Quoting: Tevur

Quoting: NagezahnI had that, too, a few months ago, and the cause I identified was some library linked into the Godot binary. Can't quite remember what it was, but the solution for me was switching to Proton + the Windows version.

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Remembered I sent them a bug report, and this was the Godot issue I found:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/75308

Hmm, no, I run Wayland session.
Nevermind, will try switching to Proton.
Still sad if that is what you get when a native linux version is promised.

I actually didn't check if the Steam Deck is running native or Proton version of the game by default. But I was downloading some hotfix yesterday, so it's possible they fixed it.

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Quoting: Hooly

• 1. The game is grindy by design, and designed to be an enjoyable grind with a strong focus on the enjoyment arising from the sense of progression, which is impeded for new players in the case of see 2.

I assumed it would be done like this by design, it's like playing MMO without the social aspect. I'm probably not the target audience as I enjoy games with interesting game mechanics or games that have interesting story.
Monster Hunter isn't any of those. I was just confused by the first hour of the game.

Quoting: Hooly

2. Did you use the Guardian Armor and Weapons? Those will kill the experience for new players in particular because you don't get into the progression feedback loop. The Guardian equipment is intended for returning or replaying hunters that want to rush into Iceborne.

Not sure what is Iceborne as there was so many confusing things thrown onto the player at start that I got lost pretty quickly. But I probably had Guardian Armor and Weapons as everything else I could craft looked really weak. I probably wouldn't like the progression feedback loop anyway as it's not that interesting like finding new piece of armor/weapon in Elden ring. Just a stat boost that doesn't do much.

Quoting: Hooly

"Given the opportunity, players will optimise the fun out of a game."

3. The story was never the focus, the early games didn't even have a story to speak of outside of lore bits sprinkled into item descriptions and similar.

As I said if the whole game is about grinding for new equipment to kill something stronger and repeat then I'm not interested. I was aware from what I knew that it will be somewhat grind, but I didn't realized it is the whole game.

I'm not trying to talk bad things about the game (if you enjoy it, enjoy it). I'm just trying to warn others to not do the same mistake as I did, as the game looks completely different in the trailer than what you actually get in the end.

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Quoting: TevurHmm, I don't know... first round, crashed to desktop after 15 Minutes...
Will try some more, but not a good first impression...

I didn't had any crash on Steam Deck, but I noticed that the wellkeeper is invisible and I couldn't buy anything from him when I interacted with him.

I assume there will be hotfix released soon as the patch for 1.0 was really enormous.

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I tried the Monster Hunter World and after first hour it started to feel like just a grind. The start was awesome cinematic epic story introduction, but after that you will get so many confusing things to do and for everything you need to grind your way to it.

If you hope for some epic story like God of War you will not find it here, even the battles with the monsters weren't that interesting. Most of the time it feels like Live service game, but without trying to get more money from you (I can see how this could be easily added to the game).

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Another reason to spend few more hours in this game as it's absolutely awesome :-)

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My best feature of GNOME 47 is the better support for big resolutions. You can now change the scale of the UI by 25% steps, it was 50% before which didn't work for me.

Otherwise works for me as always. But would like to try KDE 6 as well.

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It's missing the platforms where the update actually happens.

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI played both of these for the first time a few years back now and really enjoyed them

Such fantastic games, I wonder what these fun extras are

I finished both of them multiple times and I definitely agree there are both great games!

It's shame that the DoW 3 didn't ended up being that good as the previous ones.

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Quoting: pbWhich one do you think it is?
1. Corporate cost-cutting
2. Preparing for a future antitrust (look, we're so open!)
3. Actually caring about open standards

I would go with 1+2. I don't really trust Microsoft with their love for open standards. Otherwise Windows would be open.

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I'm not sure why companies are taking growth for granted. Why they won't rather work with what they made the current year and expect that the next year will be the same or maybe save some of the money for bad times if you are making more than you expected, so you have some reserves.

This is especially visible in game publishers, during the Covid pandemic they had record sales and expected that they will see grow like that each year. But you can't grow infinitely, the market is finite. They now need to fire people left and right because they were chasing short term profits instead of building resistant business.

As Liam mentioned I expect the same to happen with AI bubble, when the market will be saturated and there will be nowhere to grow.

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I wonder what the game could do that could corrupt the whole SteamOS. As the SteamOS is mostly read-only by default, I assume it can only corrupt the home folder of the `deck` user, which could cause issues with login the user in.

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