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I have the whole of EA on my ignore list. So I won't see this one anyway.

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Never had any problem with RADV in the... Gosh, 9 years since? From all the way back with my beloved RX480. I still remember the "RADV is not a conformant Vulkan implementation: Here be dragons!" warning. How far we've come.

Great news in my opinion. I haven't noticed any ray tracing performance gap, but I'm also using a 7900XTX and avoid using raytracing on principle when I'm not checking "max settings" performance with a game.

I remember a single title, Metro Exodus, where RADV constantly crashed in the desert area of the game and I had to briefly switch to AMDVLK to complete that level. Probably since long fixed as well.

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For the extraction shooters, I'll suggest Incursion: Red River. It doesn't have any PvP like Tarkov, but it's still an alternative that works on Linux (desktop, at least; I haven't tried on the Deck at all).

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What would GTFO be an alternative to?

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PSA It doesn't yet work on Linux (segfaults) and because they obfuscated the server binary with VMProtect nobody is sure why yet. They're working to fix it but closed source server and all that.

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Also there is [FragPunk](https://www.protondb.com/app/2943650) first person shooter, [The First Descendant](https://www.protondb.com/app/2074920) action MMO and [GTFO](https://www.protondb.com/app/493520) cooperative first-person shooter

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the only advantage i see is that, you can replace the battery when you run out of it...
or when the device get old.

we dont know how heavy it is

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As a joke:

Gambling Anime Open-World Action/Adventure RPG
Genshin Impact -> Wuthering Waves

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Can't wait to see them go bankrupt. Unfortunately, too many people are still buying their garbage. Despite they haven't made a great AAA game in decades. Gosh, they're already drooling for BF6 as if there wouldn't be 100 games just like it already out there.

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Looks like EA wants to live the SimCity fiasco over and over again...

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We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

(To be more precise than above: They didn't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

Don't ask me. :D
Wanting to be the only one (being supported)?
Fearing it takes away resources?
Having tried Linux, not having been able to cope with it, and now hating it? (I saw some trolls which seem to have this story.)

What baffles me more is the next though:

Nowadays, this job has been taken by Linux users.

(For the records: They mostly don't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

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From Eike:

We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

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The game is built around a premium store anyways, I already tried it because play testers have a couple of weeks of access before everyone else, it's a game completely built around the premium store. Like Liam said, Session and Skater XL are way better options.

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Nice! This sounds awesome, definitely putting it on my list.

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I totally get the point of a removable battery. That's the first thing I would do to use my handheld docked. I destroyed my Steam Deck battery because I tought it was safe and left it docked for quite a while (now 65% battery health). That was before the 80% max charge option.

But still having to buy a battery as an option... What a weird and bad idea!

And I will never get tangled in that cable and will never get it stuck in an armrest or table corner...

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I take my purchases very seriously. I would like to clarify that I will [still] not be supporting EA financially for the foreseeable future.



Sincerely,
My $50

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Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later

all of which are on AMD, or are able to be done (close enough) in opensource software with enough effort.

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which is why we should support indie devs more. Maybe we should come out with a campaign called 'indie alternatives' which it's aim is to replace all the non compatible AAA titles with Linux/steamOS comparable versions, only better, cheaper, more optimised and not riddled with micro transactions.

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So I confirm again that I'll skip this game

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Yeah online racing is not that great, players tend to turn it into derby, because they don't get any penalty, and ruining someone's race by pushing the other car is easier than fair race for the first place. Racing games are better played as a single player.

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This is why my next GPU will be AMD. Nvidia makes me sick with their lack of support. Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later.

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ray tracing is watching your average frame rate take a dive when you use the latter with little in the way of significant visual improvement

im not sure what im doing wrong but raytracing on most titles i have tested is glitchy & noisy to the point of being ugly and distracting. There has been raytracing prior to rtx for decades via software, it wasn't as noisy ? inefficient yes. I almost always turn it off , sometimes just running the shadows if the option allows.

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Quake news? In my GoL? It's more likely than you think.

Thanks! I needed this.

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• Quake 1 Original monster roast

Mmm sounds tasty!

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That reminds me of something I've encountered some weeks ago.
From DexterMorgan on "Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon" entry for ProtonDB:

during Steam installation on Arch system it defaults to the amdvlk driver when asking you to select a driver, as opposed to the vulkan-radeon driver. (...) Most other distros default to the vulkan-radeon driver for their Steam packages but if you see horribly broken environment textures and everything else is fine, odds are it's amdvlk.

So one error less here!

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how many people are only using the portability as far as to their sofa and bed.

With the deck that's probably a large percentage like, almost everyone. apart from those sicko's who play at their desktop right next to their gaming PC which is being used only for browsing / watching streams :D

i once bought a laptop table so i could use it on the couch / bed but the issue then becomes where do you put the mouse & now your wrist is bent reaching the keyboard and the fan noise is starting to annoy as the laptop is getting too warm & & etc..

the steamdeck fits it's purpose perfectly

( so does streaming from a pc to a retrohandheld / tablet )

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@UltraViolent I don't know about The Crew, but Forza Horizon without the online "features" are still great games. I only play online if I really have to (for achievements and festival events), and I don't enjoy it at all. Freeroam is the best part of the game for me. To each their own of course.

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You can do that with most laptops afaik.

Sure, you should be able to do this with every laptop (given a power bank yielding enough power).
Never seen anybody actually doing that though.

Part of the appeal of a handheld over a laptop is not having to lug around a giant power brick if you want full performance, having said that given the efficiency of newer slim-line laptops you can get decent performance on battery nowadays. and they can sit on your lap (belly) quite comfortably. A portable PC handhelds advantage is too be ..err portable :p

Well, yes, and to last long without a power chord, which are contradictory goals.
I wonder - I really do - how many people are only using the portability as far as to their sofa and bed.

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strangely designed

On the first image it totally looks like PSP.

The choice of having an external battery depends on your use case. E.g I'm indeed mostly playing my Deck plugged in and have set it to max charge 80%. If this opens up for more powerful hardware... well... it's a solution.

Not sure about the bazzite advertisment though. Cool to see it's "supported", yet if they don't offer it shipping pre-installed... that's weird. Saving some bucks on the Windows licence might be appealing to some folks.

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The decision to have an external battery sounds strange at first. But then, maybe it feels fine, having a lighter device in ones hands while the bulky battery sits on the table or wherever.

You can do that with most laptops afaik.

Part of the appeal of a handheld over a laptop is not having to lug around a giant power brick if you want full performance, having said that given the efficiency of newer slim-line laptops you can get decent performance on battery nowadays. and they can sit on your lap (belly) quite comfortably. A portable PC handhelds advantage is too be ..err portable :p

their own 'pocket 4' model is more versatile than this.

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