For me as a backer the initial early access version of the game was pretty much exactly what I was expecting from the description on the Kickstarter page...
(A few things were still missing due to early access, of course.)

I haven't played since the "Will of the people" update though, because from that update's description I was afraid that the game is now something completely different from what was envisioned during the Kickstarter.

In any case, I'm afraid that Abbey Games still had the same issue during Early Access that they had during the Kickstarter (which had a very modest goal, and still troubles reaching it): A lack of visibility. If people don't know about a game, they of course won't buy it...

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Thanks you Valve, I hate it.

I'd really like to know if Valve had an actual UI/UX expert working on this. It certainly does not look or feel like it... It feels overloaded, clunky and is painfully slow.
As a user I'd expect an application's UI to be as clearly laid out as possible, and not such a complete and utter mess. Don't get me wrong, the old Steam UI wasn't great either, but this is certainly a huge step towards the non-usability of iTunes.

You know what the new Steam Library reminds me of? 90s websites with <blink> and <marquee> all over the place. Oh, and annoying background music. Aaaactually, for the younger folks: This is what I'm talking about: https://badhtml.com/ [External Link] Looks just like the new Steam library, doesn't it?

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Please don't forget the advances Stadia brings on the technical side for game developers.
If popular game engines improve their start to have proper Linux support due to Stadia, it will make it a lot easier to port games to Linux, ideally even to a point that there are no extra costs once you have a Stadia port, and minimal costs if no Stadia port is required.

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Quoting: DaiKaiser93

Quoting: soulsourceMaybe this is helpful for someone else:
I couldn't get my PS4 controller to work in-game, but it works relatively fine with having Steam map the gamepad to keyboard input...

That's bizarre, I just tried mine (connected via USB) and it even recognized the correct button prompts.

UPDATE: It's also fully compatible via bluetooth.

Yeah, turns out that I had some udev rules trouble. I don't know what exactly was missing, but I had the curious situation that whenever Steam was running the device nodes for the PS4 gamepad just disappeared from /dev/input...
Non-Steam games worked perfectly fine, because, without Steam running, the device nodes were there, as they should be.

I've now re-installed the Steam udev rules (from https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/you-will-need-to-update-your-udev-rules-for-the-steam-controller.8593/ ) and since then the PS4 controller device nodes no longer disappear when opening Steam. Still, I'd really like to know what was going on there.

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Maybe this is helpful for someone else:
I couldn't get my PS4 controller to work in-game, but it works relatively fine with having Steam map the gamepad to keyboard input...

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Quoting: amataiIt is not because some of the english-speaking newspaper have a terrible coverage of the issue that a professor who relativizes rape on a mailing list containing its student don't have to resign.
Even with plenty of bad faith, that part can't be defended.

>Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it rape in the Virgin Islands.

Does it really? I think it is morally absurd to define "rape? in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or
whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.
I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that
the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

Then, he keeps going after a student ask him to stop. When he calms down and realizes what he has done, he was to resign.

Stallman is not wrong about the fact that laws about this topic are different in different countries. Where I live, Austria, consent between a 17 year old and a much older person is legally possible, unless there is a situation of power or money involved. On the other hand, in some US states there will always be a rape investigation, even if the underage participant clearly states it was consensual (source [External Link]...
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Where I am getting here is that basing a discussion on terms that vary by legislation and even more by culture is probably a bad idea, and that a more concrete language or a more verbose formulation is required to avoid confusion.
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Please don't get me wrong, in my personal opinion the whole Epstein case is disgusting, and I'm rather certain that there was no consent whatsoever there.

Quoting: Guest[...]Why would he go on commenting about this topic at all?[...]

If I understand the newspaper articles correctly, that was in defense of a coworker, who is suspected (don't know if there were any sentences yet) of being involved in the Epstein case.

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Quoting: edoWhat I dont like about unity games is that you can tell its using unity by just looking at it

That's only true for games using Unity's standard shaders. Pillars of Eternity or Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun look quite different, imho. The same is true for Cities: Skylines.

Edit: Also, Unity's new high High Definition Render Pipeline should allow games to improve visual quality further.

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I'm still sad that the English translation "Longstockings" has such a cumbersome word-melody. As an Austrian I grew up with the German version, "Langstrumpf", which is pretty close to the Swedish original "Långstrump", both having a much smoother sound to them.
(also: in the Bavarian dialect, which is spoken in most of Austria, it'd be "Långstrumpf")

Back on topic: I can really recommend the Deponia Trilogy (and also the fourth game, but wait some time between playing the third and the fourth). If you want something still funny, but more serious, have a look at The Whispered World.

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Well, the EULA was changed after Take 2 bought Squad, and it now contains a forced arbitration clause. In Europe such terms are considered unfair against end-users, and are therefore null and void (they are valid in contracts between businesses, though). In the US it means that end-users basically agree not to sue Take 2 about anything related to the game, and instead have all complaints settled by some external arbitrator...

Realistically, it's no big deal. Who would sue a publisher about a game anyhow (considering the huge amount of money spent on a game...)? Still, it's understandable that for many people it's a matter of principle.

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Quoting: BoldosAlso, what I'm really looking for is an update to the way, how Sectors work.

They have changed something in that area, according to the video.

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