This game is difficult. I've played a fair bit of these retro-FPS things at pretty advanced difficulty levels, but this really takes the cake. I set it to a "medium" difficulty meant for "arena FPS veterans" and I got my ass kicked plenty. When it warns you about the difficulty, it actually means it and it's not just meant to stroke your ego.

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I don't know, you might complain that this game doesn't dismantle capitalism, but it sure got all of you talking about it. :P

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Quoting: dubigrasuAnything that can be done to eliminate the floating movement style? The game seems to work just fine, but I feel like I'm skating, every time I take just a small step for example, I'm sliding an extra meter. Feels particularly nauseating especially when I'm strafing, like I'm loosing my balance or something.
Is not lag or anything, is just like ice under my feet.

That's DOOM movement for you. It was always floaty and since BOA runs on top of GZDoom without having altered the movement, that's what you get. It works just fine after you get used to it.

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It was a very polished experience when I last played it. I can't imagine this being any less so, and having one more episode of content is just fantastic. Will need to run through it all again at some point to see how they've changed the first two episodes. There really is no reason not to try it.

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Quoting: DerpFoxI really hope they will lose their lawsuit and that "30% cut is too high" nonsense will cease.

In what world do these people live thinking a 70% cut is bad?

Because if you take the "problem" in that way studio/devs/publisher have a 70% cut, which is insanely high.

If I take my job for example (I'm a bartender) we have a wine bottle we pay 2€ and sell 25€. That make 8% for the wine producer and 92% for us. Want another example? Havana club 3 we get the bottle for 4€ sell it for 140€, 2.8% and 97.2%.

We don't have the independent French winemaker or international pernaud-ricard group whining at our door that they get such a low cut on sales. Imagine if our sales were 70% for the producer and 30% for us. No one would ever go to a bar or restaurant ever again.

And these guys have the audacity to whine when they get a 70% share? If with 70% they can't make it. It's not because the 30% is too high. It's because the problem is elsewhere.

Imagine these guys 20 years ago when games were still sold in boxes and their cut would have been even lower, way way way lower. I remember when digital games started to get out, every one was happy because they still sold the games the same price with a much higher cut on the price. It was the gamer who were not happy to pay the same price without having anything physical. And now these guys are trying to convince us their share is too small?

A fun anecdote, but it's hardly an equivalent scenario to what the lawsuit deals with. In your example the producers have set a price that they are comfortable with and you resell with markup. The producers get essentially a 100% cut (excluding details like tax), since they aren't part of the transactions with your customers that you are reselling to. Game developers don't set a wholesale price for individual copies of their game and sell them to Valve at that price and Valve resells them with markup, they set a retail price and Valve takes a non-negotiable cut from all sales.

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Quoting: orochi_kyoI just realized something.
If you hate the 30% and you hate Steam because of that...
You hate Open Source.
You hate Linux Gaming.
You hate people being well paid for their hard work and for having 48 hours a week jobs.

When I see posts from Pierre Louis Griffais, when I see Steam doing pushes in Open Source API, libraries, and projects, when I see new features and fixes for Proton, when I read development was halted because an employee got sick or got pregnant, when I see new features on the Steam store, like Play Together, Steam Labs and Streaming, when I see Steam offering keys for crowdfunding campaigns...
There I know that 30% cut is not going straight to Gabe Newell's Belly.

Lowering the cut could mean Steam should cut staff including those ones who made possible Gaming in Linux being as easy as pressing a button, I mean any game!!

From Sonic ASRT to The Witcher 3 I have enjoyed playing these games on Steam every single second in my Ubuntu installation, I have the convenience and the freedom.

You are free to support the 11% cut of EPIC and their up to 100 hours a week jobs and their ZERO collaborations to the Open Source community.

Keep hating and feel free to flag this commentary. Happy hating.

By the same logic you hate open source if you don't support Epic because Epic throws money at FOSS projects like Blender and Godot Engine. So maybe the issue is a bit more complex than this, and your comment doesn't really make a good argument?

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Quoting: whizseScootaloo? Meh, Fluttershy with a BFG 9000, now that would be something...

But then you couldn't make the hilarious joke with the Chicken Mode.

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Update to Wayland situation: it seems like you can get the game running on Wayland after all if you enable vsync. I have no idea how enabling vsync makes it work, so I imagine the game is doing something weird somewhere, but if you can tolerate vsync that seems to make it start at least.

The file is located in "~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<steam-id>/412020/remote/user.cfg" and the value you must set is "r_vsync 1".

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Welp, it indeed doesn't run on Wayland and it doesn't seem like tweaking the config files makes much of a change there, so the game is probably doing some kind of weird X11 hackery that is not compatible with XWayland. Although it seems like others that have managed to get the game running are running into memory leaks, so maybe I am not missing out too much. Definitely needs a patch or two this one.

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Yes please. Give me more GZDOOM goodness. I wants it, I needs it.

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