Quoting: GuestSupporting Lutris/WINE means they have no plans for supporting or releasing for Linux.

Not to rain in the anti-epic parade (I still believe that they belong in the dog-house) but Valve supports WINE/DXVK and they do support releasing for Linux so I would say that the one is completely disconnected from the other.

Most likely this is $25k taken from their PR budget but it still have no bearing on whatever plans they have or not have for Linux in the future.

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Oboy, here:s to hoping that they have fixed the game breaking bug for me where the game always crashed a few minutes after I reach the grainary in one of the last chapters of The Following. I had a solid 116 hours solo gameplay until that one struck.

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Quoting: LinasDoes it work on AMD hardware or does one need an NVIDIA card?

AFAIK it uses the VK_NV_ray_tracing Vulkan Device Extension which is nVIDIA only.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)

Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.

My guess is, Gabe traveled there once and also had food that poisoned him, so no Valve products for Norway!

Don't you have that delicious fermented fish?

That's us their friendly eastern neighbour of Sweden that have the famous fish (surströmming) that you can find in every "let's puke" video on the Internet :)

Doesn't Iceland also have a couple of weaponizable fish delicacies?

They have Hákarl which is a type of shark that they air dry for 5 months that are told to smell heavy of ammonia.

I found an old "review" comparing the two (since I have unfortunately never been to Iceland I have not tried the Hákarl) https://demislw.com/2014/03/09/its-a-fork-off-the-worlds-foulest-food/ [External Link].

Common mistake that foreigners do with Surströmming is that they open the can in the open, we Swedes always opens the can under water (in say a bucket or a filled bathtub) since it's highly explosive and you do not want pieces of the "sauce" anywhere since it's close to impossible to clean up.

I've heard of a case where some people wanted to prank newly-weds by placing an open can at a random location in their house while they where away on their honeymoon with the intent that they would go home and look for hours to find where that strange smell where coming from.

It all ended with these people having to pay the costs for a total renovation since there was no way to save furniture, wallpapers, carpets and so forth, everything was completely ruined.

This shit is not be played with :)

edit: I'm adding the conclusion from the "review" I linked to in case no one wants to read the whole thing (I do recommend that you do it though, it's a very fun and interesting read)

There is no reason for people to feel they need to eat Surströmming at all, ever, for any reason. If I had to chose between eating Hákarl every day of my life or eating Surströmming one more time, I would still go with the daily shark. It was horrible in so many more ways that Hákarl wasn’t. I walked away from the shark dish in November feeling like I’d touched the edge of the Universe, but in reality, I hadn’t come even close. This is by far the worst thing a human can ever eat. I’ve accidentally eaten dog-shit before – this was worse. I’ve accidentally sipped some urine that had been congealing in a plastic drink bottle for several months – this was worse (but only just – in a remarkably similar ball-park). Don’t try this, thinking it’s going to be cool. It’s not going to be cool trying something so gross. It’s going to be horrible. You are going to vomit. You are going to wish you’d never gotten yourself into this in the first place. There’s no silver-lining to the experience, apart from the thought that perhaps, eating it with Swedish locals, already fully tanked on very, very strong clear spirits, you’re just drunk enough that you keep more of it down than I did. Horrible. Words can’t describe it.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)

Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.

I know that you are part of EEA, I was just thinking about weather or not that agreement also covers the certification of electrical appliances, those you have to apply for for each and every iteration of a product so it does not matter if the Index is based on Vive or not since the Index would require their own certification. Part of the inner market agreement is that products are certified once for the entire EU.

Anyway it's very strange and a major oversight by Valve. If you happen to live near Oslo then consider that I live in Göteborg (and have an office next to Gothia Towers / Liseberg) so if you ever plan to make a trip to the east I could give you assistance (if you now would trust random dude on the Internet of course).

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)

Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.

My guess is, Gabe traveled there once and also had food that poisoned him, so no Valve products for Norway!

Don't you have that delicious fermented fish?

That's us their friendly eastern neighbour of Sweden that have the famous fish (surströmming) that you can find in every "let's puke" video on the Internet :)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eikeate at a snack bar

Never eat at a snack bar. Don't matter what country you're in, you'll hate it after the snack bar.

Beg to differ, here in Göteborg we have one place, Lasse på Heden, that's categoriced as a Gourmet Snack-bar and that place is really, really good. Not to mention the "Gourmet Sausage" (Gourmetkorv) place that we have at the train terminal who servers 60 varieties of excellent sausages.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: BeamboomEurope is NOT covered. It's not available in Norway.

Strange, it's available here in Sweden, 1079€ though (which of course is basically free for you rich Norwegians).

I know, and since it's only sold through Steam I can't just drive across the border and pick it up in a shop either. I'll have to get a Swedish colleague to buy it for me on his steam account and get it transported to me somehow.

It's really odd, this. It's the same with all Valve hardware: No Norwegian distributor deal.

Well that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country), now this will be a guess completely outside my area of competency but since this is related to hardware it's quite possible that it have to do with electrical appliance safety regulations where you just need to apply for a single one inside the entirety of the EU but probably need a nation by nation one for every other country (don't know if the Norwegian / EU treaty covers this aspect).

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Quoting: BeamboomEurope is NOT covered. It's not available in Norway.

Strange, it's available here in Sweden, 1079€ though (which of course is basically free for you rich Norwegians).

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Quoting: DrMcCoyI'm still a bit miffed they migrated off their own FLOSS engine to Unity

The Argentinian devs always make the same mistake: They waste a lot of time developing their own game engine in the name of the independence, instead of to use a 3rd party game engine and to focus all the efforts in the game itself.. (being Argentinian myself, I know how they think)...Is a cultural issue.
6 years late, Cordes learned the lesson..
I'm gonna buy it for to support the small Argentinian gaming industry.

I wonder what kind of game He can make with Godot.

Did there even exist any good free 3d party game engine 6 years ago? Unity was still sold with only a commercial license back then and so was Unreal.

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