I'd love to get into these games, but the AI just does my head in. Rimworld, Prison Architect, Oxygen Not Included, Rise to Ruins, man I've tried a lot of these, and they all have one problem - I'm not a very good god. Every single time, I get to some stage of the gameplay and I need one thing done immediately, or the colony will fail. One thing, or you all die. Stop what you're doing, and do this one thing. The thing is priority 9, chopping trees is priority 1. Why are you still chopping trees? And... you're dead. And that guy inside, cooking? He's dead. That clone running out of oxygen over there? Yep, dead.

I don't get why AI in these games is so frustrating. But it is, so I kind of gave up on them.

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Quoting: KlaasSo that will lead to native Ubisoft Connect… right? That's something that I've always wanted.

To be honest, I'm not sure this will lead to native anything. I think all they're trying to do here is make their stuff run better on the Deck.

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Quoting: GuestSo they are trying to hire a developer without being even clear about the job?
It seems more like a promotional thing than a job opportunity.

What's unclear? The careers website and the job description look pretty bog standard to me.

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Curious why Proton is still on Wine 7. Was there a fundamental change in Wine 8 that have kept them back from using it?

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Quoting: scainePretty sure that if you risk being arrested for using a product, you tend to be fairly finicky about what that product (Steam in this case) is reporting to some global HQ. So I'm with Ultra on that point.

Well, but it's a global HQ, not a Chinese HQ. And how likely are they to report people for insisting on being their customer and making them profit?

This gets murky actually. Valve might not be under any jurisdiction that Valve reveal data to a Chinese regulator. But regardless, I doubt Chinese citizens, fearing for their lives would care to take any risks.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Mountain Manbecause the majority of people simply don't want to play games that way

There's no evidence for this though, is there? I guess I'm doing the same - projecting my love of VR and optimism of how it changes gaming, as a counterpoint to your negativity on the same tech. I don't really have any evidence either, beyond the fact that the biggest game console maker in the world saw enough profit from VR the first time around to support a second iteration of that product.

It's still too expensive overall, but with Sony and Meta still pushing hard and Valve to a lesser degree, maybe it'll still take off one day.

Ultimately, these things are hard to predict. I remember walking around in the late 90's with my beloved Sony P90 and then latterly with my awesome sliding MDA and thinking that surely, this was it, this tech will change the world. But I had to wait nearly a decade before Apple launched the iPhone and it all clicked.

Will that happen with VR? Who knows. I doubt it has the same broad appeal. Maybe it'll be AR that breaks down the niche.

Edit: I still have that MDA! I lost its stylus, sadly, but otherwise probably still boots... if only I can find a mini-USB charger! He was such a chunky boi!

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The evidence is in the numbers. VR has been available to the masses at affordable prices for nearly a decade, but people simply aren't buying, and many who are buying are only dusting off there headsets every now and then to play the hot new "This changes everything!" game before putting it back on the shelf. I think the VR market is pretty well saturated at this point and Will grow very little in the coming years.

True. But it's only been good for about 3-4 years. Also, mobile phones were around for decades before they caught on too.

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Pretty sure that if you risk being arrested for using a product, you tend to be fairly finicky about what that product (Steam in this case) is reporting to some global HQ. So I'm with Ultra on that point.

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Quoting: Mountain Manbecause the majority of people simply don't want to play games that way

There's no evidence for this though, is there? I guess I'm doing the same - projecting my love of VR and optimism of how it changes gaming, as a counterpoint to your negativity on the same tech. I don't really have any evidence either, beyond the fact that the biggest game console maker in the world saw enough profit from VR the first time around to support a second iteration of that product.

It's still too expensive overall, but with Sony and Meta still pushing hard and Valve to a lesser degree, maybe it'll still take off one day.

Ultimately, these things are hard to predict. I remember walking around in the late 90's with my beloved Sony P90 and then latterly with my awesome sliding MDA and thinking that surely, this was it, this tech will change the world. But I had to wait nearly a decade before Apple launched the iPhone and it all clicked.

Will that happen with VR? Who knows. I doubt it has the same broad appeal. Maybe it'll be AR that breaks down the niche.

Edit: I still have that MDA! I lost its stylus, sadly, but otherwise probably still boots... if only I can find a mini-USB charger! He was such a chunky boi!

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Quoting: ArtenYou cant argue epic lied them, when they had engine at least 3 years in hands

I give up with you. If you can't understand that a) pivoting the engine even just a year into development is a massive undertaking and that b) they were told they didn't need to pivot anyway because Epic were fixing the engine issues (and then didn't) then we're done.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"If people didn't care, then the companies wouldn't be hyping it" is backwards logic. They're hyping it because they want people to care. That's the whole point of advertising.

But they're hyping the second generation of their product. Clearly enough people did care or there wouldn't be a Sony VR 2, a Vive 2, an Occulus... whatever.

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