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I love this game. The origian campaign was very linear to teach you how the game functions. I love playing the Conquest with a friend. It is a challenge and different each time. Plus with all the different clan types, there is so much to learn and get better with.

I'm a huge fan of the old C&C games and love this game just as much. So I'd say give it more of a try, especially the Conquest with a friend going through the randomized campaign and rewards.

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i'm not sure what AMD is aiming for here...

not going bankrupt?

going bankrupt faster?

protecting the Steam Deck from being used on Windows?

forcing other handheld gamers to replace windows with GamerOS?

making win10 users hate win12 even more when they are forced to jump?

🤔

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I'm annoyed on behalf of my friend since she has a RX 6700 XT. I picked out the parts at the beginning of 2023 because her now husband wanted to surprise her with a new computer. We went with it because it was the same price as the 3060 12gb at the time. She has no need for an upgrade as the main games she plays e-sports games, games like peak and R.E.P.O, and alot of FFXIV. Tho she hates updating drivers so she probably wouldn't mind too much.

I used to not recommend AMD cards to my friends do to not liking the Vega windows drivers when I was on windows, do to bugs I had and the terrible OpenGL performance since we played a lot of Minecraft back then and it would prevent us from playing games on Citra together.

I started recommending AMD cards again (if they where just gaming) starting with her computer because AMD resolved those issues. But now I question it since me and my friends don't upgrade computer that often and we don't all have a lot of money. We just upgraded half our GPUs from basically high school this year RX 580 4gb --> 2080ti(Does Video editing and 3D modeling), 1660 ti --> 5070 ti(just wanted to stay on Nvidia), Vega 56 --> RX 7700 XT(Me). I just recommended a RX 9070 to a friend since they want to upgrade their whole computer from high school (it can't update to windows 11 and they can't use Linux) we build for $500 with a RX 570 4gb and want it to last some time but now I question how long that card will get updates and if I should tell them to change it to a 5070 since they are still saving up for it.

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It worked fine a few months back, but it doesn't start anymore after the big update, doesn't matter which version of proton I use. Go figure.

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I got a malicious steam chat a few days ago, at first I thought it was a real person and their tag was funny so I said hi.

Then they just started spamming a link to a FREE STEAM GAME... its a fake website that is designed to steal your login and password which I didn't provide, naturally.

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I bought this game when it first released and have been lauding it any chance I have, it's criminally neglected, probably because of the original asking price

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Hopefully sensible defaults for this

Added UI scaling option

will fix this

it's rated Steam Deck Playable.

since it's small text that stops it getting the green tick.

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However, I notice that this no longer seems to be the case as when I went to re-install the game, they now want some money!

They explain why [here](https://puppygames001.itch.io/basingstoke/devlog/1096455/a-great-big-halloween-update):

Unfortunately for Linux users it's no longer quite as free as it was, coz we're hurtin' for money, but the good news is, it's only ten bucks! If you can't get a few weeks' fun out of ten bucks, you're tired of life! Or wasting it on coffee, as you will.

I purchased it full price back then to show support so I still get access to downloads. It was on "Name your own price" with Mac/Windows at $24.95 USD or more, but Itch is also weird with price changes and tiers.

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but your enemy evolves too, unleashing horrors like “The Creep”

Oh, is this the surprise prequel to the Creeper World games?

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This is getting serious. 💣

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With how things are going on Earth right now. I'm rooting for Mars. lol

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Can't imagine my 6800xt being considered maintenance only. Thank god for Mesa

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This used to run like absolute dog ass and needed severe tweaking to even hit 30 fps at all. Is there a preset now to avoid the console commands haxxoring?

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I'm looking for somebody(ies) to sell me on Northgard. I bought it a couple years ago and started playing through it but it felt... shallow? Like there was a direct "when this external event happens, this is the single thing you need to do in response" gameplay loop. It just didn't feel especially strategic to me. Am I missing something? Does it deserve another chance? If so, how much time investment is required to get to satisfying gameplay?

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Back in 2019, Puppy Games made this [free to Linux users](https://puppygames001.itch.io/basingstoke/devlog/70568/basingstoke-is-now-free-for-linux) on itch.io.

However, I notice that this no longer seems to be the case as when I went to re-install the game, they now want some money!

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For the reference, I linked it in the other thread, but if you are curious, here are places in Mesa and dxvk/vkd3d-proton that deal with game specific fixes:

* radeonsi (OpenGL) and non radv Vulkan: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-mesa-defaults.conf
* radv (Vulkan): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-radv-defaults.conf
* dxvk: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/src/util/config/config.cpp#L21
* vkd3d-proton: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/blob/master/libs/vkd3d/device.c#L541

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Agree with others: it's wild to me that the 6800xt will now be considered in "maintenance mode" on windows machines. I used that card right up until recently and it's still perfectly capable of running anything at all on 1440p ultrawide at high settings. I even ran Avowed this year on it which is a shitty ue5 engine game (the engine being shitty, not the game lol, the game is great) and it ran 60fps on high. Which is incredible!

That's some pretty shitty behavior by AMD. But I am still glad we've got Mesa on linux!

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thanks for the heads up about denuvo. completely lost interest in this now.

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But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Everything. The current branch (580) has Maxwell support. They've said that they'll drop pre-Turing from the next branch, though, whenever that happens, after which 580 will be a legacy branch.

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I bought this game because of Embark's Linux support for The Finals and that game still works great and also, I want to support and encourage more AA and AA devs/publishers to do the same. I seem to remember Embark saying that they do hear us Linux gamers and will do their level best (I don't know if they actually used the word 'commit') to keeping the game running on Linux. It will be a shame if they're forced to cut Linux out, but I'm hoping that if their purely competitive shooter works on Linux after all these years, they can find a way to keep it running on Linux for a PvPvE game. fingers crossed

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I bought this, but I also run Windows for some games. I really enjoyed the server slam, but man this game is stress.

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My GTX 1060 is still a perfectly serviceable 1080p gaming card for reasonable settings on a lot of games. I do not like the fact that companies just get to decide when I don't get to keep using my hardware how I want. My iPhone 13 worked as good as most phones up until I decided to trade it in 4+ years later for a 17 Pro. My soundbar keeps doing its job for as long as I want it to. My TV does not stop playing shows and movies 10 years later. The core function of any product should continue to be supported indefinitely for it's core functions. The real issue here is that these companies have R&D and marketing strategies that have created markets where some products are replaced too frequently only for the purpose of revenue. My fridge is 10 years old and still keeps my food cold. I had a 40-year VW Beetle that I drove to work every day for 10 years. It was up to me to sacrifice my safety and modern amenities for a cheap way to commute.

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Used to play these with my little kids after turning on the no gib mode and just blasted flowers out of everything.

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Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Because AMD says that "RX 5000 and RX 6000 series are indeed going into 'maintenance mode'.", which means they’ll continue to maintain it, just not add new features.

And when they created FSR, it was supported on a lot of GPUs that didn’t had big drivers update anymore at the time, so I don’t think it’s a big deal.

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Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

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As I'm not much into extration games, and I'm not feeling safe with purchasing this without an official statement from the publisher... I'll pass on this one. We've seen games working, even with official anti-cheat support for Linux, just to have Linux support removed later.

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Crazy that they would drop support for products that are only 2 years old, RDNA2 is from 2020 and some RDNA2 products lower in the stack are from 2023,such as the relatively unknown Radeon RX 6550S and Radeon RX 6550M and some China variants of the 6750. Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

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It needs to change and have the source of data available. Right now it's basically a huge data anonymising machine that can verbatim memorise and spit out someone else's work, but can't tell you where it got it from.
The "references" they generate are just things that look like whatever they made up.

Look at the Kurzgesagt video on AI slop for reference.

For me it's that the data they feed into these opensource licensed models is still suspect. How do we know the data was sourced in respect to their license? Much "free" information is provided on a free for personal use, but not business use, basis. How much of their costs have they externalised and not cared about? Did they include wikipedia content without citing wikipedia as the source? That's against the wikipedia license, for example.

It's not just a privacy issue, it's also an ethical issue.

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Yeah, they lost a sale here, thanks to Denuvo. I never played the originals, but would love to have given this a try.

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For those who are (understandably) anti-DRM, the store page says that this release has Denuvo Anti-Tamper. This can cause problems if switching between Proton versions too many times.

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