That's a lot of work fixing other people's bullshit launchers.

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QuoteThe good news is that it will be entirely optional as the HD content will be available via the Steam Workshop as free downloads... Find DUSK on Humble Store, GOG.com and Steam.

I wonder how they'll approach putting the new content on GOG, or if they will?

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Quoting: PenglingSome of them definitely are. One example that springs to mind right away is Hotshot Racing, which works perfectly, but which reportedly won't start if you're offline - it's marked as Unsupported, seemingly for this reason.

This game isn't Steam Deck rated at all, yet, though, so that remains to be seen.

A game requiring an Internet connection doesn't affect the rating. It gets noted on the compatibility report for either the single-player requiring an active Internet connection or for the initial setup requiring an active Internet connection.

The Deck Verified criteria are for things that will affect everyone; for the (probably majority) use case of just using your Deck when you're chilling at home, the Internet requirement doesn't stop you playing.

It still sucks, obviously, and it will stop some people from being able to play. So they put it in the report.

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Yep, the failure of the game devs to let the player use controls that work for them is why this game came off my wishlist.

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Warren Spector has a series of blog posts about what immersive sims (“Player Powered”) mean to him. They're quite detailed, and worth a read if you're interested in that kind of thing.

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Went to put this on my wishlist and... it's already on my wishlist. Guess I'm quite interested in this one.

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Quoting: DarkhoggThe Proton trick works but the game slows down considerably for me, so let's hope they fix it...

From the bug report, it seems the shaders aren't being run (which is why those pixels are just FF00FF rather than whatever the shader is supposed to provide). When the bug is fixed you'll likely have the same performance natively as when you're running the game in Proton now, since your GPU will be running those shaders rather than skipping them.

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Quoting: NyxWasn't this in relation to Lost Ark, which was blocked in countries that had outlawed lootboxes, as they wanted their MTX sales?

No. The formal proceedings started in 2017. Valve say that the investigation started in 2013, and that they stopped doing the regional blocking (except in cases of legal requirements, like Germany's content laws) in 2015. Lost Ark didn't release in Europe till 2022.

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Quoting: GuestCorrect me if I am wrong, but EU comission ruling is against regional pricing, not against regional blocking.

No, it's about the blocking. An EU citizen getting lower prices buying elsewhere in the EU is Working As Intended as far as they're concerned. What they really don't want are barriers to goods and services. Like these. Or, as they put it, "today's sanctions against the "geo-blocking" practices of Valve and five PC video game publishers serve as a reminder that under EU competition law, companies are prohibited from contractually restricting cross-border sales. Such practices deprive European consumers of the benefits of the EU Digital Single Market and of the opportunity to shop around for the most suitable offer in the EU."

The EU Commission made a handy picture previously



that Liam included in his earlier coverage.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou are always a veritable mine of relevant information.

Survivorship bias: the times when I haven't got something useful to say, I try not to say anything.

In this case, it was really from reading Liam's prior coverage.

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