Metamidions, Lobbies of Icarus 
without Matchmaker (a.k.a. the Eternity Clock) even with hundreds of players online (back in the days when you would create a lobby with a map you actually wanted to play!), skill based leveling.  Competent, friendly crews, a feeling of actually being in command of a well tuned fighting machine.  Those oh so satisfying moonshine-driven Pyramidion ram kills with all guns blazing to soften up the target first.  Not having to soften up the target if it was a Spire. 

I really miss the old game, and didn't really realize it until I read this thread. 

  The current version is really formula and quite boring, it wants to be a modern FPS game with a retro feel and fails everywhere 
