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I'm a little disappointed in the Star Wars racing game going from the cool and unique visuals of podracers (jet-engine-driven chariots!) to…the same boring, rigid-body speeders/ships that are everywhere else in Star Wars with a slightly different design. But eh. Might keep an eye on that and the Fate of the Old Republic.

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Weird question, but can you get rid of those borders around the active window?

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Quoting: joni909Cities skylines 2

Loved the first one, was put off buying 2 when it came out. How's it playing these days?

I'm playing The Planet Crafter again, since the new Toxicity DLC came out.

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"Intermediaries" could mean platforms or publishers. Did they specify?

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Get out your straws... it's time to slurp up the slop!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: doragasuAnother verified game that shouldn't...

Have you tested it with this update?

I loaded my friends copy from family share visuals are muddy by default but now seem to have lumen lighting enable unlike before so the game looks how it should. You can change the upscale used to choose your preferred look. Still stuck at 30 fps that's weird since it says not locked at 30 anymore in patch notes. Maybe because I have Bazzite on my deck? Maybe later enemies drop fps more my PC save is only after you meet up with lune.

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Ah, I guess it is yet again time to update, log into wayland, be disappointed, log back into X11, and hope next month brings undocumented but welcome improvements :D

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I switched to popos when Beta dropped. Very similar to Gnome. Cosmic is very light weight, at least for now. The fan on my MiniPC hasn't needed to spin up since I switched. I'm never going back to Gnome if System76 keeps this up. The only thing I am missing is digitizer support. I'm not an artist, but I do use a digitizer for white boarding (dark dark blue boarding???) with Lorien. They have Cosmic support for a bunch of distros out there. Definitely worth a go.

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Thank you for your response.

Quoting: HamishI'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.

The installer that I used patched the game up to just before they added in support for PenguinPlay, so that sidestepped that particular issue for me.

What version of Candy Cruncher did you play?

Quoting: HamishI have never been that invested in competing for the highest possible score myself, but for those who are so inclined, I can definitely see it adding an appreciated extra dimension to the game.

I have never been a fan of multiplayer games, and I very rarely play them. I don't like competing with other users, and I have never been very good at it. However, this game was an exception because I was interested in checking a high score table with PenguinPlay. It made Candy Cruncher more addictive for me.

It's an interesting idea for LGP to add the multiplayer mode, which was available only for the Linux version of Candy Cruncher.

It's a shame that LGP never made PenguinPlay accessible for the Linux versions of commercial games that weren't published by LGP. However, it would be impossible to make money out of it and keep it online.

Madblox! with the PenguinPlay support would be great for me.

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Quoting: GerarderloperSo is COSMIC desktop decently different compared to GNOME? because when I see people trying it out I just keep thinking I'm looking at GNOME.

It's super different. Old cosmic was just a heavily modified gnome, but this new cosmic is completely custom built in rust from the ground up.

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Quoting: scaineI had some time off a couple of weeks ago, and pulled the trigger on Avowed. Absolutely stunning game - like a cross between Skyrim's open world and interesting characters, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's visceral combat. The dodge, block, attack almost feels souls-like at times, and some of the fights are just absolutely immense. Incredibly fun game.

Otherwise, just Path of Exile 2 as usual, but the Abyssal League finished a few days ago, and the new Last Druid expansion launches tonight, with a new league kicking off. Can't wait. PoE2 is incredible, I love it.

yay! Glad you're enjoying Avowed. It's sooooooo good. And they just did an enormous update right? I absolutely ADORE the world of Eora and they did a great job with all the lore in this one as well.

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Far Lone Sails is such a great game. Highly recommended at that price!

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Not played it in years but remember having a really fun time playing online mp with a steam friend

Might have to pick it up again when I get my lcd deck for Christmas, I thought it might be bad for the deck due to small text but steam page says it's verified which includes legible text:)

I remember trying this game with a controller very briefly though and it was horrible compared to kb/m, trackpads might make it better on deck but its very kb/m orientated with all the little menus and item management ect

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I have no nostalgia for deus ex because I've never played it but even in the trailer I was thinking the remastered graphics looked bad

The only aspyr game I've played is the TR1-3, games I have very fond nostalgia for

And while it was passable, it still looked odd to me especially the dynamic shadows around lara croft would move very rapid/unnaturally

These things need fine attention to detail, and nightdive have set a high bar in that regard

That's not to say nightdive are perfect, I certainly noticed ai path-finding issues from time to time on doom 1+2 but they certainly put alot more TLC into their remasters then aspyr

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: phil995511I have much more confidence in Steam's funding model via Early Access !! And I find it hard to understand why the developers at KSA refuse to publish their game on Steam in early access...

Probably because it's way too early to call it early access. I guess they're more at the tech demo stage at this point.

To be clear, they are talking on the forum about distributing this game themselves directly, without going through intermediaries. However, going through Steam as they did for their four other games ensures high visibility and therefore more sales, with the added bonus of Linux compatibility via Proton and the early access. Steam also offers customers like us a certain degree of security.

In short, I am not confident about their business model as far as I am concerned. And I am even less confident about their position, whereby they are asking for a minimum of US$30 million in donations before they start developing a Linux version of their game...

It's a real shame, because I was following its development and eagerly awaiting its release, but I have to say that now I'm very disappointed.

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I got distracted playing Skyrim for a bit, but I returned to Trails in the Sky FC (the remake) so I can finish it. I'm on the Final Chapter, and I should finish it this weekend.

After that, I'll either finish SRW Y, or go back to Skyrim. I was going to go Morrowind->Oblivion Remastered->Skyrim, but I was setting up my character in each and ended up getting caught up exploring in Skyrim. So, I guess I'll be doing Skyrim first.

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Quoting: walther von stolzing

Quoting: PyrateStatements like these are one of the reasons why we'll never get game as good as Deus Ex again.

Ehh... come on now; you know that's a wild exaggeration.

I said one of, not the only reason out there.

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So . . . Deus Ex re-remastered?

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

That might be a strength in the long-run though, because if you're relying on security through obscurity, we all know how that ends. But if you implemented an open-source anti-cheat tool that was actually robust? That would be a huge win.

I agree.
I've done quite some research on how to do this and posted in great detail about it on this forum, so I will avoid geeking out again and making my post too long.
I'm just not as optimistic as you're and I don't think Valve is going to be that much of an innovator.
I'm blistering with ideas how to achieve it and even published a little bit of code for it, so I really really hope you're right and I'm wrong.

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Quoting: toorthey didn't advertise it, but they did add FSR with this update. Might help with the performance.

finally I can view the most eyestraining and distractingly aliased shading ever put to code with marginally better performance and upscaling, thank you sandfall

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Ok, great game , but its a bit overpriced??

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Quoting: LoudTechieEven the large AAA games are anything, but dead.

I think when people say that, what they actually mean is they suck now. They are in some sense aesthetically or creatively or spiritually dead compared to the way they used to be in the good old days, is the idea. This is a much trickier question because it's hard to argue taste. I have no opinion on it since I don't play AAA games because they're never in the genres of games I play.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

Couldn't it attach the same way the closed source Nvidia driver does?

No.
A. Nividia's behavior is already of questionable legality, but nobody has yet had the guts to figure it out.(look up dynamical linking exception if you want to read more about this)
B. It wouldn't be an interface to something external, but it would be a feature on itself, so its not actually part of the dynamical linking exception.
C. Even if they manage to weasel it in, they would still be relying on an open source interface whose meaning can be arbitrarily changed.
D. The really good anti-cheat vendors also make certain their surroundings are closed source, so it's harder to find their anti-cheat logic.
EDIT:
They already did it with VAC and the devs didn't trust it and were right.

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they didn't advertise it, but they did add FSR with this update. Might help with the performance.

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Sweet! 🔥

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Bummer this sucks.😭

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Not a single thing I'd actually play, but fun visuals I guess. Maybe Divinity, but that's a ways off still.

But then, my "Most Anticipated Game" right now is Slay the Spire 2, so whaddaya want from me?

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Quoting: ArehandoroWarlock trailer won me over with Forty Six & Two. It's not fair using a Tool song for a game announcement 😂

Agreed! Thanks for the heads up.

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Quoting: mylkahow much is VALVE contributing?
since the steam deck and soon steam machine, both with KDE they should have a strong interest, that KDE is as good as it can get

i mean 300k is nothing for valve

[According to KDE no more than 67000$ straight to KDE,](https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2024/) which isn't unexpected Valve is rich enough that it can afford to spend the money it spends straight on developers who make just improvements that suit them.
Also Valve is a notoriously opaque organization.
They don't publish investor reports, due to their private cooperation structure.
They don't really talk to the press.
They tend to hire subcontractors to do the dirty and visible work for them. Yes, I'm looking at you Codeweavers.
In KDE's case they hired Igalia to carry the blame for contributing to KDE, but how much of that time is bought by Valve and how much by others is unknown to me.

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I'm playing Deus Ex: Revision, and it's great. Hard to imagine Aspyr will do a better job remastering.

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