Finally a native release that happened because of Stadia.

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Quoting: ixnariI tried playing Shadow Tactics a while back. I was having fun right up until mission 5 or so (the one with Hayato and Yuki), then I found myself saving every other minute, because the slightest misstep resulted in a mission failure. It felt like I was supposed to progress throught the mission in a very specific way, leaving little room for creativity and improvisation.

How was the game for everyone else?

You always have options, but yes saving every 5 seconds is pretty normal, lol

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Quoting: slaapliedjethey don't even allow Firefox to use Stadia, right? They only support Chrome?

I think it's just a matter of Firefox not having implemented the right codecs. Obviously they only tend to chromium, but Google never intentionally tried to make anything exclusive to chromium as far as I know

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Quoting: t3gI can’t wait for Stadia to die out since it’s one big circle jerk here. I get it... Stadia runs Linux but it’s closed off.

I don't think you understand just how much Stadia is funding Linux graphics and Vulkan tools.

I'm not sure anyone does. I get the vague impression they've maybe been doing some of that, and I've tended to assume they must be because there's things they'd want improved to make Stadia work better, but as far as I can tell they've been pretty dashed quiet about it. Do you know anything about what they've actually been doing?

hlsl to spir-v, ANGLE, swiftshader, off the top of my head.

Google helps behind the scenes, so you need to look at developer help rather than end user desktop help.

Also spirv tools (validation, diassembler etc), lunarg contracts, Vulkan CTS work contracts, working on the Vulkan spec itself, etc. Stadia doesn't use mesa, so that's why there is no activity there. I would be surprised if they didn't contribute to the kernel.

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Quoting: t3gI can’t wait for Stadia to die out since it’s one big circle jerk here. I get it... Stadia runs Linux but it’s closed off.

I don't think you understand just how much Stadia is funding Linux graphics and Vulkan tools. You may not use or like Stadia, but you are benefitting from its existence on your desktop.

It would do us all good if Valve is not the only one interested in Linux.

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Quoting: Bumadarhovering the mouse over the first instance of the word

Not mobile friendly!

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Quoting: MarlockPS: why devs insist in using DX12 instead of Vulkan is beyond me...

Microsoft gives them money.

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Is it just me, or are these numbers surprisingly low? You would think there are many more PC gamers. Anyone knows how these numbers compare to playstation for example?

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I've been playing through this for the past few weeks. It's like the farther along the game you get, the more they have diverged from half-life. Now I'm in Xen, since forever ago, and it's just area after area. To be honest it's getting a little exhausting.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyClose graphical viewer software because you can't wrangle the thing with another tool while you have the file open

I get your point about cli and it's valid, but FYI, this is not windows, you *can* modify files while they are open :) last I did this kind of work I could leave evince open with the file and it automatically refreshed it when I changed the file.

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