I'd say the opening 15 minutes or so are pretty slow, as you really need to hit about level 5 before you're unlocking the big attacks. After that, it's a wild ride of kill frenzy and chaining attacks. Very, very satisfying!

The voice acting is superb too, at least on the Warlock I'm playing. His maniacal laugh during kill streaks is hilarious and when you hit a high streak, he's laughing, shouting "Cower before me!" and things are just exploding all around you... wonderful stuff! Love it!

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All this talk of Debian vs Arch feels pretty irrelevant. If Valve revive (revalve?) SteamOS, it'll be a console-like experience with its own update mechanisms and an overlay that prevents you seeing what's under the hood. It won't be linked to AUR for god's sake. When you update your PS4, you're given one button to click and a ten minute wait. Then you're gaming again. That's as complex as your typical SteamOS target user wants it to get. It could a rolling release under the hood, but it'll still be controlled by Valve, assuming they do it "the console way".

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Quoting: NezchanI had really, really high hopes for Maia. Back when I bought it in Early Access, it looked so promising and the style really appealed to me. It's a pity that it turned out to be an abandoned mess, not updated (or bugfixed) since late 2018. I'm still seeing reviews that talk about poor pathing, colonists not following the build queue, and people randomly dying of exhaustion because they're standing next to a bed for days without actually getting in it and sleeping.

Still, free is a good price.

Well, "late Dec 2018" is still just a touch over a year ago when it launched, so calling it an "abandoned mess" feels like a huge (and unnecessary) exaggeration. Liam's review agrees with you on AI, but then several other readers mentioned that they really enjoyed it. And as you say it's hard to argue with "free".

It's a great gesture, given that the dev poured nearly five years of his life into making this.

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Quoting: RoosterWhy do you hate trackpoint? I mean I get why you would not want to use one, but the way Thinkpad integrates it, it is not really in the way is it?

Hate is indeed probably too strong a word. I don't like how it looks, and I absolutely do hate using one, but I can tolerate its existence if I must. But give me the option to remove it? I'll take that option! :D

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: gregfI want AMD not intel, and I want a good keyboard like on a think pad. Till then it's a no go for me.

This. I need trackpoint on my keyboard. It is such an underestimated feature.

"I want AMD!"
"I want that Intel discrete GPU!"
"I want Nvidia!"
"Stop lying the screen flat!"
"Why is the memory funny?!"
"I want a trackpoint!"

Goddam, we're picky, eh?

I mean, I'm picky too. Trackpoint can go do one - hate those things. CTRL has to be the most bottom-left key on a keyboard, or I'm out. Screen must be HD minimum. Battery life must be 4 hours minimum. Performance must be "decent" (I don't expect to play 3D games on a laptop).

But otherwise? It's all about price vs looks.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam DaweOur team now actually shows up. We're ranked currently 12,516 of 238,810.

I left my GPU running last night, only to wake up this morning to a jump from 600 points (two jobs on my CPU) to 137k!!

The team is now visible with detailed stats too: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680 [External Link]

My GPU runs at 82 degrees when it's folding - roughly the equivalent of playing a AAA game. But the loads it takes are worth much, much more than the loads my CPU is assigned. Very impressive!

Just to note - we're at 3799 of 241330!

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Just dropping by to agree with TheSHEEEP on Path of Exile - great game, got a nice 30 hours of it and didn't even finish the free content. My dude was epic by then and the whole game had, finally, become a bit of a grind, but still in quite a fun way. I didn't spend a penny in game and didn't even notice any particularly "locked" areas of the game as a result of my freeloading. I'd highly recommend it.

Warframe is more in your face about buying content. You get a choice of three warframes at the start, and although you can technically build others in game, it's pretty opaque and far easier to spend the £5 to unlock the one you want. I didn't have to, actually, because my Amazon Prime sub gave me a freebie that I enjoyed playing, but again - that's about 30-40 hours of really fun gameplay for free.

It can be done, but I suspect that there are certain personality types that simply can't enjoy a game without accessing the exclusive content.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOur team now actually shows up. We're ranked currently 12,516 of 238,810.

I left my GPU running last night, only to wake up this morning to a jump from 600 points (two jobs on my CPU) to 137k!!

The team is now visible with detailed stats too: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680 [External Link]

My GPU runs at 82 degrees when it's folding - roughly the equivalent of playing a AAA game. But the loads it takes are worth much, much more than the loads my CPU is assigned. Very impressive!

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Well, it's working. I didn't do the toolkit, but either the GPU = true worked, or the ocl-opencl-dev did the trick. After a reboot, it still didn't detect anything, but when I went to FAcontrol, I could add my GPU (without having to change the OpenCL ID either) and it just popped up. I'm now waiting on two queued downloads - one for CPU, one for GPU. It keeps timing out, but apparently that's fairly normal because they're under a fair bit of load right now. I've run two loads on CPU already, it just takes time to initiate.

Thanks for the help everyone!

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I suppose Kimyrielle is right that F2P is generally bad, but as noted there are exceptions.

In this case though, I kind of feel that there are too many exceptions to agree fully. I've enjoyed playing Path of Exile, CS:GO, Warframe and Albion Online are all in the "F2P with monetisation" category.

But there's quite a few "Free to Play but pay if you want" category (which is admittedly different) such as Tales of Maj'Eyal, Mindustry.

Anyway, all to say that I don't agree that "Free" means "Bad"!

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