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Latest Comments by Ehvis
Wine 3.19 is out with improved 32bit .NET on 64bit and plenty of fixes
26 Oct 2018 at 8:06 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: ShmerlThe last remaining milestone for it now is Mesa landing transform feedback patches.
And for a wealthy few, inclusion in the 410 drivers. :D

EXAPUNKS, the latest puzzle game from Zachtronics, has released out of Early Access
24 Oct 2018 at 4:03 pm UTC

Exapunks is great. Typical solid Zachtronics game. Still need to sit down and make something in the TEC Redshift though.

Lutris 0.4.21 is out to help you manage all your gaming needs on Linux
22 Oct 2018 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestSo say you have a game installed, and the person maintaining the script updates it to take advantage of newer versions of WINE etc for better performance, will the script be automatically updated to make use of it?
It doesn't. But I did ask about something like that in the Lutris discord channel last week and it was agreed that an "update" feature would be a useful thing. So it may come at some point in the future.

A statement from HOF Studios about the Depth of Extinction Steam key removal, plus thoughts
21 Oct 2018 at 4:48 pm UTC Likes: 20

I agree, people make mistakes. And with life on the internet, things can be especially hard. And with the key restored and the apology everything with regard to the dev is good now in my opinion. What will last longer is the discussion about keys, ownership and how easy it should be to have it taken away.

Game developer revokes a user's Steam key after negative review
20 Oct 2018 at 9:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: EhvisIt should not even be possible for a dev to revoke keys. Revoking a legally paid key is theft. There's just no other way to look at it.
companies do it all the time if a player does something like say cheating in a game. I quite agree with you though.
I don't recall seeing that. They take away access to an online service, but they don't invalidate your key.

Game developer revokes a user's Steam key after negative review
20 Oct 2018 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Solitary
Quoting: EhvisIt should not even be possible for a dev to revoke keys. Revoking a legally paid key is theft. There's just no other way to look at it.
It actually makes perfect sense. If someone buys keys with stolen credit cards and tries to resell them, or maybe it's just review/testing keys for limited time period. As I already mentioned, I dont think this can happen on Steam bought games. This was the case of a game activated with a key that the person got from the dev via email.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be an option to have keys revoked that were not legally paid. But the dev there's no reason for a dev to be able to do that on their own.

Game developer revokes a user's Steam key after negative review
20 Oct 2018 at 10:12 am UTC Likes: 13

It should not even be possible for a dev to revoke keys. Revoking a legally paid key is theft. There's just no other way to look at it.

The Jackbox Party Pack 5 has launched as their first to officially support Linux
19 Oct 2018 at 10:43 am UTC

The only "problem" with these games is that the fun you have is fully dependent on the group of people that is in them. A month ago I played this for five hours and had a blast. A week later I had flee a game because of the exceedingly juvenile behaviour of some of the players (even though the streamer that streamed it was fine). One or two bad apples can ruin the experience entirely.

Feral show off Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux, along with confirming more Linux ports and a Vulkan teaser
16 Oct 2018 at 7:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: kibblesProton came out and I only had about two games to test it with since I only buy linux native ports. Luckily one of them was DOOM, just couldn't pass that one up. I waited and waited for feral to port it and finally caved. Great game, feral really missed some sweet sweet $ with that one...
It's not like Feral can just say to them that they are going to do that. They need permission. And this is Bethesda, they'll never give it. And to show my support for their rigidity, I'll never buy anything that benefits them.

Feral show off Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux, along with confirming more Linux ports and a Vulkan teaser
16 Oct 2018 at 7:05 pm UTC

Quoting: dpanterRX 550, 60 fps in Mad Max, 1080p, medium??
Dude, I find that somewhat hard to believe... but I'll take your word for it.
I suppose it depends on where you measure the fps. Get 55 to 60 driving through the empty desert looks nice, but it can still drop to 15 inside the camps.