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Quoting: slaapliedjeI should spend more time in VR for sure. Also, someone should mod the rest of the Half-Life games into VR... I feel a lot will be left out / missing from Alyx's experience by making a flat version... Like being able to hide behind desks and throw grenades at the enemy. And realize how terrible you are at throwing things...

Don't need VR for that, I see it with shame every time I try to play with balls with my little ones (4 yo). :D

Ha, I don't have any little ones to do that with. Maybe someone can code a 'kid simulator'... then again maybe that is a horrible idea.

Absolutely. I heard they've given out baby simulation dolls to teenage girls - so they'd avoid teenage pregnancies. :-D

We did that... Used eggs. Had to carry the egg with you all day from class to class and everywhere else. Most made basket carriers and decorated the eggs to look like babies. Any cracks and you failed... Wasn't just for girls. Boys too.

Back to VR... I dunno about "gimmick", but the headset is definitely in the "dude toy" realm. I can't imagine using this when my kids were babies (monitoring naps), my current aged kids (playtime), other people in the living room (some one gonna get hit), or really anywhere where some awareness is needed. Perhaps I'm the only one with these circumstances.

Now the cockpit part of VR... Makes about an much sense as having a joystick and other accessories. I can see that.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt is also a Paradox game, though.
Those tend to not really be very meaty and "finished" until a year and a handful of patches and DLCs are in.

Thanks, that's the impression I've had give the rate and numerous expansions I've seen mentioned.

Quoting: ShabbyXmay be stating the obvious here, but you should probably first play the game you already have, see if you even like it, before you decide to by the sequel :D

Still appreciated though. I was thinking of cases where some sequels are so improved that the earlier games aren't worth it.

I think you're right though. I don't really have a reason not to try it, especially since I'm not buying anything till 2022 at the earliest.

Thanks!!

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So honest question....
Is CK3 so much better than 2 that is worth buying 3? Or should I hold off until it gets fleshed out with a couple more expansions?

I have CK2 and most of it's expansions, which cost a lot. I haven't played it much and would basically be a new player.... I guess I'm worried that I would spend a lot of money on a game I fundamentally already have.

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Quoting: buschapBut I started out with Fallout 1 & 2 and Freespace 1 & 2. (They were heavily or entirely Interplay at the start.) We won’t talk about whether or not I’ve finished any of those four games.

Agreed. I've done Fallout and Freespace 2 (I owned 1 on CD). Great games.

If you decide to give Freespace a try, there is the superior open source engine. Just uses the data files. They even ported Freespace 1 to the engine and it plays much better. They even have some very good fan campaigns as well.

Probably better than TIE fighter if it weren't for TIE Fighter's source material.

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Wow 13 years. I remember when it was Good Old Games and still was in "beta". I'm not sure what my first purchase was, probably Fallout.

Good times.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerSo how to install on Linux with a click?

Is it not in your package manager? That's how I do it on my machines. Might take a bit for the updates to hit your repo, but it's the most convenient, I find.

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#! /bin/bash ./Hero?

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Quoting: SalvatosNot just for Linux, but seemingly for Valve's sole benefit when it comes to supporting Wine and Proton specifically. What's going on at Epic? Maybe they intend to add Proton to their own launcher and profit from Valve's work...

I don't think it's necessarily Valve's sole benefit. Getting it to work in wine (and therefore proton) is probably more beneficial short term. You get more games working on Linux faster as opposed to trying to port to native (even if EAC now works on native).

I think this benefits every store that sells games with EAC. Valve had the biggest store and stand to gain the most through sales, some may argue they are too big. That's neither her nor there, but think of all the Steam Decks and Linux/proton installs are suddenly working; That can suddenly engage in micro transactions, etc.

I think there are a lot of benefits for everyone. I also share the idea (or hope?) that this might be the first steps to better Linux support from Epic's store.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI first read this as there being a port for EGS to linux and that they were integrating Proton!

But that's what I get for having a tasty margarita for lunch and a steak. Talk about food coma!

I guess, that plumbing support for Linux in your games could be considered laying the ground work for expanded support later on. I mean why have a store support an OS that the games can't fully run on?

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Quoting: jensFirst thing I do with gnome is installing plata-noir theme (https://gitlab.com/tista500/plata-theme [External Link]) and papirus icon theme (https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme [External Link]). After that it is the perfect desktop for me. Small tip: learning the keyboard shortcuts makes life on Gnome way easier and using them imho fits much better into the intended way of working.

Not a gnome user at the moment.... But I like the like of those icons. Thank you for sharing.

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