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Quoting: vic-baythankfully steam controller 2 is around the corner, so i will be looking to that as my next controller.

wtf is firmware update in xbox controller? how and why it breaks any compatibility?

xbox controller should be a braindead simple device with design that has practically no changes for three decades, it is a dualshock 1 with dpad and left stick swapped. what firmware updates can it possible have?

i know what these updates do. they are made for the sole purpose of breaking compatibility with non-windows machines. although microsoft only shoot themselves in the foot with this decision.

at this point whatever they do just makes everyone hate them more.

I assure you that compatibility breaking frimware updates can have reasonable cause.
Things like EU cybersecurity laws, anti-cheat compatibility and cummulative memory corruption.
I do suspect you're right in this case though.

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thankfully steam controller 2 is around the corner, so i will be looking to that as my next controller.

wtf is firmware update in xbox controller? how and why it breaks any compatibility?

xbox controller should be a braindead simple device with design that has practically no changes for three decades, it is a dualshock 1 with dpad and left stick swapped. what firmware updates can it possible have?

i know what these updates do. they are made for the sole purpose of breaking compatibility with non-windows machines. although microsoft only shoot themselves in the foot with this decision.

at this point whatever they do just makes everyone hate them more.

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My backlog clearing progresses with 123 games played (and still I have a ton of games from different bundles which I have yet to play). Most of my Steam gaming happens on the Deck, as GOG doesn't track me like Steam does I can't know for sure, but I expect that the real stats would be more balanced. I'm also 1 whole percentage point over the Steam average at 15% playtime for 2025 releases (which is doubtlessly because of Digimon Story Time Stranger).

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Quoting: rea987Fuck. Is there a Firefox fork that supports DRM for Spotify, Netflix, HBO Max etc?

[Waterfox](https://www.waterfox.com/) supports DRM if you need it. I also like it because they have the foresight to look for sponsors so if/when Mozilla goes entirely off the deep end Waterfox can go its own way. The LibreWolf devs, on the other hand, have already stated that they won't be able to keep development going if Mozilla implodes.

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Quoting: fabertaweOne other thing, I actually think this game is better played through Proton than Windows native, from reading the "discussions". The amount of "issues" Windows users have is bewildering 😆

Yeah i completed the game back in launch (105 hours) or within few months of release with zero stability issues. Few quest bugs, animation jankyness only. But reading all the troubles people seem have had with this game, seems like its very solid on linux indeed. I guess people have different hardware/software, so everyone could have different experience but i really cant complain

Hopefully they can improve the performance a bit more with the patches in the future.

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When was quoting re-introduced?!

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Quoting: BigJIs this game worth buying?

Absolutely, it's amazing (IMO, obviously). However, it's still not 100%. There is an update out in about 3 months or so (I believe) that will update the game engine to a newer version. That will expand the spawn/sight "bubble" which will then introduce binoculars. A-Life still needs some work as well.

What I find absolutely staggering is they haven't fixed a bug that was introduced in the last update where Burers/Poltergeists can now shoot/throw through walls.

The big advantage this game has is the modding. I have no doubt whatsoever that any remaining A-Life issues will be fixed and expanded on by the community. This game has many years of play time left.

One other thing, I actually think this game is better played through Proton than Windows native, from reading the "discussions". The amount of "issues" Windows users have is bewildering 😆

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Quoting: GerarderloperI'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!

Strange.. is it affecting only 4000 series?
i seem to get very similar perf (within ~5%) to windows with my aging 5800X3D and RTX 3080, by checking people on youtube benchmarking it with the same hardware and ofc same game update.
590.44.01 drivers...allthough i seem to be CPU bottlenecked in many places where GPU utilization is not even near 100%. But seems on line what people get on windows still.

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they would give us a very simple opt-out for all AI features

Sorry, but it shouldn't be an opt-out. It should be an opt-in. Ladybird can't come soon enough, damn it.

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Quoting: chickenb00Yep this was a shareware title I played many happy hours of as a wee kid in the golden 90s.

By "shareware" do you mean the cover disk demo (or xmas version), or a pirated game? Because CF was never shareware.

(I'm not judging, I had a pirated version, because in PL we had no access to original games until late 90s - there was no IP law until mid 1994 and only after that the shops slowly started selling original games, but even then games from abroad were not widely circulated because of the prices - Cannon Fodder at launch would cost 7% of the average monthly salary, and that's before any import costs.)

(Completely off-topic, I think that's one of the reasons for GOG popularity in Poland - lots of people always wanted to buy the original versions of the games they loved as kids but never had any means of supporting their developers - not that it's a big support to buy the game right now, but it's a kind of paying off the debt [and yes, I bought both CF and CF2 at GOG]. BTW the company who launched GOG, that is CD Projekt, was the largest shop with original games in the 90s, but they never sold Amiga games, just PC-CD games - they were not widely available from pirates because of the size - and anyway they founded the company with the money made on selling pirated software before 1994; they knew exactly what they were doing launching GOG, maybe it was a kind of redemption for them as well?)

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Another one percenter (new releases) here. Guess i am an old man of habit. :)
I really lile this feature. While i get that this is a bummer for people that only play offline, it shows that they don´t collect any data then. Which is something i really like. They easily could have snuck in a service that tracks things offline.

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Is this game worth buying?

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I've got 90% play time on Linux, 7% on Steamdeck, and 4% on windows from testing my friends graphics cards for defects and some ACE anti-cheat games my friends wanted to tryout. Wish Steam would tell me how may hours I played for each game so I could compare to my PlayStation numbers. For PC I have Smite 2 a 34%, Monster Hunter Wilds at 19% (158 hours on steam, 128hr in save file), 6% Deadlock, 4% Borderlands, 3% Marvel Rivals. My Steamdeck numbers are skewed since I only really used it 2 weeks this years for real the rest is just me seeing how things worked on it not playing so I'll just put the only 2 games i played for real on it Baldur's Gate 3 about 80% and Terminull about 20%. And for PlayStation I had Stellar blade at 66% with 142 hours, Clair Obscur at 33% with 72 hours, Final Fantasy VII Remake 1% 2.5 hours I didn't include the games I effectively used as Screen savers.

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Quoting: tpauThey don't have to release galaxy for Linux at all to be viable for Linux gaming. There is already plenty of tools handling that.🥰

Yeah but they have their cloud saving and multiplayer all hooked up into GoG Galaxy 2+, plus its not a bad launcher. It's always good to offer a native option from the horses mouth rather then depending on 3rd party apps that MOST people will likely not know about coming from Windows.

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"We've made a search engine that is 10,000x more inefficient, and lies to you!" Basically the AI world atm.

I've just been using Waterfox, seems ok so far.

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I'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!

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Finally checked mine and found that you don't even get a platform breakdown if you only ever played on one platform. Understandable, I guess.

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I've got the first one on GOG. I got it for free at some point and then I bought all the DLC. Hopefully this gets a GOG release to go with it.

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MRW we had to start updating controllers too:

In all seriousness, this is a useful feature. But I can go either way on the needing Windows to update them. It's a Microsoft product after all. However, so much for them "<3ing" Linux or "everything being an Xbox."

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Yep this was a shareware title I played many happy hours of as a wee kid in the golden 90s.

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"That's why I am now looking to get rid of DgVoodoo if possible."

Did you try DXWrapper? Main dev Elisha is Wine friendly.

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Great cover:

[Grazia Pizzuto - Cannon Fodder - Boot Hill Theme For Piano (2022)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDx_TcbZCOE)

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🇺🇦

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Not quite that long, but I did apparently put 193.7 hours in and didn't actually complete my first campaign…

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71% of my playtime this year was RimWorld (36%), Team Fortress 2 (23%), and Stellaris (12%), all of which are over a decade old*. 7% of my playtime was games released this year, which I think might all be from Ark Nova (the digital version).

*RimWorld only released on Steam in 2018 so Steam apparently counts it as "recent" (1–7 years old) rather than "classic" (8+ years old) in the breakdown, but I had pre-alpha access from the original Kickstarter in 2013 and was playing it years before it officially released.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe ability to only update under Windows is a deal-breaker for me, and has convinced me to never buy another XBOX controller... The last time it happened, I was lucky to have a work laptop that ran Windows that I take home - but I'm about to leave that job, and I probably won't have access to a Windows laptop outside of the workplace next time (most places in my industry use fixed computers that are locked-down). Absolutely ludicrous.

I mean, what do expect buying a Microsoft product? They have zero incentive to make it easily compatible with anything but Windows. I suppose you could always try running the firmware update via Wine or Proton, but I suspect that's not possible, assuming Microsoft offers a standalone update package.

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Quoting: 1xokMaybe on some visit? I don't have Windows either, but I played at a relative's.

Almost no one in the family has a Windows PC. There is an old, half-broken laptop. I wouldn't enter my data there either.

In my case I think it's more likely that Steam detects Proton as Windows in some cases.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was not expecting Vivaldi.

No one ever does.

You saying the Spanish Inquisition use him as their sound track?

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Absolutely like no other game, except you have a charmander with horns, a squirtle in the shape of a bird, and a mini dinosaur like pikachu right in the video thumbnail.

That said I wouldn't mind a legal pokemon clone even if its a mobile adaptation, I still play pokemon games on my advance sp.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was not expecting Vivaldi.

No one ever does.

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