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Oh no, Unreal Engine 5!

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Very cool. I missed TimeSplitters when it came out somehow, it was just something other folks talked about. Looking forward to giving this a shot (and hearing about how accurate a remake it is).

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Meanwhile I'm playing Bloodlines 2 - it's quite different from original Bloodlines, but it's not bad.

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I was just wondering what happened to this game and now I now. I wanted to play it when it came out, but it wouldn't work with Proton back then, so I never got to try it.

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Interestingly, this is one of the Denuvo titles that was actually cracked a couple of years ago.

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I am starting to develop a serious contempt for devs not releasing the server files when they shut down a game. There is really zero reason not to. You're commercially done with that game, so no harm done.

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Good to see! Not sure I love this series enough to buy after Denuvo is in the bin, but at least buying it is an option now.

I'm always a bit torn on buying after removal. At the end of the day, Denuvo has already flicked their finger at paying customers, and had their slice of the pie, a slice that won't have been applied to the developers, artists, music, or quality assurance. So it's got to be something I love before I'll pull the trigger.

Looking at the Denuvo-encumbered titles out now, I'd say that list is probably quite small: Hifi Rush, and Deathloop are the only two certainties. I also have a weird craving to play Strange Brigade, even though it's over seven years old now. And I'd probably have tried the Persona series by now too.

So yeah, Denuvo can still get in the sea. But if it can piss off outta those games there, I might consider purchasing them!

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Nice! Unfortunately I seldom use the store from the browser, most of the time I use the desktop or phone apps.

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I would have still preferred to see it implemented in Augmented Steam, but this is good!

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The game that taught me how to play FPS with a controller! I played about 3 hours of this, maybe, and it was enough to convince me that FPS games simply MUST be played Kbd/mouse... if you're me.

Of course, I've since played many, many Playstation FPS titles with a controller, but when Valve released Steam for Linux in 2013, I knew my time of torment was near an end!

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I'm amazed they've kept it going for three years with just 1000 average players a day. But yeah, not open-sourcing the back-end servers for preservation really is a kick in the nuts. Really sad.

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Only thing to change would be to replace the "A"'s in the "AI"'s in that text with "F"'s.

The tech is not A-worthy, it is a big F. Pun intended.

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It is a fun game. Recommended!

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

Looks like we have a competitor here. The license of the addon is MIT, you can start from that source code and build your version. You know... linux... open source... stuff like that .

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

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I honestly prefer userscripts to "proper" browser extensions, since it's that much easier to check the actual code running on my end, but that's just preference doing the talking.
Still, if you want to the heads-up this provides, it's the tool needed for the job. Too bad you can't exactly add this to the Steam client itself, that would have made it even more useful for those who need it.

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That's great news. The EPIC game store gave it away for free recently. I wonder if they'll do that again.

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Remember reading about this years ago, glad to see they finally reached the finish line!

Hope they add splitscreen

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I didn't know there was a "like" button at the end of the articles. Can I hit it like 5 more times?

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It's also free on luna apparently (if you have amazon prime).

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I do also have an instinctive "So, this company wants to make more money by just having people . . . give it to them for free?" If I give money it's gonna be to a charity. GOG may like trying to blur the line to pretend to be sort of partly a charity . . . but they aren't.

"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion, and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game company in Europe."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

I expect Ubisoft, for example, would also quite like people to just give them money on their Patreon.

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It seems like the people at Halo Studios saw SPv3 and figured they could make money doing the same thing.

I'll buy it anyway, though.

I'd prefer a remaster of Halo 3, still.

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I'm skeptical of the Linux experience due to the unreliability of the Master Chief Collection

This is completely independent of the MCC though, it's on Unreal Engine 5 which runs just as well (poorly) in Linux as Windows.

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@Cybolic: that is exactly right. If GOG collaborated in some capacity with the community that would've been a different story, and an actual feather in the preservation cap they so eagerly try to wear.

Instead, GOG has a history of piggybacking on the community efforts. I get they technically don't owe anyone anything, because at best this is a grey area (say, apparently there was a case of a correct(ed) image of video game optical media the dumping party had no license to distribute - that GOG happily used once it became available), and at worst perhaps not legal (cracked copy protection measures leading to piracy), but that is part of the entire point: preservation is morally obvious, but potentially legally dubious.

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I wish it will be good but I'm not trusting Stutter Engine 5.

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I only played through Kingdoms & Castles one time from what I remember, but I definitely liked it. This new game looks like it'll be good as well.

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The non-existing Linux client is – for me – a plus and a huge downside: I'm happy that I have stand-alone installers that have not been tainted by Galaxy-related stuff that introduces additional bugs – like the infamous 15 (?) seconds start delay when Galaxy is not running that some Windows versions have compared to the Steam version due to the naive coding of GOG's Steam crack. The downside is obvious – due to the missing Linux client, there is no Linux version of GOG's Steam crack and that is the reason of the many missing native Linux versions on GOG. In that sense, the people moaning about missing achievements are the cause of missing native versions of games.

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I'm skeptical of the Linux experience due to the unreliability of the Master Chief Collection when trying to play the campaign with friends. It works like 20% of the time, which is enough to make you believe it's possible, but 80% of the time you are just getting frustrated, wasting your time, and wishing you could get it back.

As to the game itself, yeah, I'd love to play it.

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I sure am seeing a lot of games in Unreal Engine 5 these days.

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If GOG made their preservation efforts open, instead of only for sale, I would be tempted to support them, but that's not what I'm seeing here. I'm seeing a corporate re-release program cosplaying as preservation.

By "making them open", I do not mean putting the games up for free, obviously, but some sort of effort to actually make sure the games continue to be able to run, outside of just buying them again.
This could be:

• Sharing compatible DOSBox configuration files for the original retail release of the game
• Sharing binary patches to ensure compatibility with a predefined Wine version
• Providing just some technical information about what issues a game might have with modern systems

in general, just anything that would actually help preservation efforts outside of them just being able to sell the game again.

Honestly, just a company statement about what they would do with their preservation efforts, should the company ever go under or discontinue the program, would go a long way to make it seem more like actual preservation.

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