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This is supposed to be Valve's version of 'Fortnite: Battle Royale', isn't it?

Or is it completely different?

I'm unclear on what "this" refers to here – Mann vs. Machine? Team Fortress 2 as a whole? I've not played Fortnite, but it sounds like the closest thing to it in TF 2 would be Arena mode, where two 12-player teams compete to be the last man standing. But I get the feeling that's one of the less popular modes (I haven't played it in probably close to a decade), so there's not much overlap.

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As a Cinammon-on-Debian stable user, sounds like good news.

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Ok, that team multiplayer stuff might accelerate me and a friend getting it – team victory against the AI is how we tend to enjoy playing Civ.

Edit: the other improvements look good too, of course.

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Does the game still force you to pick a new nation for each and every new era?

Yes. Age transitions are a core feature around which the entire game is designed and balanced. Basically, all of your progress carries over from one age to the next, so you never lose any progress, and you pick a new nation with bonuses that complement your overall strategy. It's actually my favorite feature in Civ VII.

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this must genuinely be my lucky day... been wanting to get into this series for the while but just didn't have the money to buy the stuff... now that it's literally a dollar i think it's time i bought it.

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Does the game still force you to pick a new nation for each and every new era? If yes, it's still a hard pass.

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Niiiice. I sold a bunch of CS cases and used the proceeds to pick this up without reading the hardware requirements. Got the launch error saying a ray tracing capable graphics card is needed and my old 5700XT is not and it BARELY runs on SteamDeck.

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Even with a Radeon R9 285, really? Doubt... I'll need a definition of "okay" here.

See this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

The Radeon R9 285 is Tonga, and so are the R9 380 and 380X. Tonga is one of the earliest GCN 3 chips, so yes it has the necessary fp16 support. (Though, keep in mind that all the other GPUs in the R9 200 and R9 300 series are older chips that don't have fp16 support.)

That said, I don't think anyone tested this game on anything older than Polaris, so there may be things other than fp16 which may be broken.

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R9 285 not so much, but 380 4 GB might have the most minuscule of chance.

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I still to this day joke about mowing down pedestrians while other people are driving for X amount of points.

HEY LOOK a granny pushing a stroller, that's like quadruple bonus points, get em!!!

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Man I have some great memories of the various Oddworld games from long long ago. Figuring out puzzles, exploration... The lore and the world and the art was always soooo good.

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Reminds me of https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350900/Fogpiercer_Demo/, though I haven't played either yet.

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It's been a while since I played Civ but wasn't "Just One More Turn…"a feature in at least 4 or 5?

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Oh, more roguelike slop? And it's Convoy-like?
...
Please sir, I want some more.

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performance is okay even with emulation

Even with a Radeon R9 285, really? Doubt... I'll need a definition of "okay" here. Just getting it running at all is a significant achievement in its own right.

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"Get ready for suicide express!" C= 64
Time is slipping ...

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Convoy, maybe?

YES! Thank you BloodScourge!

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Very similar, you had a central line vehicle with support/attack vehicles around it, trying to get off of an alien planet by doing jobs for factions. Needed to collect items on a hex(?)-map, meta progression, VERY similar artstyle...

Convoy, maybe?

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Oooh, that reminds me of a similar game that I can't remember the name of right now. Very similar, you had a central line vehicle with support/attack vehicles around it, trying to get off of an alien planet by doing jobs for factions. Needed to collect items on a hex(?)-map, meta progression, VERY similar artstyle...

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Incredibly glad they're looking to add keyboard layouts. That's the main thing that's been keeping me from using Cinnamon Wayland (besides Nvidia). Me and my QWERTZ Keyboards can finally work together nicely!

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I am curious what the performance on this older hardware is, I imagine it's not running the ray-tracing?

Performance on vega64 is 50-60 fps at 720p medium, 5700xt over 70fps at 1080p medium. From what I gather, it is running the global illumination, but not the more performance-destroying path tracing stuff.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-rx-vega-64-runs-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-at-well-over-30fps-in-linux-with-radv-driver

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What is GFX10/9/8 in this context? Which "older GPUs" does this affect exactly?

GFX8: GCN3 (Volcanic Islands) & GCN4 (Arctic Islands/Polaris)
GFX9: GCN5 (Vega)
GFX10.1: RDNA (Navi 1)
GFX10.3: RDNA2 (Navi 2)
GFX11: RDNA3 (Navi 3)
GFX12: RDNA4 (Navi 4)

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I am curious what the performance on this older hardware is, I imagine it's not running the ray-tracing?

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Have edited the article to include more info. Wikipedia covers the full details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

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Weird

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What is GFX10/9/8 in this context? Which "older GPUs" does this affect exactly?

It's the first I'm hearing of the term "GFX(\d+)"

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I gave the demo a try, since my initial thought was similar to others expressed here and I wanted to give it a chance to change my mind. I like FTL (and Slay the Spire), and a turn-based FTL feels like it could potentially be interesting, but my conclusion is that adding deckbuilding doesn't really…improve the fun aspect. At least for me.

My main issue is that there's a sort of double-frustration, where to do anything you must have both a card that lets you do it and a crewmember in the right position, where they can only move (across ~⅓ of the ship) and do an action once per round. I had one situation where my crew couldn't fight a fire on my ship because I kept not drawing Extinguish cards (frustrating from an FTL perspective), and another time where I couldn't fight a fire despite having an Extinguish card because none of my crew members could reach it (frustrating from a StS perspective). Now in fairness the enemy is also bound by this system, but since I can't see their hand of cards it's hard to tell if they're also being forced into less-useful actions like I am, so the only frustration I can see is my own. It's clearly a passion project by a small team and I wish them all the best and hope they find their audience (I did leave some constructive feedback on their feedback form relating to a few things I noticed apart from the genre-mashup), but it just wasn't all that fun for me.

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Still have my original disc, wanted to pick this up but at its current price I'll wait for a sale myself

I was expecting it to be around the £15 mark which I probably would of picked up

None the less, people seem happy with the quality of this remaster, I felt disappointed by the recent tomb raider remasters but this at least seems to have alot of effort and love put into it

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Still have this on my PS1, original CD. Love it, charming little game, that has great music too. Just bought it on GOG, going to install it tomorrow using Heroic Launcher.

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