Quoting: williamjcmThe hypervisor bypass actually harms performance, by the way. I remember a post comparing performance in RE9 between the legit version and the actual crack, but the "legit" side of it was actually with the bypass applied, while the actual, unmodified game actually performed on par with the cracked version.

Pirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

We're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

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Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?

As Liam said, it's available on Steam (which is where I bought it) and it works great with Proton. If you're using it on the Steam Deck, you'll want to login to your Microsoft account from desktop mode first, but it will then work just fine in Game Mode.

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I am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.

Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!

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Quoting: voytrekkI think the only thing that Valve should be punished on is the fact that you cannot use another marketplace to trade items. It locks users into a single marketplace that Valve just happens to collect a fee on each transaction. Either take away the fee or allow other marketplaces to compete with Valve.

You want another marketplace to be able to compete with Valve on selling digital items hosted on Valve's platform...?

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So they're going to start suing every other company that used Loot boxes, right? EVERY other company that used Loot boxes, RIGHT? Or is this selective bullshit

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Quoting: JarmerI'm not a huge controller user (only on deck) so I'm wondering: isn't this just recreating the steam community layouts feature? Why not just utilize that?

Author of SteamInputDB here

Well, the community features of Steam are not really that great - And have been not that great for ~10 years...
The filter and sorting options especially.

Additionally, it's not really that obvious to some people when it comes to sharing specific configs on third party platforms like Reddit / Discord, etc.

The website is at the current stage what I would consider the absolute bare minimum viable product.
Just imagine what it could be in a few months from now with proper and more direct SteamClient integration and community features Steam lacks

As someone who plays only on my Steam Deck, this tool is a godsend already. Just being able to filter by the controller I'm using RIGHT NOW rather than "any controller that's attached to my Steam account" is immense. It's so frustrating to go to the Steam Community layout for controller configs and the first 7 entries are for an Xbox controller, a Dualsense controller, and a Dualshock 4, before finally finding Steam Deck, WHILE ON MY STEAM DECK.

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It's funny reading the comments to this because I wonder how many actually read through the article.

This is the compromise we could hope for; if they're going to keep demanding an age verification, having that verification instead ONLY on the host device instead of it being face or ID scanning, and that host device simply sending a signal to any requesting site, etc, that "this user is in this age bracket", that's about as secure as you could hope for while still meeting a requirement for an age check, especially if it remains as just a "enter your birthdate" text box at the setup of an OS. It keeps the onus of verification off the website providers, which means user account creation isn't required to verify age because it can just ask for the proper flag from your OS or app provider, and is better for privacy overall than what others are proposing.

The BEST for privacy, of course, would be to never have to ask for that information in any way, shape, or form, but it appears that bridge has already been burnt, so we're now just hunting for the best and most secure and privacy-enabling compromise without just streaming your damn face to every web page 24/7 while you're using it.

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Monster Hunter Wilds and Everspace 2 have been my poison this month, with a healthy majority of it streamed from GeForce Now while I was playing docked to my TV.

THAT SAID, both are actually playable on the Deck natively, they both just suffer from the same thing: specific environments will drop the frames down to the mid 20s (Planets for Everspace 2, Windward Plains for MHWilds), and the amount of upscaling required can sometimes render the game difficult to read; less of an issue with Wilds just because the monsters are as big as they are.

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Man, it's about time. Feels like they've been on 0.9.9 for years, though I understand the issues they were facing before a big 1.0 update.

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Everyone needs to check out Deep Snow Delivery [External Link] as well. Should work perfectly on Linux, as it's doing fine on my Deck (lower the Snow Heightfield Resolution to low, other settings to medium, target 30 FPS), and is just a fun experience from the get go.

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