Quoting: peta77Well... difficult one... when is it finished? ... is a multimedia system / radio essential to a car? On the other hand, would you buy one without or one where you get it 2 years afterwards?
So a complete product is not one that only gets the basics right.. And I love to see that there's people / companies out there that still care for that and don't do a release that's rather some kind of public beta.

But that is exactly what they did by releasing it under early access and treating it like a normal release, with typical post release additions and all that. The only ones that get shafted here are the original backers that paid the full price for the final release version that gets postponed all the time while they add DLC like features and do sales promotions to attract additional new customers.

If anything this is a typical case of what not to do if you care about releasing a finished game.

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Quoting: pbWow, first time I heard of this, but it's not too surprising, since I pretty much stopped following open source game releases after the demise of happypenguin.org a.k.a. The Linux Game Tome.

You might be interested following our open-source games planet then: https://planet.freegamedev.net/

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's odd . . . I tell myself I care about the gameplay, not the graphics. And I sure enjoyed the heck out of Civ II back in the day, and its graphics were pretty basic. Master of Orion I, too.

But when I tried for instance Free Orion, I found its major lack of pretty made the experience so abstract that I kind of lost immersion--I didn't have this mental/emotional feel for either my bunch or the alien bunches, so instead of playing a faction I just felt like I was moving symbols around a screen, kind of. So I wonder if I've gotten too used to Civ V eye candy to enjoy going back to a more rudimentary look.

You might like https://www.remnantsoftheprecursors.com/ then. Pretty graphics for an open-source game, but old school MOO gameplay.

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Quoting: JuliusHow about finally releasing the game? I am an original Kickstarter funder and still haven't played any of it as they keep milking the early access BS and add various gimmicks that normally would be in post release patches I think.

I prefer finished games... not like the X-series where you already know it actually becomes playable at v3.0 or higher...

Sure, but the latest additions seem to be stuff you can do after finishing the game, which you know... is not essential to playing a finished game.

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How about finally releasing the game? I am an original Kickstarter funder and still haven't played any of it as they keep milking the early access BS and add various gimmicks that normally would be in post release patches I think.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Liam DaweThey include the license as-is, so it's perfectly legal to use the DXVK code like they are AFAIK.

At least release notes mention DXVK developers.

But I wonder what's their motivation for such obfuscation in the code in the first place. It's going some extra length for sure.

Higher ups with little technical understanding not informed well about it and engineers don't want it to be seen as "just used a library" by them, seems likely.

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Really a shame that there aren't more Alyx mods or games re-using the engine / game-play mechanics as it is really among the very best VR games out there.

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Anyone tried this with the Steam Link app?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/Steam_Link/

It really sucks that it isn't available for non RasberryPI ARM sbcs :(

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In case anyone is looking for an easy way to edit the Steam startup parameter on Gnome:
https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor
(available in the Fedora repos)

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So what internal resolution is this running then? I assume it up-scales to 720p?

edit: https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-superresolution-2/
Balanced mode upscales 1.7x

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