Doing all of that jazz for a checkmark badge instead of making the multiplayer work. Man I hate some companies.

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Steam Deck really shouldn't use Proton by default anymore, native runs the CPU cooler and still runs at an (albeit inconsistent at times) 30 frames now that FSR is available.

well someone listened to my suggestion lol

I just installed and fired up Cronos for the first time on my steam deck and I got a whopping 11fps with the default settings, lowered everything as low as it could go and got a nice choppy 40ps.. bloober is nuts if they think this is acceptable..

yeahhh not gonna sugarcoat it the game DOES run pretty bad. regardless of Proton or native you're not looking at good framerates. I still think there's a great game underneath the poor optimization though, and their dedication to making it work on Steam Deck gives me hope that it'll finally be in decent condition on there soon. Hopefully some of those optimizations can be backported to desktop too.

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Is the Steam version DRMFREE?

Contrary to what the other commenter said, yes, actually. As far as I can tell, even though the main Cronos.sh launch file checks for Steam, directly launching /Cronos/Binaries/Linux/Cronos-Linux-Shipping does NOT check for Steam, or anything else for that matter, and just launches regardless. So DRM shouldn't be a concern with this game.

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Welll there goes my willingness to get Dead Space. Surely selling out to fascists will be good for their company and not a horrifically terrible idea as it's always shown itself to be in the past.

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As far as native Unreal Engine goes (especially from Bloober Team) I gotta say - I was pleasantly surprised. It doesn't run WELL, of course not it's Unreal Engine, but it's a lot better than I thought it'd be. Steam Deck really shouldn't use Proton by default anymore, native runs the CPU cooler and still runs at an (albeit inconsistent at times) 30 frames now that FSR is available.

Oh yeah. They don't say it in the patch notes, but FSR was added to the Linux build. Still no XeSS or DLSS, but FSR is still a REALLY solid upgrade from TSR.

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you know for all the "Linux ports break after 5 years" I'm seeing, the only native games I've ever consistently had trouble running were the Wine-packaged ones. Even Prey from 2007 worked fine natively once I got 32-bit stuff installed. Starting to think that whole thing is overblown...

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Kojima I can't guarantee much in this life but one thing I can guarantee is Unreal Engine is NOT "one step higher than Death Stranding 2"

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EDIT: THEY JUST FIXED THIS, keeping this up because I was a judgmental asshole worthy of ridicule and I'll gladly eat my words if it means I get this shit native

So let me get this straight. They ported the game to a whole nother platform, arbitrarily restricted it to a device that benefits very little, and will not be making it available for desktop systems that make up more marketshare, have significantly more users asking for it, would benefit from it far more, and would actually be impactful to the wider industry for having a GOTY winner ported natively to the platform.

Instead, they spent all that time and effort limiting it to one device whose only benefit to a native port will be less battery consumption and marginally faster loading, won't even run at 60 FPS and in all likelyhood doesn't even have the potential to earn a single extra sale.

...that just feels like a waste of development resources. What was the point? Why even bother?

Yeah, nah, I'll just take my chances running the Steam Deck version on my desktop. If it doesn't work at least it's better than the hardly playable lagfest that is Baldur's Gate 3 through Proton, cuz then it's not giving me false hope of having fun.

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Heyyy I know this game!!! I'm in the developers' Discord server. Awesome shoutout!!!!

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Wooow, you can edit reviews now. A feature every other platform's had since the beginning of time. So cool.

What a sad, stagnant platform. I haven't had a high opinion of GOG for a while and this isn't doing anything to help it. It's all so performative and artificial. Definitely not shopping there anytime soon.

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