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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Wow, that game seems to have come along leaps and bounds since I played the beta a few years back! Base defence? Melee? Totally different game!

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I have nearly 800 hrs in Noita and I've used one mod, once, for about 2 hrs (Wand lab). Noita is incredible. Go play Noita.

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The trailer made me think of a cartoon version of Uncharted.

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Quoting: poiuzThat's your opinion but off-topic.

It was entirely on-topic to the comment I was replying to. Welcome to the internet, where opinions are stated frequently.

Quoting: poiuzThat's what I mean: Pushing Unity had absolutely nothing to do with GNOME 3 user backlash but was about self-interest.

Gnome 3 had a big impact the way I remember it. Canonical wanted to tailor the experience either upstream itself, or via extensions, but neither option panned out.

Quoting: poiuzGreat point: It would be a success had it been a success.

Please don't oversimplify my point just to make a snide internet victory. I said the if the phone had succeeded, we would have a very different desktop experience.

Quoting: poiuzBut this shows the issues with Canonical projects: They're not sustainable.

This is obviously false. Or maybe it's just your opinion? I remember things like Upstart being adopted distro-wide for many years before being replaced by systemd, and Uncomplicated Firewall is the default is in most distros today. Launchpad is still widely used. And a host of smaller enhancements to Gnome, like software-properties to help simplify Nvidia driver installs/change repos, or more agnostic projects, like lightdm, the apport error reporting system, or the ubiquity installer.

From the tone of your reply, it sounds like you have real beef with Canonical. I don't advocate for them anymore, but I still respect the impact they had and still have today. Why so negative on them?

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraCanonical was somewhat invested in GNOME development at the time and the design plans for what became GNOME Shell was announced already back in 2008 at the GNOME User Experience Hackfest in Boston and pre releases of GNOME Shell was relased in 2009.

Also the Unity released in 2010 was a pure shell on top of GNOME meant to be used on netbooks and wasn't planned to replace GNOME on the regular Ubuntu until the backlash of GNOME 3 so they brought it back and changed it for Ubuntu 11.04 in 2011.

GNOME 3 was released in 2011, the backlash happened in 2011 (see Mate fork) but the shift to Unity happened before 2011. There's a lot drama documented in various posts, it does not include "the users wanted it".

Had Canonical their users in mind, they wouldn't have released Unity in 11.04. The criticism was plenty & the release was not ready.

Nope, it wasn't ready. But it was still a better experience than Shell back then, which had hidden activities and weird mouse zones and all sorts of strange workflow changes. They also considered staying on Gnome 2, if I remember correctly, but Mark (Shuttleworth) already had one eye on his upcoming phone UX, and so doing their own thing with Unity/Mir was a pretty bold step for them.

I suspect that if the Unity Phone had succeeded in their IndieGogo campaign, Unity would still be the primary desktop on Ubuntu today, and likely, powered by Mir. When the phone failed, however, priorities subtlety changed over the next five years, until of course, they abandoned several technologies (Upstart, Mir, Unity) to consolidate their efforts on cloud, core, and snap.

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Quoting: RTherenIt looks like a spiritual successor to Dark Messiah (conveniently placed spike walls anyone?).

Correction: This is VERY Dark Messiah successor :D

Wow, you're not kidding. And about time too! Bullet storm scratched my Dark Messiah itch for a while, but even that game was years ago!

I'll be gutted if this gets Denuvo, haha!

Nice announcement [External Link] on Steam Deck on their Steam FAQ page too!

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