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Quoting: scaineI just can't believe that they a) they didn't test b) they pushed on a Friday and then, the final nail c) they did absolutely nothing about it all weekend. Incompetent

As someone who works freelance and switches projects about 2-3 times per year, let me tell you:

I can totally believe that.
The levels of incompetence and complete breakdown of communications on multiple levels I have seen in some companies (that you'd think would be more professional given their size) would make most people revert to their pre-landfall evolutionary state just to cope if they heard it.

The longer I work in IT, the more miraculous I find it that everything around us that is software does not crash and burn 99% of the time.

Which is why im glad i left the I.T industry. Much less stress now & happier all round.

Some day...
Some day...

:grin:

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Quoting: scaineI just can't believe that they a) they didn't test b) they pushed on a Friday and then, the final nail c) they did absolutely nothing about it all weekend. Incompetent

As someone who works freelance and switches projects about 2-3 times per year, let me tell you:

I can totally believe that.
The levels of incompetence and complete breakdown of communications on multiple levels I have seen in some companies (that you'd think would be more professional given their size) would make most people revert to their pre-landfall evolutionary state just to cope if they heard it.

The longer I work in IT, the more miraculous I find it that everything around us that is software does not crash and burn 99% of the time.

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Played it for 7 or 8 maps now.
It's really fun, can recommend.

I like when games add something more to the formula, like shops, upgrading weapons, etc.

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Quoting: CreakHow do you use retroarch on Steam??

Edit: oh! It's actually an application to install within Steam itself! https://steamcommunity.com/app/1118310 [External Link]

Hehe, yeah, I remember being confused about that as well.

"Wtf? How is that useful? You can't download ROMs on Steam! So what point is it to use Steam with RetroArch?!"
(Of course, I mean ROMs of games that I all physically own myself :whistle:)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'd say it certainly means that if all else is equal, pick the open source.

Basically what every argument boils down to.
And that's generally true, of course, but it's also a very strict requirement. The only reason you'd use an inferior product (as in, inferior for your use case) just because X is ideology - or you are on a shoestring budget, which I'd also consider fair enough.

Take Linux itself.
I realize the advantages it has from being open source, but the reason I'm using it is not that or privacy or the cost factor. All of these are welcome (or I don't care), but the major reason is that it simply works much better (or on par with Windows, e.g. for gaming) for everything I want to do with it.

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Quoting: mylkawhy should i use a closed source client, when there are 2 open source alternatives?

Because the closed-source store is better?
I'm not saying that it is in this case (last I checked, original EGS was not very good), but that would definitely be a very valid reason.

Using open source just because it is open source is pointless - it actually has be good software in order to improve your experience.

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Half-Life: Renegade?

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Quoting: LungDragoI was wondering whether you have your game installed on a SSD drive?

Of course.

Frankly, gaming on anything but SSD is insanity nowadays, at least for large diskspace games.
And SSDs aren't really that expensive anymore. I got my 2TB one for 200-300€. Not sure if the current shortage also affect those prices, though.

Either way, you are right that the loading times are still unacceptable, especially the fact that they unload everything on scene change.
So what happens is:
1. Load campaign - takes forever
2. Enter battle.
3. Unload campaign.
4. Load battle.
5. Finish battle.
6. Unload battle.
7. Load campaign (only necessary because 3. happens) - takes forever.

3. should never happen, the campaign should always remain in memory. That's just bad software architecture, leading to bad user experience. Other games with similarly large memory footprint manage just fine to keep both campaign and battle in memory, so that's not an argument.

I do expect that there will be a restart battle button in WH3, though. Mostly because Three Kingdoms has that feature.
Similarly, I had the impression that loading times were improved in Three Kingdoms as well - not sure if the game just didn't have as much to load, though...

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What's Italy doing in Finland in that screenshot? :grin:

As for you criticisms... yeah, that's just basic HoI4, I'm afraid.
There's a reason I barely play vanilla - mod makers (of larger mods, anyway) take great care that events may unfold in certain ways and are not afraid to cheat a little to make it so (or have extensive logic to check what the current status is and react to it). Wish it wasn't necessary, but HoI4 AI has never really been up to the task.

The Soviet changes actually weakening the USSR even further is basic Paradox: Make a change that sounds great on paper, don't playtest (or don't see the obvious implications), release, break the game a little.

Either way, I'm looking forward to mods like Kaiserreich, TNO, Old World Blues or Road To 56 catching up and integrate the changes to the systems (though that does tend to take a while).

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Quoting: MohandevirThe chip shortage is making cloud gaming attractive and there is no forseeable ending to it, yet.

Not really.
If a lot of people picked that up, the cloud gaming providers would themselves have to scale up and would be the ones facing the shortage.

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