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double-dip? 🤔

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It's extortion. Plain and simple.

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Quoting: Technopeasant

Improved maps throughout the game

Oh here we go again...

They're not wrong, Sin needed polish rather badly in places, I just don't trust them to make the improvements to the design of the game if they're saying it's just some map changes. Anyone who's played the game all the way through knows that Sin gets rough and quite sloppy.

I do like Sin, though.

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Quoting: VerglasHow come I never heard of this game? 1998 was my heydey and bought every gaming magazine there was in the 90s.
I must have been too busy with Baldur's Gate, Fallout 2 and Might & Magic 6 🤔

It was also released at the same time as Half-Life and Shogo. All great games. The competition was fierce.

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Another title ruined by a greedy and lazy company like Nightdive. After they abandoned games like Turok 1 and Forsaken Remastered on GOG, they lost everything from me. Will not buy anything else touched by them.

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Sine Episodes 2 when though? Who else played Emergence and are still waiting for the follow up?

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Adding an easy way to install Winboat is a great idea. I use it and it works very well, aside from some papercuts. Sadly, one usecase which I have does not work (proprietary VPN client).

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How come I never heard of this game? 1998 was my heydey and bought every gaming magazine there was in the 90s.
I must have been too busy with Baldur's Gate, Fallout 2 and Might & Magic 6 🤔

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is about the only tower defence game I've actually played.

Same. The original Defense Grid was one of the first games I got on Steam (since it was part of the ARG around Portal 2 releasing), and I just…never really felt the need to play more TD games after playing these two. 😄

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nice, I loved the original

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i have the game on Playstation / XBox / Switch / Steam put about 100-ish hours into each platform. i love this genre but apart from this and the first game i've yet to play a better tower defence game. if anyone knows of better or just as good tower defence games i'd love to play them.

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Oh, people played this game for Elexis 😆

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Played the original on release, it will be great to play this again

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: mrdeathjrOpen <path-to-game>\rlmfc.dll in a hex editor.
Go to offset 0x256ED.
Replace 83 E0 0F with 90 90 90.​

Replace with NOPs? It is so funny when it works imo

yeah in some texts talk about this issue affects ryzen because game dont detect mmx instruction (rare?)

in other related news d7vk update readme file with this (maybe next release stay closer) :

D7VK

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine. It uses DXVK's D3D9 backend as well as Wine's DDraw implementation (or the windows native DDraw) and acts as a proxy between the two, providing a minimal D3D7/6/5/3-on-D3D9 implementation.

Note that D3D retained-mode applications are not supported, since the project only aims to implement immediate-mode.

FAQ

Will D7VK work with every game out there?

Sadly, no. DDraw and older D3D is a land of highly cursed API interoperability, and applications that for one reason or another mix and match D3D7/6/5/3 with DDraw and/or with GDI are not expected to work properly in all cases. If games provide alternative renderers, based on Glide or OpenGL, I strongly recommend you use those, together with nGlide where applicable.

If you're wondering about the current state of a certain game, a good starting point would be checking the issue tracker.

Wait, what? There's D3D6/5/3 support in my D7VK! How did it get there?
After looking over the D3D6/5 SDK documentation, they turned out to be somewhat approachable, so I have implemented both. Thanks to CkNoSFeRaTU we also support D3D3, along with execute buffer driven rendering, and thus have achieved full D3D (immediate-mode) coverage of the DDraw world.

Mind you, support for D3D7 still remains the main goal of the project. From a features and general compatibility standpoint, expect D3D6/5/3 to fare somewhat worse than D3D7, because, as I've said before: the further we stray from D3D8/9, the further we stray from the divine.

Why not spin off a D6VK, a D5VK and a D3VK, or rename the project?
All APIs prior to D3D8 fall under the cursed umbrella of DDraw, so it makes absolutely no sense to split things up. As for any renaming, that won't happen, since the project's main focus remains unchanged.

What happened to D3D1, D3D2 and D3D4?

D3D1 never existed, because the first release of DirectX didn't include a 3D component. Direct3D was added in DirectX 2 and was left mostly unchanged in DirectX 3, so D3D3 and D3D2 are interchangable terms, with a mostly historical distinction. DirectX 4 was never released, and the prototyped D3D4 implementation was restructured into what ultimately became D3D5.

DLL dependencies

Listed below are the DLL requirements for using DXVK with any single API.

d3d7: ddraw.dll
d3d6: ddraw.dll
d3d5: ddraw.dll
d3d3: ddraw.dll

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I hope this will be a good remaster not a lazy upscaleing of textures in a better engine for compability reasons.
Sin is a classic! Sucks that Sins Emergence(Episode sequel) flopped hard or rather imploded.

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Improved maps throughout the game

Oh here we go again...

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I'm using it now since about 2 years and it is smooth sailing so far.
Changed from endeavor to cachy because of its smooth zfs integration. (no dkms necessary)

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One of my favorites back in the days. I find that a remake with better visuals should actually not look like a y2k release but at least 2015. This does not.

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I've had this game on my steam wishlist for a long time but seeing this trailer only makes me think: -Why, oh why couldn't this game get the same treatment that "System Shock" got with it's remake, or "Half-Life" got with the release of "Black Mesa".

The budgets for these remakes are much higher, I think there's not much more to it. (Black Mesa started as a fan project so there wasn't much of a budget to speak of, but if a commercial studio did it, it would have turned out much more expensive to develop.)

I think this looks pretty good, but I do miss the blob shadows that the Quake 2 re-release had under the character models. Looking at the trailer, I also don't think this is running at a 40 Hz tickrate like the Q2 re-release, it seems to have kept the original 10 Hz tickrate. This means it'll have significant input lag, unfortunately.

I do find it interesting that bilinear filtering is enabled here, while the Quake 2 re-release was generally demonstrated with it being disabled, basically undoing the "canon" treatment where most official Quake 2 media was shown with filtering enabled back in the day.

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It's Capcom, so, Denuvo encumbered, which is a shame, as this is another title I'd definitely buy otherwise.

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Hopefully this is playable under SteamOS - I have the original games, and they are broken under SteamOS, which means that I can't play them on my Steam Deck.

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this was one of my favorite games back in the days

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Wasn't able to buy it due to the Harry Potter being included, J.K. Rowling actively funds anti-trans groups and laws. I'm not comfortable funding the person working to remove the safety and rights of my friends, family and myself. 😅

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I'm not that into "fancy graphics" in a general sense but..."Old 3D" from (roughly speaking) the time before the release of "Half-Life 2", that is graphics that I have a bit of a hard time enjoying.

I've had this game on my steam wishlist for a long time but seeing this trailer only makes me think: -Why, oh why couldn't this game get the same treatment that "System Shock" got with it's remake, or "Half-Life" got with the release of "Black Mesa".

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Just letting you guys know the reason for the removal might have to do with it being defeated again, they are likely removing it from older titles before the high seas get to it for reputational reasons. Just speculation though.

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Great bundle, but I don't get why buyers should support an industry lobby group as a... charity?!

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• Fixed a bug where certain custom maps would not load assets correctly on Linux

Finally this got fixed. Still waiting for Valve to also push it to CS:S and the other orange box games, since it's [being tracked on Github](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/6868) for well over a year now.

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Been using CachyOS for a month since migrating from Bazzite. It's been pretty smooth so far.

Octopi seems rough at first, being more like Synaptics or dnfdragora, but once I got used to it I actually quite like it due to how fast and to-the-point it is - it's kinda like having an ultra efficient search engine to Arch packages and AUR.

I still do install stuff on Distrobox and Flatpak for mitigation reasons. But the host system overall is pretty well thought out. It feels like they just set Arch up for you, include many optimization in the backend, and otherwise unintrusively give you Arch with just a couple of nice-to-have and decent out-of-box-experience.

I think that's what makes it stand out from Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour. It still feels like Arch, as the nice-to-haves and the defaults feels seamless even though they absolutely set things up for you... Arguably pretty aggressively. I think it's because it feels unopinioated regarding stuff that people notice, while actually setting things up for you.

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• Improved Medi Gun heal target selection to prioritize teammate directly under crosshair when teammates are close together (community fix from wget)


• Improved targetid selection to replicate Medi Gun heal target selection (community fix from wget)

Love to see it as a Medic main. And all these community-contributed fixes, in general.

Now I'm wondering what the longest period of time a game has gone between release and some sort of update (bug fix, content addition, whatever) is? 🤔

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Quoting: dimko

Quoting: Mountain ManSony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

What is profit from locking someone into their walled garden? Define it and explain how it benefits them. :D

When someone buys a PlayStation, they're naturally going to want to buy games for it, and when they buy a PlayStation game, Sony gets a bigger cut of that sale than they would selling that same game on PC. The more games someone buys for their PlayStation, the more vested they are in the platform, and the more likely they are to buy the next iteration of the console, and the cycle repeats.

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