An interesting concept. Now I kinda want a similar game where you basically wield Mjölnir, tossing it away and recalling it in order to fight. :)

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I've always enjoyed figuring out knots and mazes, and this looks like a game where that might come in handy! Plus I like the art style, and the animation looks pretty polished already. I'll throw it on the wishlist and see when it comes out. :)

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Quoting: BrisseAre you sure that's necessary? I remember having to do that in Wine a few years back, but in Proton, at least the latest version, it just worked, including the launcher.

I'm sure it was necessary in the sense that those are the steps I had to take to get the game to run, and I got them from some reports on ProtonDB so I know I'm not the only one who had to do them. :) That being said, you've caused me to consider that it's possible that that's the minority experience, and for most people it really is click'n'play. I also haven't tried reverting the filenames and trying again with new versions of Proton, so I suppose I'm at the very least a bit out of date, and if it truly is working like that for most people now I'm certainly happy about it. :)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI get that sometimes it can be difficult to figure out the exact rating for a particular game, but in this case it's easy: if you have to do anything other than "click Play" to get a game to run, it's not platinum. :) And that's not a disparagement of the game or Proton or anything, as some people seem to think it is; what we need are accurate reports, not ones made through rose-colored glasses. Windows users switching to Linux because they read all their games were literally "click'n'play" are not going to be pleased to find out that's not actually the case.

Except that is not that simple there are a lot of games that you hit play and it runs perfectly fine, but have some network issues, like the one I'm playing right now, Just Cause 4, online mode works it does login into the server but the leaderboard doesn't work. So a game could apparently run fine, even after testing a decent amount of time, but afterwards some issues appear.

Yes? I agree with that. :) I'm not quite sure what you're saying isn't so simple. What I said was that "If a game requires you to do anything more than click the Play button to start it, it shouldn't be rated platinum," not "If clicking the play button launches the game without you having to do anything else, it should be immediately rated platinum." To put it in formal logic, clicking play and having a game start is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for it to be rated platinum. A game could start fine and still have all kinds of weird bugs or performance issues when run with Proton, and of course it should be rated lower as a result with some explanation of what the problems are.

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Ooh, ouch. Not a great situation. :O Stay safe, our KDE-using friends!

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Quoting: EikeSo, BTW and IMHO, having to set environment variables would be gold, not platinum.

Something not all submitters appear to honour. I see a lot of platinum reports that still mention a specific setting. So I expect the realistic number of platinums to be lower in favour of gold.

Yeah. I see Age of Empires II regularly gets a bunch of platinum ratings, despite the fact that I needed to delete a launcher file and rename the game executable to get it to run, making it a solid gold. (It's possible this has changed since I got it working several months ago, but even back then people were rating it platinum.)

I get that sometimes it can be difficult to figure out the exact rating for a particular game, but in this case it's easy: if you have to do anything other than "click Play" to get a game to run, it's not platinum. :) And that's not a disparagement of the game or Proton or anything, as some people seem to think it is; what we need are accurate reports, not ones made through rose-colored glasses. Windows users switching to Linux because they read all their games were literally "click'n'play" are not going to be pleased to find out that's not actually the case.

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I'm no good at top-down vehicle driving, but it's certainly a fun and unique concept!

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I used to dabble with Blender some years ago, but haven't had time to touch it for a while, until I saw some preview videos about the 2.80 changes, and wow—I was blown away by the quality and amount of things that have been improved. (I don't know why they didn't just call it Blender 3.0. :)) But seriously, if you or anyone you know has been thinking about getting into Blender, now is the time to do it: it's been made so much more newbie-friendly. I hope to get some time to look into it again myself and see how the changes feel in practice…

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So I finally got around to upgrading to Buster this weekend, and found that the version of the Linux kernel in Buster (or at least the version I got, 4.19.0-5) has a known issue with Steam where it doesn't connect: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6326#issuecomment-506124600. (Or at least doesn't connect consistently, some people reporting it just suddenly working after restarting Steam a few times.) The thread doesn't seem to have a consistent fix, but it does list some options and I found that adding -tcp to my Steam start-up command seems to fix it for me.

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Interactive Recommender sounds interesting. Finally, putting machine learning towards something useful!

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Well, it runs at a reasonable framerate now, instead of the ~9–10 FPS I was getting with Proton before, but yeah…it's really, really Early Access. No tooltips, no way to scroll the map without using WASD, a maximum zoom -out level that could work as a minimum…I like the idea so I picked it up to support the developers, and I'm hopeful (and optimistic) that they can improve it a lot, but for now, I'd say check back on it in 6 months or so.

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