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I'm using it now since about 2 years and it is smooth sailing so far.
Changed from endeavor to cachy because of its smooth zfs integration. (no dkms necessary)

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One of my favorites back in the days. I find that a remake with better visuals should actually not look like a y2k release but at least 2015. This does not.

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I've had this game on my steam wishlist for a long time but seeing this trailer only makes me think: -Why, oh why couldn't this game get the same treatment that "System Shock" got with it's remake, or "Half-Life" got with the release of "Black Mesa".

The budgets for these remakes are much higher, I think there's not much more to it. (Black Mesa started as a fan project so there wasn't much of a budget to speak of, but if a commercial studio did it, it would have turned out much more expensive to develop.)

I think this looks pretty good, but I do miss the blob shadows that the Quake 2 re-release had under the character models. Looking at the trailer, I also don't think this is running at a 40 Hz tickrate like the Q2 re-release, it seems to have kept the original 10 Hz tickrate. This means it'll have significant input lag, unfortunately.

I do find it interesting that bilinear filtering is enabled here, while the Quake 2 re-release was generally demonstrated with it being disabled, basically undoing the "canon" treatment where most official Quake 2 media was shown with filtering enabled back in the day.

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It's Capcom, so, Denuvo encumbered, which is a shame, as this is another title I'd definitely buy otherwise.

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Hopefully this is playable under SteamOS - I have the original games, and they are broken under SteamOS, which means that I can't play them on my Steam Deck.

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this was one of my favorite games back in the days

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Wasn't able to buy it due to the Harry Potter being included, J.K. Rowling actively funds anti-trans groups and laws. I'm not comfortable funding the person working to remove the safety and rights of my friends, family and myself. 😅

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I'm not that into "fancy graphics" in a general sense but..."Old 3D" from (roughly speaking) the time before the release of "Half-Life 2", that is graphics that I have a bit of a hard time enjoying.

I've had this game on my steam wishlist for a long time but seeing this trailer only makes me think: -Why, oh why couldn't this game get the same treatment that "System Shock" got with it's remake, or "Half-Life" got with the release of "Black Mesa".

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Just letting you guys know the reason for the removal might have to do with it being defeated again, they are likely removing it from older titles before the high seas get to it for reputational reasons. Just speculation though.

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Great bundle, but I don't get why buyers should support an industry lobby group as a... charity?!

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• Fixed a bug where certain custom maps would not load assets correctly on Linux

Finally this got fixed. Still waiting for Valve to also push it to CS:S and the other orange box games, since it's [being tracked on Github](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/6868) for well over a year now.

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Been using CachyOS for a month since migrating from Bazzite. It's been pretty smooth so far.

Octopi seems rough at first, being more like Synaptics or dnfdragora, but once I got used to it I actually quite like it due to how fast and to-the-point it is - it's kinda like having an ultra efficient search engine to Arch packages and AUR.

I still do install stuff on Distrobox and Flatpak for mitigation reasons. But the host system overall is pretty well thought out. It feels like they just set Arch up for you, include many optimization in the backend, and otherwise unintrusively give you Arch with just a couple of nice-to-have and decent out-of-box-experience.

I think that's what makes it stand out from Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour. It still feels like Arch, as the nice-to-haves and the defaults feels seamless even though they absolutely set things up for you... Arguably pretty aggressively. I think it's because it feels unopinioated regarding stuff that people notice, while actually setting things up for you.

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• Improved Medi Gun heal target selection to prioritize teammate directly under crosshair when teammates are close together (community fix from wget)


• Improved targetid selection to replicate Medi Gun heal target selection (community fix from wget)

Love to see it as a Medic main. And all these community-contributed fixes, in general.

Now I'm wondering what the longest period of time a game has gone between release and some sort of update (bug fix, content addition, whatever) is? 🤔

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Quoting: dimko

Quoting: Mountain ManSony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

What is profit from locking someone into their walled garden? Define it and explain how it benefits them. :D

When someone buys a PlayStation, they're naturally going to want to buy games for it, and when they buy a PlayStation game, Sony gets a bigger cut of that sale than they would selling that same game on PC. The more games someone buys for their PlayStation, the more vested they are in the platform, and the more likely they are to buy the next iteration of the console, and the cycle repeats.

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Quoting: dibzNot all that uncommon of a practice. At least some publishers tend to use things like Denuvo for release date protection, and past that for the initial few weeks of sales (which for most games is the majority of sales/the most important). Then they remove it because it's no longer actually needed in a business sense.

Then you have UbiSoft that does not remove it even for 10+ year old indie games like Scott Pilgrim.

I hope SquareEnix continues the trend and removes Denuvo from the latest "Paranormasight" soon. I really enjoyed the first one and was surprised when I found out this has Denuvo (first one hadn't).

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GOG release next and I'm buying.

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This is about the only tower defence game I've actually played. It was fairly good . . . maybe I'll get the DLC.

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Quoting: suchYou say "SODIMM" to most people and they'll look at you funny.

Hey! Who are you calling "so dim"?!

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Quoting: JarmerI really want to try and like this game, but I had SUCH a horrible technical experience with Dragons Dogma 2 I feel like I can't trust capcom anymore :(

For what it's worth, on my PC that's starting to show it's age, the demo ran flawlessly, whether it's about performances or (lack of) technical issues. I was pleasantly surprised.

But it's always prudent to wait a bit after releases with these.

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And again it is being proven to us it is better to wait with buying a mainstream game 🥲

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Valve should talk to Sony, if a hacker can do [this (sorry its on X)](https://x.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841) imagine what they can do together 😀

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Not all that uncommon of a practice. At least some publishers tend to use things like Denuvo for release date protection, and past that for the initial few weeks of sales (which for most games is the majority of sales/the most important). Then they remove it because it's no longer actually needed in a business sense.

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There used to be a "non-US" variant of Debian due to crpyto restrictions (decades ago): https://wiki.debian.org/non-US

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: ChromedicHi, new here
In a perfect-Ish world
PS4/PS5 runs on a heavily modified version of FreeBSD OS which is similar but not the same as Linux.
Instead of porting their exclusive games to Windows, why not making the Linux only exclusive. In doing so, Microsoft/Xbox next-gen will not be able to run them.
Am not a developer but since the kernels are similar, wouldn’t porting to Linux be quicker than Windows?
Doing so, they can still put their games on Steam or their own store/launcher

Sony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

What is profit from locking someone into their walled garden? Define it and explain how it benefits them. :D

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Quoting: ChromedicHi, new here
In a perfect-Ish world
PS4/PS5 runs on a heavily modified version of FreeBSD OS which is similar but not the same as Linux.
Instead of porting their exclusive games to Windows, why not making the Linux only exclusive. In doing so, Microsoft/Xbox next-gen will not be able to run them.
Am not a developer but since the kernels are similar, wouldn’t porting to Linux be quicker than Windows?
Doing so, they can still put their games on Steam or their own store/launcher

Sony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

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I'm over all of this.

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I really want to try and like this game, but I had SUCH a horrible technical experience with Dragons Dogma 2 I feel like I can't trust capcom anymore :(

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^ agreed, this is a great bundle! Anyone who doesn't have these games should absolutely hop on this.

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I've been running cachy since probably middle of last year and it's been a wonderful experience. No problems whatsoever that I can remember. The "octopi" package manager takes a bit of getting used to, but once I was over that, it's been smooth sailing ever since. Highly recommended distro, and getting even better all the time! When Epoch 2 of Cosmic DE comes out, I'll reflash my entire system with cachy cosmic.

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Quoting: pete910Is all anti cheat just client side? as in there are no checks or communication from client to sever ?

On games with good security, you have both.

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