I very much recommend this Total Conversion/Upgrade mod for WBC3, it's standalone (but you gotta own WBC3 on Steam):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2420170/Warlords_Battlecry_The_Protectors_of_Etheria/

It is also on ModDB, where it doesn't require you to own WBC3.

It does change things around quite a bit.
And also comes with lots of QoL improvements, makes it work better in larger resolutions, adds a lot of sub-factions to the already 10-12 or so factions, includes several campaigns like the WBC2 campaign (you need to go to custom campaigns for these), etc.

Also a rather active Discord.

IMO the way to play this gem nowadays.

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Quoting: HamishIt seemed a good balance between tackling moon logic and a genuine mental challenge.

Totally.

It's just.... I can't speak for everyone, but that isn't really what I'm looking for when playing these kinds of games.

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Yeah, HeXen is more than anything else a test of patience.

How long until the endless backtracking and looking for hard to find levers, doors and keys will drive you insane?

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Understandable.

Too bad for those using those emulators.

Personally, I restrict my emulation on the Deck to older hardware. Only up to PS2.
After that, it becomes nigh impossible to have reasonable collections anyway due to sheer size.

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QuoteSo if you're on Linux, it's going to continue to be best to buy hardware that uses DisplayPort.

I found that to be true regardless of Linux or AMD.
At least in my experience, I never had issues with DisplayPort, but definitely quite a few across platforms with HDMI.

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This game really is insanely good.
There are so many build paths you can take and synergies you can seek out right from the get-go, not just in end-game.

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Quoting: Seegras

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf I can play Switch games on my PC, why would I buy a Switch?

If I can play Steam games on my PC, why would I buy a SteamDeck? Oh, hang on, I did.

Your SteamDeck is a PC. Just a portable one.

A Switch is not. A PC can (within emulation constraints) do everything a Switch can, but not the other way around. Especially with portable PCs (such as the Deck).
There is a very good case to be made for why one would not need to get a Switch for (supposedly) Switch-exclusive games - if one was not worried about legality and fine with the additional work involved to make stuff run.
That's what worries Nintendo, making their actions against Yuzu not baseless, or at least understandable from a business PoV.

Imagine if Yuzu reached basically a plug'n'play level of usability.
I know it's easy to hate on Nintendo - and usually, they behave like a bull in a china shop. But in this case? I can't really blame them too much. They wanna sell their hardware, not just the games. Yuzu is without a doubt a budding threat to that.

If they started taking action against emulators for their old hardware they no longer sell, that would be a different issue.

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I can understand Nintendo going after emulators of their very current consoles.
If I can play Switch games on my PC, why would I buy a Switch?
Makes sense from a business perspective to try and combat that - and if there is legal grounds to do it on, why not.

It is dumb of them to sell their games only on their hardware, but that's just Nintendo.

Preservation is not a legal right, unfortunately.
Or rather, it becomes legally "okay" to emulate only once something is no longer maintained (such as MMOs shutting down), at least from what I understand according to US law.
Which is never the case for current gen consoles.

But I'm not really worried about this.
Just like hackers will always be a thing, so will be emulation. The audience is simply too large for that not to happen.

Would be a shame if it was forced to become an underground thing only to be found by those "in the know". But the audience that is interested in emulation to begin with is almost automatically "in the know", so would always find ways to acquire the emulators & files needed.

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My wallet is ready.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy"So what the hell is 'ES-DE'?"

You aren't wrong, but in this case ES-DE has been the official acronym of the thing for... years? It's not a good string of letters, but it is what it is.
It was always odd that the configuration folder was NOT named ES-DE.
Probably that matter of fact caught up with the folder name in the end.

Quoting: CatKillerthe absolute least you can do is see if there's a file called the old thing and rename it to the new thing when you introduce a version that demands the new thing rather than the old thing.

Yeah, that is the true WTF here.

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