What I wonder is in how far one should also factor in the driver situation. On Intel GPUs under Linux the OpenGL driver has always been behind the Windows ones a bit, but for Vulkan it is actually the opposite. For example the Dolphin Emu runs much better with Vulkan on a low powered Linux laptop.

So old games with a dx9 to vulkan transition might actually run especially well on Intel GPUs compared to native OpenGL ports.

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Seems pretty cool indeed. Need to try it on my regular PC though... the GPDWin1 can't quite handle it :(

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: JuliusIt wasn't so much that Valve understood, but rather that they were providing the latest version of the Quake1 engine in a really popular game (Half-Life). Quake1 has to this day an active modding scene as id really understood (back then).

I remember this quite different. Quake itself was popular but not like this. Not at all. Sorry. Half-Life _became_ popular due to it's superb modding support.

Releasing the tools needed for this was a perfect move at this time.

I was there. Run my own mod projects (as in plural).

You misunderstood me... I wasn't talking about Quake's (as a game) popularity as a modding platform which of course was much surpassed by Half-Life. But Half-Life as a modding platform only became so popular because the Quake ENGINE was designed from ground up to be extremely modding friendly. This was very little of Valve's doing... they just happened to make a very popular game with a superbly moddable engine. I was there too by the way ;)

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: liamdaweSo what we've learned is that mods are awesome ;)

tbf I wonder how modding would look nowadays without Half-Life back then. That modding support and scene, that evolved around it, was unseen before.

So yeah.. Valve understood this. Back then at least.

It wasn't so much that Valve understood, but rather that they were providing the latest version of the Quake1 engine in a really popular game (Half-Life). Quake1 has to this day an active modding scene as id really understood (back then).

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A bit strange that the trailer mentions Starcraft in the end, when this is clearly inspired by Age of Empires...

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Very nice, I hope this will see much further development and maybe also a libre asset replacement set.

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Uh, that could actually work on Mobile VR / Occulus Quest... I hope they will consider that :)

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Ugg, another Walled Garden for chat, and with their recent updates they broke most bridging support. At least Matterbridge still works with Discord.

I just wish they would open their protocolls and allow Federation. It is most likely internally using XMPP anyways (like the Epic Fortnite chat and the previous League of Legends one).

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Quoting: monnef

Quoting: JuliusLots of people on Steam giving it negative reviews because the servers are overloaded today... F2P gamers really are the smartest bunch /s

To be fair, how would you rate a game you downloaded, yet cannot play? IMO devs/publishers brought it on themselves. This was totally predictable.

Yeah, as in predicable for players as well... so you just wait a day or two and don't write angry negative reviews about a game you have not even played (and got for free).

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Reminds me of playing 3D games in 320x240 resolution on a CRT because my PC was so slow. Funny how they try to sell a quick and dirty full screen pixelize shader as a cool thing.

I like real pixel graphics because of how sharp hand crafted pixel graphics look... but this isn't comparable to that at all.

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