Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Grogan"Star Trek" broke canon with the "reboot" movies. They used... wait for it... a temporal event to do it.

They lost me there.

The game seems to be set in the TNG era, so it won't suffer from any of that. :)

PS: I didn't mind the reboot movies. They don't strictly break canon, since they're set in an alternative timeline (and time travel has been a part of Trek since forever, so that's fair game, IMHO). I have a bigger problem with all the space magic they introduced in the newer shows. That stuff makes me cringe. I loved Trek more when it at least tried to remain close to science.

And that earlier Star Trek is now considered "close to science" tells a lot about the newer series :tongue:.

Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek. Up to and including Enterprise. I did not watch anything newer than that, though, because I could not bear to watch the first of the "actually, I wanted to do Star Wars" timeline movies to the and, and didn't dare to check out any newer Star Trek in fear of it having the same style...

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Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: soulsourceI know it's unlikely, but I'm still hoping for a new Steam Controller...

If it has a headphone jack, it could need an audio driver, right?

(At this point I pretty much convinced myself that it isn't a gamepad.)

The driver is for the OS, which runs the game. For a gamepad, the sound is coming from a device that runs the game.
Also makes no sense to run a Linux OS on a gamepad if it's only a gamepad.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean...
The gamepad would be connected as a peripheral device to the computer that runs the game. If the gamepad contains an audio-chip, that chip would need a driver on the computer the gamepad is connected to.

(And yes, I am aware that there is a standard for USB audio devices - but if I've learned one thing over the years, than that hardware manufacturers treat standards as suggestions at best.)

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Ah, so there are now paid Stellaris mods too...

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I know it's unlikely, but I'm still hoping for a new Steam Controller...

If it has a headphone jack, it could need an audio driver, right?

(At this point I pretty much convinced myself that it isn't a gamepad.)

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: GuestI have had so many mechanical, UI, quest, and dialogue bugs

This. As much as I love the game, the bugs are extremely annoying. One really has to save every few minutes, just so one can reload if one runs into a game-breaking issue...

Huh, the only bugs I've ran into so far with 6-ish hours of play, is graphical black boxes that kept appearing (this is on my desktop with 7900 XT).

Granted, I lost an hour-ish of play because I ran into a room where a bunch of traps blew me up... and hadn't saved, since newer games tend to autosave every five steps... I need to get back into the habit of saving all the time again.

I had two story bugs in 6 hours of gameplay. One was something minor in the Overgrown Ruins, where the dialogue with the locked book bugged out. The other was more annoying and quite weird, at the trap where one finds Lae'zel again, after the nautiloid crash. I chose to shoot the cage down, and immediately after that I talked to Lae'zel and sent her to the camp.
The Tieflings were still friendly, so I talked to them again, what caused Lae'zel to float mid-air, where the cage had previously been, acting like I never freed her. Next time I went to the camp she was there, but hostile. Seems she didn't like that I left her in the cage, even though she very clearly was at my camp, where i sent her, after I freed her...

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Quoting: GuestI have had so many mechanical, UI, quest, and dialogue bugs

This. As much as I love the game, the bugs are extremely annoying. One really has to save every few minutes, just so one can reload if one runs into a game-breaking issue...

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Quoting: kaiman

Quoting: soulsourceBe as it may, I might buy the game today and try it myself. If it doesn't work with good performance on my AMD GPU I'm going to be sad.

I've bought it on GOG and both the Vulkan and DX11 versions are running fine on my RX 6600. The only thing I did was setting a custom executable instead of the launcher. Played a bit with both versions but didn't spot major differences.

The only bad thing I noticed so far is that it will not work unless Galaxy is also running. Kinda defeats the purpose of buying from GOG in the first place.

I got the Steam version, but didn't really play yet. However, as far as I tried it (the character creation menu), it's running fine on my Rx 6700 XT. The only things I needed to do to get it to launch was to switch to Proton Experimental, and to disable the launcher (to be honest, I don't know if disabling the launcher is necessary, I just hate launchers).

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: soulsourceNot even a numpad? That doesn't make me optimistic about the quality of the device...

I did my best to see the connection between no numpad and quality and I can't, so please enlighten me.

There are literally keys missing. They obviously forgot to mount those. They didn't even bother to assemble it completely!

(If that isn't clear, I am joking, and was joking when I wrote that other comment. Maybe I should stop. Seems I'm not good at it.)

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Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: soulsourceHmm, I can't confirm without the game, but there are reports [External Link] that look like Vulkan on AMD is working.

It might have worked at some point, but clearly not anymore.

Also, the first report I saw when I clicked that link you posted said the Vulkan renderer did crash their Steam Deck when trying to load the main menu, which was also my experience when I tried it yesterday on my own handheld, and the average RADV experience.

AMDVLK, the official Linux driver, crashes more "gracefully" (the game displays an error message instead of crashing the entire driver) during the Larian video before the main menu.

The issue with the link seems to be an issue of the protondb website. If you go to the address bar and press return there once the site finished loading, the anchor works.
Here is a screenshot of the report I wanted to link.


Be as it may, I might buy the game today and try it myself. If it doesn't work with good performance on my AMD GPU I'm going to be sad.

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Not even a numpad? That doesn't make me optimistic about the quality of the device...

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