To be honest, it can use it. It might have looked somewhat good at the time, but it became dated pretty quickly. Some things look unbelievably poor, even for a decade ago. But this is also on the same engine and from the studio that did 'Dead Island', which is one of the worst-looking "modern era" games I've played. - Sorry to be so negative, but that game was so hard to look at that I had to stop playing it. It's just so... "noisy" or something, just hard on the eyes and higher settings don't clean anything up. I was baffled. I suppose it was very restricted by either the engine or console-limits or something.
That's not to say 'Dying Light' looks as bad, it's a big step up in multiple aspects, but it still clearly had its limitations with that same kind of "DNA". I really hope that they will update the poorer areas of the visuals, while hopefully also improving how it's oddly demanding even on recent hardware. - Otherwise implement some help like FSR and such. Considering it will probably NOT become any easier to run, they should definitely include that.
Regardless, I applaud their efforts, that's not the issue. :)

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I love freebies like this. Just something some people made cause they wanted to.
I know that sites like itch are full of that stuff, but often on Steam in particular stuff gets put up for commerce, which would be fair enough to ask money for your efforts. So it's nice to see projects like this to just take a look at. - And so I will check it out.

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Funny how 'Mirror's Edge' is "DRM-free", yet I have it on disc (for PC from the original release) and could not activate its code due to servers being down. I had to resort to digitizing my copy through Origin (which actually did recognize the years-old code) some time ago.

So much for the whole "physical is ownership" thing, huh... Cool that it's on GOG, though.

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Can we now have "Zoomer Shooter" as well then?... That is, for 'Fortnite' and anything like it.

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For people taking the "boomer"-term too literally/technically: While I agree it doesn't make sense, you know that it comes from the whole "OK, boomer!" expression, which basically means "OK, old person.", generally uttered by some kid. - So it's based on that, combined with that "boomer shooter" works well as a term.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaRDoes "Fixed Starfield not saving photos in photo mode." refer to the fact that it didn't save the photos in-game?

In which case, I don't understand, because while that was indeed an issue, somehow it resolved after a month or something, I think with patches for the game. - Perhaps it didn't work for all distros or devices or something, I don't know.

Yes it means in-game. It was fixed in Proton Experimental, which changes often, this is specifically for Proton 8.

Ah, got it! Thanks for explaining.

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Does "Fixed Starfield not saving photos in photo mode." refer to the fact that it didn't save the photos in-game?

In which case, I don't understand, because while that was indeed an issue, somehow it resolved after a month or something, I think with patches for the game. - Perhaps it didn't work for all distros or devices or something, I don't know.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaR...move to something like Manjaro, if not Zorin or Mint, as soon as their respective new versions are out probably, and I bet their developers are waiting for Plasma as well.

Neither Mint nor Zorin officially support KDE Plasma, I doubt they're waiting for it. Manjaro might be a better bet with their official KDE Plasma edition.

Well, I did not mean to imply that those have/support Plasma (or maybe I thought so, considering that last line, or I worded it wrong). I merely stated them as options I'm considering moving to. - Zorin in particular is a good one because it also lets you switch between environments (or at least styles) out-of-the-box, and I mentioned it regardless of the environment (which I believe is Gnome and Xfce).

But if it's just Gnome's file manager that you don't like, maybe give one of the other GTK-based options a try first? I'm personally very happy with Xfce's Thunar file manager. Should be available from Pop's default repositories.

I have tried a bunch installed to Pop, but they just don't cut it. - I don't understand why they feel like I'm back in the early-2000s again. - I mean, for example, why don't these file-explorers have per-folder settings? Such as, thumbnails for one, list-view for another. - It doesn't make sense to have text-files as thumbnails for example, but they WILL be thumbnails if I've chosen that while in a folder with pictures, but then navigate to a folder with images to thumbnails, cause the setting applies "globally" to the current viewport, not to the folder you're currently in. - (But I suppose that's due to the nature of the different file-systems Windows and Linux use.)

I also often can't add filters (as in, through the columns) that I need, such as picture-dimensions. Just because I can't add a filter/column for dimensions, I can't sort them to that, and I have to click each one to figure it out? - That's asinine.
And then there's the weirdness with sorting in general, which just seems so random and inconsistent that it seems broken.

Also small stuff like being able to double-click on a column-divider to resize it to the largest content below, or even drag the columns into the order I want quickly. - Details like that go a long way in productivity and just moving things along in general.

Even more basic stuff, such as why don't most of these file-explorers have "bars" for their drive-space or any indication at all?? - It's a thing you (at least I) check regularly, but I have to open up something like Disk Usage Analyzer separately to see that.

Again, it's not all the same with each file-explorer, I'm mentioning a bunch of things I found over this year of trying Linux. But file-exploring/organizing, which you do a LOT on a desktop computer, has felt very limited, clunky and basic. - I've tried a few popular ones, but they all seem like they're outdated and lack features. - That's one thing that Windows Explorer was an 8 or 9 out of 10 with (at least in Windows 7 and 10). - Though, I think Manjaro comes very close to having a fleshed-out enough interface in general that I don't feel left out of information or functionality, probably with the help of Plasma and Dolphin. - At least, last time I quickly tried Manjaro for just a few minutes, it was as if a blindfold came off, if you know what I mean. - It was just like: "Oh, I can finally see this and that, move and change this and that immediately. That's what I'm talking about and it seems I'm moving soon."

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Quoting: RedWyvern

I've actually never played this one, am I missing out on something here?

Yes, you absolutely are.

The game uses modern Tetris rules (outside of Classic mode), which differ wildly from traditional Tetris.
Initially they seem weird, quirky, maybe even glitchy, but they're very purposefully designed.
The more you get familiar with them, the more fun it gets to pull off weird tricks and score better in this way.
And a skill ceiling is practically non-existent, no matter how long you play you'll see (slow) improvements in your skill.

In the journey mode, they've pretty much turned Tetris in a spiritual experience, unlike any other game I'm aware of.
It's not shameful to start with beginner mode here if needed, this mode is an absolute must-play.

The effect modes all offer fun and unique spins on the Tetris gameplay, offering more variation than you'd expect from Tetris.
Don't be afraid of the online functionality popup here, it's only for sharing your scores, the gameplay all works offline.

Even the multiplayer is fun, the Connected mode is incredible and the competitive modes are fun too.
It generally works well, it uses good peer-to-peer hosting, which still depends on whichever system was appointed as host.

And the game continues to get updated and well supported, you can feel that the studios involved care first and foremost about having their game play well.
Earlier this year a pretty major 2.0 update was released, which implemented a lot of community feedback and expanded the effect modes.
Along with this performance update, they've been one of the first to show official gameplay on Deck too, in Tetris Effect: Connected Hands-On Gameplay Preview | Steam Deck [External Link].
It is important to note that Tetris Effect is a very graphically intensive game, though for casual modes it can be made playable on Vega 8 tier iGPUs.

Overall it's one of my all-time favourite and deeply respected games, this while I only picked it up on a whim as I liked playing basic Tetris on my graphical calculator.

That all sounds nuts. but a good enough jump from the one I played on the NES (or actually I also played a top-down-ish three-dimensional one on DOS back in the day) to justify playing it today. - I always worry they change things up too much from the essence of a classic game, but I suppose this is the closest I'll get for an updated modern version. Kinda like that Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+.

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I will probably be using it once it comes out fully, along with switching to a different Linux-distro altogether that has Plasma by default. - So far I've only tried Ubuntu and Pop, which both simply use Gnome, but it's too simplistic and limited, as well as it has some kind of weird issue with the gnomeshell (in that it starts creeping up the CPU-usage over time for some reason and makes the whole system lag, which has been a thing with no fix for years as far as I know).
One of the main things I can't wait for is to have a more detailed and capable file-explorer. Though, I suppose that's not part of Plasma but Dolphin?... Anyway, I can't get Dolphin working properly either, so I'll be leaving Pop and move to something like Manjaro, if not Zorin or Mint, as soon as their respective new versions are out probably, and I bet their developers are waiting for Plasma as well.

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