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Very nice. If I had one, I'd be very excited to try this out, especially the gyro.

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Too bad this crypto thingy is casting a shadow on the distro itself, because is pretty good. There;s some interesting stuff in there.

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Yeet is too close to skeet for my liking.

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🍄

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I'll be getting it from Microsoft cause it's Play Anywhere. Play Anywhere keeps my Xbox Series X from being useless with modern games. Yes it means using Windows for the PC version, but I paid for a Windows license. May as well use it when needed.

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Preliminary patch notes (major features only) can be found at this April 30 dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-382-the-next-step-in-evolution.1738361/
They note that:

There are about 9000 lines in the export log for us to go through to get you the rest, sorry we couldn’t get them sorted by this dev diary!

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I have VR Head Mounted Display, no VR controllers though. I did play quite a bit Project Wingman with Logitecth 3D Pro joystick. It was even enjoyable!
VR does benefit from better hardware for sure. I tried playing no man sky and it was not a fun experience for me.
Many games that support keyboard and mouse, may not support it in VR.
I have bad choice of VR though. Its supported by Monado project, HP G2 v1.
Monado is using OpenXR a lot, I wonder if I will benefit from changes.
3D Video content though...
https://youtu.be/OvF0qR1--b0?t=45

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Played the demo and enjoyed it, but goddam, those graphics are terrible. And despite the frame-limiter set to 60, it cooked my PC at 140+, and the damn PC nearly over-heated!

Anyway, good game, although the fights felt slightly grindy, and I didn't quite grasp the whole "shoot one gun to build up ammo in the other" until about 30 minutes in!

I think I'll end up grabbing it, but in the meantime, I'm going to check out Deadzone: Rogue (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228590/Deadzone_Rogue/), which launched a few weeks ago, and appears to be... well, let's just say "very similar", but with much-better looking graphics!

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Yep. Saw that coming miles away. I hope the devs they pulled from legit projects will abandon ship soon.

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I was tempted the last time round because, I mean value, right? Since then I've listened to the Backpage podcast episode (https://open.spotify.com/episode/7l3Q8iXydrZse7dY7GsM0J) and I know to steer clear. Not because it's not a bargain or that the games are bad, but because I now understand the amount of hours I would need to invest for these games to make sense. I'm not made of time!

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Who looks to neoliberalism and thinks let's financialize things even more? Gaming hasn't been improved by the integration of gambling and microtransactions, or by industry consolidation and layoffs. And now there are these clowns trying to get the crypto cult of deregulated finance to capitalise on the popularity of the steam deck. I hope they will run out of marks.

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Haven't used SteamVR much recently. I'm currently mostly playing my three standard rhythm VR games (BS, SR, PW) and those work great with Monado.

Yet I do have some issues currently, e.g. I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 with Gnome, which doesn't support VR with wayland. I also wasn't able to get Monado up and running with 1 basestation and my OG Vive. Which I still use from time to time to play Elite: Dangerous. But as I've seen the performance difference between Steam VR and Monado, I wanted to switch for that too.

I will get back to using SteamVR though, according to SadlyItsBradly's tweet¹, Steam Link VR seems to come to Linux soon! And then I might even get a Quest 3. I've tested Steam Link VR on Windows before, and damn, it's really cool. Wireless VR is just awesome.

Regarding Monado, or other non Steam VR programs, check out the Linux VR Adventure Database². It's like ProtonDB but for VR Games and the tools to run VR on Linux (Steam VR, Monado, ALVR, WiVRn)

¹ https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1918820041312678099
² https://db.vronlinux.org/

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I love this style of game but man this looks so ugly. Will probably try it anyway.

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Didn't we hear something like that from the AtariACS guys? The idea of being able to resell your digital games sounds nice, but in practice this will likely not fly.

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Finally got a index last year after the graphics card were affordable again. Jitter is an issue right now. Let's hope it is better now. Also, I've got "starting issues" when launching steamvr sometimes. It was improved with every new release, though.

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Xbox PC = Xbox app on Windows PC ?

M$ own game store -- soon to be restricted to Windows 11 users only ...

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HARD PASS

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Yep this coin won't get hacked ever.

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just lol

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It looks like they mixed aspects from KSP and Space Engineers

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Somewhere in the middle, yes. We felt like KSP's "stick parts vertically or horizontally", even if with symmetry, limits quite a lot what shapes one can give to the spacecraft. On the other hand, Space Engineers' voxel grids make everything... well, voxel-looking. And there mass and fuel isn't much of a concern.

We are trying a unique approach in which craft are built with platonic solids. For instance, the "Venture" spacecraft (green bug-like looking) is created by combining a truncated octahedron, which makes for a single-pilot cabin, with a hexagonal prism for the cargo bay. The station hub section (the "sphere" with the docking ports) is an icosahedron, while the trunk and the branches are a combination of elongated prisms and various other solids.

The nice part of it is that with just few primitive shapes having the same edge size, and a combination of solids, very interesting builds can be created, while looking plausible from engineering PoV.

So, players will be able to design the hulls of the spacecraft based on the internal volume and purpose (pressurized/unpressurized, etc). The build mechanic is not there yet though, now the craft are all pre-made. Building is coming in next months, so any feedback on this idea is greatly appreciated.

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techbro "fundraiser"

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Yeah, six Bingo cards full!

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Glad I was sitting down, or I might have hurt myself when I fainted from sheer shock and disbelief. /s

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The trick to any rug pull is to not stand on the rug when it's being pulled.

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Feels like Truckful, the other also-unreleased "truck driver delivering stuff to a small town with spooky atmosphere" game. Is that a genre now?

I've stuck 'em both on my wishlist.

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"There's a rug under me, isn't there?" 😑

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As someone who's passively getting interested in alternative currencies like crypto, specifically Monero: Go away, Fraudsters .

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So basically a Steam Deck with microtransactions.

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And there it is.

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I was playing Outriders (https://store.steampowered.com/app/680420/OUTRIDERS/) a few months back and I got an absolute blast of overwhelming deja vue, before I realised that it was triggered by remembering Gears of War 2. That's the only one I played for any length of time.

I always thought the series was slightly over-rated (albeit, fun story/characters carrying it a bit) but the impact it had on the FPS genre is unmistakable. Walls. Walls, everywhere! Duck over the walls to shoot. Stay behind walls! Run from wall to wall!

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