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Quoting: GustyGhostRemember fellow pirat er, gamers, tools like this hold increasing value in an age of games being selectively withdrawn from PC.

I was gonna simply report it with a thoughtful comment, but then decided that it might do more good to share my personal opinion publicly (and potentially receive other opinions of what we are or want to be):

I get it that piracy is normal or even necessary for certain demographics (inequality is quite bad even inside countries or districts 😔!). But I don't think we should risk skirting quite that far this line of permitted speech about content punishable by those who hold power in our globalized society. I don't believe these power structures or their very selective enforcement are fair. (Corporations scraping for AI training data being another egregious example of this, also undermining even more semblance of a rules-based society; On the other hand, I'm glad copyrights are far less strictly enforced in poorer countries (in my experience)).

I wouldn't mind the comment quite as much if the commenter were risking mentioning punishable activities in order to provide more substantive value to the community AND they were subtle about it. There is a time and place to fight the power, but I feel this comment would be as valuable without allusions to piracy.

Any thoughts?

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Quoting: dimkoWhen comes to actual coding - game was and still is in poor optimization state.

The game has also had a huge RAM and VRAM leak in the Vulkan Linux build for a long time now, it's not present in the OpenGL version but the downside of that is that performance isn't as good.
Apparently the leaks aren't present in the Vulkan Windows builds but unfortunately running the game with Proton gets you kicked from servers with the anti-cheat enabled which is required for crossplay.

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ended up picking up old world , it was on my wishlist for a good while but at 90% off for only about 4usd its hard to beat even if idk when i'll get around to it

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Quoting: voxAlso I was under the impression that this site's position was somewhat apolitical.

To paraphrase the best surrealist Spanish film of all time; "I am apolitical. On the right, like my father all his life." [Amanece que no es poco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Breaks,_Which_Is_No_Small_Thing)

I've put the above because your nickname is the same as the current biggest far-right party in Spain.

Being "apolitical" does not exist. Every single action carries political weight, and if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Quoting: voxGreat Britain

LOL. Do you have any real information?

Quoting: eggroleWhat's the old saying: if you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable?

Revolutions ARE violent. You picking on racialized people is NOT a revolution.

Quoting: eggroleThere are plenty of people today that see the forced acceptance of your ideas as "the man", particularly when the governments of the world seem to enforce these views...

Even if this were true, which it isn't, let's do a little imagination game.

The government enforcing equal rights to LGBTQ+ and racialized people does not hurt anyone.
The government cutting mental health support, transitioning opportunities and acceptance of refugees, kills people.

The government investing in Palantir, ICE and the military, kills people.
The government funding medical, educational and infrastructure services, saves people.

Quoting: eggroleRape gangs in Europe

Are these the [gang rapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Manada_rape_case) you refer to?

They are all Spanish, and one of them a member of the Civil Guard (Military police).

And if anything on the above didn't make it clear; I'm here for the Chiapas and Rojavas of the world. To stand with the Mapuches, the Berbers and Inuits. To support Cubans, Palestinians and Iranians. To align with the Irish and Basque.

Fuck being nice to Fascists and Nazis. Fuck capitalist policies that enable racism, neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism.

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Quoting: SakuretsuNow I just need to wait for Fedora to update their packages.

The negativo17 "fedora-multimedia" repo has it.

When I looked before I only saw the beta version there.
Gonna give it another look.

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Quoting: robvvMaybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?

"How to drop your market share from 1% to 0.1% in one simple step"

So they have a smaller market share than Linux, then? ;-)

I don't want to get too deep into it, but a quick google search says Epic has 3% in PC games market. If you exclude fortnite, 1% is probably still too generous. Personally, I don't know anyone who bought anything from Epic (including the few people who play Fortnite), so in my bubble it's pretty much Steam, then GOG, then itch, then nothing. ;-)

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nvidia has been cooking with drivers lately. which is suprising.
595 drivers (compared to 580 and 590) gave be pretty nice perf boost. Not that i had issues with perf before that, but always nice to gain some more.
no issues to report so far.

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Quoting: robvvMaybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?

"How to drop your market share from 1% to 0.1% in one simple step"

So they have a smaller market share than Linux, then? ;-)

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Some more games meeting the "under £5" criteria that I played oh so many hours on Linux (but not always Steam Deck):

- Insurgency (2014)
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
- UnEpic
- My Time At Portia
- Suzerain
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Kingdom Rush
- Tropico 4
- FINAL FANTASY VIII
- Driver® Parallel Lines
- SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech

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Quoting: SakuretsuNow I just need to wait for Fedora to update their packages.

The negativo17 "fedora-multimedia" repo has it.

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This news comes shortly after Epic Games raised the price of Fortnite V-Bucks, the virtual currency you spend in Fortnite. While the price is actually the same, they've reduced the amount of V-Bucks you get, so Epic games did some virtual shrinkflation.

why is that even necessary? they control the whole ecosystem. just make the production of skins an item cheaper. have coding-slaves or whatever helps with that ;-)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.

So, Linux support?

don't hold your breath. sweeney has made hostile remarks about linux in the past.

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Would be nice to see this get pulled into GE-Proton. Would probably need some mechanism for whitelisting games to use it.

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EE-like zoom is now available in all games, just set “Zoom Lock” to 0 in the gem-*.ini file in your game folder.

Single most important feature added here, imo. One of those small quality of life things that make a huge difference.

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Quoting: robvvMaybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?

"How to drop your market share from 1% to 0.1% in one simple step"

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Quoting: omer666Maybe with a 30% cut they could have kept all these people... just saying...

Wouldn't that require them to be actually selling games on their store?

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Quoting: dimkoI wonder how much performance is shit to do with the fact that all environment but traders is completely destructible?

Probably most of it. It is extremely hard to do decent optimisation when everything it the world can change. I've played since A16 and both performance and visuals have gone up since then, so they've done a decent bit of work. But yeah, it will never be like something that renders a static world.

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Maybe now's the time for Epic to stop giving away free games each week?

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Maybe with a 30% cut they could have kept all these people... just saying...

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Quoting: BumadarSo the game is out on the pc, it is utterly brilliant (finished it on the ps5) but because future ps5 games might not come to the pc your not buying it. You do understand that if enough people do this they are kind of making the point for Sony because of low sales right? Having massive sales would actually show them the error of their ways.

except Sony's stopping PC ports because they want absolute control over their consumers, not because of low sales. so no, massive sales would not show them the error of their ways.

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Quoting: SeegrasI chose 4k, because when I had a weak GPU, I could just run stuff in 1080p at exactly double the pixels in both dimensions.

But it turned out, resolution really matters, and if I could run something at 4k while lowering shadow quality and such (but not textures) it always looked better.

I do the opposite, I would rarely compromise on shadows, reflections or lighting. Doesn't need to be highest setting (Ultra/Epic), but I avoid Low and Medium because these change the visuals too much or have too many artifacts. Upscaling is the best way to still get High settings while staying above 60fps.

1080p is fine for TV which is on other side of the room, but on desktop, 1440p output is a must, otherwise the UI looks blurry (even with upscaling). On the other hand, gaming 1080p on laptop or 720p on handheld is totally fine.

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For me it would be Grim Dawn, Into the Breach (when a new PC game Subset Games?) and CARRION. I didn't play the others.

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Epic Games aka the fortnite company

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Quoting: eggroleThese were middle of the road people with concerns that have largely been proven true. Housing prices have increased not only because of reckless fiscal policies, but because there are literally more people competing for the same houses.

They are _many_ empty housing around here, many houses that are empty except for 2 months/year, or flats that are only available to rent by the week (I live near the coast). Yet according to the far-right at our municipal elections last week this would be caused by immigrants: that's pure out-of-nowhere bullshit.

Quoting: eggroleRape gangs in Europe (again I am not well versed) seem like they are far too common - and the demographics are clear.

Not common AFAICT. My Asian-typed wife has certainly had more issues with European-typed people than any other population groups. Sample of 1 I know, but certainly better than “I am not well versed” sample of 0.
BTW how can you say that the “demographics are clear” and that you are “not well versed” in the same sentence??? Do you realize how biased and ultimately racist that is?

Quoting: eggrolePublic services are being spread thinner, again because (among possible other reasons) there are more people to service.

Without immigration our population would actually decrease. The state is encouraging us to make more babies and will send all 29-yo a letter about this this summer. In fact the far-right are the main ones urging people to make more babies. So that's not the issue being public services. It only shows some people value French-born babies higher than immigrants…
That also invalidates the point about population increase being the issue with housing BTW.

Quoting: eggroleIn the USA we are seeing investigation after investigation on fraud that is often done by migrants (though all fraud should be dealt with, this isn't a migrant issue really until you look at the demographics).

Good for you if the biggest fraud is by the groups of people with the less income! (Sorry I can help but being sarcastic on that point.)
Around here the prime example would probably be Google et al not paying their taxes as they should, and Ireland being complicit. Then comes to mind [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_assistants_affair) affair about our main far-right party getting people employed by the European Parliament but not actually working there.
Again the biggest frauders are often the people/companies with the biggest incentive to fraud: people moving more money around.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy[snip...]
Anyone else who's been saying "Oh but the problem is we aren't being nice enough to the fascists" can take this as a response to them too.

This is what you get when Purple Library Guy get angry and rightly so: a masterclass. ❤️
I would just add, we perfectly know the tactics of the far-right and confusion of ideas is one of them...
And also putting their ideas at the same level of the far-left like "it's extremism either way" is so wrong and dangerous, it shows a profound lack of culture and history.
How many people I heard confusing the two is so heartbreaking, these politics (and big Digital/Social Networks corps participating too) know exactly what they're doing.

[joke]Liam, I tried to add 100 Likes to his post but I can't get it work. Is this a bug? Can you check it out? 🤔 [/joke]

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Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

I'd really love to hear in what way you have to pay to win.

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Quoting: Eocene84Never heard of Behavior Interactive before. IMO, this reeks of cashing out, as I don't really hear about people playing this in any significant number anymore. I'll be anything the game will be loaded with MTX soon.

Behaviour Interactive are the people who made Dead by Daylight, if that means anything to you.

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I am generally an asshole.
And here I won't be exception.
I sunk thousands of hours in 7DTD, I IS a good game.
But for decades all improvements were pure coming in regards to looting tweaking/vehicles and increase of textures of the game.

When comes to actual coding - game was and still is in poor optimization state.
I have decent rig. 7900 XTX, 1440P. I have mid/high settings without path tracing but with ray tracing and without frame generation, 60-100 fps, in Cyberpunk 2077, usually around 70-80 FPS. It looks fantastic.

This game, 10 years in development, looked like shit 10 years ago, still does now.(it did improve, but again, at expense of textures + added a few nice lightning effects). Outside of major cities - it performs A OK. Not an eye candy, but around 100 FPS. But go inside of mid/high populated cities and its a slug fest.expect frame drops, and 40FPS. Still no human/raider AI yet.

I wonder how much performance is shit to do with the fact that all environment but traders is completely destructible?
But yeah, looks like someone is about to retire.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

It's all little kids now. Not sure exactly when the shift happened, but Fortnite's audience has skewed to elementary aged kids.

Source: Am a teacher, and I listen to the kids talk.

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I like their style of adventure/horror games, hopefully this one does well because if not I'm afraid this will be the last one. Supermassive had some big layoffs in the past years, so I don't have a positive outlook of the studio.

I blame some of that on the questionable decision to make their previous game based on a multiplayer IP (Dead by Daylight). If they completely ran out of fresh ideas, there are hundreds of horror movies/stories that are in public domain now that they could re-tell in a videogame. The worst place to look for a story is in a multiplayer game IP.

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