Quoting: SalvatosI think I had to disable it for Shadow of the Tomb Raider or the game wouldn’t run, so it hasn’t seemed very helpful so far
Ultimately I have no idea what it does or why I would need it.

From the article:

Quotethe point is to have an easy place for anyone and everyone to kick their Linux system into the highest performance possible

Basically, it sets your processors into "performance" mode, and configures a few other settings to maximise the game's performance. Especially useful on laptops, since they might the use the "powersave" mode of the CPU (although most use "ondemand" these days).

This is actually pre-installed on Mint, although I don't get the notifications. I might look into enabling those, as sometimes I forget to add "gamemoderun %command%" in my Steam game's launch options.

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The demo is both disappointingly short (because it's fun!) and surprisingly long (because it's a kickstarter). I really enjoyed it.

I didn't enjoy constantly getting trapped behind my own traps though. Hopefully future versions of the game will allow you to ignore your traps. Strangely, you ignore them on placement and can hover "on top" of the trap indefinitely, even while it's killing enemies, but the moment you move off the trap, it becomes solid and acts like a barrier.

I can't imagine many scenarios where the tar trap or spike trap will be useful either. I did the whole demo just using spin blades and crossbows. And that works really well when they spring flying or shooting enemies into later waves to surprise you. If you'd placed tar/spikes, those guys would own you.

My only other complaint is that the traps generally don't have enough life, although presumably the upgrade system will take take of that in later levels.

Great fun though. I've wishlisted this. Instabuy when it's out of early access and available to purchase!

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Quoting: EhvisFeels a lot like HL1 with better lighting. Trailer doesn't really give me a good insight into the gameplay.

There's a longer gameplay video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btIxB-knNR8

It's a series of cuts of "exploration" gameplay. The voice acting sounds top quality. I'm excited about this one.

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I've never owned a NES or SNES, so I had no idea how closely its music chip resembled the classic C64 SID chip. I'm getting all nostalgic for some Hubbard tunes now!

This project reminds me of the Atari ST and Amiga mod trackers that were so popular in the 90's. I'd love to be able to use them, but sadly music and I have a one-way relationship.

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Getting a great Deus Ex meets System Shock vibe with this and the music is exceptional. Beautiful looking game - that heli-pad in the rain! Stunning.

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Quoting: scainePolitical? Again - human rights and basic respect isn't political. It's simply the very minimum I expect from an interaction with another person. This guy can't manage it. There's no politics here. He's just not a nice person.

That's your judgment on his personality. Exactly what I criticized you for doing. You get into that state of extreme combativeness, like that guy does not have the right to trade with other people because you judge him negatively. You likely don't know him personally, but from internet excerpts you feel competent enough to judge his character and maybe even his psyche. Did you know that strong emotions impair critical thinking?

Of course, I have to repeat it again, even if somehow they are objectively monsters in personality, that's absolutely unrelated to their creations. Fortunately with the dire consequences of these internet persecutions and witch hunts people have becoming increasingly aware of how harmful they are, and are giving less and less credit to them. Cancel culture is finally suffering a deserved backlash.

Knock it off, persecuting your personal imaginary enemies (because I doubt they even know you) on this forum is not productive.

Patola, I'm super-confused here. Of course that's my judgment. I didn't claim otherwise. You seem to be implying that I... shouldn't use my judgment? It's based on what I've read about him, and from many, many other people's opinions on the guy. I don't need to judge his "psyche". He's is demonstrably not a nice person, based on multiple accounts.

And I'll say it again, since you're not hearing it. I don't care about this guy. This isn't a witch hunt. I only replied because someone equated "noting that someone is a horrible person" to "being political".

You didn't listen to my point about horrible people making good stuff either. I can't be bothered repeating myself on that.

But I have to quote this bit again in all its glory:

Quoting: PatolaKnock it off, persecuting your personal imaginary enemies (because I doubt they even know you) on this forum is not productive.

Excuse me?

- Personal? Nope, I don't care about this guy.
- Imaginary? Nope, he's real.
- Enemies? Are you hearing yourself?

This is honestly a bizarre attack from you, Patola. I have no skin in this game beyond the political point I've made now three times. You're seeing things that aren't there.

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Quoting: zimplex1

Quoting: scainePolitical? When someone is a horrible arsehole, they're just a horrible arsehole... it's not political. People's basic human rights aren't political. There's no need to smugly condescend to those who don't want to fund muppets like this guy.

There are plenty more devs out there able to make games without being like this guy. I'll throw my money at them. Somehow they manage to do their jobs without controversy, and for that, I'm thankful.

I would obviously never tell you how to spend your money, or who or who not to support. The dev also isn't doing anything controversial, he's literally just making a game.
The only thing going on here is a handful of folks crying about some alleged "mean" or "concerning" internet comments made years and years ago. These folks that cry and complain could simply ignore the dev/game and move along, but that's not good enough for them, they feel the need to ruin other people.

Huh. So the dev gets to ruin other people (and has done so quite a few times by multiple accounts), but we're not allowed to let that behaviour influence our decision to buy the game? Gotcha.

Sarcasm aside - he is controversial. Multiple threads discuss his arrogance, his racism and "edgy" humour. He certainly is literally making a game, but he's definitely doing so controversially.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: zimplex1As for the unnecessary article update... I'm perfectly happy to let the politically over-sensitive cry in a corner and miss out.

Political? When someone is a horrible arsehole, they're just a horrible arsehole... it's not political. People's basic human rights aren't political. There's no need to smugly condescend to those who don't want to fund muppets like this guy.

Yes, political. You know, this extreme willingness to judge the private (or even moderately public) lives of other people and cry for boycotting their creations tells a lot about you, rather than about them, scaine. You realize that one of the main reasons the justice system is needed is for people not to judge causes based on what they find about other people's personalities? Do you realize that in order to enjoy a game (or any product or creation, actually) we don't have to like its creator or agree with any of his positions? This witch hunt you insist on doing on selected people is distressing. I am glad at least this time Liam kept the game article, although with the unnecessary observation.

Where are you getting this?

Private lives? He spoke in public forums.

Political? Again - human rights and basic respect isn't political. It's simply the very minimum I expect from an interaction with another person. This guy can't manage it. There's no politics here. He's just not a nice person.

Justice is needed so that we don't judge people by their actions? What? Er... what?? Are you... are you comparing anti-discrimanatory laws to boycotting an unlikable numpty who spouts racial abuse? I hope not because that would be faintly ridiculous, but I might be jumping to conclusions here.

Witch hunt? No, I'm not particularly going after the guy, I'm just not giving him my money. Why do you find that "distressing"? I wouldn't have commented on this at all if Zimplex1 hadn't tried to imply that there was political motivation for not buying this game.

As for enjoying someone's work despite the author/artist/developer being a bit of an arsehole? Sure, of course you can. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. But would you buy their work/art/game if you knew beforehand they were a bit of an arsehole? Would you support that arsehole directly?

Fine if you do. Just don't condescend and try to turn it all political when you discover some people won't.

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Quoting: zimplex1As for the unnecessary article update... I'm perfectly happy to let the politically over-sensitive cry in a corner and miss out.

Political? When someone is a horrible arsehole, they're just a horrible arsehole... it's not political. People's basic human rights aren't political. There's no need to smugly condescend to those who don't want to fund muppets like this guy.

There are plenty more devs out there able to make games without being like this guy. I'll throw my money at them. Somehow they manage to do their jobs without controversy, and for that, I'm thankful.

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I've been busy in VR, doing a little playtesting of an upcoming rhythm shooter called Groove Gunner. I've also re-started Alyx (because it's amazing), and played a bit more Beat Saber - I'm up to "hard" now, on the basic in-game tracks, although I can't see me dedicating enough time on it to get to Expert. Finally, I bought Arizona Sunshine on sale. It's great, very satisfying, although some of the "boss battles" can be pretty challenging. The voice acting is superb.

And outside of VR, I continue to play Children of Morta. I've already raved about this, but once more - go buy this. It's incredible. What a story. I think I'm about 2/3 of the way through now, having played around 17 hours. Great value.

On Proton, I've nearly finished Outer Wilds. Also absolutely superb. Deep, deep gameplay and a wonderful mystery story told first-person. Great graphics, just sublime stuff, to be honest.

Finally, I got the bug for more card-play recently, perhaps after Liam covered the upcoming Artifact 2. I loved Fate Hunters, having poured around 40 hours into it, but of course, the dev fell out with their publisher, so they've re-imainged that game as Dreamgate. It has a much better roguelite progression, and I think they've nailed the difficult - still challenging, but relying far less on RNG. Dreamgate is excellent.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!

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