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Quoting: keanThese programs are basically useless, I gave up on Rust and PUBG, because it was still full of cheaters.
I wish these will support Proton in the future, I would like to play some competitive FPS with my friends while sticking to Linux.

Feels to me like the point of those "anticheats" is not to get rid of cheaters at all... I wonder what their real purpose could be 🤔

It's snake oil for publishers.

Paranoia is fun. No, here the point IS to get rid of cheaters. You're thinking of DRM. Doom Eternal already uses Denuvo DRM, which, yes, is to make the pulbishers/shareholders happy. Denuvo anticheat is a different thing entirely.

Don't worry, I was of course not being serious.

I work as coder in a game development studio, and am well aware of both, Denuvo Anti-Cheat and Denuvo Anti-Tamper. One of our games was using Denuvo Anti-Tamper until it got cracked a few weeks ago.
Anti-Cheat is something we try to avoid for obvious reasons (mostly security concerns), but just as with Anti-Tamper it's ultimately the publisher's decision.

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Quoting: rkfg

Quoting: keanThese programs are basically useless, I gave up on Rust and PUBG, because it was still full of cheaters.
I wish these will support Proton in the future, I would like to play some competitive FPS with my friends while sticking to Linux.

Feels to me like the point of those "anticheats" is not to get rid of cheaters at all... I wonder what their real purpose could be 🤔

It's snake oil for publishers.

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Quoting: dpanterI laughed a little upon hearing the news. Then I sighed as I realized this will inevitably cause problems in the coming years. Oh well.

Anyone think AMD learned something this time? :whistle:

Other than the used marked for B450 boards becoming a minefield I fail to see what problems this will cause.

I have doubts about the average user's ability to understand the term "one-way upgrade".

I installed this one-way upgrade, and now my old CPU does no longer boot! I demand to speak to the manager!

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I've been "playing" Elite Dangerous.

I would have to lie if I said I was completely sober when I accepted a tourist contract two weeks ago. A tourist contract to "Dancing with Giants", 33k lightyears from LHS 331, where the contract started. I did some maths in my head, and having to do ~100 jumps per day for the next four weeks sounded quite reasonable to not-completely-sober me. One jump per minute is something quite doable after all... Also that would be a perfect opportunity to make full spectrum scans of thousands of star systems...

The next day sober-me realized that there are some other limiting factors:
o) Fuel scooping takes time, and not every star along the way is a main sequence star.
o) Full Spectrum Scanning of star systems takes time as well. Usually less than fuel scooping, but for larger systems quite a bit more.

And that was when I decided to make a stop at some asteroid outpost that was nearly along the way (Omega Mining Operation in Omega Sector VE-Q b5-15), to replace all ship parts I could with lighter variants, and to sell all parts that have significant mass and aren't strictly necessary for the ship to fly.
That brought my jump range quite a bit up, especially since I made use of the remote workshop option to engineer the frame shift drive. Now the ship can jump about 30 lightyears (a bit less with full fuel, a bit more with low fuel).

Still, it feels more like work than gaming to finish that contract in time while doing a full spectrum scan of all systems along the way.

But I started that, and I'm going to finish it. Thanks to the upgraded ship it's now just 350 jumps left to return to LHS 331.

Once that tourist is back home, I'll play something else.

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Hmmm, performance with Mesa drivers is bad. Like, really bad.
Seems like it's Unity's HLSL->GLSL transpiler at its best again...

However you can still get the game running with decent FPS by running it with "-force-vulkan"

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UE5 is built on top of the same codebase as UE4. I would be quite (negatively) surprised if they dropped Linux support.

I mean Linux support in UE4 isn't great, but just dropping it wouldn't make much sense. Not only due to Stadia, also for dedicated servers.

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Quoting: NagezahnI suspected it'll be on sale when I read the post about the new update. But didn't suspect it'll be free to try, so I went ahead and downloaded it. It's quite overwhelming when you start it. After a while when I got a bit accustomed to it I guess it's nice, but mostly two factors impact my enjoyment negatively: the overall slowness (research takes forever when compared to Master of Orion, for example) and the game not being turn based. Had this on my wishlist since it was released, but I'm sceptical I'd like it enough in the long term. :|

The issue with research speed is that the tech-tree is rather small. Already on normal research speed you run out of researchable technologies pretty early in the game (meaning: usually before end-game starts), unless you don't care about your administrative capacity.
(Actually, since you mentioned being a new player, you might not have seen this yet: Keep an eye on administrative capacity. If your empire sprawl exceeds it, your research will slow to a crawl. That _can_ be compensated by having lots of scientists, but since the Federations update it's probably easier to just get a bunch of bureaucrats to increase your administrative capacity instead.)

It not being turn-based is something that can be annoying in multiplayer, but in single player there's always the pause button to take your time.
(Some people might call the game turn-based, given that the smallest time unit of the game is one day. There are no fractional days. Also, if you pause, the game will always complete the current day first. However the player doesn't really see/notice this, it pretty much feels real-time.)

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Sorry for being a bit meta now:

I must say, this thread has greatly restored my faith in humanity.
With a few exceptions people here manage to discuss such a sensitive topic in a very civil way, backed by historic arguments. I can find a lot of points I agree on with all sides in this discussion (with the aforementioned exceptions...).

That's something quite rare on the internet today. On most forums people just yell at each other, or make claims not backed by any actual data.

Thanks a lot, it is a pleasure following this discussion.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusHmm, can I finish up my max-size galaxy game before this comes out? :S: Time to find out! :D

Luckily Paradox usually keeps the previous version available in a Steam branch.

I'd really love to jump right back to Stellaris after the update, but I'm afraid I have to stick to Elite for now, otherwise my month-long tourist contract from Alioth to the "Dancing With Giants" site on the other side of the galactic centre would not be doable...

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After having finished Ciel Fledge once (thanks again for the article covering it, otherwise I would have never known about that game), I've made the mistake of buying Elite: Dangerous (Steam Play).
I've spent an unreasonable amount of time with that stupid game, just farming stuff to upgrade ship parts to at some point maybe depart from human space to explore the great unknown. Where I probably will get bored, because there's just endless repetitions of the same procedurally generated stuff...

About Ciel Fledge: I really enjoyed my first playthrough, even though the game has plenty of story and balancing issues. Some activities are basically useless (skill requirements = maximum skill they allow to train), but the game doesn't tell you beforehand. Sometimes the story has weird inconsistencies. Some are minor, like

Spoiler, click me

Ciel calling Helen the "guitar girl" when they first meet, but not knowing about the instrument when they see each other again, and even not being able to remember the instrument's name.

Some are pretty major, like (warning: major spoiler)

Spoiler, click me

the government of Ark 7 at the time of the attack of Ark 3 suddenly being a different one when talking about the incident later. Almost like the attack cut-scene was already final when the writers changed their mind about the situation...

But yeah, those negative points are easily made up for by the game's general mood and gameplay.

I don't think I'll have to write about Elite: Dangerous. It's that kind of game that has you waiting for hours and hours, just staring at remaining time counters slowly going down... All that for some occasional adrenaline rushes and beautiful vistas.

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