Quoting: ShmerlIs it using its own custom engine?

Yes, it is indeed.

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"as other than the occasional American English names for objects (not British names)"

This is of course not inherently wrong, so I assume that this occurs with British English selected as the language or is inconsistent with other parts of the game?

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"One of the trends that Half Life spawned back in the very late 1990's was to include both good mod tools and then a SDK."

It wasn't really started by Valve. id did it with Quake 2 before Valve with Half-Life and this was a continuation of an earlier tradition with for example QuakeC for Quake and .con files in Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem 3D. But I think Quake 2 was the first one to were actual (in that case) C source code was released. Basically something like that was the standard for the FPS games of the mid to late 90s and to around the mid 2000s. Even games released by companies such as Activision. I wish it still was.

id went even further by, as you noted, releasing the full source code of their games(engine and all, in later releases also including tool source code) after a certain number of years. (I should note that unlike the id source code releases which were under the GPL the Descent games source code had a custom license that doesn't comply with either the free software definition or the open source definition).

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Quoting: DrMcCoyValve is actually paying people to moderate things? Well, there's a first for everything, I guess.

Here's hoping they do it right, but I won't be holding my breath.

Quoting: 0aTTThe game was, of course, immediately banned in Germany

Nope, the game isn't banned in Germany. In fact, Germany (and many places in Europe) is way laxer than the US in terms of nudity and sexuality. The US is kind of...prude.

These games are perfectly fine and not-banned in Germany. They are, however, age-restricted. And there's the rub: it's just that the Steam age gate is, well, useless and not up to the German standards. Regulations in Germany require Valve to verify the age of buyers. Just saying "Yes, I'm 18" is not enough.

One way to do this for digital goods (for physical goods, our postal service offers age verification) would be, I guess, Postident [External Link], which is used for opening bank accounts, getting a mobile phone SIM, and things like that.

Although surely the US has much "better" legal protections for games than Germany. Plenty of games in Germany are either banned or somehow legally restricted and AFAIK games are not covered by the freedom of expression in Germany since they are not considered "art". Not so much in the US [External Link].

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Quoting: scaineI hope this doesn't happen every time a new version of Proton comes out though!

It's not a new version though, it's a new Beta.
It seems everyone is (almost) forgetting that.

Isn't it actually only the Nvidia driver that has been updated? So this isn't a Proton update at all, beta or otherwise?

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Interesting.. so they are like companion games?

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I take these two games are related somehow? Same developer?

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Aside from gaming what are the most cited missing applications? MS Office? Visual Studio? Autocad? Adobe's suite of software? Anything else?

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I was wondering. GOG has some Wine wrapped games, right? Is anything stopping them from wrapping games in Proton(and DXVK etc)?

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Quoting: coesetaPlayed some Witcher 3 GotY yesterday, it just works out of the box for me. Runs @60FPS stable on Ultra settings without nvidia hairworks. Proton seems to be really nice :)

It already works like a charm w/ Vanilla Wine/devel from GOG so it is no surprise.

However proton games should all run in windowed mode otherwise they do not survive to alt-tab.

If they don't survive alt tab, report to Valve.

It has already been reported many times. I got the issue with every game I tried including Doom. Not a big deal as I prefer playing in windowed mode.

Anyway some games are affected by the issue with true MS Windows.

Fullscreen not working is/could be a big deal for many if not most. For me it would be a deal breaker. Hopefully any issues with fullscreen will fe fixed soon.

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