Quoting: NanobangKinda exciting. Is it voiced (a la Divinity Original Sin (Yay)? Or is it walls of text like Shadow Run games(which just exausts me)? Or something else? I like the art and cinematics and I can overlook grid or hex movement systems.

I tried out the demo yesterday, and it wasn't voiced. No idea if that plans to change in future. It kinda felt like it should be, since it uses a slightly odd system where dialog advances even if you don't do anything (though you can click to advance it faster), which feels like it should be voiced; I generally associate unvoiced dialog boxes with "advance at your own pace". I'm a fast reader, but I could see people missing stuff if they get distracted and turn back to find out the cutscene is over. (I haven't checked the settings to see if there's anything about this, to be fair.)

I was also a bit confused by the demo, as it starts with a tutorial-like scenario where you have two heroes go recruit a third. However, it starts off with pretty much no instruction on what to do, until you defeat the first wave of enemies and recruit the guy; then it suddenly feels like a proper tutorial, instructing you how to use his new abilities with specific instructions. I'm sure it'll be all fixed up in the full release, it was just an odd experience.

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On the wishlist it goes to follow it.

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Oh, this sounds cool. I've always enjoyed finding pre-FTL civilizations around (I tend to bring them up to spaceflight tech as protectorates), so more interactions sounds fun. It makes the game feel more alive to have new civilizations popping up as it goes along (and separates it from many other 4X games), rather than "everyone mostly all just happened to achieve spaceflight at the same time at the beginning of the game"*. (I'd love to see more stuff for primitives as well, since I love uplifting them, but we'll have to see if that's included with this or not.) The new origins sound interesting, especially Broken Shackles and Fear of the Dark (an origin for potentially rejecting spaceflight and doing a one-planet challenge, perhaps?).

*Good for game balance, but somewhat artificial-feeling; I like the Fallen Empires for the same reason, adding an element of "you weren't the first" into the game and making the galaxy feel like it has history.

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Quoting: EikeI wish for a sleep mode that might take a couple of seconds more to wake up into the game, but uses like a tenth of the energy. Whenever my Deck lays around for some days, the battery is empty for doing... nothing. And yes, I'm aware I can switch it off, but more often than not, I don't know if I'll be using it again next day or next week.

So like "hibernate" vs. "sleep"? I used to use hibernate on my Windows laptop before switching to Linux, where it's been an option in my shutdown menu since 2014 but has never worked for me on Linux (at least, when I tried it early on, I admittedly haven't tried it in years). It doesn't make much difference for a desktop that's always connected to electricity like I have now, but yeah, for a portable device it'd be nice to have.

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I feel like Coromon is kinda like the the Xenonauts of Pokémon: hewing pretty close to the original experience while adding some updated touches (that's not a quality judgment in any way, shape, or form, just an amusing observation that came to me). Good on them to report the bug, it sounds like the ball is in Valve's court to fix the underlying issue.

I just got Pokémon Infinite Fusion working on Steam Deck yesterday, though, so I'm gonna be busy fusing pocket monsters together for a while…only 176,000 left to see! :whistle:

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Finally got around to setting up Decky Loader. Seems pretty handy.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PhiladelphusSemi-related random question I couldn't quite answer from the video: is it possible to attach more than one controller to the Deck via Bluetooth simultaneously? I'm wondering if it'd be possible to hook it up to a TV and play multi-player games with friends that way. I don't have multiple controllers to check myself and don't want to pick some up only to discover it doesn't work…

Yep at one point the video even shows it with Xbox and PlayStation controllers both being on and connected.

Ah, I couldn't quite convince myself they were both connected since only one had the battery percentage. :smile: Thanks.

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Semi-related random question I couldn't quite answer from the video: is it possible to attach more than one controller to the Deck via Bluetooth simultaneously? I'm wondering if it'd be possible to hook it up to a TV and play multi-player games with friends that way. I don't have multiple controllers to check myself and don't want to pick some up only to discover it doesn't work…

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So, I was really on the fence about this, because I liked the idea of a kickstand but don't need to mount my Deck all over the place. I've got some long flights in a few weeks, however, and I've been realizing that a kickstand would be really nice to have when playing while seated at a table or desk, so I decided to get the basic kickstand bundle so I can prop my Deck up on the airplane. It arrived today, and I'm an instant convert. I mean, I still don't need extra mounts, but for the basic kickstand, this thing is great. The spring-loaded mount attachment for the kickstand is absolutely genius – dead simple to put on and take off, but very secure. I've yet to fill up my internal storage, but I'm sure the two microSD card slots will eventually come in handy (I tried one and it was a good, solid fit). All in all something I can definitely recommend.

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Quoting: MayeulCI'm surprised, I thought rsync already used rolling hashes.

There's also casync in that space: https://github.com/systemd/casync/ [External Link] (the blog post is quite nice IIRC).

If it's similar but better than rsync, I feel like these improvements shoukd be folded into rsync.

If it's open source, perhaps they will be. :smile:

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