Quoting: NociferIf the Bottles system can't maintain the same level of functionality and credibility, then the Bottles system kind of fails. What I'm saying is that it needs much more love than it's currently getting, and sometimes the work that needs to be done is more complex than simply writing a .yml file.

On one hand, you're right.
We've all seen lots of systems that tried to reinvent the wheel but ultimately hit the same roadblocks the "original" wheels met and started to implement similar workarounds, ending up not much better, making a point for why reinventing the wheel was pointless to begin with.

On the other hand, you can do pretty much anything with .yml files, including more complex logic.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to e.g. even write bash code (or Python, or whatever else can be parsed&executed at runtime) if it really was necessary for some use cases.

The real problem is adaptation and maintenance. If the main maintainer for winetricks stepped down, someone else is almost sure to take over.
Not sure what the situation would be with Bottles.
Personally, I strongly avoid using software that only has one main contributor. Been burned by that too often.

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This looks like a better Q4Wine.

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I'm just glad something good came out of SS4 after the monumental disappointment that it was in pretty much all regards.

Somehow, Croteam just lost their magic between SS2 and SS3. No idea what happened there.

This standalone expansion, however, is pretty amazing and it shows it was developed by people who actually understood what made SS great to begin with.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'd really like to see/know who those devs even are. 40% are developing for Oculus? No way this is representative.

GDC in general is not too representative of anything.
It is very much a circlejerk of the usual suspects that like to flock to these kinds of "events" - with the odd quite useful and interesting talk being held.
Not much different than any event of that kind in any industry, really.

I wouldn't put too much into "consensus" information gathered from that limited pool.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis guy seems kinda vanilla for Warhammer. I guess you have to have someone like that, though.

Mechanics-wise, as least from what I heard/read, your leader for Chaos Undivided is customizable (to some extent). So the default template looking vanilla does make some sense.

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Quoting: whizseKowalski, analysis!

I'm gonna need some cover fire!

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SERIOUS DAMAAAAGE!

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Quoting: ChronariusIt does not only happen every few days IT ALSO HAPPENS FOR DAYS. For that time I should sit in my hut/shack/dirt hole?

That sounds more like a bug than anything else. In my 60+ (?) hours of playing the game, the longest one I had was of the strongest category and took about half a day at max. I'd say they usually last only a few hours (in-game).

From the wiki [External Link] itself:

The duration of temporal storms will increase in time, by default it can last between 2.4h and 4.8h maximum. The differentiation between light, medium or heavy temporal storms does not influence the duration, but rather the feeling of the storm, meaning specifically the visual and audio aspects of this mechanic.

If a multi-day one happened to you, you were either playing on a server with messed up settings or as I said, a bug.
Both of which would suck, of course.

Quoting: ChronariusSounds like a lot of mimimimimimimimi to me too.

If installing mods sounds like whining to you, I feel bad for you as some of the best experiences in gaming are unlocked only with mods fine-tuning the experience to your liking.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumAs for launchers.. nah... we've got more than enough launchers jeez, I have launchers for my launchers launcher that has a launcher.

Yo dawg...

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I just turned my crypto winnings (that I had almost forgotten about over the years, but luckily remembered just before the crash) into a whole new PC, incl. a dramatically overpriced GPU, so thankfully I should be fine on that front for a few years now...

In other words, I lucked out and did have the money to burn.
For everyone less lucky, I also wouldn't recommend it at the moment.
A friend of mine "reserved" a card 1.5 years ago for an almost normal price and finally got it last week - I think that is the most reasonable approach right now.

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