Close to the Sun seems like a Bioshock clone. Odd I've never heard of it

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: officerniceOh look, another reason why Steam is better than Epic.

It also shows why people dislike Steam: I don't need a feature creep. There's so much junk like this in the Steam client I don't care about. Someone should tell Valve about the unix principle or at least about plugins.

I was afraid of this too - I don't want to use more battery while gaming on the go. Fortunately, game recording is disabled by default, as it should be.

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Quoting: PikoloMonster Train is definitely the highlight - I've had that on my wishlist for a while!

Absolutely superb game. If you have a couple of mates to play with, I also recommend the dev's second game, Inkbound, too. I have nearly as many hours in Monster Train as I do Slay the Spire (although they're very different games, of course), but triple the time in Inkbound!

Interesting, never heard of Inkbound before. Might check it out!
Edit: Online required - that's not for me

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Always allow the Steam client to fallback to X11 when SDL_VIDEODRIVER/SDL_VIDERO_DRIVER is set to wayland.

Is not great for testing if steam does work on wayland :/

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A `Commend` is not a thing, commend is purely a verb. A `Commendation` is likely what they're going for...

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Monster Train is definitely the highlight - I've had that on my wishlist for a while!

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Quoting: StellaWhy are these Linux patch notes always so cryptic :cry: in the Windows Patch notes, you read things like 'game ready driver for this and that', 'optimal settings for this and that', 'fixed this bug'. Whereas with the Linux drivers i feel like I need a degree to understand that. What the frick is VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control for example

A Vulkan extension. https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/man/html/VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control.html [External Link]
You can see which driver supports which extensions on https://mesamatrix.net/ [External Link], except proprietary drivers are missing from there.

Windows release notes are written for gamers, hoping they update drivers or are encouraged by game developers to do so.
Linux release notes are written for compositor developers, game developers and distro graphics drivers maintainers, to let them know if it's worth backporting a driver to a stable release and which workarounds they can try disabling.

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Quoting: nwildnerThat is huge when we are talking about 7y old kids playing, with no mouse ability whatsoever. And this is something that could break more often if Microsoft decides to release updates in a faster pace.

You might want to get your nephew a really small mouse and keyboard instead - not being able to use both at 7y seems like a serious impediment at school.

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I tried this one as a demo, and it got repetitive fast. The optimal strategy is to build a wall of turrets asap, an as turrets can't be moved by environmental disasters, the fully counters the game's standout feature. Eventually, waves become a slow slog, with certain bosses only going down when pausing the game and spamming a few thousand spells to hit at a single point (some enemies have insane healing)

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I tried it - it's a fun concept, but the performance is terrible. For how simple the graphics look, I didn't expect the lag on explosions to be so bad

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