Quoting: Stormy178Love the update when I discovered it was working finally, when I was screen sharing with some friends the other day. Also to note it works on X11/Xorg DEs as well(confirmed on KDE Plasma 5 on Pop!OS)

How's Plasma running on the Pop!_OS base for you? Any installation or maintenance quirks that you've noticed?

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Well, at least they have a decent enough period of advanced notice.

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Quoting: The ArticleWhy are Blizzard doing this now? They recently released Warcraft I: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered, although they're only available on Battlenet.

It's Diablo II: Resurrected all over again!

In exchange for minor quality-of-life improvements and questionable changes to the artistic style of the graphics, Blizzard has imposed an online connection check in order to launch the games -- even for those that only want to play the single player campaigns.

On top of that, the multiplayer mode has been removed from Warcraft 1, effectively crippling the game for fans of the original.

Quoting: Linux_RocksThe remasters on Battle.net come with the originals too.

Like Diablo II: Resurrected, they built in the ability to swap between the original or remastered graphics. You still have to endure the online requirement and all the other changes. Not quite the same thing as having copies of the original game like GOG gives you (example: buy Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition and you get access to the Neverwinter Nights Diamond installer too).

That being said, like you, I am not really surprised. Over Blizzard's lifetime, I have watched Blizzard devolve into the greedy, anti-consumer corporation it's is now. I had hoped that Microsoft buying them might signal a change in direction to Blizzard's attitude, but no such luck. This is why I no longer buy Blizzard's games.

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This is great for those of us that prefer to game on older hardware.

It's wonderful that the dev saw this obvious need and decided to do something about it! Thanks, pythonlover02!!

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Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

That being said, I'm surprised that GOL does not collect the driver version along with the rest of its user statistics ...

Probably because that changes too frequently, I for one am not going to remember to check every update and come update my stats here.

Yeah that's it precisely, just noise, no real added value to keep asking people to update it.

That makes sense ...

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Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

I rolled back from Linux Mint 22 because I felt it was too early for it to take over from LM 21.3 as a gaming platform.

Did your problems have something to do with your Nvidia hardware? Or did the switch to pipewire mess with your audio somehow? I haven't noticed any regressions myself.

Oh, nothing that serious. Just the usual ".0" issues - like apps that ran fine in 21.3 not working in 22.0; Gamescope support still being a complicated issue; and little oddball things that they'll iron out with the ".1" or ".2" release -- stuff like that.

Just always been my policy not to upgrade until the ".1" release and I jumped the gun mostly because I wanted to see how the Mint Upgrade tool worked. Reverting was practically seamless -- the only thing that didn't recover was my favorites in the start menu. I was quite impressed.

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Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

Nope. I rolled back from Linux Mint 22 because I felt it was too early for it to take over from LM 21.3 as a gaming platform. As a result, I'm still on the 535 series, which is the highest that the Linux Mint Team natively supports in LM 21.3.

That being said, I'm surprised that GOL does not collect the driver version along with the rest of its user statistics ...

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Quoting: Leahi84someone needs to do this

For your reading pleasure ...

Ship of Harkinian, a PC port of Ocarina of Time has a feature-filled upgrade

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past gets a reverse-engineered clone

:smile:

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Had the time to watch some of the gameplay videos. These look very interesting. I like the cell-shading animation. Looks to have strong stories, if a little bit short. The price is excellent.

Unfortunately, I already have too many games in my backlog to add these to it. Oh well ...

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Quoting: The ArticlePretty nice deal for people who still somehow haven't played it or purchased it.

Have to admit, I've never played or owned it -- or it's predecessor either. Both games came out around the time that I started getting severe vertigo from first-person shooters. I'm also not a huge fan of multiplayer games -- my preference is for single-player with indepth stories. Half-Life more or less became known for its multiplayer component so I never paid it much attention. From what I've been hearing about its single-player campaigns, I guess I missed out.

That being said, if I can work around the vertigo, I've got Half-Life 2 now. Thanks, Valve!

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