Hate to nitpick but shouldn't this be tagged with anti-cheat? I try to avoid news about games which feature invasive client-side anti-cheat.

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I understand not wanting to maintain a build for a distro, heck, even Linux as a platform. The part about not needing to care when you aren't being paid, I'm totally behind them on.

But Stenzek appeared quite hostile to allowing anyone else to support Linux. Kind of an "I don't want to support it, and I don't want anyone else to support it either!" type mindset based on the Creative Commons license that DuckStation uses, and the hostility to disallow building on a specific distro (Arch Linux, in this case).

Unofficial packages exist, and they are not upstream's problem. I don't understand why they want to be so hostile here. Users can complain, but as a maintainer, you don't need to care. Heck, you don't even need to tell users where to go to get support. I fully understand the frustration of dealing with end-users. But just focus on developing and supporting what you own. If a user gets a package from a third party they are not your problem, especially if they can't even tell whether they got it from you or not.

For those discussing issue templates: Stenzek has issues disabled on the GitHub repository. It appears to me that bug reports are primarily brought in through some form of Discord Server (where information goes to die, I might add).

Stenzek's prior behaviour has left a poor taste in my mouth with using DuckStation, and this has, too. It is absolutely trying my ability to separate the software from the creator.

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@R Daneel Olivaw

I'm glad to see someone else actually acknowledges that they at least made *some* false promises about how the game was meant to be. I respect that you enjoyed it one hundred percent. And yup, I basically took the game as how you described it, "pretty much another ubi open world questapalooza". Not that this is a bad thing, but I don't enjoy this kind of game. So I don't think Cyberpunk will be for me. It's so refreshing to actually hear any kind of agreement that Cyperpunk's issues weren't solely bugs but that at least *some* of the promises they made on how the game would be didn't come to fruition.

As for No Man's Sky, this is an excellent comparison. People did a 180 and forgave that game, too. I have played a bit but it's very hard to enjoy properly knowing it's a similar situation to Cyperpunk 2077.

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Always nice to see stable fixes, but it's also good to note that Mesa-git is usually available and good to run. There were PPAs for Ubuntu and friends back in the day, I believe it's also available on Fedora in some capacity though I forgot the term for packages there (it can be used on Nobara a bit more easily iirc or maybe even by default). I use it from Chaotic AUR on Arch on my PC and laptop.

Being bleeding edge has its risks, but a nice option to call out for those (like me) who prefer the trade-off of stability for the latest and greatest. I haven't had any issues using Mesa-git on my Arch system personally.

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I remember when this was hyped up over the years leading to its release. It was supposed to be the cutting-edge of choices-matter gameplay, with dialogue that shaped every playthrough in near-infinite ways, with state-of-the-art NPC interactions. No fixed story.

From what I have seen and what I played at launch, it is not that. It is an open-world game that is not the New-Vegas-like choices matter story. Yet people seem to have forgiven it.

Perhaps it is a good game on its own merits, but too much of the criticism over the years was on the bugs at launch and not the fact that the core game was not what we were promised over through delay after delay.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stomach a playthrough. I couldn't even stomach Edgerunners despite being a huge Studio Trigger fan.

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With a recent update to the app in June, it now has a page where you can view all your Steam games and individually change the Proton version used for them.

ProtonUp-Qt also has this feature.

On this page there's various sorting options, you can also adjust launch options, and there's a button to go right to ProtonDB too.

ProtonUp-Qt has this feature also.

Sure, options are great, but I'll stick with ProtonUp-Qt as an avid Qt fan and who has contributed a couple features to ProtonUp-Qt in the past. :wink:

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Not a fan of Manjaro Linux personally, I wonder what a more "pure" Arch distro could be like on this thing.

I must resist the temptation to get one, lest it gather dust like both my Steam Decks, but my temptation for cool (and expensive) portable Linux hardware that I can tinker with for a week is hard to resist, even if I know I'll just end up back at my Desktop PC. :wub:

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Aren't these the same folks behind Control and Alan Wake? No thanks.

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No Anti-Cheat. No malware. No unhinged DRM. No multiplayer. Just a game the way they're supposed to be: Singleplayer, offline.

I'll check it out after a replay of Undertale, but games like this existing restore my faith in gaming... Until another game with a multiplayer component gets popular again and ruins everything. :tongue:

Huge props to Toby Fox and I wish this game every success.

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Cool for developers but I am still not interested. I am Steam-first forever, and if I wanted to buy or redeem a game twice, I would do it from Itch.io or GOG (in that order). I have no interest in the free Epic Games Store games, either.

Fuck you, Epic Games. You have ruined PC gaming forever, I still struggle to enjoy games like I used to before the Epic Games Store launched.

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