Quoting: ShmerlSo West of Loathing now comes with Vulkan renderer?

Unity does, yes.

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The first game is quite short and the gameplay is nothing special, but the humour was top notch. They're definitely playing to their strengths with a sequel all about comedy. :)

I'll have to give this a go.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: x_wingYou have to practice. The game seems to not have any driving assistance (out of the acceleration control) so a minimum error is catastrophic. Be gentle with the throttle, use the brake and search for the path where your wheels never loose grip (i.e. avoid loosing wheel contact with the floor as much as you can).

Beginner's question: Do you do full throttle from the start?

You get a flying start, I don't see why not. The second corner is where it gets tricky. And then it's all about managing your line. The next time I properly floor it is after my car is safely on the metal grid of the banked turn and pointing in the right direction.

BTW: I finally realised that I can actually switch to a better camera angle (using the back button) and this definitely helps me get a feel for the car. I can pretty consistently hit times between 29.200 and 29.400 now, but I think that's about my limit with the gamepad.

EDIT: Oh and at this point I'm pretty sure this game will be high on my wishlist when it goes final.

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Quoting: tuubidoes restricting chat abuse make the game experience significantly worse for anyone? Does it make the game less approachable for their target market? If not, I don't see why Valve should care. If this "spicy banter" isn't what makes the game enjoyable for the general player base and attracts new players, this move is a good one.

The problem is that censorship generally starts out as something "innocent" and well-meaning. But never stays that way.

All slopes are slippery?

Quoting: TheSHEEEPJust look at the recent nonsense happening with Github renaming "master" to whatever, because apparently the word master itself cannot be said anymore, no matter the context (bad news for anyone who has a master's degree like my GF, their degree is now racist, or who accomplished mastery of some skill)...

Agreed. Master isn't an offensive term in a context where there's no concept of slaves, like git branches or academic degrees.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSucks for you that your experience makes you unable to deal with even the slightest forms of verbal abuse in the form of "kaka-language", but this isn't true for most people who actually play these games and there is therefore no need to censor anything or restrict anyone playing these games.
If some real racists, etc. turn up in these games and start letting their nonsensical views loose, they are generally identified and dealt with quickly, but some frustrated venting or spicy banter has nothing to do with that.

Ignoring the rest of the discussion (and your thinly veiled insult right here), does restricting chat abuse make the game experience significantly worse for anyone? Does it make the game less approachable for their target market? If not, I don't see why Valve should care. If this "spicy banter" isn't what makes the game enjoyable for the general player base and attracts new players, this move is a good one.

You don't need to play this game if you just want to trade insults. The Internet is full of venues for that sort of thing.

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Quoting: PatolaFinally, one curiosity/question I have. You just said his words have negative consequences. You never even touched the merit of whether they are true or not. Doesn't it matter? If he says something that is absolutely true but it has "likely negative consequences" according to your take on the subject, must Brazil's president should also be censored/cancelled/deplatformed? And we're talking about one of the most powerful persons of a culture you don't even belong to, imagine what you want to do with the little joes of your own culture.

Snipped the quote down to the important bit, but you really did go for all the right-wing keywords in your post, didn't you? :D

Your point about the "truth" of his words is more than a bit disingenuous. As you said yourself, we're talking about ideology here, not easily verifiable statements. Policies are true if their effects pan out as claimed. Nobody can accurately feel the truth, no matter what certain public figures say.

Let's see, what are Bolsonaro's policies again? Loosening up gun control to increase security? Doesn't really seem to work that way, the US serving as a prime example. Working against efforts to legalize abortion? Well I guess the only goal here is to make certain Christian groups happy, so I guess this pans out, no matter the negative consequences. Privatizing state-owned companies and essential services to boost the economy? Sure, this has pretty much never been a net positive for the general population but it might push up the GNP I suppose, and make the rich even richer. And how about denying deforestation and climate change, getting out of the Paris agreement? To an outsider, this one looks like just another favour to rich landowners and businesses at the expense of Brazilians and the world for generations to come. But at least he thinks people should all carry guns so they can fight the law when they decide they don't like it. Freedom to fail spectacularly, amiright?

Go ahead, cry "fake news" on anything and everything you disagree with, regardless of merit. It will make all reasoned debate impossible, but that ship has sailed I suppose.

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Already on my wishlist. :)

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Quoting: barottoI remember playing the first one on a 286 @ 10MHz with 1MB of RAM back in the day.

I'm pretty sure I played it on an Amiga 500 @ 7MHz with 512 KB of RAM. Did I win? :wink:

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Quoting: s0laIt looks really nice, but feels just a bit "lonley" or empty..

I bet it feels a little less lonely when they get around to implementing multiplayer. :)

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Quoting: CatKillerI was getting some framerate drops every ~5 seconds that are completely gone running it in Proton.

I couldn't make it stutter even by bumping up the render resolution to the maximum 400%. I wonder why it ran so much worse for you?

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: DuncSo come on then... times. :smile: Anyone manage a sub-30s run yet? I did a 30.4 and it nearly killed me.

29.515, but i'm not good with controllers :( need my wheel support lol

I just started it up again to see if the controls were actually bad or if I was just tired last night. And got 29.284 on my second run. :P

Yeah I guess the handling is not quite as horrible as it felt the first time I tried, but the car still feels more floaty than I'd expect from a 4WD open wheel buggy on loose sand.

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