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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 December 2024 at 2:48 pm UTC

So many issues.

Move forward backwards was rebindable, but go up down ladders was permanantly WS with no way to change, this means you can basically never rebind movement.

Y is unusable. You can bind it to something else but it has some hidden permanant function like swap weapon which is unchangeable and that means the button press will do both things which is idiotic.

Melee is not changeable. I always always always use a mouse button for melee, so ..................

Flashlight is all screwed up, middle mouse sometimes, but also a different keybind. I can't remember what happens when I tried to change this, but it didn't work.

And more and more and more.

This is like ultra ultra basic game functionality 101. If such a low level easy thing like this is all screwed up then I shudder to think about the bugs in the game world itself.

Sony buy up KADOKAWA shares to become largest shareholder of the FromSoftware parent company
19 December 2024 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 5

... and another one bites the dust, another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.


Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 December 2024 at 2:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

110 gb patch. That's just absurd, are you basically just redownloading the entire game?

Also, I have one big question: did they fix the key bindings for kb/m at all? I played at a friends house and was astonished that such a basic functionality was totally broken.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
19 December 2024 at 2:16 pm UTC

lol I've been 100% linux for years now, on three totally different devices! I play games on:

desktop - at home solo (linux fedora)
htpc - at home with friends (linux popos)
deck - on the go or for retro (linux arch)

this year two games dominated my play:
starfield
rogue trader

I absolutely loved rogue trader, such a damn good game.

System76 release a refreshed Pangolin laptop with AMD Ryzen 8945HS - plus hardware on sale
19 December 2024 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

This looks like a great linux based laptop, but I have to say that if I am ever in the market for a laptop again (unlikely as work provides me one for free) then I would probably go with framework.

As for desktops, I'm seriously considering a system76 for my next one, which will be next year after the radeon 8xxx cards are launched. It'll just depend on price.

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 brings AAA gaming to Apple Silicon with Linux
17 December 2024 at 5:27 pm UTC Likes: 4

Interested to see how the performance of the M class chips are compared to nvidia 4xxx or radeon 7xxx cards. Is there a comparison anywhere?

Stoneshard major upgrade brings an upgradable fast-travel caravan system, cooking, new locations and more
17 December 2024 at 2:37 pm UTC

man alive, they are actually doing big updates! This is great. I will re-add it to my wishlist. I had this on my wishlist forever, but after a long time with no updates, I thought it was a dead project. Hoping it can actually exist EA sometime soon.

New Arc Line is a promising new RPG about the conflict between Magic and Engineering
12 December 2024 at 6:02 pm UTC

This is a definite "put on the wishlist, check back in a year" type of game, but the overal concpet and initial game seems great, so will definitely not forget about it.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy is a party-based RPG from the devs of ATOM RPG now in Early Access
12 December 2024 at 6:00 pm UTC

I'm playing Trudograd right now! And I've had this game on my wishlist since they released an alpha stage demo a while back. Will definitely get this on release.

Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with more customisation and secrets in update 2.2
11 December 2024 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

"finish poe2" .... BAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! You and I both know there's no such thing LOLOLOL

Interesting that CDPR partnered with a 3rd party to do this update. I wonder why. Maybe they're helping them with other games right now and it was something to fill a short downtime?

I played the game all the way through right before the big huge phantom liberty patch. Apparently it's like an entirely new game after that expansion, so in a few years I'll probably give it another go.

Overall I thought it was a fine game, nothing groundbreaking or memorable, but still fun.