In this game's case, there might be the occasional asshole claiming the reboot is "too woke", but honestly, it's probably just because it's a reboot. Reboots are very rarely loved. Doesn't help this game ended up being a bit of a car crash, with poor writing, hit and miss humour, a host of bugs and a comic/hero art style which was a big shift away from the originals.

I'm not very invested in SR. Played SR4 the most and it was... okay.

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Quoting: jo3fisA blurb about each one would be nice also.

Probably not worth the effort for news about yet another bundle - there's blurb's on each one on the Humble page itself, just click through them!

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Warhammer 40k Darktide is playable with AMD GPUs.

I've got tens of hours in Darktide on my AMD 6900XT, so I'm a bit baffled that those release notes.

Presumably there was a Proton 9 regression that introduced an issue? I used Proton Experimental and played right up to Christmas last year, so all Proton 8-based.

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I played a couple of hours of Pacific Drive on Friday, mainly testing out my new Movemaster. But I spent the bulk of the weekend spreading democracy in HellDivers 2, and building up a new character in the awesome Last Epoch.

Funnily enough, HD2 is regularly hitting 300K players, and Last Epoch is well over 200K. Last Epoch definitely surfing a popularity wave, stealing players from Path of Exile, which is down at the 15K mark (although it'll typically rebound to around 150K easily when a new season launches) and Diablo 4 which lucky to see 10K players these days.

Crazy numbers really, considering these two games are barely even top five (Countersrike, DOTA2, Apex Legends, etc, as noted in the article). No wonder Steam is hitting new highs!

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Quoting: MinuxNo please Liam, don't do this to me again. I have no more money to buy anything. I already sold my gaming computer, now I must survive on a wooden pc. :cry:

Don't shoot the messenger!

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You'd think, after the second, third or possibly tenth time it happened, someone at Valve would look into the why of it and you know, fix it.

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Quoting: PenglingI've got 42 games on my wishlist, but 11 of them are marked as Coming Soon (some of them have been marked as such for a couple of years, now

Just checked my own wishlist - 79 games on there, and I'm in the same boat. Some of them are ANCIENT, and still Coming Soon. In fact, nearly all of the ones I really, really want are Coming Soon. Pretty frustrating! Still. Nice to have something to look forward to. And I have a heap of backlog to play - Pacific Drive, most recently.

But "Coming Soon" are a bit of a pain when "Soon" turns into literal years. Remember The Last Night?? I only removed that from my wishlist late last year! 6 years! Even the copy-cat game Replaced [External Link] is still "Coming soon" after 3 years. What a mess.

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Never heard of it, but it's actually getting review-bombed right now for an update to make it more like Apex Legends. They removed a jetpack mechanic that everyone loved and which distinguished it from Apex Legends. Not sure why you'd want to actively compete with Apex like that - Apex still enjoys roughly half a million players, meanwhile the changes appear to have crippled Farlight's player base from 17k daily to under 6k!



Feels like there's something else going on this, some publisher pressure maybe? Or maybe they're playerbase, while high, was static, and this is a move to (successfully) drive them away and attract "new blood"?

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I think Discord is doing process lookups, because it doesn't just pick up on Steam games - it gets quite a lot, like Spotify, League of Legends and so on. So yeah, firejail all round!

Too much hassle for this penguin though. And doing this stuff will often lead to breakage, something to keep in mind. Like, if you successfully firejail and apparmour everything... does that actually break nGuard from launching Helldivers 2?? I have no idea. But good luck if you're going down that road!

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Quoting: sudoerHow does the nprotect rootkit fit into this situation, it monitors just WINE's windoze processes or can it read memory as well?

Well, obviously it's only rootkit'ing your PFX folder and the processes are started/stopped by Steam, so that's a comfort. At least you know it won't be running in the background after playing. Good question on memory access - I'd expect it has access, but I don't know enough about the Steam runtime sandbox to answer that. Pretty sure Steam has some pretty extensive rights on your box.

Reddit article here [External Link] seems to suggest that process lists are available, and if you're paranoid about this stuff, you should firejail and apparmour the whole of steam. Some people have the same concerns about Discord's ability to detect what games you're running, and suggest the same there (or just use the web version, I suppose).

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