Absolutely love the look of this, but was a bit gutted that there's no Grim Dawn style multiplayer. Looks like it's going for roguelite rather than GD's RPG progression, but still. Ravenswatch pulls this off brilliantly, but they've gone all-in on single-player here and while I'm still interested, it's very much less so.

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I love the look of this, but I'd have to resist just firing up Bullets Per Minute instead!

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Quoting: CatKillerFWIW, I much prefer default-Unity fuzzy pastels to default-UE sweaty plastic.

Sweaty plastic is such a perfect way to describe the default UE look! :grin:

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Quoting: TimeFreeze

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TimeFreezeAlso available on GOG [External Link]

Only for Windows currently.

Still worth to mention it though if one wants it DRM-Free no?

It gets a bit muddy, because the article is tagged "Native Linux". Hopefully GOG add the native build at some point though.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAs to how, well, it's a great game with staying power (so you've got the people who've been playing for a decade or more) and it's been around long enough to have new gamers get older and discover it for the first time.

That must be it. And it's free. But while I have hundreds of hours in Mann vs Machine, the bots were insane even back when I played, over a decade ago. I had voice turned off after all the anthems and music and memes that "people" spammed into voice, but even the text chat was brutal - some of it was just juvenile, but quite a fair bit would get you either assaulted or arrested if you said in the "real world". It was the opposite of a safe space. Really unpleasant.

If Valve have tidied it up, then fair play. Amazes me that it still garners 100K gamers though.

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How are 100K people still playing this? Or are the numbers actually a true-er reflection of just bad the bot problem has actually become?

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Doesn't look like they've fixed the microphone issue yet, sadly. Makes it pretty useless for any multiplayer captures - you'll get your friends voices, but not your own.

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Quoting: SnowdrakeI'm really puzzled about the state of video playout.
Why is it necessary to reencode video !?

Proprietary codec, I believe. So Valve would have to pay the license fee to play them "natively". So instead, they re-encode the movies and rewrite the "play video" calls in the game to use their re-encoded movie source.

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Woohoo! What a wild ride! Gimme another 15 of this kind of improvement and just imagine how much better the world would look! Huge thanks to you, Liam, for everything you've achieved with this site, your enthusiasm, this community.

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Quick note that microphones aren't working on Linux, but it's been reported on the Steam forums, and Valve have confirmed the issue and it will be fixed in the next release.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/5/4416424085344798351/#c4416424085344832455 [External Link]

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