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I just went ahead and deleted my account. I don't use Discord all that much, I'm pretty sure I can do without it.

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This is awesome, and they added a new class. Last time I played it was back when it came out.

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Note that you do have to login at least once every 30 days, so there's an online requirement even for offline play. I do feel like this should be part of the steam deck verified statement on the store page.

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Funny thing, I have Diablo 2 sitting on my shelf and just this week I reopened it for the first time in years and I was intrigued by the fact that the 3 CDs are all stacked on top of each other. I should probably rip them and store the ISOs on my backup external HDDs, but it's Diablo 2 so I don't really care.

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Nostalgia is strong in this one

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Quoting: foxyDRXI wouldn't be surprised that they would introduce some kind of hardware revision to justify price increase. Maybe not steam deck 2 but something like nintendo did with switch oled

Well, they already did that once.

Another reason would be to fill the gap between generations, if that is starting to look wide enough, but it still all depends on what AMD is/was able to supply.

I'm still on the LCD, and it fits my purposes, but if SD2 is likely to come much later than anticipated I'd consider a revised unit. With, say, a bigger battery and some revised hardware design to carry it even further.

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perhaps the screensaver would work in other distros? That would be, afaik, the first Wayland compatible screensaver! the currently most widely known screensaver program, XScreensaver, works only in x11

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Quoting: scaineb) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

Of course it is. In many ways it's similar to AI. The core technology is great and has valid uses, but the way it is presented for consumer use is nothing short of a scam. If you've ever done global illumination in something like blender, you're well aware of how high samples/pixel count needs to be to generate something that looks presentable. These numbers are so far away from anything that can be done in realtime, that you know something fishy is going on. Nvidia calls it "de-noising", but in reality it means that they have to "guess" 99.9% of the data. So basically upscaling on steroids. So the price of getting slightly better global illumination is a ton of artefacts. Of course that last part is never mentioned because you can't sell GPUs with that.

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You'd probably need to emulate the Switch versions of D2R and D3 to play these offline at all.

Anyway, the price is a joke. No sprites, either - which, to me, is a subtle indicator of how much Blizzard really cares. I.e.: not a whole lot, gib money pls.

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As someone mentioned in their user review, the game appears to have:

- Mandatory Battle net account linking
- Always-online / online DRM

:-(

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I wouldn't be surprised that they would introduce some kind of hardware revision to justify price increase. Maybe not steam deck 2 but something like nintendo did with switch oled

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Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM

Isn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

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So far ray tracing games that ive tested were CP2077, RE8 and Elden Ring. With CP2077 ray tracing is bugged making some trees go all black etc. RE8 had a PCGamingWiki noted bug where performance gets constantly lower when using ray tracing. With Elden Ring i get stutters with ray tracing enabled. I wonder if this driver would help to alleviate the stutters in Elden Ring.

So far it seems that ray tracing implementations are just pretty shoddy and not worth the time. The ray traced reflections do work nicely in CP2077 where i think that the best practice is just to enable the reflections and leave everything else baked in settings.

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Hope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM for the future version of the SteamDeck, pushing down the cost, size and weight.

Then issues like this will dtill be felt but not as much.

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: GerarderloperAMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

Yes, the $1000 more hardware is 1000$ worth better at raytracing, ofcourse.

It's not quite that clear-cut, but it's not far off! It's awkward, because the top end AMD card, the RX9070, doesn't really have a direct equivalent Nvidia card - it's somewhere between a 5070ti and a 5080 (probably nearer the lower end), at least at 4K. I can pick up a RX9070 from scan.co.uk here in the UK for around £650 (which still, to me, feels like a crazy amount of money!). The 5070ti is around the £850. But the next jump up, the 5080 is about £1200, which is... unimaginable (to me).

And then there's the £2750 you'll spend on a 5090. I mean, I wouldn't, but that's scan's price for anyone with money (and electricity) to burn!

But the point is moot for me anyway, on two levels:
a) I'll never buy an Nvidia card again, unless they fully open-source their drivers and get them merged into the kernel.
b) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

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Let's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

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Thank you both, i already felt stupid for the last three times i spun it up and felt the same way.

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Quoting: dpanterOverwatch Overwatch 2 Overwatch 3 Overwatch surely is one of the games of all time. 🍌

Are we sure it's a game and not just a skin shop with occasional shooting allowed? 😄

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Quoting: KimyrielleI have zero doubt that the people actually leaving Discord will be a rounding error, and the vast majority of users will continue using it. If people had a spine, our word wouldn't be the place it is.

It's easier said than done. If a gaming group of 10 people decides they want to leave, they're gonna have 20 opinions on where to go and so rather than arguing about it endlessly they figure it's better to just stay. There's sadly no alternative that screams "Discord refugees come here".

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Quoting: t3rr0rh4wkAnyone still willing to remain deserves any and all of the dystopian b.s. that Discord is pulling here. Please, please make the jump to something else. We have the power here. They barely support us on Linux anyway. We're clearly not very worth their time, so let's treat them in kind.

Tell that to my boss... We have to usesuffer Discord at work...

Quoting: PixelDropWhen all the Unreal devs and..etc stop using Discord as their main source of priority suppor

Funny that you mention Unreal, because it is luckily not using Discord, but rather this forum: https://epicprosupport.epicgames.com

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Gonna test it out with mesa-git later today on Tokyo Xtreme Racer, which is the only game I currently play that has ray tracing.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: dziadulewicz

Quoting: williamjcmI hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

Exactly. A flatpak or a snap or best both. It's BS for this day and age to not be able to install a damn app with a couple of clicks, honestly 😀

yay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

Huhh dat a termnial command so no its not jus clicks

My keyboard is clicking, too.
So, never saw it that way before, but yes, it's a bunch of clicks.

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Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: pbyay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

Huhh dat a termnial command so no its not jus clicks

Why, 'tis a mere nineteen clicks to enter it with a virtual keyboard! Not a single key-stroke necessary! 😉

(Unless, does yay require sudo? Then it'd be more… 🤔)

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Yup I had a similar frustrating experience. Essentially though it was a 9GB patch, it was quite disappointing. Still kudos to Hello Games for bringing out free updates for the last ... um decade now?

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Quoting: dpanterOverwatch Overwatch 2 Overwatch 3 Overwatch surely is one of the games of all time. 🍌

Wait, so Blizzard can't count to 3 either? 🤔

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I played a good chunk of it today, and take my advice...don't.

This is an expedition for people who thought driving the Mako was the best part of the Mass Effect series, but didn't think it was nearly frustrating enough. Remnant fixes that problem.

Essentially, imagine driving an open flatbed (this far-flung technological future doesn't include cargo nets, apparently) across a very rough landscape that's riddled with holes you can fit the entire thing into and climbs that are nearly vertical. Occasionally you are attacked by sentinals if you happen to run over the wrong rock. You are tasked with hauling physics objects that are apparently made of rubber from a depot to a disposal facility. Your truck, thanks to an increasingly powerful engine, is also harder to drive gently with. If your cargo jostles too much, it might explode.

Now do this FIVE TIMES. The exact same routine. Oh, and the margins are low, and you can soft-lock yourself if you lose too much cargo because of the exploding thing, and it's easy to lose stuff in the terrain if it bounces out of the truck.

It's bad, y'all. This is probably going to be the first expedition I've failed to complete. Although just driving around isn't too bad, so call that ending on a positive note.

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Quoting: Grishnakh

Quoting: williamjcmI hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

I much prefer terminal because I can see what's going on, flatpak only when no other options are available. But I already know I'm not mainstream, just glad there are the different options for everyone.

Flatpak *can* be used from the terminal, though. GUI frontends are completely optional.

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Quoting: GerarderloperAMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

Yes, the $1000 more hardware is 1000$ worth better at raytracing, ofcourse.

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Hm, the guide doesn't have some of the newer custom Proton builds like proton-cachyos (and proton-cachyos-slr which is probably worth explaining because I also had to look up the difference), Proton EM that I think is focused on Wayland, and dwproton (dawn-winery) that's focused on non-Steam gacha games compatibility.

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