Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

It's because the itch anti-racism bundle was unprecedented and they manually stopped it adding everything to your library to not overwhelm people. Not saying I agree or disagree with how it's handled, just that in this one specific case you need to manually add them because of how large it is. Otherwise, it's exactly how you would expect it to be for purchases.

Thanks - Tuubi also pointed out their disclaimer that they've added on the Download page - words to this effect. Frustrating, but it's good to know they're working on it.

Being a simple bear of Very Little Brain, I think I'm just going to act as if I own everything on Itch.io and try to download it as if I do, counting on Itch to stop me if I don't. It's got to be a sight easier than figuring out what I do and don't own beforehand.

That's what I did. Which is why I ended up buying two games I already owned...

It's easy to miss and unlike Steam, Itch don't warn you on the buy page that you already own a copy.

Edit: I've created a forum post about this, which includes some useful links and my massive Itch Collection which you're all welcome to subscribe to.

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Yes! This feels like a huge win. Valve are staving off the whole OpenGL vs D3D battle in VR land before it even has legs. Great news to see such a big leader in VR take the open plunge so early. This can only be a positive move.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

It's because the itch anti-racism bundle was unprecedented and they manually stopped it adding everything to your library to not overwhelm people. Not saying I agree or disagree with how it's handled, just that in this one specific case you need to manually add them because of how large it is. Otherwise, it's exactly how you would expect it to be for purchases.

Thanks - Tuubi also pointed out their disclaimer that they've added on the Download page - words to this effect. Frustrating, but it's good to know they're working on it.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: scaineI just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

If you've actually hit Download on your Racial Justice bundle download page for that game and added it to your library, you'll see a "You own this game" disclaimer at the top of the store page in a browser. In the Itch.io app this info will be in the bottom bar along with an Install button. I don't doubt both games deserved your cash, but you did own them already.

Yep. I don't mind throwing another $10 at those guys, but I've got to get this off my chest - the Itch store is utter dogshit. The client too, if I'm being honest. I bought those games, I go to my client, they don't show up. So I search for them, I get the store page, with no notification I've bought it, and a prompt to buy it (again, as it turns out). In order to align the stars and planets, I have to find my original "download" link, search for the game there and press the "download" button, which I can then cancel, close my itch client and start it back up, and lo! the game has appeared.

Complete bollocks.

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I just picked up The Hex (from the creator of Pony Island) and Depth of Extinction, which Liam has covered a few times and I kept meaning to pick up, but never got around to. Great deals.

Hmmm, except I'm confused. When I go the "Black Lives Matter" download page, it looks like they were part of the deal? Or is that just a generic "download" page which shows items I've bought? Because if they were part of the deal, they shouldn't allow me to buy them again, right?

Edit - Jeez, never mind. Just went to buy Rusty Trails and sure enough, it won't let me because it was part of the bundle. So the link page is just a generic "download stuff you already bought" page after all.

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Quoting: LanzIt's great to see EA back on Steam, but as long as the Origin dependency exists, I'm still not interested.

I have to echo this. Launchers that launch launchers get launched right out the window in my house. It even annoys me when I start Overwatch, I get this stupid small window pop up that I have to press "play" on. Also, Elite:Dangerous, Warframe and Guild Wars. It's just anti-consumer bullshit 9 times out of 10. Always windows games too...

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I was gutted about Bloodstained. I even refused a bundle recently because that shit was part of it. Fingers crossed for a better result here. Looks amazing.

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So, like... each monster is an operator? A... function? And then it's like TIS-100 to solve puzzles?!

These games are quite fun for a while, but I admit that when they show me leaderboards of my friends who have completed the puzzle either quicker, costing less, using less cycles or less "space", it actually demotivates me to keep playing!

That was definitely why I stopped playing Opus Magnum. I actually ended up thinking I'd missed some fundamental piece of logic of the underlying mechanics of the game, because one friend in particular (who I admit, is an actual developer) was solving the puzzles with half as many pieces as I was, even in the earliest stages.

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Quoting: GuestI tried the single dash command for Vulkan and also got the crash. Double dash made no crash

Honestly sounds like you guys are just getting the OpenGL version. Perhaps you could confirm using Liam's suggestion of running the game from a console (or all of Steam) to see which messages you get. I mean, that doesn't explain why Odmelyn is getting better performance, but maybe some kind of cache has been built on that first, janky run?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

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Quoting: ripper81358I have tested the game today and i am glad that we have at least one ARPG with great potential as a native linuxversion. However there is a massive graphical glitch. If ambient occlusion is set to anything else than "very low" i get massive textureflickering. The game also produces massive framedrops from time to time that cause stuttering.

Forcing the vulkan api crashes the game on startup at least on my system.

The switch to enable vulkan is wrong in the article, it is actually --force-vulkan (two dashes). I was crashing as well until I figured this out. I was also experiencing frame drops (on a quite beefy system too) until I enabled vulkan and now it's completely smooth.

No, it is correct. It's even clearly listed here [External Link] by Unity themselves along all the others. Single dash. I did test what I wrote and ensured it was correct. You can see what Unity is using by checking your player.log file, it will either show a mass of OpenGL extension info bundled together or a clean line-by-line list of Vulkan stuff.

Gonna get me a tub of popcorn to see how this plays out! You both clearly enabled vulkan... so what gives??

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