LOL that's true!

So this'll be an interesting experiment. Here are the people I'm moving to Mint from win10:

1 - 44 yr old close friend - very tech savvy - mostly used for work - should be easy I think.
2 - his ~75 yr old mother - least tech savvy human being on earth - but only uses computer for solitaire and email, nothing else. I think I can make it work.
3 - 60 yr old close friend - medium tech savvy - laptop is older but works totally fine - I think this is the one I'm most worried about.

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WOOOO! I love a good next fest!!! Always discover some cool new games :)

side note: something is super wrong with the steam desktop app for the next fest home page. At least for me. The top recommendations for me are "parkour time attack anime third person" games. I have absolutely zero interest in that whatsoever, and have exactly 0 games in my library with those tags.

Then moving down, the next recommended category is "minigames games" (terrible recommendation) and the next recommended category after that is "soundtrack games" (terrible recommendation) and then it goes to "all titles".

It's like they swapped my recommendation profile for a total stranger?

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I'm moving several friends over to linux because of the hilarious shoot-self-in-foot fiasco by microsoft, and I'm using Mint for all of them. Seems the most user friendly coming from windows.

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It's just a sad decision for me, because I would LOVE to play this for a few mins at night on my Deck, but without a proper camera angle, it's not going to happen, so maybe I'll check back in a year or so and see if they eventually added it.

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WHOA. that's some wild stuff right there, SUPER cool!!!!

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Just want to double down on the last line item in the article: EA is now owned by some of the most horrifyingly disgusting human beings on the planet, so should be avoided at all costs.

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So I did wind up trying this last night on the Deck, and ....... I don't understand it. For me it's completely unplayable, but I just don't even understand how that happened.

This is a vehicle driving game.

You cannot position the camera behind the vehicle.

The camera is locked at a bizarre isometric side angle that changes randomly as you drive along but is NOT controllable by the player. I couldn't even get past the intro area as I was constantly crashing into everything because I cannot see where I'm going. I wound up driving off the road getting stuck multiple times and had to restart the entire area. As soon as I picked up my very first mission to haul stuff, within like 2 seconds I had crashed into a brick wall BECAUSE I CANT SEE WHERE THE HELL IM GOING and dropped the package and failed the mission.

It's absolutely beyond baffling how this is a driving game that doesn't have a camera behind the vehicle. Just writing this, I'm thinking "...what? ..."

edit: I went to the steam discussions (which I often don't do these days anymore because they're such a cesspool, but I digress) and checked and sure enough there at the top is a thread complaining about the bizarre camera and steering (exactly as I have above) and here's the dev's response:

So the camera angle while driving on more isometric roads is a part of the game's design, however we noticed quite a lot of players having issues with the exact same thing when we showcased the game on PAX West earlier this year.

We probably won't change the general steering mechanic, however also understand that it needs to be fine-tuned to address the matter you described. We wanted the camera to be more useful for transporting cargo and feel like this 'side view' angle helps with controlling the cargo better than with a 3rd person view. Can't yet tell if we will introduce the camera-relative control scheme but we might offer couple camera options in the game's setting.

Let me get this straight. They KNOW that "lots" of players hate this design decision and go "we know. we won't change it."

Amazing.

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oh man this is a great support! Thank you for highlighting this.

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This an Aether & Iron are two surprise demos that I get to try today! I'll try the A&E on my desktop during lunch, and then tonight after the kids go down I'll try this truckful demo in bed. Super excited for this one since I've had it on my wishlist forever.

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This is terrible news. SS2 is one of my all time favs. Knowing Nightdive, the quality of the remaster will be complete garbage, full of bugs, completely broken, or some combination of all three of those things. So then if you want a non-trash version of the game, it'll just cost a TON more. Wonderful.

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