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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: dimko

Quoting: BalkanSpy

Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

Your comment doesn't really make sense. You get matched up with people around the same vehicle unlock level as you regardless of paying or not.

I haven't played the game, but I think he's saying at an equivalent level of vehicle unlock, the one who's spent grinding hours playing the game to get the unlock will almost certainly defeat the one who just bought the vehicle.

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Another victim of the collossal cluster-fluff that is Epic Games. Shame, I enjoyed Horizon Chase Turbo. Wouldn't entertain buying the second game on EGS. doesn't exist to me.

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I enjoyed FH4 and FH5, but man I hope they do away with all that awkwardness that is the XBox login rubbish. No end of trouble signing in on Linux. That and because the Xbox game bar isn't on linux, connecting with friends meant I had to mess around with my phone app which was inevitibly clunky, unreliable and too hard basket. Effectively, it was a single player game to me. It still daunts me to think about going through it all again in FH6. Yes it 'works' on Steam Deck and Linux, but does it work 'well'?

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Quoting: EikeSearches hint to rubber-banding opponents? That would be a no thanks for me than...

It's not my experience, maybe they do it a little, but usually when you clear them and drive well enough, they don't catch up if you are faster than them. The problem is also moot when you are playing multiplayer, as its usually all real players in the front.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThough apparently they broken the "normal" beta client. It did on my system and I've see a couple of reports on Reddit and GitHub.

Did you have env set in launch option?

Try env -- <ENV> %command%

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/13012#issuecomment-4131855670

Yeah, I saw your comments on the related Github issue, I'll try as soon as possible.

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Not saying it's the case here, but sometimes these delisting announcements are meant to incite FOMO buying in game collectors and people who are still on the fence. Plus free publicity and all that.

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Game preservation takes another hit.

And "piracy" gains new fans, as usual. After all the game is preserved and will most likely still be available, just involuntarily.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThough apparently they broken the "normal" beta client. It did on my system and I've see a couple of reports on Reddit and GitHub.

Did you have env set in launch option?

Try env -- <ENV> %command%

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/13012#issuecomment-4131855670

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This could pair wonderfully with the Epoch 2 release of Cosmic later this summer / year. If this 64b containerized steam comes out of beta around then, I will flash to an entirely new cutting edge system wooo!

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I used to play the first game a lot. Then out of the blue the CEO decides to sell his soul to Epic. First thing they did was close the leaderboard, citing some BS about the difficulty in maintaining it with the release of the second game. And of course they canceled the second game coming to Steam and a potential Linux version.

To say I was pissed with all of that is a understatement. And of course, I didn't drop a tear after hearing previous news about they letting people go from Epic Brazil. And now this. Like they say, if you make a deal with the devil, you will end regretting it.

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Though apparently they broken the "normal" beta client. It did on my system and I've see a couple of reports on Reddit and GitHub.

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Quoting: DrakkerSuch a shame. This is the best racing game ever. Nothing else comes close. I have not played the sequel as its never been on Steam, but from watching videos, it doesn't look better than the first game. I suspect the first game on Steam might still sell better than the sequel on EGS.

Searches hint to rubber-banding opponents? That would be a no thanks for me than...

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Still, doesn't really make a lot of sense why they're delisting it when thinking on it. No special vehicle licenses, no track licenses needed and no online features to keep funding - why is it being just removed? Sometimes the industry just doesn't make sense.

Weird indeed. The best I can imagine is that it's removing competition for the second Epic-only game.

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Nope. I'm still not buying stuff from Microsoft, but I'm glad some Linux gamers will be able to enjoy it.

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Definitely pick it up for those of you who haven't got it yet, really fun game

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Yeah, this just screams "Never give me your money!".

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Game preservation takes another hit.

Epic is currently one of the most destructive forces in the game industry. 😫

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Such a shame. This is the best racing game ever. Nothing else comes close. I have not played the sequel as its never been on Steam, but from watching videos, it doesn't look better than the first game. I suspect the first game on Steam might still sell better than the sequel on EGS.

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Too bad, I don't understand why they would do this. Oh well, another company to watch out for.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThat's NEVER gonna happen - Tim Sweeny is openly anti-Linux, and he's quite vocal about it, too. If you're really keen, you can play it on your Stream Deck via Remote Play... It takes a bit of mucking around to get the settings just right, so gameplay is smooth; but it works.

I wouldn't be that cynical about it, it's always possible especially as Linux continues to grow. But unlikely? Definitely

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Quoting: BalkanSpy

Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

Your comment doesn't really make sense. You get matched up with people around the same vehicle unlock level as you regardless of paying or not.

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I have no problem if I had to pay to play game. One time fee or 2$ a month. All on equal terms.(and yeah, i get it, progression and all). But not current way...

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Quoting: BalkanSpy

Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

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Fantastic news! I was afraid it would be as unplayable as the last Forza.

Always been a fan of the more casual FH setting and Tokyo is the setting I wanted for years. Will definitely pick this one up.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

Eh, Starsiege Tribes still has users (the community even has their own master servers), and that game is only like a decade younger than I am. There's also things like Old School Rune Scape (OSRS), and something similar for World of Warhammer (Classic World of Warhammer or something like that?), so while communities shrink, it's rare for them to simply die off entirely (remember Stop Killing Games).

Eve Online is another game with a stable playerbase despite being 23 years old, such special cases lol.

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I'll wait for reviews on how it plays and runs on Deck but if it's as fun as Forza 5 was, this is as close as I get to a day one purchase.

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Quoting: GustyGhostMissed opportunity for Fellowship of the GNOME

GNOME Alone…wait, no, the opposite of that! 😄

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Quoting: ChrisLane

Quoting: dimkoWhen comes to actual coding - game was and still is in poor optimization state.

The game has also had a huge RAM and VRAM leak in the Vulkan Linux build for a long time now, it's not present in the OpenGL version but the downside of that is that performance isn't as good.
Apparently the leaks aren't present in the Vulkan Windows builds but unfortunately running the game with Proton gets you kicked from servers with the anti-cheat enabled which is required for crossplay.

Oh lort, the VRAM leak. It's horrible!

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Quoting: KoopaThis specs dont make sense... technically the 7900XT is faster than the 9070XT!

Faster in raster yes, but in RT the 9070 is faster

Will you be picking it up?

You bet! I have over 300 hours in Forza 4+5 combined. And now Steam OS (Linux) support confirmed?! Instant buy.

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To be fair, the party had to end eventually. Fortnite engagement couldn't last forever, and Epic's gonna have to either A. learn to live with the lower profit and try to create some smaller games, or B. try to outdo Fortnite with another one hit wonder cash generator, and good freaking luck with that one.

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