Funnily enough I watched SplatterCatGaming on Youtube, playing this title only a day or two ago ;)

It looks okay, quite engaging.

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Back when Wayland was a browser-only game, I got into it (more than 5 years ago). Then more recently, I got around to buying the Steam version (about 2.5 years ago).

I've enjoyed playing it, and do find it tough, but I've also got so much other stuff to play that I haven't dedicated much time on this title.

Really great that this is continuing to get fresh content and updates over time. Hopefully, I'll make my "way" around to playing some more soon.

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Some of my favourite games of the year:

7 Days To Die - Alpha 20 experimental (and Alpha 19, for that matter) - The new Alpha has lots of great new content e.g. Feral Sense, the new building mapping algorithm, and the large number of new buildings to explore.

Prodeus - A fast FPS in a retro style, but impeccably produced. The developers really know how to craft a good shooter. Brings back Doom, Quake, Duke 3D vibes but on modern hardware.

Ring of Pain - Windows title, playing with Proton - Finally, a roguelike game which has the same sort of strategy elements and gameplay feel of Slay The Spire. Similar concepts but fresh and different to STS.

Colt Canyon - Windows title, playing with Proton - Isometric, Western shooter, random-gen maps. Lots of characters, weapons, sneaking and/or guns-a-blazing. This one really grew on me, even though it didn't look special before starting.

Fury Unleashed - Shooter, Platformer, done in a comic-book style. Random gen maps. Plays very nicely.

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Quoting: EMO GANGSTER

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: EMO GANGSTERI love the game and I own it but why is this still in Alpha it came out in 2013

Why's it matter? Would you rather they stop development on it and call it a day? Alpha means it continually gets massive improvements. I just don't understand why people think this way. It'd be different maybe if they only put out tiny updates seldomly or something.

were did I says it should stop being developed for also there are lots of games that keep updating after Alpha what are you even talking about that being said I was just wondering why it still in Alpha, as Scaine, explained without taking oddly personal lol, is it just in name ok cool I love the game and own it if you mint to or not your message comes off like I was being malicious when all I asked was why is it still Alpha.

I think the reasoning is the Developers love their game and they don't feel it is ready to consider as "complete". Unlike certain OSes (Windows) and AAA gaming titles (nearly every one out there, but particularly Cyberpunk 2077) which release the game as "ready" but then have to go back in for following years to clean up their mess.

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Quoting: TheRiddickGame still runs on OpenGL under Linux doesn't it?

OpenGL is recommended. Vulkan is available. I've been playing some A20 with Vulkan, and it might be less stable but it does appear to run a bit quicker.

Meanwhile, I have been playing the game with Feral Sense setting activated. Woo - A nice boost in game difficulty. The zombies hear you easier and from further away.

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I've played for a number of hours now, and it is quite different to the previous Alpha 19.

The immediate thing to come to my attention was the world generation. The street layout and additional decorative elements really make it feel different. For instance the bridges across the roads, the storm drains lining the edges of the roads. As I made my way to find the trader, I got quite close to the centre of the town, and spotted a zombie cop, and the new spider zombie. Not something that would be wandering around in the green biome on day 1 in previous alphas.

There seem to be many more wandering zombies. There are a vast number of new buildings to explore. Even the regular buildings, such as Rekt's trading post has completely changed and looks nothing like Rekt's place in Alpha 19.

There seem to be numerous balance changes. I haven't been reading the Dev notes, especially. But from my knowledge of Alpha 19, I can see that items in the Trader's are costing more. It seems like I can't sell the salvage for as much financial gain.

The building blocks - It's quite different to build now. The growing and seeds usage has changed. Seems like a number of ways to "take advantage of the game" have now been nerfed. Difficulty seems to be a bit harder for the same settings as Alpha 19 (which I feel is a good thing).

With all the nice extras, there is a bit of a performance hit though. I did turn down some of my settings to get framerate similar to Alpha 19 framerate. I also went into the start menu, and activated Vulkan (rather than OpenGL) and that seems to now be working okay (and a little faster I feel than OpenGL).

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Quoting: g000h- I'm using de-Googled, LineageOS (AOSP) mobile instead of Google Services Android. (No location tracking, etc)

I have you beat there. I don't own a cell phone. Mostly 'cause I'm cheap, secondarily because I like being alone when I'm alone, not so much because of privacy concerns.

I respectfully disagree with you - My compromise is that I have "Most of the tech" with nearly all my privacy intact. If I were to go with your solution I'd gain a tiny amount of privacy, but lose out on technological benefits.

To expand a little, a de-Googled phone has no services running which are able to track you - It is Open Source, just like Linux (all the source code available, you can review it and compile it yourself). Pretty much the only tracking which is going on is your cellular provider able to perform inaccurate cell-tower triangulation (typically 500m circle). And the cellular provider's location-tracking (of my mobile sim) isn't anywhere near as concerning to me as Google's AI-enhanced profiling.

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Personally, I'm off Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla and the various smaller companies with their excessive telemetry and profile building. I do (nearly) everything in my power to make it extremely difficult to profile me. Yes, blocking them 100% is difficult, but I can easily block more than 95% of the profiling, which means they have a very poor profile on me.

I wouldn't mind particularly, if telemetry was something that they permitted you to switch off - but they don't. They force it on you, and other than stop using their services or hardware, you are unable to prevent it.

- I'm using de-Googled, LineageOS (AOSP) mobile instead of Google Services Android. (No location tracking, etc)
- I don't have working Amazon Echo, Google Home devices running in my home.
- I've stopped using Google Search and instead use Startpage and Duckduckgo. (And they're working fine for my searches.)
- I own no Apple devices, so no issue with Apple spying on me.
- I do own a Chromebook, which I instantly overwrote with Linux.
- I use OpenWRT router with DNS-based Ad-Blocking (which stops Google Analytics on every site I visit, plus other trackers)
- I never link web registrations back to Google or Facebook accounts. (Usually I link to throwaway email address.)
- On my Firefox browser I run uBlock Origin as my primary advert/tracker blocker, as well as other privacy extensions.

I find it frankly disgusting that these companies sell you devices, i.e. You purchase something and you become the owner of that item, and they keep controlling the device and forcing their will upon you. If I buy a phone from Apple or Google (or Samsung or whomever) I expect full control of that device, i.e. The ability to fully switch off telemetry within the software.

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Nice. I played a lot of this when I first grabbed it, and recommend to other gamers. Good reason for me to return and play some more.

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Quoting: 14Who has a Pi anymore? It's the age of Pine64, Odroid, etc. :)

Plenty of reasons for me (UK citizen) to use Raspberry Pi instead of your suggestions:

- Easy to find it in multiple UK online stores.
- Better priced SBC than alternatives in the UK market.
- Much bigger community of users, so easier to find guidance and support for your projects.
- Many more books and magazines available.
- The Raspberry Pi 4 + 64 bit OS is FASTER than ODroid-C4 + 64 bit OS. (and other specs ~ equivalent)
- The Pi has much bigger range of dedicated peripheral devices, cases, accessories.
- I'd have to ship from USA or use AliExpress to get Pine64 or Odroid SBC boards. (Shipping + customs = extra cost)
- The Pi devices have better support, i.e. better software reliability, less flakiness.
- The Pine64 RockPro64 is quite a nice SBC, but somewhat more expensive than a Pi, and I'd need to import it.
- Oh, and it supports the local UK tech industry (Pi board assembly plant is based in UK) which I'm all for, too.

Maybe you are comparing new Odroids with old Raspberry Pis ?

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