Quoting: EhvisThis is the same thing why games on Steam will go to EOS for their online services. It's not always a bad thing.

Personally, I've always had such piss-poor experiences with EOS games that I had to outright block all of Epic's domains on my Pi-hole. And it's not a connection problem, because I've never had issues with Steamworks or other game network backends.

And for games that rely on EOS to even work offline (Killing Floor 2 is an example, as it'll refuse to load your local save if it can't connect to Epic's servers), I have a DLL I can replace the EOS DLL with that basically acts as some kind of "yes man" for basic functionality.

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Ever since I switched to an AMD GPU, I've had little to no issues with KDE on Wayland for normal usage and KB/M gaming. But for some reason, if I play a game using a controller, I'm forced to disable KDE's screen locking when idle, because controller input seemingly isn't considered to be activity.

Never had that issue with X11, so I keep using that.

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Quoting: PikoloLegend of Grimrock was realtime, and that's my favourite from the genre

I played Legend of Grimrock (the first one), and I found out that managing a party of four in real-time isn't exactly a pleasant experience, especially since you also have to manage the characters' hunger. Can't remember if there was equipment durability on top of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I didn't enjoy it at all, and quit after completing the first floor of the game.

However, I've had more fun playing Vaporum and its prequel, which are both single-character dungeon crawlers.

For party-based ones, I've kinda enjoyed some of Experience Inc's JRPG-like dungeon crawlers. So far, I only tried three of their titles in the genre, Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited and Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi. On Switch, though. Dunno how the PC versions compare.

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Looks interesting indeed. And I'm glad they went with turn-based combat. Grid-based dungeon crawlers that are party-based play better when turn-based.

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QuoteWhat app are you mainly using on Steam Deck / Desktop Linux to manage games from other sources?

Bottles for EA/Uplay/Itch.io, Heroic for GOG.

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Quoting: kuhpunktWhen Bethesda shut down their own launcher you could migrate your library to Steam.

That's the thing. Unlike Bethesda.net, Battle.net as a store/launcher isn't shutting down, at least not in the near future. Should it shut down, though, there is indeed a possibility Valve and MS/ActiBlizz would setup a game transfer system to prevent people from losing their libraries, just like what happened for Beth.net.

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The first game was IMO one of the best, if not the best, indie metroidvanias ever made, so I think this one will be good too.

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I hope the Wine contributors will fix keyboard layout support too.

As an AZERTY user, having to change the desktop-wide keyboard layout before launching games just for Wine/Proton to be able to use a QWERTY layout in games with no or poor rebinding (UE4 games being an example of the latter) is a pain.

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Well, since the leak happened, I'm sure competition watchdogs will keep a very close eye on Microsoft for the years to come.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: williamjcmThat was supposed to be the case for Unity too, but as they've shown yesterday...

I've never seen it stated that you get a perpetual license for Unity, ever. Do you have any sources on that?

QuoteRetroactive TOS changes

When you obtain a version of Unity, and don’t upgrade your project, we think you should be able to stick to that version of the TOS.

In practice, that is only possible if you have access to bug fixes. For this reason, we now allow users to continue to use the TOS for the same major (year-based) version number, including Long Term Stable (LTS) builds that you are using in your project.

Moving forward, we will host TOS changes on Github to give developers full transparency about what changes are happening, and when. The link is https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/TermsOfService.

From https://blog.unity.com/community/updated-terms-of-service-and-commitment-to-being-an-open-platform, which was posted back in 2019.

The GitHub link is dead, by the way. :D

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