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Note that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

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Quoting: Donbot5000who's own software in the article REQUIRES visual studio is now getting highlighted here on GamingOnLinux ? What a Croc.

The requirements are disappointing, but the nature of it being open source does allow for the possibility that someone takes the core of it and rewrites it without that requirement. Long shot, but hey ho.

As for it being reported here, I'm thankful. If not for GOL, I wouldn't hear about this stuff, and wouldn't benefit from the comments/community here.

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We’ve long covered open source, even if it is not very specifically for Linux as it should still be celebrated. Just because it requires something right now, doesn’t mean it always will. That’s the big benefit of open source, someone can now make it properly run directly on Linux if they really wanted to. There’s many angles to it, we don’t need to be so militant and static on every single thing being direct for Linux at every point in time.

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Quoting: etoven"Allot of users won't notice the difference."
No just the apox half of them now suffering a broken deskto.

He's not making stuff up, you know. They're using actual stats to back up their claims. Perhaps you declined to provide telemetry in the "User Feedback" Settings page, or maybe you haven't filed any bug reports?

You haven't said how you're affected badly by this though. Can you elaborate? Is your issue on the Significant Issues tracker?

Quoting: etovensomething starting to feel shady about KDE love affair with this broken pos compositor if you ask me.

It's been clear for several years now that Wayland is the future of the Linux graphics stack. What are you suggesting they do instead? Other than "stay on X11 and accept the development issues (for the KDE Plasma team) that entails".

I do miss having my windows remember their positions, although it's being worked on. But I wouldn't go back to X11 because a) no 120Hz support, b) no HDR and c) no brightness controls for external monitors. It's just too good now (for me, at least), despite its other issues.

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So a company that says kernel level anticheat is necessary despite not even remotely working (active rust player here 4k hours on official servers so I know how bad it is) and who's own software in the article REQUIRES visual studio is now getting highlighted here on GamingOnLinux ? What a Croc.

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Which codecs are working with Proton ?

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It's a beautiful game. The combat is very good. Have a sizeable number of options, overwhelming at times, but there is no lack of options.

Unfortunatelly have a lot of bugs with their audio dialogues: stopping out of nowhere, voice quality changing out of nowhere, voice volume changing out of nowhere. And the main unforgivable problem in 2025 for my Brazilian countrymen: not having at least subtitles/text translation for Brazilian Portuguese.

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Hmm, checking their site, it seems Microprose is also publishing some unexpected, though quite interesting ones (that I had missed):

• [Car Park Capital](https://www.microprose.com/store/car-park-capital-steam-key)


• [Dying Breed](https://www.microprose.com/store/dying-breed-steam-key)


• [TFC: The Fertile Crescent](https://www.microprose.com/store/tfc-the-fertile-crescent-steam-key) --> has disclaimer "To Be Announced" though.


• [ArchRebel Tactics](https://www.microprose.com/store/archrebel-tactics) --> RebelStar / LaserSquad inspired

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I played the very first demo months ago and now I'm doing the early access. It's so fun and works great on Linux.

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it seems - (jungle red bandana) - Vietcongs joined the Freedom Cause!
it would be awesome to release bullets upon enemies. Still im watching support about steam/deck/linux

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"AI" infested game, uses chatbots for NPC dialogue and other AI for character generation. Some reports of generated character voices.

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Playing opening scenes such as movies/cut-scenes/intros before being given the option to change settings is infuriating. And no, this doesn't mean I want launchers! Just give us an opening screen offering those options: graphics settings and audio settings, but also subtitles.

Good grief, subtitles. I've lost count of how many opening scenes I've had ruined by having subtitles on. Talk about an immersion breaker. I suppose that's less sinful than not having them and needing them... but just give us the option!!

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Says man whose store is worse than Steam in every conceivable aspect, and failing to generate single pennies of profit. Sure mate, kindly bug off while you're at it.

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Brought to you by the same people that abandoned the Linux version of Turok on GOG along with Forsaken Remastered. These people are not getting my money whatever they release.

Their support ticketing is horrible, I asked for the above game updates like 3 months ago, nothing has been done.

NightDive? more like NoseDive

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If AI was not identified, how would I know if a game was actually worth spending $80.00 on it. (Other than all the extra fingers on the characters) Half the labour input should = half the selling price. Why would I pay full price for slop?

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Of course he said that. He's a billionaire who has a deeply vested interest in AI continuing to take over as it means more money and control. I hate AI so much. They are killing the planet with this crap and they don't care because most of these companies are owned and invested in by elderly people who feel that it's not their problem what happens because they will be long dead while the rest of us will have to struggle to survive the climate catastrophe.

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It is remarkable how Tim Sweeney has managed to completely reinvent himself: from an exceptionally skilled software developer in the late 90s to an Infinite Bad Takes Generator today.

He'd be the easiest element to replace with AI.

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: _wojtekWinBoat is super weird… and they still require windows licence so for me it's a huge "no-go" meh…

Well it can/will install windows even without a valid reg. key (into trial mode). So f you need some windows app for only a relatively short time frame (like me, who required m$ office for about a month due to me preparing/modifying a bunch of office docs for an event happening once a year [ISO 27001 certification audit]), it is absolutely great.

So yes and no at he same time

Isn't the a bit "iffy"? Everyone in FOSS realm is enraged when bigcorp do something fishy yet "robinhooding" seems ok? ;)

Just use tools that work under windows. And if someone is forcing you, for some reason, into propriatary teritory then push back as much as possible? :)

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Blood: Refreshed Supply will become the actual true definitive edition of the game.

Until the next one...

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Ahh… and then everyone is suprised why Epicstore sucks and noone wants to buy anythig there and even free games don't help that much with it… oh Timmy :D

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Seeing that "Microprose" logo activated parts of my brain I thought were long gone.

I'll probably get this on release.

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"If AI was so wonderful, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves." --paraphrasing Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

As businesses get cleverer at exploiting AI, AI gets better at exploiting people, and the rich get richer exploiting both, where are the 'wins' for the average person? Remember when the internet was supposed to level the playing field, increase availability of information, and raise entire societies out of ignorance and poverty? AI proponents aren't even claiming that now.

Instead, we're told (from the top) that AI is the future, AI will be everywhere, and we might as well get used to it. No whispers of intangible benefits to humanity, no pointing at significantly better outcomes for society. No mention anywhere of guard rails, sensible regulation, incremental testing, or 'disaster planning'. Just speeding headlong into the future, hoping to extract more gold from the peasantry.

Little Timmy can go play with his AI toys. I'm not going to fund his bratty behavior.

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looks really nice, better than Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess ?

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It is remarkable how Tim Sweeney has managed to completely reinvent himself: from an exceptionally skilled software developer in the late 90s to an Infinite Bad Takes Generator today.

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"Your drink will contain sewage, and we see no reason to warn you about that."

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Quoting: GustyGhost

But I can surely entertain the idea that the concept should be reversed: not an "AI generated content" badge but rather an "AI content free" one.

This is the most logical approach. And maybe a category to search by "Human-made".

I'd like an option to filter my Steam experience based on that. I wonder how many people would choose to do that if a feature like that was there. If it's high and it was reflected in the steamworks backend, then it might actually be effective. Of course, it might push devs to lie on the page and just claim "mistake" when they get caught.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAI slop makers and people in favour of AI generation will naturally not want these types of notices and will fight against them

I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. I’m against the excessive and blind use of LLMs, but I recognize their usefulness and have used them for some inconsequential things (namely, a few images for a role-playing game between friends, and pointing me in the right direction when programming). I still vastly prefer to consume artwork that was made without it, including games, and want those disclosures.

It matters to me how and how much it was used. I don’t mind if the devs used Stable Diffusion to create drafts and placeholders, then had an artist make the final versions of assets. I do mind if the whole visual aspect is generated, but I might give it a pass for tiny indie teams making free games. I absolutely will not buy a game that was written or translated by an LLM. The way Steam requires not only disclosure, but this level of detail, was an unexpected gift for me.

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According to Sweeny, Gamestores don't need a shopping cart or forums or anything useful either ;)

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Quoting: eggroleI'm neutral on AI (if the product is good, I don't care either way), but I would like to point out that the example of Darth Vader in Fortnite from the article was, from what I understand, a smashing success that the players greatly enjoyed.

You can argue about where the training data comes from and if you don't want to buy it, don't. Heck, I even support your decision. I'd even call it noble, but understand the the vast majority of people simply don't care how the sausage is made as long as it is delicious. Our whole world is filled with literal exploitation for things like rare earth metals in our gadgets, and almost no one even bats an eye.

Your entire profile on this website is dedicated to defending the honor of AI, why should I listen to you?

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I'm neutral on AI (if the product is good, I don't care either way), but I would like to point out that the example of Darth Vader in Fortnite from the article was, from what I understand, a smashing success that the players greatly enjoyed.

You can argue about where the training data comes from and if you don't want to buy it, don't. Heck, I even support your decision. I'd even call it noble, but understand the the vast majority of people simply don't care how the sausage is made as long as it is delicious. Our whole world is filled with literal exploitation for things like rare earth metals in our gadgets, and almost no one even bats an eye.

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