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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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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