Quoting: The_Aquabatjust meh another service for the northern hemisphere and other few countries.

Well... If anything services like these creates demand for this kind of infrastructure and eventually make it happen. I'm born (not live there anymore but I maintain connections) in one of the richest provinces in the world as avg income, in the heart of Europe. But it's a mountainous territory and the people is backward in many ways. The home Internet service level for households there is on par with remote territories of the Southern hemisphere as you would put it. Yet people don't complain much (4G is enough for casual usages). When talking with politicians, even of my age, I've always been dismissed as a guy fixated with unreasonable things (thing is industries and institutions have access to Corea level fiber infrastructure, the household access restriction is purely a political built up thing. The backbone is there and is even County owned).
Stuff like Netflix, stadia and (now) covid is helping making people open the eyes into the big opportunity and investment that are Telcom infrastructures. Any new addition is welcome. People is finally asking for fast internet in addition to money for tangible things like farming or roads. You don't urge the world to move by crippling the vanguards.

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Proton anyone? I've quite a few memories with those two titles.

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Nice. I used inkscape ten years ago to make vectorial images to include in my master thesis. Which was completely made with foss ofc.

Fun anectode. I was Linux only user since ages when I graduated. Soon later I got my first job in a software firm. Which was ofc using windows machines. The embarrassment and ackwardness on my first day when my new boss and previous interviewer asked me to open a pdf on my new brand new Windows 7 machine and I was clueless on how to open the file manager, being the last windows I used at home win95. He looked at me like: "WTF I screw up in the interview?". XD

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Awesome! I bought overcooked 2 last week to play with my fiancee during the lockdown. Amazing game. I'm still surprised we will marry despite that game.

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Quoting: LinasLet me just say that this is fucking cool, and exactly what we need to make Linux gaming console a reality. I will be very surprised if the next SteamOS will not be (exactly like) GamerOS.

More than that, even if&when new SteamOS comes out, this distro promises a more round experience with unofficial proton configs and emulators integration. It also opens the door to integrate other digital stores in the OS... if any digital store beside Steam will ever embrace the future.

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I admit that with this patch the game returned to be enjoyable for me. First time I finish a game since 2.0.

There are still more bugs than what should be (especially cb broken once federated, minor sanctions clutter in GC and WIH totally messed up), but it's not as catastrophic as usual. Let's hope they maintain the trend!

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Quoting: MalBut at least this time this didn't affect me: my eu4 stopped work ever since that patch so I'm sitting on the old branch where everything works (thank you steam for the feature). :D

Surprise surprise!

It turned out that it was indeed that treacherous launcher fault after all. Despite disabling all mods the damn thing kept sabotaging my EU4. I had to simultaneously delete all mods files, delete all mods subscriptions on steam, deactivate mods on the launcher and convert to Norse religion to make finally Manchu work.

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Quoting: ModofokusDoes anyone experience bad performance with this game? I have a Ryzen 1800x and 980Ti SLI and still get framedrops to 20 fps.

Sorry but I'm unable to play on the Manchu patch, the one with the new launcher and 64x refactoring. Though the launcher crashing issue was fixed in the subsequent hotfix, my game crashes at startup.
Apart from this my EU4 works fine and the devs themselves acknowledge that our version works better than the Windows one.

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I can agree that their pricing policy is nuts. Their stubbornness in not cutting the price of old dlcs won them ample criticism. I myself never recommend the game to new players even if it's easily my favorite one.

I disagree though that iterating on a game for more than 8 years is necessarily wrong. By refining and expanding the same game it is possible to reach a level of depth and fun that it's simply not achievable with the old reboot approach. And ofc when people work you pay for their job.

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Not actually true this time imho. These mechanical reworks were on top list of user wishlist since long time and they actually took their time for this dlc, more than one year. So the premises are not for the usual rushed release with shallow features but plenty of bugs to inflate shareholders wallets that became Pdx norm. I sincerely think that after Golden Century they made some retrospective and that this time it won't be a cash grab but a real dlc.

Then if promises are met we won't know until it's released. But I've good vibes about this. Also the way they re-organized some DLC mechanics to make them integral into the base game gives me hope that they are not working on EU5 just yet.

Regarding this patch my only regret is that they couldn't find a way to make Austria a formable like Spain and Commonwealth. Since France was also split up in I thought they could manage to do it and keep things balanced. My feeling is that the actual issue was that it would also require work on Ottos and that was out of scope.

Anyway. I might finally go after the big blue blob achievement when it comes out. Although I actually think that my first game will be a battle pope one.

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