Quoting: g000hI've got over 4000 hours in the game, and I preferred the earlier Alphas, before they messed up the water system.

I'm not a big fan of the new water system either. I get that the old one had issues, but the trader dependency was not a good choice. Honestly, most of the unbalance could have been solved by having jars filled one by one instead of a whole stack. Combined with an increased boiling time (as A21 has), it would have been fine.

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Quoting: scaineI'm sure console owners will still find something to whinge about though

In this case, though, it's entirely fair. Console players have to rebuy the game if they bought it in early access. A massive middle finger to anyone that we're supporting the Devs.

Yeah, normally, I'd agree. But this is a game that's been in development for a decade. A decade. I think it's insane that I still get to benefit from the development of this title after all this time. Any other developer would have launched at A14 or A15 back in 2016, then started working on A16, 17 and 18, then launched that as a new game, and provided the money keeps pouring in, rinse and repeat.

Throw in the workshop support and mods like Darkness Falls, the value for money from that one purchase, £19 back in 2013... I'm blown away.

I'm entirely happy to cut them slack when they hit a few bumps along the way. But console owners don't see it that way. Despite the Electronic Arts model of re-releasing every goddam game year on year, at full price!

Gets even more complicated when you realise that the console version was a product of Telltale games that got lost in the bankruptcy of Telltale. Don't remember the details, but if memory serves me right, TFP could only buy the publishing rights back. The "legacy" version still belongs to other parties.

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Let's hope "Coffee Stain and friends" will just all fall under Coffee Stain Publishing now. They seem to be relatively solid and appear to have been mostly unaffected by all the mess.

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Quoting: dubigrasuWhat kind of anticheat is 7DTD using btw?

Optional EAC. Optional as in the server decides whether it is used, so public servers generally enable it, but you can run your own without it.

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Quoting: PyrateRealistically speaking, what could be so bad if Proton became the de-facto Linux support method for all games, including games that would've had Native Linux support if the developers were generous enough?

Because in practice, proton "support" often means ignore it and let Valve deal with any issues. I think I can count the number of devs that actually fixed something to get it running better (or at all) on proton on one hand.

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Quoting: JarmerSo now I guess they're just going back to their cash cow: dlc for stellaris. What is the total cost of buying the game with all expansions in 2024? Like $200 or something insane?

Haha, optimist. More than double. Figuring out all this DLC stuff feels like work to me. I'll just skip it and go play something else. It's not like I have a shortage of games to dump my time in.

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Quoting: ShabbyXFor example, imagine a cheat that takes the app's wall rendering shader, and makes it semi transparent. Now the cheater can see through walls. They could still be playing with mouse and keyboard, no scripting involved.

That example is still a server problem. It's giving the client information that it doesn't need.

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Fun game that I finished waaaaay back. Probably represents some of the oldest achievements I got on Steam.

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Quoting: TheRiddickBe nice if they added fsr3 and dlss perhaps also with frame gen. Game can really benefit from that in areas where no matter how good your hardware is, the fps will just tank.

In that case it is more likely that one core being maxed out is limiting performance. Upscaling won't help with that.

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Honestly, the fact that they explained it is already more effort than I expected!

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