So is there a sequel called "A Few Missions More"?

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They've already stated in the interview videos that there won't be tiers.

Oh. Never mind, then.

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I wouldn't be surprised if, like the Deck, this comes in a few tiers. In that scenario, the specs we're discussing would be the low-end tier, and people's concerns would be addressed by the higher tiers.

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And, surprisingly, even though it's using Unreal Engine 5 most of the early reports on it have been quite positive.

This makes me wonder about the state of play in game engines. I mean, the two majors have been Unity and Unreal. Unity had its bit of, um, controversy a while ago, that pissed a lot of people off. And I see a lot of people with the opinion that the latest Unreal sucks. So where does that currently leave most game developers? Do they seem to be just shrugging and living with it? Are they increasingly kicking the tires of Godot? Are other engines seeing growth? What's going on?

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No, that wouldn't . . . wait . . . thinks . . . thinks . . . OH! Right, I'm tacitly imagining that the mouse somehow "knows" its absolute position, but of course that can't be (well, short of a GPS thing in the mouse, which would be kind of overkill), so . . . huh.

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The name gave me a chuckle.

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I didn't even know the mouse had an orientation. Goes to show what kinds of games I (don't) play. 'Cause like, in normal use, it doesn't matter how you twist the mouse around, the cursor arrow or whatever still points the same way. I didn't know the verticality of the mouse ever mattered at all for anything, or was even detected.

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Say, by modern standards of file sizes, the kernel isn't actually very big, is it? So OK, this is kind of ludicrous, but . . . imagine that the Linux version of Easy Anti-Cheat or whatever DOWNLOADED A CUSTOM KERNEL every time you started logging into the game, and you played the game (and only the game) on that, probably in a sandbox of some sort, and it would get deleted after your session was over. And the custom kernel would be constantly changing so they could tell whether you were using the latest one (and then, yeah, EAC's servers got hacked and malware got put in, but that was only that one time :grin:).

I mean, clearly it would turn the "rootkit" problem up to the max, but from the game developers' perspective it would be the most trustable anti-cheat in town. And you'd have to wait for the download every damn time you wanted to play the game, but . . . if the kernel is pretty small, it wouldn't be that bad.

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As to Steam Machine performance, I guess my question is: What's the resolution on most living room TVs?

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I might not do too bad at this. I'm a sort of mediocre-to-decent touch typist, but that probably puts me leagues ahead of the hunt-and-peck-with-two-thumbs phone kids. Of course they probably won't play this game . . .

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