Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I thought it was probably that lame but I thought it polite to ask.

Come on now, why 'lame'? He used such words as 'seize' and 'redistribute', which signal authentic knowledge of the subject matter.

I mean, that's the correct idiom, right? You know 'seize the means of' ... what was it ... and sure enough 'redistribute' is another of those words. Like 'free stuff'.

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Haha amazing, I love this.

-- also the sprites & animations are really well-made.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoHow empiric are these reports?
How do I know this is not just negative paid publicity?

By the fact that intel themselves have acknowledged it:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00213.html [External Link]

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I wish Warren Spector would join Arkane to co-direct an immersive sim with Harvey Smith.

Or just give the SS license to Arkane, to let them make SS3. (I mean they already did that, sort of, with Prey).

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Quoting: EikeSystem Shock is, like Half-Life 1 & 2, an important game I've missed back then. I still wonder if I should visit them in their enhanced versions. I'm somewhat allergic to outdated 3D graphics.

The original SS is older than the first generation of real 3d engines though; so the graphics don't really suffer from nausea inducing texture blurriness (which makes the original HL difficult to look at), they're more like Doom & Duke Nukem 3d. The huge drawback *used to be* the utterly quaint control scheme (no mouse look, hotkeys all over the place, requiring more finger dexterity than emacs for simple movement) but the 'enhanced editions' fixed that, so the game is very 'playable' nowadays.

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I wonder if this pulls in mountains of GNUstep dependencies.

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Quoting: DuncActually, that first screenshot looks suspiciously like PETSCII [External Link] to me.</pedantry>

(It is pretty cool though. :) And in fact, it's quite nice to see something like this for PETSCII, which was very common back in the day, rather than just plain old standard ASCII.)

While pretty poor feature-wise compared to this new program, dedicated PETSCII editors have been around for some time:
https://nurpax.github.io/petmate/ [External Link]
https://lvllvl.com/ [External Link]

There are a couple of offline programs as well; though I can't seem to track them down right now.

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Quoting: EikeIt was the first game I had to delay playing because it sometimes ran so bad. Is there some trick to it, like manually switching it to Vulkan?

I'm not sure what the state of its proton compatibility currently is. If it runs under proton at all, I'm pretty sure the performance will be significantly better than the 'native' opengl. (By the way, under windows, the DX12 version is similarly broken.)

And do I remember correctly that you find crates that you cannot open without paying?

I never came across things of that sort -- in fact the microtransactions can be 100% ignored (contrary to what one might expect, based on the idiotic marketing campaign for this game before release).

(Though to be fair, I'm not the best judge as to whether it's grindy or not w/o any (bloody) 'timesavers', because I really take my time with this game, exploring every nook & cranny, etc.)

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLWhen steam and gog introduced payment in local currencies, then I didn't buy a single game from the Humble Store (bundle yes, but not store). It became unprofitable. Since the Humble Store game costs +25/30% more expensive than on Steam or GOG.

You mean local currencies, or regional pricing? Currently you can use the local currency; don't know about regional pricing though.

(In any case, Deus Ex Mankind Divided is a steal right now; and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Though be aware that the OpenGL port doesn't perform that well.)

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Quoting: KimyrielleI want to build nations and cities, not managing trade routes because I lack a lump of charcoal to build a unit.

It sounds like you want to play Civ II.

And finally the stupid AI. But since they didn't manage for the past 30 years to implement a AI that doesn't act like a forensic psychiatry patient, my hopes are kinda limited.

An AI that actually plays the game (rather than just spawn units & cities while unreasonably handicapping the player according to the difficulty setting) would be the best upgrade they could ever release for this game. All the 'diplomacy' updates they've introduced over the years have amounted pretty much to nothing because the AI's 'decisions' remain arbitrary as ever.

I wonder if this free engine makes any efforts towards implementing a real AI.

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