Testing it out today, the gamepad support feels pretty good - great actually. Slay the Spire is a type of game that works really nicely with a gamepad in hand

Hopefully it wasn't too hard to sort out. The controller input works fine on the Switch.

I'm actually curious about the log4j. I thought that was an Apache server vulnerability. What kind of server does this run? Or am I not understanding it right?

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Quoting: GuestThey admitted to Fatshark it could be clearer but that's the only thing Epic are guilty of here.

I can see the argument that Epic's news release could be clearer, but I don't think we (royally, ie gamers) are the target audience. It seems the news release was for developers, possibly even just those already familiar with the ecosystem, hence the links to the SDK and changelog.

Quoting: 14Changing EAC SDK would be seen as a risk and could cause a bad experience for the 97% of players that don't need the Linux-compatible version

That totally makes sense. Especially if the SDK's are divergent enough to have separately maintained versions, seems like they aren't very interchangable

Quoting: 14What I take out of this is simple: Games released in a year or two will have much better Linux support in EAC.

I agree. The release announcement also mentioned native support for EAC for Linux too, which I think is pretty cool.

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Ok, just played it. It does remind me of MOO1, which I did play back in the 90's.
It's definitely MOO1+, a lot of good improvements to the UI in particular. Everything feels very smooth.

Most importantly... It still feels like MOO1.

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Quoting: GuestPeople need to stop making this out to be some conspiracy by Epic, when it isn't

Ya know, I think this one might be check-able...
Let's see... From the link like 8 posts above this (I think its #32?), Epic's release announcement:

Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

That's the title.... literally Says EOS. Maybe there's more... this seems to be the part everyone's complaining about.

Starting with the latest SDK release, developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal.

Hey, look, EOS again and you need the latest SDK.
There is something missing from their announcement though. The part where they claim every EAC enabled game would work using the old SDK...not seeing that there.

This doesn't appear to be any conspiracy. It seems more the case of ignorant gamers and media speculating because they don't understand anything about the SDK versions or how EOS works.

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I'm also completely shocked that a company would put new features in that newest version of software, but not out it in there older versions!!!!

What kind of horrible people are they!?!?

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Quoting: devlandGreat news but it seems from the graphs that they're biased towards Linux themselves. The numbers float around 5 and 6% yet the bars do not reflect that. I remember back when nvidia pulled this trick to showcase some performance boost people got really angry.

The bars chop off at 85% (you can see the "85%" at the bottom), because otherwise they'd either be way too tall or it would be hard to make out the relevant bits. True, the result is a bit "gee-whiz graph" looking, but I think the labelling is so prominent that it's in no way misleading.

Ahhh, visual stats, the best way to make those who know nothing absolutely certian of anything, lol.

I do agree with you though, the vertical axis is properly labeled which makes up a little bit for the poorly made graph.

Sorry, my current job assignment is in stats, so I've become a bit of a stickler for these things.

Back to the topic, I'm really glad they are doing well. I hope they continue. It's a really interesting game idea!

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The description sounds like Crying Sun's, lol.

It does sound like a lot if fun.

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Might give this a try. I think I've been wanting to do a sci-fi strategy game and for some reason Stellaris did not click with me and space empires 4 seems a little to intense. I have fond memories of MOO and MOO2 (Especially 2).

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I wonder if there articles out there talking about how many of those games run on windows, lol?

But seriously, that's a case for some optimism. Hopefully the console works out ok.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: GuestTrying to remember whether the free games had always been tied to 'accepting to receive marketing spam'... I think it wasn't.

Yeah, a little annoying, but nothing stopping you from unsubscribing afterwards either.

Agreed. In truth, they don't send much more than Steam and neither are very frequent.

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