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Wow, this one seems like a terrible sale. Grim Dawn only down by 50%, same for Dark Souls 3. Same 70% on Witcher 3 as always. Scrolling through my wishlist, most discounts are really lackluster. Not sure if I'll buy anything.

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It is also possible to start steam with

steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.5

for the same effect, in case someone prefers command line arguments over environment variables for whatever reason.

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Quoting: scaineGreat news. This is probably amongst the best Horde Survival games out there, but it's very grindy on the skills tree front, and the individual gems needed for some o fthe upgrades is a bit baffling.

Hopefully this opens things up a bit.

Yes, the skill tree extension is definitely for "late-game" players. Same applies for the epic character weapons, pretty steep resource costs. But I think this was kind of what they had in mind, as they often teased some resource dump for those sitting on gigantic amounts of soulstones. Have about 80 hours total and maybe 5 or 6 since the update. What limited me on the skill trees was not resources, but rather the character levels. You need something around level 150-160 to max out the trees.

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Been thinking of getting the Grim Dawn full edition, but read that it's a much smoother ride with the Steam version. Anyone has experience with the game on GOG?

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Quoting: ElectricPrism-- the thing that makes this interesting to me is the compact size and that it uses less power in general, so that means less heat, a great daily use card.

Can't comment on the size, but the issue with power is that both the 6600 XT and 6650 XT have very similar power consumption.

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Certainly enjoyed the Prelude (you can definitely have a couple hours of fun with that one, and it's free). At 4.50 Euros, I think the "full" version is a good buy even though it just released into EA. Bought it just a moment ago.

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What a #$%^show of a card and release. 300 Euros for pretty much 6600 XT performance (on Linux). And the latter can be had for as low as 280 Euros right now. At least on Windows the card is somewhat faster (in some games) than the 6600 XT, so maybe we can hope for decent improvements in the next few Kernel/Mesa releases.

Also one can hope for a quick dive in price, similar to the 7900 XT, but I'm not holding my breath after they already had a last minute MSRP change. This thing really belongs in the 200-230 Euro range (where the 6600 is right now).

Gamers Nexus talks about the messy situation prior to the release with driver issues and last minute changes all over the place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxYfXe1DAA

Quoting: kaimanunless those $270 are excluding VAT

Those USD MSRP are always excluding VAT.

Edit: and I even forgot the existence of the 6650 XT, which is priced starting at around 260 Euros...

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The game trial thing seems like a somewhat more convenient and automatic way to try out games compared to "abusing" the refund mechanic? Though the limited time offer seems... weird?! There is probably some business argument that weights the cost of refunding against when people miss the refund window and are stuck with the purchase...

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Nintendo could go the way of the dodo and I could not care less.

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