The biggest problem for the game is the lack of voice over, there's seemingly none at all.

Lack of voice over could really mean lack of success with a wider audience.

OTOH, for an indie game with (hopefully!) plenty of dialogue, full voice overs could be too costly to pull off. And then there's the question if it isn't better to have no VO than the "wrong" VO. I remember from playing A Final Unity back in the day, that I was quite taken aback by the crew's voices, because they sounded nothing like what I was used to from (German) television. Imagine my surprise when I found out those were the actual actor's voices!

Another surprise is that even though it's a licensed game, the familiar Star Trek music isn't there either.

That's rather sad. Not even for the intro? Please don't tell me it doesn't start with the canonical intro either?

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I am really looking forward to the expanded map and, if time permits, will use the opportunity to start a new campaign in the new region. Probably in Korea.

Though I am also hoping that future DLC will finally concentrate on fleshing out and enhancing existing content and systems. The game feels overly broad right now, but quite shallow.

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That's the first Star Trek game since A Final Unity that has me excited. And probably the first Star Trek offering since the TV show it's based on as well.

Wonder why they did nothing (good) with the franchise over the past 20 years. Or did I miss something?

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Instabuy as I was hoping for it to show up one day.

Same here.

Wonder if their new Dreamlist is having an impact with publishers/developers, or if it would have happened anyway. Yes, Your Grace 2 also made it to GOG just the previous week.

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I guess it's nice of Larian to provide a native Steam Deck build, especially for a game that's out for years now. Wonder if they are gearing up for better Linux support of future games ... *dreaming*

For me right now it is pointless, though: (1) I have no Steam Deck. (2) I have the game on GOG (and gave the Steam key I got with the physical edition away). (3) I've already finished the game, and see no reason to play again in the foreseeable future.

But it's not like Larian would need to win my sympathy with stuff like that. They already got that :-).

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I did not even know that there was a separate AMD open source driver outside of Mesa. So makes sense to focus on one, and make it the one that's widely in use at that :-).

Now, what I would want to see is all the LLM stuff supported by OSS driver. I don't really feel like setting up a separate install just for toying with my GPU. Though looking at how fragile that ecosystem still is, maybe there would not be a way around it anyway.

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The best (and admittedly only) board game based on a computer game I played so far is Dorfromantik.

I'm a total sucker for a good board game

Then bring them on :-). I guess at least if they have some relation to computer games in general. I doubt one could construct a relation to gaming on Linux, but why not look at some other topics once in a while.

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Apparently it can survive "billions of years, extreme conditions, and even a trip through an oven".

Hope they also included plans for building a machine capable of running the game and all the required software, too.

I guess tech like that usually comes with instructions on how to decode the content in the first place, ideally starting simple and getting ever more sophisticated until finally getting at the real data, but chances are this ends up as Write-Only memory.

At least for the next couple thousand years, it might have sufficed to stamp the byte code into clay tablets. They'd also survive an oven and everyone could read them without special equipment. Typing such a listing back into a computer might pose a bit of a challenge, though ...

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Finally! A game for us dog-lovers \o/.

While I never bothered to do an exhaustive survey, my impression is that there are quite a few games with feline protagonists, and big ones at that, but not that many from a canine perspective. Maybe cats are better companions for developers who spend all their time in front of a computer and therefore the more logical choice? Or do their character and abilities make for better gameplay?

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Happy birthday! Appreciate the hand-made content and time and effort spend to collect all these bits of news. There's quite a bunch of interesting games I came across over here.

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