Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: soulsourceTo be honest, I am a bit worried. Where I live (Austria) the politicians in charge are currently considering to ban Russian media. While I don't think that anything of value will be lost in this particular case, it's a slippery slope...

There must be some border line there. To give a more historically felt through example (especially for Austria), imagine there is some Himmler Media Co. running in your country. Does it deserve a ban?

In general it is of course the issue of where free speech ends and problems begin.

That's true. It also speaks for itself that only one political party is opposed [External Link] to the ban - the one that's known to have close ties to neo-Nazi [External Link] organizations and has a rather recent corruption scandal [External Link] involving a (fake) niece of a Russian oligarch with dirty toes...
(The other opposition parties, that voted for the ban, did voice concern though.)

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWow, the comments on that announcement seem to be 90% Russians yelling about nazis and calling CDPR "traitors" and stuff.

It's saddening what propaganda can do to people. :cry:

People believe a lot of the propaganda because it confirms a lot of what they already believed. That's why it's so effective. After all, a lot of the people who make the propaganda are just regular people too, not cunning masterminds who brainwash the masses. It's something that has persisted in my country (America) for decades.

To be honest, I am a bit worried. Where I live (Austria) the politicians in charge are currently considering to ban Russian media. While I don't think that anything of value will be lost in this particular case, it's a slippery slope... We can see in Russia where it ends - where media cannot legally report [External Link] about the invasion of Ukraine, because that would be "discrediting the Armed Forces"...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleWow, the comments on that announcement seem to be 90% Russians yelling about nazis and calling CDPR "traitors" and stuff.

It's saddening what propaganda can do to people. :cry:

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I still wonder if they had any native Linux builds during development...

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Usually I don't like pixel art, but just like Loop Hero, this game's visuals manage to catch my eye.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EssemI'm kind of confused in regards to how it was verified when the game doesn't seem to work out of the box.

Verified for Deck, which is different to all the distros on desktop.

That's fair, I do wonder what they've done differently on the Deck to make it run however.

The SteamWorks API has a "IsRunningOnSteamDeck()" function. Maybe they go down a different code path wrt. anti cheat if they detect it's on the Deck?

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Quoting: thelimeydragonI do wonder if they really are going to go through everything. There is a ton of just complete junk/trash on Steam that even if it did "work" it's still pure rubbish that no one except for gag-gifts would buy.

things like this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1595780/Inno_World/ [External Link]

and this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1551910/Race_On_Ice_2021_Pro/ [External Link]

That "Race On Ice" is basically Unreal's Vehicle Template with a tiny bit of UI, some quickly hacked-together levels, and that's it...

If there were more than one week of work needed to make it, I'd be very much surprised...

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Quoting: pbYes, please. I hope they do that with their other games, too. I'd gladly replay Bastion or Transistor on the Deck. I imagine there's not a lot to fix to make sure they get that tick.

I guess they need to add on-screen keyboard support for SteamWorks (if they don't have that already), but that is relatively straightforward.

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Quoting: dpanterAnd yet, somehow they managed to make a Mac version of this Unreal Engine 4 game.
Single player, no anti-cheat or anti-tamper as far as I can see, it's using FMOD, XAudio, Bink2... so what was the problem here? :unsure:

I can only think of one potential explanation:
They focused fully on Windows development, and treated all other platforms as "let's get those working later". This means that all engine issues they encountered and fixed/worked around during development were those that affect the windows build. If you have one of those per week of development, well, that's filed under "overhead".
All engine issues that are specific to Linux were left undiscovered until they finally started the porting process, and they probably were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of problems...
In other words: "Expected that porting to Linux is clicking a button in the Editor, but turned out it's actually a list of 100 Unreal Engine bugs we need to work around or fix. We don't have the resources for that."

(But again, this is just a potential explanation for which I am sadly speaking out of experience with another Unreal game and another target platform - which happened in the end, but one year after the Windows release. I do not know if this applies to this particular case.)

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Quoting: inlinuxdudeGenital Jousting? Haven't heard of that one... it sounds.... interesting.. haha

I haven't played it yet, but seen some gameplay videos. It looks absolutely hilarious.

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