Still my preferred coop game of all times. Logged more than 2.500 hours in it. Too bad the Linux version never had the surround sound fixed. The last time I saw a developer said it was working on his system, despite I had said to him it was not in 3 different soundcard models ...

Whatever happens with this upgrade, I hope they didn't break it like the developers of Black Mesa did, with a shit port full of problems that make you grateful that Proton exists.

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Not that the previous version was perfect, it wasn't, with poor performance for the graphics (typical Unity novice developer) and a messy UI. They also have a half-assed single player campaign where you are forced to go online to get the better helicopters. But overall it was the best we had for a gamepad-friendly heli game.

Now I cannot even start the game (run out of memory), and people says they managed to make worse what was already bad in the previous version. Unbelievable.

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My GPU card died and I'm stuck with a old A8 7600 APU. It really makes you appreciate well optimized games

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Quoting: brokeassbenWith ETS and ATS I don't really mind paying for the map DLC. SCS have continued to actively update and improve the base games (which are damn cheap right now at $5 USD) and there are a lot of free mods to tweak most anything to the way you want it.

Me too. I'm a long time player of it and saw all the improvements over the years. This kind of stuff simply don't come free, you need to pay people to implement it.

QuoteHas anyone else had issues with the anti-aliasing not doing much and straight lines appearing jagged?

This is a problem of their engine. It also happens on Windows. The only way do deal with it, is to set the resolution scale to 300/400 percent, plus some SSAA, at a high cost of performance.

They are aware of it, so maybe in the future they can implement more efficient ways of reducing aliasing.

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Captain, I found the double agent in our ship, he is right here ↓

Quoting: DrMcCoyoof. It's been 8 years since I cancelled my SWTOR subscription (after like 3 months of playing it, and having paid full-price for it to boot), and I'm still bitter about that game

I expected KotOR3, but I got a paint-by-numbers WoW clone. I hated it :(

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QuoteI'm happy to see more vendors do proper matte displays too, as glare is a huge nuisance with laptops.

I also can't stand it. The only place where it would not be a problem to me is a room without natural light. Any window with even indirect sunlight causes huge reflections. Some people are not even aware of it unless I point it out, which shows the average user are not aware of anything unless the screens turn off or the computer is on fire...

In any case, there is some matte adesive coating you can buy for glossy screens. Last time I checked they weren't expensive either.

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Quoting: M@GOidI see ChromeOS as a good way to trick people too scared of Linux to use it. Since it didn't have Linux on its name nor it is easily found in its literature, people actually try it because of the weight of the Google and Chrome names.

Yesterday a youtuber from a tech channel I follow, said he will never use Linux on his PCs because "I like to do work on my computer, not work on my computer". The poor bastard, while being a tech nerd, completely missed that he actually do a ton of his work on a Linux machine...

he is right.

just try to do something out of the curve on linux and you may struggle with it.

linux can be a real pain sometimes.

Part of my work is to provide technical support for my coworkers. And every time I am called to fix some dead simple thing, like why the printer is not working, makes me realize one thing: Windows is not that easy to use thing people think it is. Day after day people get into trouble and I myself struggle to fix some things sometimes. The amount of work to do some things can be astonishingly high. You want to know what your IP is? Is buried deep down on the system. On most Linux distros, with the likes of KDE or Unity? It is a couple clicks away, right there on the network icon.

The question here is knowledge. What makes a thing easy to use is having knowledge to do it. If you have struggled on the beginning a decade or so ago, by now you have knowledge to fix most problems on Windows. BUT, that only happens if you are a tech nerd. If you are one of those that couldn't care less about computers and call tech support every time a little problem occurs, you would not differentiate Windows from Linux after a couple weeks of daily use. Just ask my sister.

A little revelation is that the amount of people using Windows, without a single clue of what is happening, is ridiculously high, like 90% or more. They simply click their way until something they want happen. So now they are satisfied and claim Windows is easy, because they are doing "work" on it. Move shortcuts around or change the theme and suddenly they are all dead in the water. Any support guy knows that. But people keep using it, and call it easy, but at any problem in sight, the supposed easy of use disappear like magic. So Windows is called user friendly because it is easy to use, or because it is what people are familiar with, having never used something different to make a solid statement?

When I saw people calling Linux difficult to use, is generally people fairly knowledgeable on Windows, capable of doing most maintenance tasks right and, when they move on Linux, they get fairly uncomfortable because now they are starting from zero. They are not the guy people ask for advice, now instead he is the "dumb user" asking for it, and that sucks. I know because I was there.

Windows is easy to use? Sure, look how empty are the tech support forums...

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Quoting: razing32Hmm
Planet X-3 music ?
Isn't that the game from the 8-bit guy ? Doesn't he do his own music ?

I believe the soundtrack was done by another guy, Jensen something. He is quite know on YT channels that do old computer stuff, since he want to spread his music and do not try to hit channels with copyright strikes.

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I see ChromeOS as a good way to trick people too scared of Linux to use it. Since it didn't have Linux on its name nor it is easily found in its literature, people actually try it because of the weight of the Google and Chrome names.

Yesterday a youtuber from a tech channel I follow, said he will never use Linux on his PCs because "I like to do work on my computer, not work on my computer". The poor bastard, while being a tech nerd, completely missed that he actually do a ton of his work on a Linux machine...

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I don't know about other countries laws, but that behavior is considered crime here in Brazil, and can let you quite acquainted with our terrible prison system. Since Valve certainly knows were those "people" are from, they should let local authorities take a look at the case.

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