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Quoting: linuxjacquesTotal War: WARHAMMER III review ratings on Steam are ... not great.

It's...complicated. The reviews are negative but a lot of them are coming from people who've put hundreds if not thousands of hours into the game. We have a kind of a Stellaris situation here I suppose. It's a very ambitious game, that's difficult and expensive to maintain, the game desperately needs attention in its base mechanics instead of endless amounts of additional DLC that keeps breaking stuff. It's tricky to fund this maintenance development time, though.

But if you'll still be able to get hundreds of hours of fun from the game like me, then I can hardly sit here and tell you the game actually sucks and you shouldn't buy it, even if you come to the same conclusions after some time.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI doubt they could entirely change the runtime base like that, with so much depending on it, without breaking a lot.

If they ship their runtime with necessary 32bit libraries - I don't see why not. You can have perfectly fine 64 bit system with 32bit support in kernel and 3rd party 32 bit libraries when needed only.
And most games do exactly that. They ship their 32bit modules.(not all 32bit libraries, mind you, but still!)
In fact its even better, as different OS will have different 32bit libaries. So it makes Steam libs universal for all games.

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Bit odd them listing "Improved VRAM consumption on Nvidia GPUs" under the Steam Deck heading but okay. Hopefully that will help those of you choosing to run the Native Linux version on Desktop Linux with an NVIDIA GPU.

I can only understand that as someone (more or less secretly) supporting Linux. IIRC, they already said the Linux version started as a passion project of a single developer. Whoever you're are, I'm sending a .

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In ideal world 32bit support should have been dropped like at least 10 years ago, but at the same time, if its needed for compatibility for legacy applications/games then, yeah, just don't break things that someone might still want to use.
wine wow64 has been pretty good lately, but iirc there are still some issues running 32bit things on 64bit environments and whats the state with old native 32bit games i wonder, can those be run in pure 64bit mode now?

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What ton of Features so we get from Play it that we can't get from heroic and RetroArch?
Usually people tell me that they find too many settings confusinf and want a turn key solution

More then possible to list. Look at the addons. Everything is addable on top. You aren't assaulted with a universe of features all on one page.

It's designed to bring everything together and cater to everyone, there are no doubt complicated features in some addons but most a pretty straight forward.

If you want zero customization and no options then stick with what's already available.

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Steam page doesn't list Linux/SteamOS system requirements but the YouTube video description has the tags #Linux and #SteamDeck. Looks like fun!

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Quoting: Mountain ManHuh, I thought these had been released into open source a long time ago.

As far as I can tell the mdl version of zork, created on the mainframe at mit was uploaded to github by mit in 2020

The infocom source code for zork 1,2 and 3 where uploaded by the same Jason Scott that Liam mentions to github in 2019

The intellectual rights of the mdl version where with mit so that upload was I think all legal and proper.

The intellectual rights of zork 1 2 and 3 where with in infocom who was bought by activision who where bought by Microsoft, so the upload from 2019 was probably same code as uploaded the 20th by Microsoft but maybe not fully legal.

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Think I have the GOG version which means I can't do shit with this. Shame.

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would be cool if it evolved from slow-paced horror gameplay into a brutal non-stop shooter towards the end of its single player campaign

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I'm overwhelmingly happy its a single player adventure and not another boring asymmetric multiplayer game like most horror franchises have been doing. I agree with Cybolic though, looks a bit cheesy from the trailer.

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TBH as someone thats developing a new Distro from an upstream Distro I am hoping the day comes 32 bit can be dropped but still maintain compatibility because my current repo size is 305 GB large haha.. if I could get rid of the 32 bit portion or a vast majority of it would be about half that size lol

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Personally I'm a big fan and hope it is an indicator that at least Larian are focused on us. I really enjoy D:OS2/BG3 and would like to see more titles in the style, personally.

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Hopefully this won't cause problems for 32-bit games or 16-bit programs via Wine eventually, I'm assuming the prior version of Steam Linux Runtime will continue to be available for compatibility?

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Total War: WARHAMMER III review ratings on Steam are ... not great.

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I hope this fixes the problem I've had woth notifications and overlay menus dropping frames cause mine has been doing thatva ton.
I use a trackpad menu for emulators and I get all the hitching when my paml brushes the trackpad or anytime I wanna control rewinds and fast forwards.
Certainly an annoying issue though minor.

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Huh, I thought these had been released into open source a long time ago.

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No wake on BT flipping? I'm surprised.

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I dunno, it's not very much . . . only A Handful of Missions. Be nice if there were A Few Missions More.

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they do not forget easily.

OK, but maybe they forgive?
. . . No?

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I'm actually not a huge Hellraiser fan, so it's possible my internal model of the franchise isn't up to snuff, but it feels weird to be running around with a shotgun blowing things away like it's just another boomer shooter. Hopefully the atmosphere/tone isn't lost in fast-paced action combat. To my untutored gaze it feels like kind of a mismatch.

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I doubt they could entirely change the runtime base like that, with so much depending on it, without breaking a lot.

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Even though SteamOS has migrated over to Arch Linux, the runtime is still using Debian as its basis?

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there are no credible awards, except steam awards. i may not agree with results of steam awards, but at least it is backed by mass voting, unlike tga where literally who few decide on what game wins or even gets nominated

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I wonder if this means I can drop 32bit compatibility completely in my Gentoo now.
Only Steam is holding me back.

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That brings back memories:)

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Looks somewhat cheesier than I was hoping, but I'll remain cautiously optimistic.

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Doesn't seem to be one listed.

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What's the codename for the 4.0 runtime? Medic? Engineer?

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Still not as horrendous as the "indie" category. Looking at the nominees, we have
* A game published by DotEmu, as subsidiary of Focus Entertainment, who according to their Wikipedia page has an annual revenue of 140 million euros.
* A game published by Devolver Digital, a publicly traded corporation owned partly by Sony and Netease
* A game published by Raw Fury, a subsidiary of a giant private equity firm.
* Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which seems to actually be owned by a medium-sized company.
* Hades II, also seemingly owned by a medium-sized company
* Hollow Knight: Silksong, an indie game
So at most half of the nominees for "best indie game" are actually indie games.

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