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@purple library guy.

Not quite / additionally. It depends on the species. A lot of sharks need to swim to keep water going past their gills so they can breathe. I don't know the percenatage that can / can't "breathe", ie: pump water through their gills with swimming, like most fish can / do. Those tidal caves also tend to have strong currents moving water in and out, so they can stay oxygenated. You are right they don't have swim bladders and can sink, but that's not the only reason some of them need to keep moving.

reference: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/sharks-rays-myths

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Aaand twenty years. Nostalgia. Right on time. ;p

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Anyone know if this is working on the Steam Deck? I might send this article to my wife.

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I'm glad Aspyr found their niche. Apple, Activision, et al. made doing macOS ports too damned expensive.

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I hope the driver exposes r, g and b files within the /dev tree so it can sync the system accent color to it in plasma.

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this might be the first ever complex rpg I would consider for the Deck. I still to this day can't fathom how people can play stuff like bg3 on a tiny screen with a controller, but it remains one of the top played games. So I must be totally crazy. This games graphics won't stress the deck at all, and as long as the UI is decent with a controller scheme, it could be fun nostalgia.

@R Daneel Olivaw
It's possible that they dock it and use the keyboard and mouse to play it or create key mappings using the trackpads and every button on the Steam Deck like some people do for RTS and FPS games.

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@tfk Not exactly, no. Sharks normally need to keep swimming because if they don't they gradually sink. Normal fish have this "swim bladder" thing that gives them neutral buoyancy, and sharks don't. But sharks around places like coral reefs and other shallow areas will apparently find caves and take a nap. So a shark could lie there getting dentisted and be fine.

On the other hand, the tooth thing . . . yeah, obviously the game is silly fun so it doesn't matter. But as people have said, no way would sharks need a dentist, they just lose teeth and get new ones. Heck, they're not even real teeth, they're made of fingernail stuff, and either they're modified scales or their scales are modified teeth, I'm not sure which way it goes.

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The new graphics are terrible and I've been running the GOG version of the OG on the Deck for months now without any issue (even made my own merged modpack). Unless something of worth gets added (the new UI looks terrible) I don't think I'm gonna pick it up.

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If we're gonna be discussing shark facts, here's my favourite: a shark generally only eats once or twice in a week. Most of the time they're just chilling and swimming around.

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Having shared my home with both species, I agree that cats may be better suited to the lifestyle of a software developer or author.

Dogs require more active attention than cats. While providing the socialization and exercise dogs need may benefit the developer's physical and mental health, it would certainly take them away more from their work. Cats will often just lie quietly nearby or on your lap -- unless they decide that they want your exclusive attention ... then you might hope that you have a spill-proof keyboard.

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"Balance tactics, luck, and limited resources to heal your patient without losing your own life."
Sounds like a typical paramedic experience.

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Are you going to be picking it up?

I might eventually. I picked up the enhanced edition of the original game already. I have never played NWN 2, so nostalgia doesn't really play a part in the decision. I barely noticed it (I was caught up in the Elder Scrolls games that came out around that time). As you say, though, I will likely wait until they work out all the kinks.

At least, unlike the Oblivion remake, this one will run on my laptop.

Who knows? Maybe they'll relent and release a Native Linux version by the time I'm ready to purchase ...

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8445

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this might be the first ever complex rpg I would consider for the Deck. I still to this day can't fathom how people can play stuff like bg3 on a tiny screen with a controller, but it remains one of the top played games. So I must be totally crazy. This games graphics won't stress the deck at all, and as long as the UI is decent with a controller scheme, it could be fun nostalgia.

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Better Neverwinter Nights than Neversummer Days, cause wintertime sucks. 🥶

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How does the shark breathe? A hark needs to move forward trough the water in order to get oxygen right?

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I remember this video.

Ok they added some lines from the in game units, but they left the fundamental part untouched. (i.e. the disarmed ork that throws a rock at the sergent at the end)

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Looks quite interesting...
Although this is not for me, really: I do NOT like this type of graphics...
(Now let me go back to my beloved Songs of Syx... )

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I wonder, why sharks needs a dentist? It is true, shark in whole live can have twenty teeth at the same place?

Yes Sharks has rows of teeth, if one false off another will take it's place.

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I wonder, why sharks needs a dentist? It is true, shark in whole live can have twenty teeth at the same place?

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ntsync isn't ready upstream yet (around 1/3 of code is merged). Kind of bad taste to "jump the gun" benefiting from other people's work like this. Let developers finish their work and release it first.

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Fair enough! It's a weird one, I hope Valve can find the cause and get a workaround in Proton for it. Frustrating when this stuff happens only on Desktop Linux.

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As @expandingman mentioned - I had to refund it because it literally wouldn't even start. Just immediate crashing - countless other reports of the same, on the steam discussions, protondb, basically everywhere.

Seems like a fun game, I had a good time with the demo as well, but LOL at these devs. Just what on earth.

@liam - I also tried windowed mode, wouldn't work. Didn't try gamescope, but there are just so many bad reports about this game, I just wanted my money back at that point.

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This is the sort of project where I'd normally wait until things settle just a little.

I don't have a problem with running beta (or sometimes even alpha software) but if the level of code churn is this high and the level of stability is this low, bleeding edge code means you'll be the one doing the bleeding. You start to get a sense for these sorts of things over time, when to just sit back and give it another week to month before playing with it.

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Apparently Windowed mode helps stop it crashing, you could try that or make it a full-screen window with Gamescope?

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Which audio / where?

The quotes weren't in the original intro and they sound like they shouldn't even be in the cinematic. It is really distracting.

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This is sadly still completely borked on desktop linux. I really hoped this would be fixed by now. Apparently you can work around it if you don't use keyboard and mouse (which is already a very weird failure condition) but I haven't been willing to do that.

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I tried this with Stalker 2 - lower frame rate and very jittery. Might be missing something but went back to Proton 10 and everything lovely and smooth again.

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Does anyone know how this plug-in works, if the dev of the tool said it was impossible to make it work on gamescope?

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Multiple mice and keyboards, wow, I always thought something like this should be possible
My dream is that one day Wayland would allow multiple cursors kinda like how it worked on the Wii, and all the Windows users wouldn't believe their eyes lol

But we already did that? We used some program to have multiple instances and multiple mice foe Divinity Original Sin 2 because the default splitscreen co-op only supports gamepads. This was on Windows

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