Quoting: Deleted_UserI'm always wondering about the selection of the recommendations by GOL when it comes to sales.
For example here, the "big deal" of Europa Universalis IV at a 65% off. This is the discount that is given on steam felt every month. If you only look at the last 6 months, it's not even the best discount on GOG (which was a 80% off May 12th to 17th).

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/europauniversalisiv/history/?shop%5B%5D=epic&shop%5B%5D=gog&shop%5B%5D=humblestore&shop%5B%5D=steam&generate=Select+Stores

I appreciate your work very much, but that makes such articles about sales useless for me, if I always have to question whether this is really a good deal now.

I think whether you spend is your decision, but having these displayed on GoG saves a lot of us time of combing through these sites every day. I can certainly say that i never ever open steam and gog stores unless i see something here.

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I'm probably skipping this one, but I'd rather spend 30 eur on a proper expansion than 5 eur on a bullshit dlc.

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Quoting: nenoroDenuvo kills performance

Unreal Engine is good for visual but bad for gaming because it's not made for gaming never was.

Denuvo with Unreal Engine support

And then kids this is why people keep pirating big games to prevent from killing performance

It's not about performance. Digital Restriction Management is a tool to restrict the users rights and take away use cases from them. What it doesn't do is decrease the number of illegal copies. But businesses like to control their customers.

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Quoting: dvdThe gameplay has its share of annoying things too: for example i haven't found a way to toggle stealth on the entire party, it's pretty annoying to have to toggle it individually on all characters to avoid being caught.

Shift-C. There's a tutorial pop-up on this, so you must have missed that.

I'm only five hours in, but enjoying it so far. Inventory management isn't great though, although I've found plenty of traders to offload junk so far (there's like about three of them in the Emerald Grove alone).

I hope they add more options for inventory management in future updates. I think they just shamelessly need to copy pathfinder in this respect: past act 1 every non-magical gear is basically junk, so it'd be a real improvement to just be able to classify this as junk and sell it instead of 'adding to wares' individually or manually selling it at a trader.

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I'm at Baldurs Gate at the moment, and while i can say that i enjoy this one a lot better than DOS2, it has some very frustrating elements to it. I don't know why they didn't take clues from Owlcat, after playing both pathfinders the inventory management in this one is annoying, i don't want to sort loot one by one especially in a 60€ game, it is quite enough to sort through magical and cosmetic items (the sell junk option from pathfinders is sorely missed, i'm almost always encumbered making me just leave stuff on ground or forcing me to send to camp).

The gameplay has its share of annoying things too: for example i haven't found a way to toggle stealth on the entire party, it's pretty annoying to have to toggle it individually on all characters to avoid being caught.

I guess it's a limitation due to the multiplayer/coop possibilities but it also annoys me that i can't just stop the game by exiting to the main menu (in a SP run), so if i have to get up from the computer while i'm in a cutscene/dialouge i have to reload every time and start it all over again.

Even with an old PC the performance is very variable. Sometimes it ran perfectly on ultra and sometimes it devolved into a slideshow. I set everything to low but there are still some bottlenecks where it lags a bit.

I'm more frustrated by the gameplay annoyances than the little graphical/dialogue glitches as i suspect they won't be fixing these. Wish they did a native port but i guess the chances of that are 0.

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Quoting: twinsonianIt's too bad work goes in to games like this and classics like Sid Meier's SimGolf won't get a steam release or work with wine.

Have you tried this? Seems like someone was able to get it working.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Kuduzkehpan

Quoting: dvdHow's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

HAHAHAHAHA! very smart joke. Torchlight is mobile game now. so cant be matched to this masterpiece.

Dunno about v3, but Torchlight 1 and 2 were both superb. What's your beef? Why the weird antagonism towards it?

Quoting: dvdHow's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

It's less focused on loot whoring. Instead, you earn your money through kills and quests. Instead of giving you tools to sell loot, like Torchlight, Last Epoch has the most incredible loot filters I've ever seen in a game. You effectively build a firewall ruleset out of loot filters, line by line. Sure, that could be a single line saying don't show tier 1 or 2 items. But it can also be insanely complex, like:

• Hide T1 and T2


• But show all axes, regardless of Tier


• Capitalise any equipment that does Necrotic Damage


• And re-colour any Axes that also do Necrotic Damage to RED.


• Never show Staves or Wands of any Tier


• And so on...

It's insane! So powerful! And intuitive (mostly).

Last Epoch is a strong candidate for best ARPG in my book. I still miss some things from Grim Dawn:

• Grim Dawn had better voice acting


• Grim Dawn zooms out just a bit more, which is far more comfortable


• Grim Dawn lets you rotate the map, which makes "fighting downwards" a non-issue, you just rotate down to up!

But all told, it's very nice.

Thanks, i guess i'll get it then. For whatever reason i pegged this as a windows game, so i was pleasantly surprised it's native. The loot filters are something i definitely appreciate, I'm a bit burned of the hoarding mechanics from many games.

And yes, Torchlight 1 & 2 are the last diablo-likes i played. I haven't played diablo 3 either as the changes they made vs. D2 made me not want to buy it. For me D1 and 2 will be the etalon for the nostalgia factor, but i think i had overall better time with torchlight.

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How's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

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Bought on gog, no questions asked. A game which is worth the continued support unlike most AAA games today.

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Quoting: dvd

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dvdI really dislike these flats/snaps/etc for software i want to use daily. Even for one offs like games i tend to like containers you can roll on your own better. Mainly because they they don't want to solve "linux packaging".

I don't think of this as 'solving linux packaging' it's 'solving distribution of applications'. If you've ever talked to a developer and asked 'why is there no Linux version!?' they'll either respond with 'what's linux?' or they've looked into it, saw that they'd have to either distribute their package as rpm (various versions because not all rpm based distributions are created equal), a deb (these work better in different debian based distros, but can still run into dependency crap), a tar ball, or... a bunch of others that use their own packaging standard. By the time they've looked into it this far, they're head is spinning and they're like 'why can't I just release it as an exe?' Well that option is there too... but Linux users generally don't like .run files, or generic blobs either, especially if they require root to install (which even on windows most ask for permission to install crap outside the user's dir).

Flatpak, Snap, Appimage all are different attempts to solve this issue.

My biggest issue currently with flatpak? Gnome-Software has a higher preference for flatpaks over the native package manager! I found a bug report / feature request to be able to change this, but it doesn't look like there has been much movement on it. There is supposedly an option in dconf for it, but i couldn't seem to find it the other day when I went looking.

Which developers? I reckon blob devs won't support much more than Ubuntu and SteamOS in any case, and then the whole thing about generic blobs is mute. (stuff like games etc.) And the blobs that matter for computer operation either get replaced or seem to be moving in a direction where the hardware manufacturers want to produce working solutions for linux distros. It's not really effected by flatpak & co. either.

My uneducated guess is that the ones that can't figure out tarballs don't really want to support the distros either.
Money is better spent on your favourite distro or the FSF imo.

These things supposed to be "secure" but they have some idiotic configuration. My aunt needs Adobe Reader because in 2022 EU and local govt. systems still mandate proprietary programs, so it was installed on her main computer (a snap package). It got infected by a trojan and I only found it by chance, as I ran a virus scan/upgrade for her some point later.

'Which Developers' Well that's the point, we don't know how many developers have looked at trying to develop software for the Linux Desktop, saw the mess that is distributing their software, and gave up. Steam came along and is a great way for commercial software to be distributed, but I'm sure most don't want to give up that large of a cut.

By the way, I've seen alternatives to Acrobat Reader that fulfills all of it's functions, damned if I can remember what it was called though.

Now I'm curious though how you got a trojan in the snap package of Acrobat Reader???

Look, my whole point is, people developing free software have the choice to deal with the "mess" ie. work with maintainers/packagers, do it themselves or just drop their code wherever if they want to release it at all. These new and shiny package formats only cater to blob devs imo., and that shouldn't be the goal of any free software projects.

Additionally, i don't think anyone can convince me that any developer that's making a tantrum about this is not just lazy - the practice has been the same for years - dump it on ubuntu with "support" and the rest will figure it out, and the users understood it perfectly.

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