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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: KimyrielleBut hey, you can also always opt to just be rude about it.

Or I could have answered your question by pointing out the two most significant changes in the update: more freedom to play as the civilization you want, and the elimination of railroad-y legacy paths. In short, it retains the core design of Civ VII while adding a more traditional points-based victory system.

Which isn't really what my question asked, but hey. You know what? Nevermind.

Frankly, your question doesn't make any sense. Is Civ VII indistinguishable from Civ VI? Of course not, but neither is Civ VI indistinguishable from Civ V, and V is not indistinguishable from IV, and so on.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Very unexpected surprise, hope DS2 gets same treatment as that one was the fav out of the two for me, not tried ds3 yet

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: KimyrielleBut hey, you can also always opt to just be rude about it.

Or I could have answered your question by pointing out the two most significant changes in the update: more freedom to play as the civilization you want, and the elimination of railroad-y legacy paths. In short, it retains the core design of Civ VII while adding a more traditional points-based victory system.

Which isn't really what my question asked, but hey. You know what? Nevermind.

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Article updated after speaking with NVIDIA. The 570 series is "end-of-life status" and was not updated for this security issue, and has been removed from the list. Make sure you using one of the updated series noted in the article.

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Hopefully they also solved the fmv issue with mfplat.

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Quoting: KimyrielleBut hey, you can also always opt to just be rude about it.

Or I could have answered your question by pointing out the two most significant changes in the update: more freedom to play as the civilization you want, and the elimination of railroad-y legacy paths. In short, it retains the core design of Civ VII while adding a more traditional points-based victory system.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeI mean, it feels like I've just seen a flock of unicorns.

Just to nitpick, rather than "flock" I think it would be either "herd" or "scene". As in, I've seen a herd of unicorns, or, I've heard a scene of unicorns. 😁

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhat kind of nonsense question is that? If you want a Civ game that is indistinguishable from VI then just play VI.

The question was (obviously?) meant to ask if there interesting new features OTHER than the forced civ changing that would make VII stand out in some way from VI. In the way that would make it worth getting it now. Because, as you so thoughtfully pointed out, I can always play VI, if I want to play VI.

But hey, you can also always opt to just be rude about it.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe obvious question is - since this (IMHO) horrible forced change of civs was the anchor-feature of the entire game... is Civ VII now indistinguishable from Civ VI?

What kind of nonsense question is that?

A fairly simple one, I would have thought. To put it a different way, were there any features of Civ VII other than the civilization-switching, that distinguished it from earlier Civilization games enough to make it worth buying if you already have Civ V and Civ VI?

I also wonder this, since I do have those other games and haven't seen a lot of people saying much about what VII is like as a game and it's kind of expensive, even with a discount right now.

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Game is now 22 Go and I only obtain a black screen. Now I have to report a bug like described here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/462780/discussions/0/836125171214484154/

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What's that? Old game getting updates? Updates not breaking the games in any way, or removing content? Even better, the update *improve* things?

And it's coming from Square?

I mean, it feels like I've just seen a flock of unicorns. I'm not saying this in a bad way though, it's *very* welcome. We've just been used to looking for the stick that usually comes with the carrot, but I'll take a stick-free experience when I'm presented with one.

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And in this case they've kept up the older version in an opt-in Steam Beta too, best of all worlds.

Doing it the right way too! Keeping support for the legacy and retro gamers.

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Interstate 76 fixes, maybe I'll finally get to play it again. The last time was about 2008 when I had a Pentium D laptop.

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Quoting: Eduardo MedinaIs this available through GOG?

I join to question

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Quoting: Max CoronelPlayed for about 4 hours. The game is running way better than expected (as long RT is turned on).
No black screen, no audio issues, no crashes or visual glitches son far. It just works.
It's far from perfect though. Some hickups here and there, and overall performance could be better.

Mine is running well with the exception that if I turn RT on it crashes so it’s surprising to me that you’re experiencing the opposite.

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Fellowship will have control over the likes of The Lord of the Rings [...] along with being the home of [...] Warhorse Studios.

So the rumors that Warhorse might be working on a LotR RPG cannot yet be debunked :-).

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It's a good surprise that they still update freely the PC version and made it Steamdeck compatible.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe obvious question is - since this (IMHO) horrible forced change of civs was the anchor-feature of the entire game... is Civ VII now indistinguishable from Civ VI?

What kind of nonsense question is that? If you want a Civ game that is indistinguishable from VI then just play VI.

The two most significant changes in this update are: 1) You can pick any civilization to play as from the start and elect to continue playing as that civilization across age transitions; and 2) No more legacy paths that force the player to complete the same objectives in the same order to win.

These two changes on their own open Civ VII up to a wide variety of new play styles and strategies.

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Ah, Daikatana, truly one of the classics of all time. The Gameboy version was pretty good, though.

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Just finished a Just Cause 3 run. Cloud saves confirmed. I played it on my Steam Deck and my pc, alternating between them, without issues.

It's an old game so it runs close to 60fps with high graphics, on Steam Deck.

Destruction mayhem! 😊

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Is this available through GOG?

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Quoting: KimyrielleI need my PC for work anyway, so the gaming part is just an added plus. That being said, some edge cases aside, when people live in such tight places that a desktop really wouldn't fit in anywhere, I can't quite understand the appeal of gaming laptops either. They are much, MUCH pricier than a comparable gaming PC, so heavy that you barely can consider them a mobile device, and have no battery life worth mentioning. On top of being ergonomically inferior.

But hey, I am not telling people what device to play on. :)

Oh, I get that. I don't think anybody commenting on this article is saying that -- just expressing their personal preferences.

I never used to prefer laptops for gaming, unlike a number of my friends who do buy those high-priced genuine gaming laptops. Things change, however. My wife and I downsized to a small living space. We don't have the luxury of setting aside a space for a desktop PC, which, in my opinion, takes up far more space than a laptop. We don't even have a television, much less the space for one. It is much easier to simply pack away the laptop after a gaming session or other usage.

Laptops are also much more energy efficient than desktops, especially gaming desktops (built a few in my time). We live off-grid with limited power, so a laptop suits our lifestyle better. I tend to choose a more general purpose business-class laptop with an entry or mid level discrete GPU because they are generally more energy efficient and lighter weight than a gaming-class laptop. (I wish I could afford a Framework-style modular laptop but I have other priorities for my money.)

No, I cannot run the latest AAA games, but they don't interest me anyway.

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I happened to have started a new run of this game two days ago, and after quite a lot of trial and error getting the cutscenes working correctly, this update broke the game for me 😅. They added a beta branch that reverts back to the 2016 build of the game, which has made it playable again, but I unfortunately cannot access the new features as now the game boots to a black screen until force closed. Proton versions don't seem to make a difference.

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The obvious question is - since this (IMHO) horrible forced change of civs was the anchor-feature of the entire game... is Civ VII now indistinguishable from Civ VI?

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This d7vk version works in my case with various old titles like this:

Peggle (hardware acceleration is enabled now)



Plants vs Zombies (hardware acceleration is enabled now)



Black and White 1



😀

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Quoting: eggroleI think these mega group amalgamations are set up for failure.

I don't think the Embracer Group was ever meant to be more than a quick bundling of IP so it could be sold for profit to the Saudis. Before that deal fell through they probably had no other plan at all.

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I got inZOI and completely love it. I was never a big fan of The Sims moving towards their overly cartoony artstyle in 4, and inZOI is so realistic that you sometimes forget it's just a game. It still has its quirks and some things are still missing, but they're churning out updates at an incredible pace. Its using AI, so that might be a dealbreaker for some.

I am curious how Paralives will hold up against it. It will probably find an audience, too. I can't quite understand how they're going to fund continued development of the game without any paid DLCs, though. EA (as usual) completely overdid monetization, but you need to pay the developers somehow.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneA few years ago they even closed studios, because they wanted great numbers for their shareholders "now". They even closed profitable studios they could have continued to pay, that just did not bring the numbers right now (because too far away from release). That was a knife cutting half of the known studios in my country. Just spoke with a developer few days ago that was in one of these studios at the time under THQ Nordics banner.

Many of those just joined THQ Nordic to have a stable income without to look for new contracts with every new game. They tried to avoid the situation where they want to produce their next game without finding a publisher spending money, which would be the end of their studio. But this situation leaded to the end of many studios after Corona when Life was going to become normal again. What a sad irony.

We will never see Elex 3 😭

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