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Is anyone forking Raze?

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Maybe the craziest crossover I have seen in the videogame world!

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Cool! The underlying systems look to be a choose your own adventure with statistics and dice rolls. I'm on-board! I hope we see some bird-people characters :)

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But before getting into details…what did they do to Seven of Nine?! Why do they have no hair? Or, do we get to pick an entirely different member of the Borg to join the crew? Quite possible given the nature of the game letting you do all sorts of different paths but I need answers.

Seven was bald in her assimilated era, when Borg vessel and Voyager agreed to temporarily work together.

But normal, humanized Seven is in the trailer as well?

I can imagine you will be able to add all kind of random crew members that were not part of the show: Borg, Kazon, Hirogen etc.

EDIT: Yeah now I saw that character in the trailer as well. Definitely a different character than Seven.

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I really have to listen to the audioboooook

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No date in Steam yet though. I will happily buy this and, specially, Breath of Fire IV when they release on Steam.

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What's the problem with UE5?

Unoptimized crap with blurry TAA

There are very few devs that actually can tame this engine well. But hopefully those devs can. What i hear its custom UE5 engine, so theres hope.

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What's the problem with UE5?

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Great news, but from what i gather its UE5... hopefully they customize it enough though.
just 2 locations and 4 stages isnt much either. Will keep my eye on this when it gets closer to release.
From a little gameplay i saw from traxxion channel on youtube it looks pretty nice simulation game for rally fans though.

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This looks really cool.... (gameplay-wise)

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Is it just me or does the narrator in this teaser sound like the younger version of a certain president? Fitting, somehow...

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A post for me! Wishlisted and feeling hopeful for a good career mode.

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But it's a trend in online gaming to block Linux players and I really wish Valve would say, or better still do, something to address it.

They are doing as much as they can: they actively advocate against using kernel-level anticheat in games published on Steam and they ruled that games using it must disclose it on their Steam product pages.

Devs (or rather major publishers) simply don't care because their spyware-ish solution kinda works and saves them money in the long run.

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Oooooof course it is

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Pretty infuriating to see another title fall to shitty anti-cheat updates... which don't actually affect cheating.

At least Farlight 84 is largely irrelevant. It took less than 12 months to reduce a 40K high in player count to just 2K. Another year in, it was around 1K. The past few months it only attracts around 600-800 players, although this new season caused a brief spike back to 2k.

But it's a trend in online gaming to block Linux players and I really wish Valve would say, or better still do, something to address it.

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The first part was beautiful as well, but the map system and the “make the game easier for players that find the game easy and make it harder for players that find the game hard” system they implemented was not fun without mods.

I've always expected that they would double down on the issues in a sequel since they refused to implement an easier difficulty level (e.g. no money loss on death, slightly more damage, a health bar for bosses and mapping without having to buy the map for a new area).

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Looking at the Unity support page, it seems like the native Linux version might never properly support the Dualsense controller?

Double frustrating, because setting lightbar and rumble via bluetooth is simply on Linux if you have dualsensectl installed. But the Dualsense is generally a bit frustrating on Steam regardless of O/S, because you'll almost always get Xbox glyphs in-game unless you turn off Steam input (ironically).

I thought Ryan C. Gordon (icculus) was working on better gamepad support in SDL3, but perhaps Unity doesn't use SDL? Or it hasn't filtered down yet?

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[Obligatory music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGgQFC1sCmQ)

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Looking at the Unity support page, it seems like the native Linux version might never properly support the Dualsense controller?

11. PS5 DualSense is supported on Windows and macOS via USB HID, though setting motor rumble and lightbar color when connected over Bluetooth is currently not supported.

A bit sad if so, although I was already playing it through Proton just to get working glyphs. The native version seemed to pick it up as a generic xinput controller (yes, Steam Input was disabled). I really hate seeing Linux native versions fall behind on features like this. Hopefully I'm just misreading it somehow.

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I'm a fan of Harlan Ellison, which is probably why I got this long ago. Steam says I played 8.4 hours of it, and I do vaguely remember doing so, but the screenshots sure don't look familiar...

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If you go to the store page for Outer Worlds 1 and click on Obsidian as the dev, it takes you to the completely wrong place ... It goes to Private Division instead.

I've seen similar numerous times; I find it annoying, but I assume that's Valve allowing the publisher to override the developer link. I'm sure some publishers aren't interested in "their" page linking you to games published by other companies (which is clearly the case with Obsidian).

For what it's worth, the "Augmented Steam" extension overrides those links, to point you at the classic search pages. For example, /search/?developer=Obsidian Entertainment

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Tbh, I don't really care anymore... Given the difficulty of Silk Song, I gave up near the end of act 1. The game may be as beautiful as it can be, but game-mechanics- and difficulty-wise I regard it as the disappointment of the year. The only way I would reconsider giving it a try would be one of those (numerous!) patches that make life considerably easier for players. But even then, there's still the often times tedious platforming. The game just doesn't feel like fun to me, contrary to Hollow Knight where I even enjoyed the White Palace.

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Love the UZDoom repo desription 🤣

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an advanced renderer, powerful scripting capabilities, and forked under a

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Will definitely be buying this if they fix the problems with the later expansions, which I’m hopeful about considering it has the label "reworked" on those expansions. Getting a discount for owning the original is helpful. Also, two new expansions are coming. Very excited!

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Paradox bought Haemimont this year. Some interns probably banged this patch out in a few months.

Jagged Alliance truly is cursed.

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Absolutely loved playing this remake on Cachy OS, just ran as smooth as butter through Heroic Game Launcher. The music, the gameplay and even on the PS1 this game blew me away. I'm glad that Steam are getting this game, will definitely buy it again, even if it has DRM content.

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Few more today

[Earth Must Die](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/Earth_Must_Die/)

There's recent article about this. But just in case you missed it, it's traditional point & click adventure. It goes bit into adult humor territory as gore and sex, though in quite cartoony way. Puzzles in the demo are on the easier side. Kind of almost wishlist territory.

[In The Black](https://store.steampowered.com/app/380110/In_The_Black/)
Basically it's space combat simulator with newtonian physics simulation. Tutorials didn't lean on that properly, but at least acceleration was covered in detail. Though I already know from Rings of Saturn that speed kills...

Maybe I'll try more of it later. My rest of the evening went to the next one...

[Powerwash Simulator 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2968420/PowerWash_Simulator_2/)
Haven't played the first one. If you have missed the game entirely, it's more or less what it says in the title. The second one has apparently more content and multi stage levels among other things. Small annoyances come from hard to reach places, but ultimately there's nothing that crouching and jumping can't solve.

Once you get bit of routine into things, your mind might start wander somewhere else while the grime slowly vanishes.

This one actually goes into the wishlist. Especially if the price is not too steep, could buy it right away when it releases.

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They didn't do the previous two DLC as I understand it. Assumed since the original studio last worked on it with Green Planet in 2019 they probably wouldn't now but who knows. Would be surprised if the original dev team was still together.

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Wonder if they'll keep the Steam version DRM free too.

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I sure like it when I dont have to buy the game again everytime theres a quality of life update or version.

I do consider them at steep discoubts but it gets worse the more tines I own a duplicate copy.
System Shock 2 I own twice GoG and Steam so not really willing rebuy the remaster for instance.

Glad they fixed up this one and brought it back in time for spook season.

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