you may have caused, if you have other solutions for the OP, feel free to engage. im not going to discuss SSDs with you anymore because it does not solve the OPs problem at all to do so

[XXXTENTACLES]

Hey guys thanks a lot for the comments on recommending me to build a PC, I do have a great setup at home. It's just that I travel a lot and I really could only carry no more than my MacBook Pro ahaha, bootcamp is such a hassle for me at the moment but I'll consider it. Thanks a lot for the comments! Really hope that Hi Rez would reconsider putting it back up for MacOS, cheers!