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Quoting: randylCongrats to Wube. It's a smart decision. Even if everyone isn't playing CP2077, all of the media buzz will be around it. Personally, I think they should have waited until a month after that release when the buzz starts to die down. Like Witcher 3, I think CP2077 has been vastly overhyped and overrated. My guess is that it will be more flash and "edge" than substance (like TW3) and meatier games like Factorio will have a longer stronger appeal. But that's an easy call to make from my office chair. :P

That's got to be a minority opinion there. I rate TW3 as probably the best game made to date on any platform. Saying Factorio is meatier just means the artful side of your brain doesn't like to be entertained that much.

We can agree on one thing, that my opinion about TW series is in the minority.

I see you had to make a personal attack on my ability to appreciate art as a way to undermine my opinion rather than give reasons why you think TW3 is clearly superior above its peers. Does that mean you have nothing of merit to offer the conversation or were maybe just too lazy to write out something thoughtful?

So, why do you consider TW3 "the best game made to date on any platform"? Because that's a strong claim and I think you would be in the minority with that opinion. It's one thing to say TW3 is overrated and another to claim it's the best game ever made on any platform with absolutely no support for that argument.

My artful side does enjoy being entertained, just not by overrated mediocre titles popular with the masses. I'm not a huge fan of Fortnite or Justin Bieber either. Art appreciation is a matter of taste and preference.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingUser agent reports that information:
https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent [External Link]

I don't see anything about the distro in mine:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

So I'd consider it a very unreliable method for that.

In Fedora I have an extension that modifies my user agent and reports my OS.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Maybe Ubuntu (and it's many children) have something like that? Dunno, just throwing that out there. No comment on the reliability of it all either. I haven't looked at their data collection methods at all.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPEpic just has the better deals for developers.

My hope is that Valve will wake up from its slumber and starts giving developers better deals as well. A cut lower than the absurd 30% would be a very good start.

Concerning the game at hand, it does suck for Feral I imagine, but I was never interested in the "Saga" series to begin with. Too limited in scope.

Interesting that you hope Valve changes its fee schedule for "developers" while not mentioning all the other stores that still charge 30% (with no sliding scale like Valve) and these "poor developers" happily sell their games on.... PlayStation, Xbox, Win10 Store, iOS App Store, Google Play Store, Nintendo. What's up with singling out Valve on this? Why do gamers buy into the propaganda that this is a Valve problem?

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The "Purchase" link at the top of the Total War: Troy site directs to their Steam page. To me that says they didn't plan this out from the get go. That's a laugh.

The thing is with most of the Epic exclusives they've been overhyped mediocre titles that are forgotten in a year. Creative Assembly has been rubber stamping Total War games like they're Ubisoft. It's not like this is a masterpiece we'll miss out on. It's more like being forced to wait for a 50% off holiday sale.

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Congrats to Wube. It's a smart decision. Even if everyone isn't playing CP2077, all of the media buzz will be around it. Personally, I think they should have waited until a month after that release when the buzz starts to die down. Like Witcher 3, I think CP2077 has been vastly overhyped and overrated. My guess is that it will be more flash and "edge" than substance (like TW3) and meatier games like Factorio will have a longer stronger appeal. But that's an easy call to make from my office chair. :P

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Quoting: edoVery cool, but I also realized that if you use proton without steam you will not get any advantage, so this is a way to lock Linux players to steam

That's a silly baseless claim. Proton is a custom wine compile and has nothing to do with shader pre-loading or its advantages. Lock-in means something can only be accessed through that lock or gate. Pre-caching shaders in no way locks anyone into anything. There is no lock-in here.

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Is there a way to check which games are using Vulkan shader preloading? When I first enabled it I saw Borderlands 3, No Man's Sky, ARK, and maybe Elite Dangerous, but I'm not sure about the last one.

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I've tried the first game and flopped with it. ARPGs and hack-n-slash are a favorite genre but I just couldn't click with it. I'm tempted to reinstall it and give it another go.

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Google has a reputation for being horribly unreliable with their services and apps. Why would I dump money into a service that won't likely live more than a couple years before it is put into maintenance mode or mothballed completely. I have more confidence in Microsoft and Amazon (barely) than I do Google. And with Google all their apps and efforts feel like second rate knockoffs of better solutions. There isn't a single Google app or service that offers a better experience than a competitor. They're cheap or "free", but not better.The problem being

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Quoting: Liam DaweI am aware randyl, it was added as an update to the previous article talking about the source release, which is linked in the top of this article.

Quoting: randylIn my opinion FOSS supporters don't realize how little 'the rest of the world' knows about software licensing, permissive open source, and FOSS/copy-left open source. The OSI has not done a great job educating and providing clarity. I'll venture to guess that many software developers and Linux users don't understand the difference and implications between 'open source' and FOSS/copy-left open source. My point is, let's be understanding and not condescending and judgemental about mistakes or misunderstandings. Most of us are still on a learning journey.

Yes, we're in agreement there.

I'm sorry if my post came across as instructional, it wasn't intended that way. It seemed apparent you knew all that. I was just adding my opinion in addition.

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