Quoting: BielFPs

Dota 2 client. This included dropping OpenGL support

While I am all for prioritizing support for new technologies (Vulkan, Wayland, Pipewire, Rust...) won't this decision leave out players who don't have a compatible card?

In and of themselves, they won't improve things much. They can force behaviour that improve things, but vk-ing or rust-ing something isn't gonna solve more core issues. For VK, it's against DX, not OpenGL (tho it also doesn't solve some features OpenGL had and VK may be lagging behind for).

Quoting: BielFPsI don't play this game and I don't know if the game is already heavy enough to not run on older setups, but while their main competitor (league of legends) does the opposite (can run on weak computers and have non-english with voice localization)

Let's pick things in order and call a cat a cat. My GC is a r9 285/380 AMD card (exactly a R9 380X, which is just the branding on the box, it's basically a 380 with more dedicated ram). It's a 6 years old card already. It wasn't even top notch back then. All in all, it's a rather old card. It's also the oldest series AMD support Vulkan with amdgpu (not amdgpu-pro, this is the opensource driver).

All in all, it's reasonable to think OpenGL can be phased out over time. Valve didn't gave clearcut guidelines, so expect them to not be too hasty (it's Valve working on Dota). We are likely to see a couple of years before the support is fully removed. On the other hand, places like Asia where your point is far more correct have a community far more oriented toward netcafes.

Now for LoL. Well, The game does run on toasters. The client on the other hand is known to bring even colossal rigs to their knees. It's a shitshow, to put it midly, of every-javascript-libraries-under-the-sun-shoved-in-and-some-more-and-several-times-when-different-teams-need-them... You *can* run LoL on low-end computers, but it's an hassle, at best. At worst (ie the so called "supported MacOS version"), it's a royal shitshow of fps drops and performances issues.

If I'm not sold on dropping OpenGL, I'm more OK with dropping OpenGL to work with Valve-actively-backed Vulkan (Valve is a massive investor in LunarG, who do Vulkan). On the other hand, even when community pull all the stops to fill in the blanks for Riot, Riot doesn't even give a flying fuck to non-windows plateform (again, if they did, the MacOS version would either be put down, or actually worked on). For the record, Riot still has a goal to put an Anticheat in LoL, maybe not as heavy as Valorant's one, but as breaking for Wine (remember the shitshow when some Rioter did say he'd not give a shit about Wine users anyway because muh competitive integrity*).

So the Linux gamers? This isn't picking a turd sandwich or a giant douche, we are picking "accepting to move on from an old tech that did wrong abstractions for the current age, even if it mean buying new hardware", or "go fuck yourself soon™©". One of the missed upside is that: Vulkan gonna happen anyway. Phones are supporting it more and more, older rigs are breaking down more and more.

It's moving on for a lot of good reasons, with local gaming cultures offloading part of the issue. It's not going to happen tomorrow either, but trying to stick to OpenGL isn't gonna work, and that's it.

Edit: oops, send before pointing out 2 extra things:

For the record, Dota does have a few extra voice acting (russian and chinese IIRC), which are simply the biggest scenes and communities of the game. So while LoL put a lot more money for localization, an argument can be made of the "reach" they already have and want to hold on, while localization in and off itself of voice acting is unlikely to bring more people in over being different enough.

Other point: muh competitive integrity is a de facto bullshit argument, as it imply any kind of *real* competition over, first, not as real or something, all the while fully disregarding that online competition is just a perfect highway for cheaters (online competition mean until you fully lock down the computer, the network, the servers and everything in between, you can't prove there was no fuckery), hence the best and highest quality competitions either requires in persons attendance, or, something I'm a lot more fond of, being up close and personal with the people in the scene, it's then a relation of trust and can be leveraged to ensure integrity. Anything else is bond to get pwned. The question isn't "if", but "when". It's answer is a set "amount of time" divided by the economical value of the action (knowing cheating is a business, the value here is up high)

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Nice feature indeed, but I understand the reaction of the devs (well Lee and Glaiel here, tho I expect it to be pretty common) extra work for either a feature that shouldn't requires it (because it's just extra work to avoid a few steps for the use of the soft),

Quoting: mindedieFor unimpressed lets put games on full-blown emulation (virtualization) and save state, problem solved?

I'm not sure I'm getting your meaning, but while it's off the table, it'd be interesting to see how that kind of things can emerge. I don't expect it for now, nor with the current way things are done, but looking over a project like Arcan, we can see network transparent transition of games could be a reality [External Link]: even if there is limitation such as LAN only, etc, since most people that send a game from the computer or steam deck to the other one.

Tho arcan is a wild thing and Steam isn't going to support that first, they have bigger fishes to go for, like driver improvements.

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10€ for it is still pretty expensive, despite the long term support this game had (Which a lot can be said about, like that desync bug when playing across different OS, who needed 5 years to be fixed...)

But Kongo and Ethiopia are way too cool to simply dismiss some content for those countries (currently those missions are dry to put it mildly).

So it's kind of hard to be decided for me about it.

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There is two issues people seems to miss:

• Steam is making a commission on the Market / What about the CS:GO / TF2 / Dota items that are worth $20k: Steam Market is 100% within Valve's pocket, until you actually meet in person like the day of old of CS:GO and Dota trading for trades that, IIRC, are literally disallowed by the EULA of the platform. For the whole "commission", it's void by design: when you put money in your wallet, it's 100% into Valve, period. The "decay" that the 20% or so apply is a way to keep the value up: if you have only input of money, you will only have inflation, so the decay count part of it. Especially since Dota for example actually input shitload of items (so their value is only going down overtimes as there is no items breaking). But all of that start and end in the market.


• NFT and Crypto legal definition and real value. Legal tender is what is actually money, which depending on the law may have a few key difference (US law seems to allow refusing legal tender, which is straight up illegal in French law: if one pay with legal tender, it's mandatory to accept it), but overall it's something that let you pay monetary debts. Credit cards aren't legal tender, coins are. Because coins can be certified as being valuable enough (the whole minting process). Because they are legal tender, anybody pretty much is guaranteed for an effective worth. Crypto for example does the trust part, but have no legal tangibility, so it's up to a company to accept it or not. And neither the NFT nor the Crypto have real world physical backing. Which make them subject to being subject of extreme variations, be it inflation or anything.

I think Valve get the best way to do, for now at least. Cut short the whole issue, especially if they have to step in, it means shit hit the fan already.

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The pixel art instantly reminded me of Despotism 3K (which, without surprise, is from the same dev studio)
I hope there is a bit more meat mechanics wise, Despotism 3K wasn't bad, but it was kind of weird and felt repetitive for me, but for the artworks, the OST and the linux support, I'll very likely back them when I can.

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How well does it works with FOMM and other mods and mod managers now? I'm guessing as well as Fallout New Vegas, which as far as I know doesn't have Games for Windows Live.

If it got better, this is really good, otherwise, I guess it's a fine update, but the real strength of the game lying in the moddability, it'd really help.

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It isn't canceled. While there is no live audience, a 5-man team has coaches and tons of people graviting around it, there is 12 teams. Plus production, and so on.

No audience kind of sucks, but it's also the right call. The issues with teams (ie Team Aster) testing positives may found sources in pre-flight times (then in their home countries), or on PGL's (the orginizer that Valve has hired) watch. IIRC they are there for like 3 weeks now (so it'd fall on PGL. Yet do note I'm pretty disppointed that Valve went again "hands off" despite the whole thing going on).

Quoting: ElectricPrismCancelling 2020 was a mistake. Cancelling 2021 would be a mistake. [...]

People are more socially fragmented than ever before, and bringing them together over entertainment is exactly what the world needs, and a distraction that could bring a lot of wellness and happiness to people's lives. Drop ANY attendance fees, and do whatever it takes to make the game grow in this climate. Every climate creates new opportunity.

While I disagree on some of the parts from the rest of the message on the topic, I'd stick to this: Hell, even if it's just 100% free battlepass and paying out more than a few channels and what's not (like Frogged TV to do more like during the Disneyland Major and less their own thing) to advertise the event, I'm down for it. The game has way too many good things, storylines, castings, personalities and nerd population, the kind that will tell you about the game, that move and all the little details, the kind that fucking love their game, it brings people together.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanI have no interest in being the bad guy. I never really understood the appeal.

The whole point is not being who you are.

Tho the bundle does feel a bit off, there could be a few more titles in to work out the classic low-cost part rather than having an empty section.

Mafia 1 comes to mind, but Dungeon Keeper (1 or 2, don't need a steam key), maybe the other Dungeons title, for sure something like Brigador has a place there, but nope.

I just think the bundle is pretty underwhelming, the games themselves aren't necessary bad (tho the Dungeons didn't let me a great memory), I've never truly got the point of the other Mafia games. The Postal games (at least the second one) are a weird fit (since basically everyone and everything is crazy and fucked up in this game), and I own them anyway...

Like Legend of Keepers is the sole title I think is interesting, but I may as well wait another discount (which defeat the point of humble bundle's timed offers)

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Quoting: scaineif you leave it for too long and then go back, you're like "wait... what have I done so far, where do I go next???".

Until you left like me after around 20 tries in a row on one of the final bosses (Crisanta of the Wrapped Agony can go [REDACTED] herself)

I just hope it won't break my save, so I can wrap it up even if it drop in the middle of it. Knowing I do have to do all the extra bits like Blasphemous × Bloodstained - Ritual of the Night.

EDIT: just so people get me right: while the difficulty is a bit uneven and I kind of set myself up for ditching the game for a while, it's definitely one of the best game I've played in years.

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The ruling even notes that references to it were found by a patent examiner by doing a "brief" search on it.

In french, "What the fuck: It was right in front of us, what are we doing?".

Not even surprised, sadly. Just them being assholes.

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