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I gave this project the good old college try this early morning. I have to say, it's a very unpleasant experience.

The redone visuals are, in my opinion, horrendous. Mind you I only spent 10 minutes or so with it. My gut reaction is to sidestep this one altogether.

It sucks as I'm so fond of the original game.😭

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Woof. I was wondering if/when this'd happen. I'm very glad I got this a couple of months ago at the old price.

I wonder if the asus devices will go up in price at all too; if they do then we can probably kiss the old steam deck prices goodbye for the near term.

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Quoting: EikeI'm not sure what "this winter" means? We've got spring in my (northern) book, so I guess end of the year or beginning of next one?

It means the game will release from november 2026 to mars 2027

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Already gave it a try.
A real nice update for sure.

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You know I played the original game, bought it day one. It was extremely buggy and unpolished.

The demo for this one looks better.

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I'm really glad I bought one months ago before the price spiked!

I cannot wait for the AI bubble to burst already, it has done too much damage.

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I'm going to have the biggest party ever when that happens!

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I think it continues to show just how smart Valve were on the price to performance. They hit a sweet spot with it all. But, they do have the Steam store to back it up, other vendors don't have that. Bring on the Steam Deck 2 eh! Once the AI bubble pops that is.

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeSTS2 is great already (and getting better all the time)...Not sure why Chinese players don't understand its early access and still being worked on... :(

It seems many players from China are complaining because their deck no longer guarantees a win, so now they have to change their strategy to win. A common thread among all the negative reviews is that the cards that used to be very overpowered have now been nerfed, with one review even asking the developers to "livestream themselves winning the game on the highest difficulty with all the characters" (disclaimer: I do not know Chinese, so I used Google Translate for that one).

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Quoting: ChrisznixA late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

I'm not going to spoil anything game or book related, but just PLEASE trust me when I say this:

1- finish the game
2- immediately start the book

you will be happy :) Also, if you like scifi at all and haven't done Lem's other greats, he's a genre defining genius. Check out Solaris, Cyberiad, and Memoirs in a Bathtub. Cyberiad is prob my personal fav.

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I think this is the death knell for this product line. They're into the phase of "fuck it pricing" - just trying to get rid of them and shut down the project. AI garbage continues to destroy all that it touches. Yay.

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This would be fantastic to have on a laptop to remotely via lan control your audio mixing for band practice or stuff like that.

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This would be so nice to have, i will try this out. There are a lot of great tools out there, but in the heat of the moment, i often struggle to find the correct settings.

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It would be very nice if we can really report unknown/unrecognized sensor chips to the project.
I have a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro X3D ICE (with a Ryzen9 9950X3D) and coolercontrol found two unknown ITE sensor chips: 0x8696 at 0x2E and 0x8883 at 0x4E.
I managed to have the 8696 working adding "options it87 ignore_resource_conflict=1 force_id=0x8696" to "/etc/modprobe.d/it87.conf" but "coolercontrold detect --load" still says "Unrecognized Super-I/O chip at 0x4E id:0x8883 - please report for database inclusion" and I can't find a way to report it.

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looks promising! will give it a go, do appreciate their reasoning for using a web UI too.

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A late question to those who played and have read The Invincible: should i read the novel first? I am in the first hours of that game (thanks to your recommendations) and its absolutely great so far. But it made me wonder if i should read the book first.

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Quoting: clatterfordslimdo people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I have tried some image generation models (EDIT: I mean local models) which pushed my system to the limit (both in terms of VRAM and regular RAM), and I had no issues. Programming, slicing up videos using ffmpeg, image editing using Krita, and any other 'actual' use of my PC seems to work perfectly fine regardless of my using Wayland.

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It looks quite esthetic but reminds me of Xbox Series S a bit too much

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It is in my library but I haven't played it yet. But I definitely will, Stardew Valley-likes are my jam

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Quoting: omfgnutsNo sponsorblock? Not touching youtube without it. The best way to use youtube on steam deck remains a kiosk mode youtube webpage with all the modern and configurable adblocks and sponsorblock and a gamepad preset from community templates

Popping in here in 2026 to inform any future individuals who come across this article - VacuumTube now has SponsorBlock, DeArrow and dislikes!

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Quoting: chrNice. I'm still dreaming about using different desktop backgrounds for each virtual desktop (which I was reminded of when hearing about this virtual desktop update).

Can do that easily in Xfce. It's what I do to remember which workspace I am on, as there is no way to display numbers on screen, like there is in KDE and Cinnamon. Can only show numbers if you have workspace displaying on your panel and rename them from there in Xfce. I will have to try out KDE in VMware and see how Wayland behaves itself now, as all I keep hearing is how good Wayland is, but do people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I'm just curious that's all, as that is how I spend my time in Xfce. If I feel happy enough with KDE Wayland in a virtual environment I will install it onto real hardware and see how it performs in the real world. I've been on the fence with Wayland, as heard nothing but good things, then the horror stories of it not liking OBS-Studio and other app installs.
Every time I tried Wayland session with either KDE or Gnome, they kept crashing. Though that was some time ago, so does anyone here use their Wayland Linux like I do in X11? Is Wayland really that good now that it does not crash when put under load?

Wayland has been the default for KDE for a while now and most people don't switch back, so it's safe to say that it largely works now. I have have used it even before that and it works like a charm.

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oof. that's sad. 😟

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Quoting: scaineWayland remembering where windows are positioned is the last feature missing from X, for me. It really annoys me that all windows open in the centre of the screen.

Agreed!
But funilly enough, I actually set them on purpose to open centered in the screen, as having windows open in seemingly random places was quite annouing to me 😄

Quoting: scaineExcept Steam. It doesn't care about desktop managers or theming or whatnot. Does what it likes. 😅

Also agreed 😁

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I remember seeing a Crusader Kings II video where the person made the most inbred family line that they could. It ended up breaking down somewhere and they were forced to marry outside their family. lol

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It's a bad time to be launching new computer hardware, so best of luck to them.

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I really hope one day that preservation becomes more of a goal for all developers.

I think it's a safe bet that developers of live service games are not much concerned with preservation.

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according to the code in Github this is a implementation of the old Free in the dark engine (FITD) with a coat of AI upscaled and AI generated images on top

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Quoting: chrNice. I'm still dreaming about using different desktop backgrounds for each virtual desktop (which I was reminded of when hearing about this virtual desktop update).

Can do that easily in Xfce. It's what I do to remember which workspace I am on, as there is no way to display numbers on screen, like there is in KDE and Cinnamon. Can only show numbers if you have workspace displaying on your panel and rename them from there in Xfce. I will have to try out KDE in VMware and see how Wayland behaves itself now, as all I keep hearing is how good Wayland is, but do people actually use their computers, other than playing games and watching YouTube? Do they make spreadsheets, create stuff, open as many tabs as possible, push their systems to the limit, by having Steam games open whilst rendering or editing video, watching YouTube, browsing the web all at the same time, whilst using Wayland?

I'm just curious that's all, as that is how I spend my time in Xfce. If I feel happy enough with KDE Wayland in a virtual environment I will install it onto real hardware and see how it performs in the real world. I've been on the fence with Wayland, as heard nothing but good things, then the horror stories of it not liking OBS-Studio and other app installs.
Every time I tried Wayland session with either KDE or Gnome, they kept crashing. Though that was some time ago, so does anyone here use their Wayland Linux like I do in X11? Is Wayland really that good now that it does not crash when put under load?

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Quoting: TriasParadox's DLC classification is a bit confusing, yes, but "Major" expansion is considered to be bigger then a "Core" one.

Ah, that would make more sense, then. I guess what got me was the last dev diary talking about By God Alone, and also the order in which they were presented today.

That means I kinda got my wish. More depth for trade, and more depth for playing in Europe.

And it seems the issue that regularly drained my treasury is fixed (or I just had a very lucky streak). On the downside, my 61yo character now looks like a shriveled grape, and I had to give up 6 of my 15 holdings due to the domain limit rebalancing. Ah well, it's not like I was attached to most of them anyway.

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Source? Link to confirm use of "AI"?

If you pay attention to the video you can defiantly see the static lighting in a room's background change by the camera angle
Even if they didn't, I wouldn't put it below Spacefarer to use AI in their remasters. They once took someone's demo off of Itch "Zera: Myths Awaken" reskinned and sold it on the Nintendo E-shop as "Lotzo and Ray of Light" as a full game in broken form.
[Gamesradar article](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/platformer/dev-accused-of-stealing-spyro-the-dragon-inspired-platformer-recoloring-it-and-selling-it-on-the-nintendo-eshop-for-usd15-with-ai-generated-art-wonder-if-theyd-give-me-a-free-key/)
[Rerez's (E-slop) video, skipped to relevant portion.]((https://youtu.be/8nRo9nxq1TI?t=1547))

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