Here's to the brave souls playing Starfield on Steam Deck....

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Yay! My favorite HOMM game.

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Quoting: kneekooHey, please come to our Discord [External Link] or Matrix [External Link] to give us some details about that. It looks like you have some specifics if you're sure that's not a Minetest issue. A little profiling might reveal the issue. This year MineClone2 scored some really nice performance improvements that enabled it to run reasonably well on my old Core 2 Duo laptop, so I wonder what else is there that causes performance drops on an RTX 3060 Ti.

I appreciate the friendly invitation! I might take you up on your offer one day. For now I do not have time nor patience to work through any further steps of troubleshooting for this issue.

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Making games costs money.

This situation specifically is largely due to the console companies, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft (in this order of being guilty) having a monopoly-like hold on their respective store platforms.

Many folks do not realize how good we all have with PC and also partly with Steam. This is the closest to democratized and decentralized we can get under free market economy.

While PC as a platform makes it possible for you to:

- develop a game relatively easily with hundreds of possible pre-made engines, libraries, asset editors and other tools
- publish it by yourself on your own website or choose between dozen digital storefronts

Steam also offers:

- low, fully refundable one-off publishing fee
- high process and data transparency
- publicly documented platform integration tools
- additional features for no additional cost (think Proton, Remote Play, friends system, Big Picture, universal gamepad support, overlay etc.)
- free platform discoverability & visibility (algorithm will surface the game to the right players if the game will be very positively received and reaches certain threshold), aka free marketing

None of this is possible on the mainstream consoles. You can guess why.

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I played MineClone2 lately, had good fun despite dying a lot but got frustrated eventually by its poor peformance on Linux :( I experienced constant FPS drops on NVIDIA and have read this is not a Minetest issue but specifically a MineClone2 issue.

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but titles released after 1995 use Director versions that aren't yet supported

Soon, I hope!

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Eh I want all games to have Workshop support enabled by default, so the community is able to deliver mods even when the developer did not foresee such option.

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I hoped for more new features and niche insights compared to the previous year.

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* gasp * Vampires are amogus

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'Until Morale Improves'

What kind of code name is this 🤣

Updates will continue until morale improves?

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