Don't want to see articles from a certain category? When logged in, go to your User Settings and adjust your feed in the Content Preferences section where you can block tags!
Latest Comments by Solitary
Desperados III has a final free update as Mimimi Games move to self-publish their next
10 December 2020 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 3

Great game, already finished campaign, DLC missions and all challenge missions. No reason not to buy it even at full price, because there are no ifs, ands, or buts about the port. Just done and done, working perfectly, enjoy great game. That really needs to be rewarded. Hope the next one is even better.

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 December 2020 at 9:19 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: LinuxwarperValve gets 30% cut. They are clearly spending money to improve Linux. So why wouldn't you buy on Steam

Valve doesn't get 30% cut for a game of this magnitude, they will get 20% only and I wouldn't be surprised if CDPR made extra deal for even smaller cut.

Brutal Fate is an upcoming FPS from the creator of Brutal Doom (updated)
7 September 2020 at 11:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Nezchan
Quoting: LinasI'd rather judge a man by his work, than some inconsiderate thing he may have said years ago. Cancel culture ruins lives.

CALLED IT!

Don't be arrogant.

Commandos 2 - HD Remaster due for Linux PC support 'this Winter'
23 August 2020 at 10:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: flesk
Quoting: mos
Quoting: fleskthe removal of some racial symbols
jeeez
it's war.. WE GOTTA CENSOR WAR!!! and all go to california to smoke some weed LOVE PEACE

I just don't understand why people get so worked up over it. There are hate groups to this day who use these symbols, so I understand why the developer wants to avoid using them, and I doubt doing so takes any fun out of the game, so what's the big deal? This game was never big on realism anyway.

Because some people have principles and understand context. Racial symbols... what does that even mean? We aren't talking propaganda here, the game obviously doesn't spread any hateful messages by displaying the symbols. That's a huge shortcut you took there. Censorship of history is just wrong, period. It is slippery slope to something worse around the corner. This exact kind of thinking is the reason why the creators of Attentat 1942 have so many problems distributing their game. You just wave your hand over it, because you want to play a game and have fun, but it is shortsighted point of view. Among other things I already mentioned... an obvious one... people also take issue when someone needlessly fucks with their beloved games.

Also your comments about realism... ehm... what can I say here? You want to claim that the game is not suppose to be about WW2 or what? What are we talking about here? The setting of the game is real and the game makes it clear enough. Is it just more hand waving? I am not trying to convince you not to play the game, but you being baffled by people taking issue with it is slightly concerning. The reason why I mentioned it in the first place is so people know and can decide for themselves. For me it is a no buy, no matter how many penguins in nazi uniforms they add to the game.

Commandos 2 - HD Remaster due for Linux PC support 'this Winter'
23 August 2020 at 8:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Arehandoro
Quoting: SolitaryHardly authentic WW2 when they deliberately censored the whole fact that you are actually fighting against Axis powers.

I don't know what version you've played, but the original versions in Spain -where the original developers were from- the games had all kinds of real symbology.

I am obviously talking about the remaster. The original is fine.

Commandos 2 - HD Remaster due for Linux PC support 'this Winter'
21 August 2020 at 7:39 pm UTC

Hardly authentic WW2 when they deliberately censored the whole fact that you are actually fighting against Axis powers.

7 Days to Die 'Alpha 19 Experimental' is out with HD Zombies
30 June 2020 at 5:57 pm UTC

Quoting: AllocSeems to really depend on the GPU/driver combination, some play without issues (and obviously better performance than GLCore) for hours, some crash all the time.

Well that's unfortunate, but it gives me hope that it just might be something about my setup. Even though A18 manage to run with Vulkan for me (only tested it for a moment), because once I joined a game with friends and it crashed/froze immediately on spawn (and even deleted the tutorial quest) I havent try it again since. Now it just crashes back to desktop once I try to start a session, menu works fine though.

Quoting: rcritI played for an hour using Vulkan and it looked and performed fine for me on nVidia 440.82.
I am running the newest 440.100, which you probably also have queued up looking you are also running Fedora. But the fact you manage to run it gives me hope its just something with my setup.

7 Days to Die 'Alpha 19 Experimental' is out with HD Zombies
29 June 2020 at 9:38 pm UTC

I don't think the Dynamic Music System is working in Linux, they disabled it in one of the early A18 versions because it caused crashing anytime you talked with the trader. They blamed Unity and said that they are waiting for them to fix it. Played for about 2 hours now and I didn't hear any ingame music, so it still must be disabled probably.

Did someone manage to run it with Vulkan without constant crashes? Specifically Nvidia, but I wonder how AMD works too.

Stadia gets Elder Scrolls Online on June 16, 1440p in web and more
27 May 2020 at 12:59 am UTC

Quoting: x_wing
Quoting: SolitarySo your reasoning is that because online games have EOL, so what is one more?
There is no reason for game like this to die when some manager decides to pull the plug. Dedicated/community servers used to be a sure thing. Just because that practice mostly stopped (not because users did not want it) does not mean it suddenly became okay and something we should accept and it definitely should not be used as an excuse of Stadia model.

My reasoning goes inline with the way this games are designed. Current Online RPG designs follows the idea of monopolize the community in one place and create the necessary game mechanics in order to force you to play there in order to get the "new" super incredible sword and shield that you can only get if you pay for the current season pass and played 800hs the last six months (or if you payed the 120 USD in order to get it in a direct way). This games are made to die when they aren't profitable anymore for the company behind. Is not about story, is not about gameplay it's just about grinding.

The games are not to blame though. You are right that it's not about story, or even the gameplay, it's about the game itself. The fact that those companies treat those games like that only works if you accept it as done deal.

Stadia gets Elder Scrolls Online on June 16, 1440p in web and more
26 May 2020 at 11:51 pm UTC

Quoting: x_wingIMO this are the types of games that being released native or Stadia only won't change the results. I understand that for games that have offline components Stadia is a big "no way" in our heads but for games that completely depends on the existence of game servers in order to play, Stadia or not this games already have a EOL date from day zero.

So your reasoning is that because online games have EOL, so what is one more?
There is no reason for game like this to die when some manager decides to pull the plug. Dedicated/community servers used to be a sure thing. Just because that practice mostly stopped (not because users did not want it) does not mean it suddenly became okay and something we should accept and it definitely should not be used as an excuse of Stadia model.