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Quoting: DrMcCoyYes, you are ignorant.

So what genre is simpler? Text based adventures?

Quite a number of things I imagine. Visual Novels are most interesting with good writing of complex branching storylines. Getting suitable artwork also requires some talent. I imagine the famous game of Tetris was much easier to write.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy...Not really? Interactive Fiction is usually a fancy way to say Text Adventure, but has been applied to things like Twines and Visual Novels as well.

In my humble opinion, text adventure is the opposite of Visual Novel.
After having played a text adventure, it was hard to go back to something less open and interactive.

For me text adventures are the games like they were before graphics became a thing. Where actions and moving through the world was all based on reading and inputting text. This evolved into text with pictures representing the location. I suppose the next step was Sierra On-line which made the navigation visual but kept the text interface. Funny enough, Visual Novels seems to have more in common with old style RPGs which often had a NPC interaction screens that were quite similar. Of course, doing away with most game mechanics, VNs focus on story and character development (if done right).

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Quoting: trawzSo G-Sync can now work with Vulkan on Linux? That's great, gonna test it later today!

G-SYNC has worked with Vulkan for years. This is about the issue with VR headsets not v-syncing properly when your main display had G-SYNC. Which was a big nuisance and I'm happy it's finally fixed!

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Quoting: bacattasteam keys ?

Shadow of the Tomb Raider as a Linux version or is it only the "definitive edition" ?

Linux support for the others ?

The DE is just a bundle with the normal game and the extras, so the key will have the Linux version.

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Probably a decent month if you don't have SottTR already, but nothing much if you do.

However, the "Classic plan" faq says that you can pause without risk of losing classic, so that's very nice!

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Quoting: fagnerlnJust a question, how good is EAC? I know that VAC has a lot of vulnerabilities, and there's cheaters in all valve's games.

It's curious how fast EAC conquested the market, and most of the newer games have it.

It's really "cheater-free"?

I think it's more like a virus scanner. It weeds out the easy to catch stuff. I've heard plenty of reports from cheaters in games that have anti-cheat (any kind). While some reports might be sore losers, I have no doubt there are people with enough time on their hands to beat it. Just like any other cracking, it becomes a sport in itself.

If it's that weak then why can't we just convince the dang thing it's talking to the kernel even though it isn't? Sure, that might not be an ideal solution from the game developers' point of view, but hey, if they don't like it they can make Linux versions of their games.

Probably. But that would be an exploitable flaw which will then be fixed and the cycle has to start all over again. Nice for those enjoying that challenge, but not really practical for Linux gamers.

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Quoting: fagnerlnJust a question, how good is EAC? I know that VAC has a lot of vulnerabilities, and there's cheaters in all valve's games.

It's curious how fast EAC conquested the market, and most of the newer games have it.

It's really "cheater-free"?

I think it's more like a virus scanner. It weeds out the easy to catch stuff. I've heard plenty of reports from cheaters in games that have anti-cheat (any kind). While some reports might be sore losers, I have no doubt there are people with enough time on their hands to beat it. Just like any other cracking, it becomes a sport in itself.

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Quoting: rkfgI think the biggest issue with EAC is how intrusive it is. It clearly includes a kernel-level driver (I found issues describing BSoDs caused by EasyAntiCheat.sys) and Wine, being a userspace set of libraries, simply can't emulate kernel APIs because it would require root access and a kernel module. So Epic/Valve will either develop such a module and provide a way to build/load it from Steam (more likely) or drop the low-level part of anticheat which would make Linux a more preferable platform for cheaters (much less likely). Or maybe they'll find a middleground and do whatever's possible from userspace but with elevated privileges (access to /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and such).

TBH, I don't like any of these possibilities because this anticheat gets full access to your memory, processes and devices and can potentially steal passwords, keys and whatnot.

That's really a thing We should care about. But maybe Valve is planning to do this inside the Steam Linux Runtime. What you think?

I doubt it. I don't see how this is even possible without the cooperation of the EAC devs.

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The blog post is quite interesting. They're basically saying that Vulkan is for AMD support because AMD OpenGL drivers are terrible. For NVIDIA OpenGL is the way to go because it matches better with how it is used by games.

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This is one of the weirdest store pages on Steam. It has a purchase option for "Halo: Reach". It is also there as DLC, which has a store page that says it's a DLC and requires The Master Chief Collection. And the Master Chief Collection is a package that includes Halo: Reach. Ok then.

Anyway, never played Halo in my life, so nostalgia for me to worry about.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloIt's just awesome that practical effects hold up so much. As a kid I always thought that the Enterprise in TNG was a computer generated model. But it's not. It's a real model.

True. Just look at that picture of the crystalline entity, it wouldn't have taken 10 years for that to look dated.

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