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Right! When you bought the game at a deep discount to begin with and you get more for nothing!

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Has mutant loot, a feature EVERYONE asked for in v1.0 and was modded into game on release.

There are still Engineering items and sellers, and armour expansion mods that greatly added to the game world which I believe we still want.

Probably the biggest issue is adding all these nice things while still making sure the core game is HARD and isn't handing a CHEAT for players to use.

But I felt the armour and engineering mods didn't cheat the game, just allowed you to repair/scavenge items in the field more and also unlocked head/body parts of full-kit armour sets.

When you think about all armour in planet Earth, NONE has fixed helmet+body configuration, even full nuclear EV and SPACE suits have detactable helmets. (allowing for using other helmets)

Some suits allow you to also change out the pants section, but it is less common for full-kit suits. (in reference to reality)

Also the armour mods allowed us to use metal plate inserts and other upgrade bits which was cool.

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Just set a fade in/out time of 0.5s for the effect, will probably help a fair bit.

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I'm tempted to buy MiniHealer despite early access and dev abandonment for 2+ years now. I just want to relive MMO healer class gameplay. Or maybe Ex-Zodiac for $6 tho it's also still early access.
If I had oodles of time I'd buy Blue Prince, AC Shadows, or the latest Indiana game. Still Wakes The Deep sounds excellent too.

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Unrelated to the steam sale but I've noticed Ruffy and the Riverside came out today!

Played the demo (which is still available) and it's getting great reviews which is no surprise, I think it would be the best platformer of the year and I really wanna grab it

My personal recommendation for the steam sale would be Parking Garage Rally Circuit, 25% off

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If we could exchange unwanted games for store credit for buying bundles and other deals then I wouldnt mind but an increase with nothing new to make the deal feel just a tad better is kinda lazy.

I end up with a lot of game duplicates and sit on keys awhile which sometimes expire with an expiration date added out of no where roght before it expires.

If its gotta increase then they gotta improve on something.

Plus the lack of choice kibd of cannibalizes their regular bundles since there are sometimes duplicates, sometimes with the dlc thw choice version was missing.

Fanatical's build a bundles work out for me better these days.

Yet I kept subscribing cause I want something to look forward to each month beh.
Maybe time to leave the subscription.

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I wish more companies would take Fatshark's approach, and implement their anti-cheat server side. Vermintide and Darktide used to both use EAC, and it was removed in favor of their own non-local solution. It seems to do the job. I've put nearly 1,000 hours into Darktide, I've never once ran into a blatant cheater.

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I don't really understand why "run it in a container" is, by itself, a solution.
Like, the issue here is some Fedora devs don't want to maintain certain 32-bit things that 32-bit applications need in order to run, yes?
So, "run it in a container" puts those exact same 32-bit things inside the container instead of out in the OS, yes?
So, the issue after "run it in a container" is some container-related devs won't want to maintain certain 32-bit things that 32-bit applications need in order to run. This is better how? Worse still, potentially you could have different container solutions with separate maintenance for every damn application, instead of one solution per primary distro.

If there were a project that did a generic 32-bit-app container that worked across all apps and distros, I suppose that would potentially reduce duplication of effort. Short of that I don't see the advantage.

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I wish I could tell you about more upcoming stuff, but all in due time!

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Nice surprise though I wish they would just release the second game on GOG at this point, it's already been out for more than 3 years.

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I will be getting Tactical Breach Wizards (Proton only) and a native Linux point & click or two, likely Elroy and the Aliens. That should be plenty for the summer, plus I haven't finished PoE 2: Deadfire yet and we've been spoiled for demos lately.

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Still unavailable in Germany emoji You need a proxy to even view the store page, how idiotic is that. I'll probably buy it via CDKeys

Due to Steam refusing to perform the age check that Germany requires for 18+ certifications.

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You should be able to run all other software in some form of containers, but you can't run Steam in a runtime if you want to use it as your shell (as pointed out by the Bazzite devs). But that's Valve's because they simply need to update Steam.

Don't you also need 32bit GPU drivers then? even if all the rest is containerized

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but anyway as a end user i don't really care much if i have extra packages installed on my system for legacy games/applications

as a developer or package maintainer ofc i u can see why its just waste of resources to deal with

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Still unavailable in Germany You need a proxy to even view the store page, how idiotic is that. I'll probably buy it via CDKeys

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In my list 8 games that are not free and and released are not sale. Out of 195 in total that can be on sale. Though noticed that some games are on sale for a week. Could be that they were on sale before the event started.

If somebody wants to protect their wallet, just buy Balatro and start it up. Might take your mind away from the sale for week or so.Though downside is that Balatro is not free, so you have to spend money in order to protect your wallet.

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Omfg. This again. The problem with games and steam isn’t that the client it 32bit. (Actually is 64bit). But the games that are on steam are 32bit. Wine and proton are 64bit and 32bit. However a vast major of the games are not 64 bit only. A lot are 64/32 hybrids or just 32 bit because windows. Stop thinking of just 1 and 0. Didn’t we learn anything from the Ubuntu debacle? I moved to Manjaro after that.

You can't run Steam without the required 32-bit libraries - making it a 32-bit software. But Valve already has their own runtimes, they can provide whatever they want independent from the host system (it only requires kernel support). Steam games should already run containers (see pressure-vessel). So no, the games should not matter.

"Worst case scenario": They simply disable native 32-bit games on 64-bit system & just always run Proton instead.

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Uh oh. After the June I've had, I'm not sure my wallet will survive what's coming!

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My own very humble recommendation:

Downwell -- currently at $0.49
https://store.steampowered.com/app/360740/Downwell/

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What about my 32 bit games? I care more about that than Steam

@poiuz the problem they'd run into would be two fold and you'd have to put 32 bit libraries in anyways to be able to install. If bazzite is its own fork they can add back in the 32 bit libraries unless they flat out remove and all ability to do that which is going to kill any game that isn't written for 64 bit which means older games that work now will be screwed

Run it in a container.

I also don't really know why software should be 64 bit if it doesn't need to be or why an OS would want to drop 32 bit support.

Because it costs resources (which are scarce) to maintain it (in terms of people who invest time & actual resources to build it on computers). For what benefit? It's enough that we have few projects who maintain compatibility, the rest can use that in one way or another (e.g. Debian or FreeDesktop runtime or even Valve's runtimes).

Just to answer it: "But then I can just go ahead & use Debian". Yes, you can. But there are good reasons why aren't simply using Debian today. These reasons are of less importance if you want to run legacy software.

Where did i say anything about steam?
Steam probably will get the 64bit treatment sooner or later, iIwas talking about all the legacy stuff like native games or applications that don't have active development

Steam should be of the few affected software. You should be able to run all other software in some form of containers, but you can't run Steam in a runtime if you want to use it as your shell (as pointed out by the Bazzite devs). But that's Valve's because they simply need to update Steam.

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I didn't use any major mods, so that didn't impact me. The only one was stalker2 tweaks to get commands console, but that broke already a while ago. Is there any other mod that enables console?

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@poiuz the problem they'd run into would be two fold and you'd have to put 32 bit libraries in anyways to be able to install. If bazzite is its own fork they can add back in the 32 bit libraries unless they flat out remove and all ability to do that which is going to kill any game that isn't written for 64 bit which means older games that work now will be screwed

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@doragasu
Agreed that the selection is fairly uniformly bad to my eyes. Each month has one recognizably good game, one or maybe two games which are known-quantities, and then the rest are to put it nicely, Indie-Me-Too games that are an alternative take on an existing game type.
I've never subscribed to this so I can't really complain, but my point is I've never seen the value in subscribing if I'm mostly getting chaff that I may leave in key-form, unclaimed.

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Because Steam is legacy software… (but this explains a lot).

Where did i say anything about steam?
Steam probably will get the 64bit treatment sooner or later, iIwas talking about all the legacy stuff like native games or applications that don't have active development

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I have been subscribed in the past and got many great games for a very low price. But IMO value of the games is lower and lower each time. Every month I check the games and if lucky, only one of them interests me, so I started skipping a lot of months ago until I completely unsubscribed.

If this price increase will allow them increasing the value of the games offered, it could be a good thing for me. Otherwise...

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@Caldathras

Besides, how do you know that this issue is not being influenced by IBM or RedHat in some way?

Because the engineer proposing the change says so in the very discussion thread this article is about?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/145

No offense, but on a matter about volunteer Fedora maintainers, I'd tend to trust more a volunteer Fedora maintainer than a Joe H Random on GamingOnLinux. And so should you.

Our society has been devaluing the idea of maintenance against the "convenience" of a throwaway habit that only benefits the for-profit sector -- at the expense of our society, culture and environment.

I feel the "right to repair" sentiment here, and I broadly agree with it.

But a line needs to be drawn.

If you're against the Temu's and the Shein's of this crazy world, I hear you. If you're against planned obsolescence which would require you to buy a new iPhone every time the old one's warranty expires, I hear you. If you're against mad races to shareholder quarterly profits at the expense of everything else, I hear you.

But the technology we're discussing to get rid of (again and again) is so old that calling it "throwaway habit" after more than twenty years that the "next model" has been out is frankly embarassing.

Just for scoping what we're talking about: can you provide a list of games that you know for a fact they wouldn't work on WOW64 Proton, or without i386 compat .so's, and the date they were published?

Just to have an idea of the size of the problem.

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Perhaps for truth in advertising they should call it "Anti-Cheat Amateur"

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Been subbing since... I don't even remember how long ago, I'll keep going because why not, it's just games. I get a lot of games from it. Even though they still haven't gotten a key for Racine from the March choice, and I can't believe Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered ran out of keys within hours... anyway.

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Delicious Techland win, best game just got a little better.

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What I find strange is that for Euro/CAD there's only an increase in the yearly subscription and not the monthly one

I stopped paying for Choice a long time ago as it was starting to be less qualitative and a lot of game I already owned were in it. It was nice to build my collection of 50% not played games tho

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Opus Magnum was slick, but did not provide a lot of challenge for me. As opposed to Infinifactory where finishing it did fill me with a profound sense of accomplishment.

This one seems to lean more to space restrictions, so I hope this one provides some more challenge while keeping sufficient room for varied solutions. Will definitely try the demo when it drops.

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