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Seems it has been quite unpopular, even the news post on Steam seems to have zero thumbs up:

I couldn't imagine that to be true, so I went to the page and gave it a thumbs up - and the counter stayed at zero. It's either a bug, then, in the counter, or they've disabled likes for this post for some odd reason!

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I don't know why people are doubtful about the "it's not AI" claim.

"Fortnite isn't making as much money as before" seems far more likely - I would even have expected them to use "the layoffs are DEFINITELY AI-RELATED" to hide that.

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Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

I think KDE has reached a state where you can fall back to it as the most reliable option. Especially since on wayland everything has its own implementation of everything so it's more likely to run into differences and issues depending on the desktop. I moved from a window manager to KDE while playing Death Stranding 2 and I think it actually improved performance, maybe because it seems that Plasma has a proper support for exclusive fullscreen mode unlike the WM I used, although I could be wrong and it's some random coincidence, but I still kept using plasma for now as it also fixed some other random issues I've had recently

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Cool! I need to finish the base game.

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I tried this on launch and refunded it shortly after release, but i've seen they've had some updates. It was pretty clear they have some great artists, but content past cute models and art is shallow so far.

This game started development around a decade ago, and was based on a paid mod minecraft server that was cancelled overnight from mojang changing their TOS to not allow for private servers to sell mtx. They started building their own game in response, got acquired by riot soon after. The head guy made big bucks over the years from investments (maybe thanks to the private server revenue and the sale?) Riot games shuttered them after many, many years of development due to lack of progress. The head guy bought it back from riot and immediately launched in to EA.

I don't think there's a single boss in the game yet? They're all marked with "WIP" placeholders. There's an entire fantastical story area you portal to that is beautiful and really well crafted with art and has "WIP" signs everywhere, empty npcs and a couple of vendors.

You can also go explore and find these beautiful POIs all over the place in a handful of different biomes, and then you try and enter them and "WIP" is staring back at you. They haven't implemented so much basic sandbox exploration stuff.

Combat has a few weapon types and a finisher move that charges up until you unleash it. I really wanted more nuance, but it's way better than minecraft's combat (not saying much.)

The art is some of the best, but when it comes to coding in the rest of the game it's to be seen if it's development progress will greatly increase.

They do have a focus on modders to be able to mod out the world. That seems to be the core of everything (including their monetization plans. They want to be another Roblox where creators get paid and they get a cut, which they've promised not to start taking for 2 years in a blog post shortly before EA launch. The world gen can be customized to create new biomes, mobs can be programmed to act a certain way, all kinds of modder things are everywhere.

For now there's about 10 hours of poking around in the sandbox until you've seen all you're gonna see imo. If you want to build the palette is clearly getting lots of love with loads of textures, so there should be no shortage for that well beyond 10 hours.

In terms of other recently launched EA minecraft clones, Everwind seems more interesting to me. It may not be as pretty (still gorgeous though) but the gameplay loop of building a magical steampunk airship that is your base and then exploring different sky islands is phenomenal. Still another EA title, so much EA hell! Doesn't anybody aside from AAA release mostly finished games nowadays? Do modern games really need to take over 10 years to finish?

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Quoting: TermyTo be fair, a permanent discount down to 2,39€ for owners of PA is pretty reasonable.

Today yes, but from my memories and from SteamDB, it was first a new game only, then an update about 15€ for several years, and the price dropped only much later.

This, and i think the gameplay doesn't work well anyway, with large scale spherical planets. You can't see much and constantly have to rotate the view.

However i would need to play it again to confront my opinion, as i didn't play Planet nor Titan annihilation for years.

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Quoting: Eocene84

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

Since the "Alien Breed" series of games has been left alone all these years - while featuring both obvious Xenomorph rip-offs and "Alien" in the name - I think they're pretty safe. I also don't think this specific alien looks much like the Xenomorph at all.
Other games that would hinder any legal action: "R-Type" (Xenomorph rip-off), "Alien Syndrome" (Xenomorph and Colonial Marines rip-offs), "Ninja Gaiden" (Xenomorph rip-off), "TMNT IV: Turtles in Time" (Xenomorph rip-off - also featured in the comics), "Alien Rampage" (Predator similarity), "Contra" (both Xenomorphs and facehuggers are "homage'd" here), and "Alien Storm" (less Giger inspiration, but the name's similar to this new game).
So, with a lack of visual similarity, a bunch of Xeno-rip-offs in games already, and with the abundances of games already on Steam with a name that starts with "Alien", I don't think they have much to worry about 😁
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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Quoting: CaldathrasMate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum).

Hi!

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Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

It wasn't clear from the article whether it's a regression, some major improvement in KDE, or something else. Would be nice if he compared with GNOME 49 and/or some other desktop environments to give a better idea. If it *is* a regression, hopefully they can track it down quickly. The differences were pretty large in some cases.

Yes, not clear from that article, but this other article compares PopOS to Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04, which shows the regression clearly in some of the benchmarks, like the Xonotic one, where Ubuntu 24.04 is almost double the performance of Ubuntu 26.04.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/popos-2404-ubuntu-2604

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Quoting: TcheyI'm stuck on my 2015 idea, having a hard time to see anything else.

Should be free for all buyers of Planetary Annilations, not only Kickstarer's.

To be fair, a permanent discount down to 2,39€ for owners of PA is pretty reasonable.

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Looking forward to this one, especially since it's coming out on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_expanse_osiris_reborn

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I'm stuck on my 2015 idea, having a hard time to see anything else.

Should be free for all buyers of Planetary Annilations, not only Kickstarer's.

The previous game was not even finished, everyone was waiting for Titans's content, as a patch, not as a paid DLC.
They even removed the first Planetary Annihilation, so it won't get any update or support.

You paid for PA ? You want to play a updated and supported game ? So pay now for Titans.

It's one of the worst move from a videogames company i've seen these past years.

Maybe Titans is actually a good game. But all my already little support for the company is gone now.

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Quoting: ghostdoghttps://www.eurogamer.net/owlcat-gen-ai-expanse-osiris-reborn

Informative article. Thanks for the link.

The final version of the game will not have any art generated by the neural networks. The same goes for the final concepts. Everything will be original and drawn by professional artists. On our current projects, Rogue Trader and Pathfinder, AI was not used at all.

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovAs I'm aware, Gnome and KDE are most widely used Linux desktops, apparently. Also KDE seem to be most ahead desktop when coming especially to accessibility and monitor fraction scaling, while majority of others desktop environments (LXQt, LXDE, Mate, Fluxbox, Unity, Budgie), except of maybe XFCE are somewhat more obscure and way less used. Only Cinnamon seems more widely used but as I'm aware it's mainly Linux Mint exclusive.

I agree that Gnome and KDE Plasma are certainly the top players. Mate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum). XFCE is widely available on almost every distro, usually offered as a third option to Gnome or Plasma. I use it myself.

As to Cinnamon, it is not restricted just to Linux Mint. There is an Ubuntu flavor. It's available both on LMDE and mainline Debian itself. I'm pretty sure I have seen a few GoL members who have mentioned that they're running the Cinnamon desktop on Arch and Fedora as well.

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Quoting: ridgeLooks like good fun, and doesn't seem to be using Unreal Engine or chasing the latest ray-tracing trend either, great! :)

I'd be surprised if it isn't Rebellion's own Asura engine.

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As I'm aware, Gnome and KDE are most widely used Linux desktops, apparently. Also KDE itself seem to be most ahead desktop when coming especially to accessibility and monitor fraction scaling, while majority of others desktop environments (LXQt, LXDE, Mate, Fluxbox, Unity, Budgie), except of maybe XFCE are somewhat more obscure and way less used. Only Cinnamon seems more widely used but as I'm aware it's mainly Linux Mint exclusive.

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Generally dislike ads with a vengeance, but this here ADS looking very promising! Instant wishlist.

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Looks like good fun, and doesn't seem to be using Unreal Engine or chasing the latest ray-tracing trend either, great! :)
I'll keep an eye on it.

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Quoting: PyreticWhy are they using a custom script? Does Steam not provide separate options for Linux x86 and Linux ARM?

Not sure but when Apple switched to its own Silicon CPUs, some games offered option to launch x68-64 and Silicon versions separately. This was prior to Steam's native Silicon support; choosing Silicon to launch the game used to disable some x68-64 features such as Steam Overlay.

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovYep, and... As I'm aware, there flat-out NO X11 desktop, AT ALL, strictly Wayland only... But for people using older apps or PC configurations that for some reason are working fine ONLY on X11 but NOT with Wayland, what they'll supposed to do? 🤔

Use Xubuntu, Lubuntu, or Ubuntu-MATE (which really should be called Mubuntu)?

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Serious Sam 1 & 2 are good coop madness LAN memories 🥰

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Oh, neat. I was waiting for a good time for a next playthrough, wanted to try some of the overhaul mods.
Might just wait until one of those catch up with the expansion content.

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Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

It wasn't clear from the article whether it's a regression, some major improvement in KDE, or something else. Would be nice if he compared with GNOME 49 and/or some other desktop environments to give a better idea. If it *is* a regression, hopefully they can track it down quickly. The differences were pretty large in some cases.

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Serious Sam is a cool series. I remember back in the day seeing the first one on Extended Play on TechTV, then going to CompUSA and buying it. I took it to school and burned a copy for a guy in my one computer class and we played co-op over the network that day. Great use for those (at the time) spankin' new ATI All-in-Wonders. Same goes with the UT2K3 demo and the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory demo too. lol

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I hope they have a 4 pack with a decent rebate at launch so I don't have to pay full price for the whole family.

As far as I remember Valve blocked the creation of multi-packs a good while ago. Something about have games in inventories leading to trading from regions with low regional pricing.

That's super lame of them. I highly doubt that it was that much of a problem. Though fuck Valve anyways for screwing over Argentina (and others) by taking away their regional pricing.

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Gnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

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It's a shame a modern Alienstorm game can't be made. Loved those simple yet cool side scrollers.

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Yep, and... As I'm aware, there flat-out NO X11 desktop, AT ALL, strictly Wayland only... But for people using older apps or PC configurations that for some reason are working fine ONLY on X11 but NOT with Wayland, what they'll supposed to do? 🤔

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Quoting: Eocene84

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

I can imagine it looking similar enough for a lawsuit, but I would have thought the remedy for that would be changing the look, rather than the name.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eocene84They might get a c&d for having Alien in the title. But I'm defintely interested.

Alien is a word, I don't think anyone can claim it as intellectual property. There might be specific cases where it could be trademarked, but it's like with Apple--they can sue you for calling a computer an apple, but they can't sue you for calling an apple an apple. In this case, the game is calling an alien an alien. I don't think that's actionable.

Because the product looks similar enough that Disney could argue it could confuse consumers. I'm not saying I want that to happen. Just saying I wouldn't be surprised if they had to change the name.

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The demo is quite fun and runs well on the Steam Deck. Wishlisted.
Thanks for the heads up!

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