I've been having a great experience running the game in Manjaro, but any performance improvement is always welcome.

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Basing an entire business model on the continued success of a single live service game probably wasn't the best idea.

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I've put in about four-hours so far with only one issue: the voice audio stopped playing about an hour in even though all other sound effects continued to play. Restarting the game fixed it, and I haven't encountered it since. I did switch to Proton Hotfix, so maybe that made the difference? I have no idea.

Edit: Based on what I'm seeing on the Steam forums, voices suddenly stopping is not a Linux bug but is happening in Windows, too.

The other issue I've encountered is occasionally flickering textures when one texture is placed over another, for instance, in some cutscenes when the BB pod turns from opaque to transparent, the opaque texture will flicker. I've only encountered it in cutscenes, curiously, and I've not yet figured out how to fix it.

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Starfield is one of my favorite games, so I'm excited, but with Death Stranding 2 imminent, I won't get back to Starfield for a while.

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I've been happily using Manjaro without issue for several years, but this latest news is disheartening, and I think it's probably time to distro hop. I've heard lots of good things about Fedora.

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...we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

I see, so it's somehow Trump's fault that this developer started using AI and feels the need to obfuscate it after facing criticism.

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Quoting: dimko

Quoting: Mountain ManSony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

What is profit from locking someone into their walled garden? Define it and explain how it benefits them. :D

When someone buys a PlayStation, they're naturally going to want to buy games for it, and when they buy a PlayStation game, Sony gets a bigger cut of that sale than they would selling that same game on PC. The more games someone buys for their PlayStation, the more vested they are in the platform, and the more likely they are to buy the next iteration of the console, and the cycle repeats.

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Quoting: ChromedicHi, new here
In a perfect-Ish world
PS4/PS5 runs on a heavily modified version of FreeBSD OS which is similar but not the same as Linux.
Instead of porting their exclusive games to Windows, why not making the Linux only exclusive. In doing so, Microsoft/Xbox next-gen will not be able to run them.
Am not a developer but since the kernels are similar, wouldn’t porting to Linux be quicker than Windows?
Doing so, they can still put their games on Steam or their own store/launcher

Sony doesn't want to sell games, they want to sell PlayStations and lock customers inside their walled garden.

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If Valve already has a stock of components in-house ready to be assembled, or an existing contract with a manufacturer, then they could still release the hardware at an affordable price, but it will likely be only for a limited time until they run out of components.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

You clearly do not value freedom of speech.

I value the freedom to state your opinion.

I do not see any value in insulting people, no.

Quoting: Mountain ManAnd it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

Well, obviously, nobody wants that. Would you link a source to read it up?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-woman-given-harsher-sentence-155055252.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guYnJhdmUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJkDEsnQfKYIO7q2C2lvY9mh15uq-TDhQ3_J2MMqDh3B3RrJ7eO33jfUeowVQe7Ik2-TtBuxIBxD2KnrxUnaJfpUW9hsWa9O_MVXs8fsJeEuTbR3OfKeOtxkgNKKCBX0B_6v4MGqWyT90RdRI1Q6xoIeYMlw4DDkBsa0ggoqnSqE [External Link]

To clarify, it was Germany and not the UK as I remembered, and she called her rapist a pig, not a dog. But she did receive a harsher jail sentence for it.

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