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So nothing I'm playing currently, with Halls of Torment and King is watching being my two top games right now on Steam Deck.

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Note that it has a regression affecting Cyberpunk 2077: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9605

For now before the fix is merged, the workaround is to use this:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES=icuin,icuuc=n

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Quoting: suchHeavy ex-GF vibes in these notes.

???

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Quoting: SzkodnixLuckily I upgraded my RAM before rising prices.

I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...

You know they will be. I feel akin to "Old man yells at clouds" but it really does seem like business has encroached all playtime. Third spaces should refer to public locations, not our ability to own entertaining things!

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Luckily I upgraded my RAM before rising prices.

I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...

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watching this one until it releases out of EA. Looking good so far with the updates though!

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A bit fuzzy on why the communications seem to not be secured in a manner that prevents this from becoming a problem.

I.e.: I would have expected encrypted channels to make the question of authentication moot. If they aren't, I would strongly suggest not using kde connect on public/unknown networks regardless of the bug mentioned in the article.

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Hm, it's tagged cozy as well as difficult...?

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What a nice piece of software, this!

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Quoting: JuliusDoes anyone know if the Selaco devs will switch over and where they plan to upstream their engine improvements now? I haven't followed this very closely.

A couple Selaco devs have talked about this in their Steam forums, thankfully. They currently use a very modified version of GZDoom that they maintain themselves, so they weren't really effect by this whole situation at all. Their custom engine version is completely public and open-source, but I imagine it isn't good for general use due to how Selaco-fied it is. I think they pull from GZDoom(or now UZDoom, in reality) and add to it whenever they deem it would be beneficial for whichever direction the changes go. But I don't think they'll rebase the Selaco engine to UZDoom, at least not anytime soon since by the time that they would think it's a good idea to do so, UZDoom will likely have already made a ton of changes that would break lots of stuff in Selaco. Not a dev though, so just a theory on my part.

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I fast-tracked my planned upgrade to AM5 (previously 13600K) because of the RAM prices, I got a nice Crucial 6000-36 32GB kit for 177€, but 2 months earlier it was listed at 90. And now it's listed as 269€ on Amazon, WHAT THE F.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.

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At these prices I won't be upgrading my rig in another 5 years or so.

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Does anyone know if the Selaco devs will switch over and where they plan to upstream their engine improvements now? I haven't followed this very closely.

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Heavy ex-GF vibes in these notes.

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I am excited for the release of Hytale. I plan on "pre-purchasing" it in December. However, like 1xok and hardpenguin, I have number of questions/concerns. I glanced at the website, but could not easily find the answers to my questions. I was not particularly interested in asking my questions on Discord. The easiest and most definitive source that I found was on the Shockbyte website: https://shockbyte.com/blog/hytale-release-date

1. My first question was about what platforms are supported (From Shockbyte):
"At launch, Hytale will be available on Windows only. Other platforms (Mac, Linux, consoles) are a long-term goal, but the devs are taking a “no promises” approach. Right now, the focus is on getting the game stable and playable for PC users."

2. Will Hytale be on Steam? (From Shockbyte):
No official confirmation yet, but it seems likely in the future. For now, it’ll have its own launcher.

2. My third question was cost (From Shockbyte):
"Hytale Early Access Pricing:
Base Game – $19.99
Supporter Edition – $34.99
Cursebreaker Founder’s Pack – $69.99
None of these versions offer gameplay advantages"

4. My last question is:
If I purchase the early access edition from Hypixel Studios, will the worlds that I create transfer to Steam when/if the game is released on Steam? This is likely my biggest concern.

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Developers fixed it pretty quickly.

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Quoting: F.UltraNote that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

Out of curiosity, I did some digging and there are few things to add. It's bit more than just the name, "Wild Bill" Stealey joined the company unofficially to help out. Which maybe makes more sense as I think he was more the military simulator guy and Sid Meier is probably busy doing something for Firaxis anyway.

Also David has been buying all the IP that he has been able to buy. I can't list all the Microprose military simulations by name from memory, but there seems to be quite a few of them.

There's an [article from several years ago](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-resurrection-of-microprose-and-return-of-wild-bill-stealey) that opens up the situation lot more.

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I confirm, it is a very good recommendation. Lots of fun, great audio, atmosphere. I like the destructible environment. Tried it both on steam deck and desktop keyboard+mouse. Both work great. I only wish there was more options to tune graphics to move it from 30ish fps to 60ish.

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Quoting: JahimselfThen if AAA can steal from anyone, anyone should be able to steal from Tim Sweeney and major company having the same philosophy.

The ultimate irony, companies who were shouting the loudest about software piracy are now the quickest to embrace blatant IP theft where it suits them.

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Quoting: Nezchan

The speed gain ends up being negligible, and comes at the price of creativity, originality and doing work I actually enjoy instead of painstakingly fixing the mistakes of an algorithm.

The ultimate promise of AI is freeing us from the drudgery of work we enjoy so we can focus on tedious editing and error-checking at intern rates.

The assumption of AI replacing jobs was based on the premise that for the majority of population, a sloppy product is acceptable, which I think is unfortunately quite correct and the CEOs know that. Some will be willing to abandon the more demanding part of their clientele if the company ends up with a net gain from cutting down the costs of actual human input and QA of the AI-produced slop. Others will see an opportunity in entering the newly created niche. This will ultimately create a polarized market, not unlike the current distinction between mainstream and luxury goods. The question remains, how many companies will be successful in navigating the middle ground...

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Quoting: tohurYea it was a bug in the RC2 release because was several games I could not launch.. it motivated me to create my own package to go in my repos and block pulling it from sid archive but its the nature of tracking sid 1:1

It's better with 0.8.2 but there is still some on exit memory corruption with it. I reported a bug.

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Quoting: dpanterSiduction is Debian sid + extra goodness. Siduction has in repo stuff like mesa-git, day1 kernel builds with more desktop oriented options than stock sid, even rc kernels. When sid was slacking a while back, the crew rolled their own firmware packages from git. At various points in time we've had nice things in repos like Nvidia beta drivers and corectrl - note that times change and not many in the team use Nvidia these days (pro hint: use cuda repo) and of course corectrl is more or less dead now. Also lots of nice to have stuff for tinkerers, like the awesome chroot-helper tool included in the live iso and a comprehensive manual.

Siduction is imho the ultimate Debian distro (for gamers especially) and has a friendly community.

Note: you are expected to know your way around Linux and Debian, this is not a distro for rookies.

I will check it out on my secondary computer.

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Also worth mentioning, is that there are a lot of modern [Amiga games](https://itch.io/games/tag-amiga) on Itch.io as well!
I recommend taking a look at [RogueCraft](https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft) (humorous Lovecraftian turn-based dungeon crawler) and [Cecconoid](https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/cecconoid-amiga) (twin-stick-ish shooter) (which also has a [version with a different soundtrack on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/683310/Cecconoid/)).

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: tohurSid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

Yeah, I'll retest it with 0.8.2 proper to see if latest changes fixed that. Debian shouldn't have jumped the gun and packaged a pre-release version.

Yea it was a bug in the RC2 release because was several games I could not launch.. it motivated me to create my own package to go in my repos and block pulling it from sid archive but its the nature of tracking sid 1:1

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Updated dxvk, vkd3d-proton and Mesa, as well as built mangohud 0.8.2 proper. No crashes with Cyberpunk 2077 so far, so I guess it was some already fixed regression somewhere.

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Quoting: tohurSid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

Yeah, I'll retest it with 0.8.2 proper to see if latest changes fixed that. Debian shouldn't have jumped the gun and packaged a pre-release version.

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Sounds pretty extreme, but actually ...
if you design client-authoritative protocols today and then try to patch it by infesting the client with rootkits and Trojans, yeah, you shouldn't be on any store front.

Quoting: Super-GValve sabotages its own efforts by continuing on its noncommittal way of handing publishers. If they want their devices to succeed, it is long overdue that they demand of publishers that their titles will either run on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine or are kicked off the marketplace.

That would put an end to kernel-level anti-cheat in no time, which is bad anyway. The only reason why anti-cheat systems are needed at all, is because developers failed to build zero-trust into their client/server model in the first place. Take wall-hacks for example: Those are only possible because the client knows the opponents are there. But if they aren't visible, the server doesn't have to send that information to the client in the first place. Fly and speed hacks only work because the server fails at movement checking. If anti-cheat would be considered throughout development, client-side anti-cheat would simply be unnecessary. Everywhere else in IT it is considered a given that you can not trust a client. Only game developers try to protect their clients instead of securing the server endpoints.

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it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes but it also fixes Mangohud always reporting thermal throttling on RDNA3. Very nice update overall!

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Oh, it's not on Steam...

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Quoting: ShmerlThis version crashes Cyberpunk 2077 (at least Debian packaged one). Going back to 0.8.1 and will report it to them after some more testing.

Sid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

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