Quoting: brokeassben

certain areas seemingly at random fail to load

Yeah, I get that as well. Also video occasionally just doesn't load and requires a refresh of the page. In an attempt to de-Google my life, I've switched fully to Firefox and it's been a MOSTLY good experience.

I get this fairly regularly. Hitting F5 a few times generally brings it up. I actually thought it was my pi-hole adblocker that caused this (and it might be contributing?) but interesting that it's a Firefox thing.

Firefox is a superb browser. I definitely wouldn't give it up at this point.

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Incredibly, the only games on that list I'd like to play, but can't, are Destiny 2 and Apex Legends. The former because I've played it on Stadia and generally enjoyed it, and the latter because I'd quite like to try it out for a bit, but probably wouldn't stick around.

And Icarus I suppose. I love 7D2D, so that could be an interesting title to try.

So I do really hope that the SteamDeck brings a bit of pressure to the big publishers to enable anti-cheat. The rest can be solved by wine/proton updates.

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I'd love to have seen this fleshed out a little graphically. I do love a bit of nostalgia, but MUDs were around in the late 80's (probably earlier, but that's when I came across them) and even back then, I'd have preferred some kind of vague pixel representation, rather than letters.

Also, the movement of the map felt very laggy.

And yet... and yet, I'll probably still pick this up. I doubt it rivals Tales of Maj'Eyal even remotely, but there's something very compelling about these style of games, for me.

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Most played games this year (that came out this year):

Native
Roguebook [External Link]
Griftlands [External Link]
Legend of Keepers [External Link]
Ziggurat 2 [External Link]
Loop Hero [External Link]

Proton
Mass Effect Legendary Edition [External Link]
Phantom Abyss [External Link]

Only two Proton titles, because everything I play using Proton tends to be much older, either because of my rule of rarely paying full price for Proton games (hence, needing to wait for a big sale, usually the following year), or because of Denuvo. I would have paid full price, in a heart beat, for Deathloop, but hey ho. Bethesda have forced Arkane to push that shit on every title they've released since Prey, so it's a hard pass from me until it's removed.

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Quoting: pete910Oi, Find your own news @liam, I posted this in the forum yesterday!

:grin:

And it was so worthy, it got a full article! You're welcome! :grin:

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Quoting: EduardoMedinaFrom years ago I think that developers don't want Linux because of GPL license. Too many power for the user, and the most of big corporations and many developers don't want to give power to users, they want to use users while they take user's money.

Porting to Mac is much more expensive than adapt to Proton, but many developers prefer to port to Mac instead of supporting Linux through Proton. This is not an economic question, it's a political question.

Eh, naw. I don't agree with that. It's all money - Mac has about four or five times our market share. Simple as that. And the GPL has nothing to do with releasing a proprietary game on Steam, a proprietary platform.

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I've been waiting to buy this for... what... two/three years? Loved the first game and I think there were hints/hopes that they'd provide a native build. Now they can't even commit to the simplest change Valve can ask them to make, so I guess it's coming off my wishlist. Really sad. The first game had really fun PvE.

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Do you have lots of wolves tamed? Good noise, they will no longer annoy the heck out of you by howling constantly.

Goddamit, Liam. I genuinely went to edit the article before I remembered how much you love a pun! :tongue:

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: scaineMeanwhile game streaming has as a couple of really difficult problems to address, like input latency,

input lag? before microsoft relased xbox series and sony relased ps5, digital foundry made an analysys comparing the input lag of xbox one x, with stadia on red dead redemption.
guess what? the input lag on stadia was lower!

Okay...? It's still a problem though. I certainly noticed it numerous times on Destiny 2.

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I'm nowhere near convinced that streaming games will see the same uptake as music and video. Those latter worked because the source is static. There's no input, no latency, no interaction beyond play/pause/next/previous.

Meanwhile game streaming has as a couple of really difficult problems to address, like input latency, cost of hardware required to allow people to play at a decent quality, lack of access to modding. Sure, there's a whole host of casual gaming experiences that this might be a reasonable fit for, but it'll be a long, long time before "gamers" are ready to give up their big rigs and embrace the various trade-offs streaming entails.

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