Timberborn has been on my wish list for a good while now, based on friend feedback, but it's sorted near the bottom where all the Early Access titles are. I can wait.

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Quoting: williamjcmI'll be honest, I'm glad Larian gave it some love, because we need more Vulkan games around. Shame it still has a D3D11 renderer, which shows games on custom engines aren't willing to fully ditch proprietary APIs yet.

A transition period is perfectly reasonable. Don't let great be the enemy of good, ya know? Good is on the way to great.

Sniper Elite 5 also has a Vulkan option, and that game is technically impressive! The graphics look better than the 4th game yet impressively perform noticeably smoother with my same hardware. It's a delight.

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Quoting: williamjcmA shame the current version of the game doesn't run on AMD GPUs on Linux (except Steam Deck, it seems) if you select the Vulkan renderer, no matter if you use AMDVLK or RADV drivers.

The D3D11 renderer does work, but vegetation has some nasty flickering.

I really hope it'll be fixed for the game's launch.

Yeah, the launch version had it fixed. I chose Vulkan and everything worked out of the box on launch day.

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The game already made it onto my wish list after completing the first version of the demo. It didn't have a AAA polish feel I'd say, but it felt fun and the style was pretty cool.

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I love Mint... for other people. :tongue:

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Maybe I'm alone in this, but I could go for another Splinter Cell game. Maybe the Ubisoft studio(s) that work on Assassin's Creed can take a break and make a non-open-world Splinter Cell game. I really like those. I think I've beaten them all.

I don't have any stealth games on my wish list currently, unless you count Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty that is #1 on my list (my first playthrough was stealth + pistols).

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Quoting: kaimanI await the day when AIs write articles based on articles written by AIs. Right now, the whole scheme only works moderately well because there is comparatively more human-written content to "borrow" from. Once the scales tip, one can only hope that this causes the whole fad to collapse on itself.

To your point, when AI software consumes AI content, they produce garbage and chaos according to some people in this good article from NYT [External Link].

I'm optimistic and think AI software can be managed like other powerful tools.

But I'm also going to download an offline Wikipedia archive [External Link].

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Quoting: boltronicsThe fact that you hate the merger but still acknowledge that it doesn't affect you speaks volumes to my point.

Your point being that this merger could be positive for me? How many volumes did I write to that point?

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I get tempted to try New World every now and then. Anyone put some good time into it (20+ hours)? Although, with BG3 around the corner, I won't be starting an MMO anytime soon.

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Quoting: boltronicsMergers are often positive for the consumer too. eg. Those of us using AMD GPUs/APUs today (perhaps most people here that don't dual-boot with Windows) are probably quite happy with how that worked out, with all the free software driver support, hardware features the merger made possible, etc. I remember Nvidia kicking up a big stink at the time to the press, but there's a good case to be made that in many ways, it has helped competition overall.

MS have done some very anticompetitive things in the past, we all know how unethical their behaviour has been previously, but I've paid a lot of attention to this case and do think any concerns are quite unjustified. The evidence did demonstrate this. After all, the gaming landscape is extremely vast. Even Nintendo would not have worried about the merger, even without the COD promise.

A merger does not automatically == bad.

What you say is plausible if I liked what Microsoft has done to the video gaming experience, but I haven't.

I haven't purchased anything from Activision-Blizzard since Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3, so maybe I should just say I don't care because it doesn't affect me and move on. It can help make video game shopping decisions easier, too, if I can rule out a bunch of studios. Is that how it becomes beneficial to the consumer? :wink:

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