Quoting: rcrit450W GPU aka "watch your lights dim while processing large data sets"

But it's electric power, so it's green and human rights respectful. It would be a different story if this were a gas powered GPU. :tongue:

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Do we have a benchmark? How faster does this one mine compared to the old model? :huh:

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Quoting: denyasisSo question. Does this mean the game is less big free than Stellaris or CKII? Follow-up. You guys mentioned multiplayer. How is it for solo play? This is very tempting if I can play it alone while ignoring my friends and family, lol.

Now the game it's ok.

Like many other Pdx games, and definitely more than the most recent ones, the game has a quite steep curve of learning. Especially if you start with all the DLCs as you would with this pack here. There is an outrageous amount of buttons and modifiers now in the game. Youtube is your friend but be prepared to lose badly a lot in your first plays (I did lose a lot at least).

For single player, if you set to unlock achievements, it ranges from relaxing to frustrating depending on what you want to do (and the patch you try to do it I'd say). Given the ridiculous amount of tags and achievements you easily have thousands of hours of play.

A defect in solo, in my opinion, is that the game falls off a lot in the late game. To explain better, the game changes rules over time to reflect the different eras, and while in the early game you can get an endless amount of troubles just by conquering the wrong province at the wrong time, in the second half of the game once you are an experienced player you methodically start to blob out without control and end to conquer the world or close. That ofc is different in multiplayer but with AIs it's that. The game tends to be more "fun" in the early years. But again, since there are so many tags and achievements, it's still plenty of fun. It's absolutely normal not to play a game until 1821.

Quoting: PikoloNever played EUIV. Is it playable on small screens? I've found CKII unplayable due to tiny interface elements, even with interface scaling set to 150%, on a 1080p 13.3' screen

I dunno small screeens. I have issues with big ones (i.e. couch playing on TV). Reading the numbers is hard at couch distance and while the interface scaling fixes the readability it doesn't behave well at 1080p resolutions since the game windows become to large to fit the screen.

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Quoting: MisterPaytwick13'3 may be kind of small still. EUIV is fine, but the bundle is needed to get into it now. Classic Paradox.

Tho, I'd like to kind of modulate your words here, Liam:

Paradox has a good history of Linux support too, with this being available as a native Linux port.

Sometimes. For at least 4 years (from the top of my head, I could dig into my message over the Paradox forums and all to be more accurate), EUIV was broken for any cross-play multi for Linux users (they'd desync less than a minute into the game, as the underlaying clock system was broken for that much time)

Paradox support was "meh" to put it mildly here. They do try to support Linux well, and overall it is good. But here? EUIV was broken, yet HoI4 and Stellaris were patched for that very bug at most a year after it first appeared.

Yeah. Multiplayer sucked. But on the bright side on windows EU4 took 5 minutes to load while we were on the map in 5 seconds (and the game has to restart whenever a save is loaded, so it was not just a once per game issue). So on solo play we on Linux used to have the upperhand for a long time.

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Quoting: foobrewSo buying the soundtrack separately automatically gives you access to all future expansion soundtracks too? If so, that's pretty sweet. I have the "Original Game Soundtrack" which came with a bundle but not sure if it includes any future ones since I've yet to buy any expansions...the vanilla game still overwhelming enough and I have about 100 hours into it already.

I dunno how humble bundle manages goodies. But on Steam ofc the service is top of the class. Check this link [External Link]. Perhaps you actually bought the steam dlc with the bundle and in that case you already have everything in your game folder. :wink:

Edit:

Actually I just remembered that some time ago I had some issues with this feature since at game release the files were located in the game folder... and they are still there, but only the vanilla ones which ofc may give the wrong idea that that's it (Pdx should remove those files from the game folder). So to make it short: find all your mp3s by using the steam client with library -> soundtracks -> stellaris > "browse local files".

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I hope Barone will embrace steam workshop for his next projects. Custom solutions are pretty much always cluncky and time consuming. Notable exception is Factorio mod portal. But Wube are the -positive- exception on pretty much everything. Even when they get review bombed is positive. Which is something I would never have thought I would say.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, I still do not want to support them (epic, not the devs of the game launcher) in anyway.

I guess this fixation with EGS is because the steam games works all flawlessly and there is nothing to make an article with?

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They have the same stance as Epic. They want to spy in the kernel to let you play the game.

Maybe that would be a minor issue on the deck... assuming one uses the deck only for gaming and not for serious/sensitive stuff.

But for generic purpose linux it's way better if spyware remains off limit. The allegedly best solution (for the industry) is worse (for end users) than the issue it pretends to solve.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: catbox_fuguelets not forget that EAC used to work on linux natively prior to Epic buying it.

I've not heard this before, but if true, it's not a good look for Epic Games... I suspect though, that they'll try and downplay this fact, so that people don't point out the hypocrisy of refusing to support Linux-based operating systems.

link to article

Officially it was announced as a "paused support". But I believe everyone here should be educated enough to understand corporate language.

BTW, since I start to get lost here... linux remains unsupported pausesupported :whistle: correct? What we are disccussing here is just the official partial/non intrusive EAC 4 windows support for proton. Or is partial support also for linux native?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWith all of that in mind, one thing you can decide is who you will or won't trust (knowing full well that they themselves could become victims of attacks).
So if I really wanted to play Fortnite (I sure don't) I'd just roll with it as I trust the developers to not try and build a psychological profile of me while trying to prevent cheating.

? With open source you don't "trust", you precisely know what it's happening on your machine. You know for instance if an hypothetical anti cheat module is looking only for cheats or also for what's going on in your browser. And you know which part of what is found remains in your machine and what is sent back to the corporate cloud.

It's just that. If have nothing to hide, you don't take the trouble to hide what you do. That's the issue with anti cheats. That's what makes them spyware. Were they open source, there would be far less if not no concern at all in having them scanning your memory.

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