Quoting: Tyron

Quoting: ValckThat said, always-calling-home, constant-online-DRM in single player is what killed it for me.

There is no constant-online-DRM. The game makes one single auth check on startup. You can also log in once after install, then block the connection to the auth server and the game will keep on functioning forever.

Thank you for taking the time to comment, and even suggesting a workaround.

It's been a year or two, so I may be misremembering the details, but when I tried disconnecting my network after launching the game (running on a local machine, single player), I was kicked out.
Also there was the issue of the game not launching at all without deleting the settings before launch, which effectively forced me to re-authenticate every time.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, that may have been the issue preventing me from playing offline. I have a vague memory of not needing to authenticate all the time even earlier./EDIT



I may give it another try some time. As I said, I really did like it, and don't regret backing it. Maybe you could consider making the authentication completely unnecessary or at least optional for single player.

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Love the game, love the art style, and the overall direction it is going.

That said, always-calling-home, constant-online-DRM in single player is what killed it for me.
Not that single- or multi- would make much of a difference here though.


PS. @Liam: Bet you know already, but comment preview, as well as comment and article "likes" don't seem to work without JS enabled.

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Does Godot run on ARM machines?
The website says it "Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The editor runs in 32-bit and 64-bit on all platforms", but I suspect that means all *x86* platforms?


EDIT: Looks like it might https://godotengine.org/qa/search?q=raspberry

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So, given M$ loves Linux, and they were wrong about Open Source all along, and Minecraft was initially promised as eventually going Open Source (I too financed it under that premise), and M$ now celebrating their 200MegaSale, wouldn't that be THE perfect opportunity to show their love?




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No, no, I'm not holding my breath...

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All I can see here is that the embrace phase is coming to an end, if it hasn't already.

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Been quite enjoying it, and glad to see it work out for Kodera. Space, Godot, itch.io, and of course Linux... ticks all the right boxes.

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While it is nice to have (yet another) game launcher, the real issue with (no) Galaxy on Linux is the libraries it provides, or in the case of Linux, doesn't. Things like multiplayer, achievements, game content unlocks etc., which frankly shouldn't even be a thing on "we don't DRM" GoG.

I really hope Galaxy never makes it to Linux. Instead, I'd like GoG to actually be true to their vision and require game developers/publishers to remove any dependency on such kinds of stuff, and do so on any and all platforms.

Wishful thinking.

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Is the Humble item an actual release (as in "downloadable files"), or again just another way to get a Steam key?

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Quoting: TheRiddickI think like thousand people have got this virus (probably more) now and only ~26 confirmed deaths so far. Nature is going to need to do a HELL of allot better then that to wipe us out!

I wouldn't have put it in those exact words, but that's about what I was writing too, when the forum software decided to log me out when I clicked the submit button... a chance of one in a million.

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Quoting: barotto

Quote1920 x 1200 0.69% -0.15%

Don't forget the two of us with 16:10 monitors!

So you are the other one! Cheers to the one true aspect ratio ;)
I just had my ~ten year old monitor die on me and the selection of replacements is really thin these days; I don't even dare to dream of higher resolutions, or what will happen when I need another spare...

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