Quoting: GuestAll AAA and many indie games have fake screenshots though.

You mean on store pages I assume? Exaggeration in any case.

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Quoting: liamdaweWow, how low are you settings? Mine looks nothing like that.

This is supposed to be Ultra. I would really like to see a screenshot from a similar location. The screenshot is Värmland, Sweden, Elgsjön (Sprint), Midday / Sunny.

i can make a screenshot tomorrow if someone doesnt beat me...

but yeah i dont remember seeing such a blocky shadows

I went shadow hunting last night, and true enough, if I drove right next to the snowbank in Sweden I did find some shadows with blocky edges. Never noticed them before either. They seem to be most noticeable in the cabin and dashboard views.

This doesn't mean that the screenie in the article is fake like Linas suggested. Environmental shadows look smooth enough if they're even a bit further away (or if you're actually moving). They wouldn't look blocky in that particular view.

Sorry, I didn't think of making that screenshot. Or checking my settings. I blame the flu and the fever. It did look similar to what Linas saw though.

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Quoting: GuestDirt Rally: has plenty of advertisements on the side of the roads.

I hate ads as well, but these I find very easy to ignore. In fact a Rally sim would be less realistic without them.

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Dirt Rally <3

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

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Quoting: LinasShadows in the game are not anything as smooth as that. They are quite blocky and jagged. The only nitpick I have with Dirt Rally.

Could it be your graphical settings or something? Because for me shadows look quite smooth, pretty much like in the screenshot.

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I'm looking forward to this one. Let's hope they can get it all sorted out.

Quoting: EikeLooks nice. I never heard of these adventures, are they good?

Homestuck is a web comic that has adventure game style narration, and it does include interactive content like minigames etc but it's not actually a game series. If you can take a gazillion levels of meta on top of meta, and have a high tolerance for weirdness and memes, go take a look at mspaintadventures.com [External Link]. I haven't read it all, but it's definitely worth a look.

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This seems just a bit simpler than using SteamCMD directly, so why not. The only Windows game I've personally downloaded from Steam is Tesla Effect (after the Linux port fell through), and I remember having to type three or four commands in the SteamCMD prompt to do that. Actually installing Steam on Wine seemed like overkill.

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Well this looks almost weird enough. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: GuestDebian derivatives and "stable" distributions are a waste of human resources anyway.

Must be tough for a die-hard fanboy to accept that these derivatives are so much more popular on the desktop than Debian itself. I don't think they're a waste as long as they provide some value for their users.

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Quoting: GuestCant play them on twitch... so youtube VODs :P

There's always smashcast.tv [External Link].

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotYou'll need to install the game using wine or extract it (don't know the tools for that) and extract the game.

The tool is innoextract and can be found in most distro repositories.

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