Quoting: WorMzyI wonder if this'll be the scrape where AMD overtakes nVidia in the GPU vendor results. :shock:

I thought it had already! But you're right. It's neck and neck, but Nvidia still have a slight edge!

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Originally due towards the end of this year, they said in the post how they've seen signs of "an over-tight schedule: mounting stress levels, team members becoming reluctant to take time off". Instead of getting people to do overtime, cut features and other such ideas they decided to just delay the game instead.

Failbetter have won GameIndustry.biz’s "Best Places to Work" for four out of the past five years. Gives me hope that the game industry isn't on a death spiral of crunch and thinly veiled misogyny. There have been so many bad stories over the past couple of years.

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Quoting: scaine

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: itscalledrealityNotice that everyone has dropped the “it’s impossible to develop for Linux because of marketshare” bologna.

That's because they think the marketshare is increasing. There's nothing contradictory there.

Yes I believe the last report was that marketshare had increased from 1% to 1.5%. Which is not a substantial enough increase to kill that argument. So it is contradictory.

increasing

So a market share of 1% isn’t substantial enough market to invest writing more compatible C++? But a few hundred thousand units pushing that number to 1.5% does make it worth the money?

There’s no indicator that this rise isn’t just a trend, it’s been released less that a year. So I expect someone making arguments about market share being the reason not to develop as having considered these ideas. The steam deck isn’t going to get that number up to 5% even. It’s a niche first generation device regardless of the acclaim.

IMO it was a BS argument from the start.

You keep focusing on actual numbers when PLG was pointing out an increasing trend. Looking at the long term view, the numbers will matter more, which is why we're seeing more developers start to support the Deck.

As for the argument being BS - I don't agree, although I suppose it depends on what argument you're referring to. We're not seeing Windows developers suddenly scrambling to provide native Linux versions. Nope, all they're doing is adding Proton support to a Windows title, a much easier proposition.

Maybe you meant the argument that some developers wouldn't even provide Proton "support", perhaps citing support and QA costs? In which case, yeah, I agree.

Yes and I keep making the point because it’s amount of time increasing isn’t long enough to say “actually Linux has good market share now”. Instead developers are just turning and developing. Whether it was native or proton support the argument was one of market observations by non-specialists, not facts.

They can see the writing on the wall, the direction of travel. It's their livelihood, after all!

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Quoting: GuestSeeing Re-Volt in that list is kinda crazy. I've just been using RvGl.

Unfortunately that's not the 1999 racer we thought it was, the one on Steam is a completely different game under the same name. It's on GOG though

The one on Steam is a pretty faithful attempt to remake of the 1999 classic. This one [External Link]. What one are you referring to?

That said, the Steam game gets terrible reviews, and the company behind it (Superday) is apparently (?) into NFTs and will be introducing them to the next version of their game? No idea if that's true though.

If you want the real Re-volt experience, I think the best option is probably be heading to this fan-made remake, RVGL [External Link]. It's not open-source, but uses a lot of open-source tech.

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Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledreality

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: itscalledrealityNotice that everyone has dropped the “it’s impossible to develop for Linux because of marketshare” bologna.

That's because they think the marketshare is increasing. There's nothing contradictory there.

Yes I believe the last report was that marketshare had increased from 1% to 1.5%. Which is not a substantial enough increase to kill that argument. So it is contradictory.

increasing

So a market share of 1% isn’t substantial enough market to invest writing more compatible C++? But a few hundred thousand units pushing that number to 1.5% does make it worth the money?

There’s no indicator that this rise isn’t just a trend, it’s been released less that a year. So I expect someone making arguments about market share being the reason not to develop as having considered these ideas. The steam deck isn’t going to get that number up to 5% even. It’s a niche first generation device regardless of the acclaim.

IMO it was a BS argument from the start.

You keep focusing on actual numbers when PLG was pointing out an increasing trend. Looking at the long term view, the numbers will matter more, which is why we're seeing more developers start to support the Deck.

As for the argument being BS - I don't agree, although I suppose it depends on what argument you're referring to. We're not seeing Windows developers suddenly scrambling to provide native Linux versions. Nope, all they're doing is adding Proton support to a Windows title, a much easier proposition.

Maybe you meant the argument that some developers wouldn't even provide Proton "support", perhaps citing support and QA costs? In which case, yeah, I agree.

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Quoting: kit89Vermintide 2 works now, thought they couldn't get the EAC working correctly?

It plays, and you can host games, but you're still kicked out if you join a game sadly. Actually, it's been working for about a fortnight, so I wonder if the latest version noted here actually fixes the "kicked when joining" problem. I'm on the Vermintide 2 steam chat [External Link] about this though and no-one has mentioned it, so I guess not.

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I think Cheeseness mentioned on Discord that he's had some (small) contribution to this one too. I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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The prologue is completely free, as noted, so I gave it a shot. Well, this game is absolutely excellent. Goddamit, I really don't need yet another massively addictive game, especially not so close to Backpack Hero. Sorry Ring of Pain, sorry Art of Rally. I'll see you soon, but for the moment, there are demons to slay.

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I've probably got over a hundred hours on the Itch version, so I insta-bought this when it came out with more equipment, refined balance (no more wearing 10 stacking spiked helms!) and two extra characters!

The new characters are so wildly different from the base game that it feels like I'm relearning from scratch. The idea behind the robot character, which turns your backpack into more like a programming array is genius.

This is an absolute gem of a game - 10/10 for me. I love it. Plays beautifully on the switch too, albeit, using the right track pad as a mouse. I mapped the two back left triggers as left/right click and it's very intuitive.

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Quoting: scaineDpanter has recently convinced me to try Siduction, so that'll be my next distro hop.

But it's a shame I'm disto-hopping at all, tbh.

What are you looking for?

Back then - a stable Linux distro with a strong community. Ubuntu was an amazing experience.

Now? A rolling release on a familiar packaging system. Hence, Siduction. Although EndeavourOS has been okay - but without the AUR, Arch would be way too much pain. And the AUR, it turns out is just a scripted install for various git utilities, which I didn't expect, so it's so slow. And unless you use something like `yay`, it's yet another core packaging system I have to remember to update occasionally. So... not sure Arch is for me, tbh, even with the quality of life improvements Endeavour throws in.

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