For those who don't know what Space Station 13 is, Sseth has got you covered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ_qSXruW0 [External Link]

@Liam: The images in the article don't load for me.

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Quoting: TcheyAlso, i find the perf mid-game to drop quite a lot, and with 50+ units on screen, it’s not great. Could be my computer, but for similar situation, i have better perf with SupCom or Zero-K.

Unfortunately, the game's rather bad performance is well known.
IMO it is mostly due to them using JavaScript (Spidermonkey afaik) for scripting. JS simply wasn't made with high performance in mind, that's just not where it shines.
But now that the script engine is that deeply integrated since years, you can't just rip it out like a bad tooth to replace it with a shiny C# or Lua tooth. At best, I could imagine more scripting logic being rewritten in C++, only called from script.

Actually, the latter makes most sense IMO, as that is how scripting should be used anyway (as in, if it is performance critical, don't do it in script, do it in C++).

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Quoting: TheRiddickWhy not SMAA? its superior!

Because it is a lot harder to implement.
FXAA is a relatively simple post-effect, just blurring together neighboring pixels more or less. One of the reasons it makes stuff quite blurry and some prefer having no AA at all over FXAA.

SMAA is more involved, effectively "intelligently" smoothing edges instead of just blurring. But it also requires a lot more GPU power (and afaik CPU as well for the preparation?).

It is possible their graphics pipeline is not set up for that. Who knows.

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I knew what to expect from the discussion when I saw the game's name & trailer and wasn't disappointed.
"China bad!" in the first comment, even. Glorious :D

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I prefer cider, personally. But we don't really have that as software.

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Whenever I see any kind of Retroarch news I get this itch...

I have to remind myself: "No! Not now! Your backlog is way too long already without you playing console/arcade games from 30 years ago!"

Sometimes, I forget or willfully ignore my reminder.

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Well, their reasons for not supporting VR right away are very valid.
They need a good business case for it, and for VR, there is none as they have seen in their last project - you can't just plug something in and expect that now VR works for your project.
It is essentially a new platform and one that is actually a lot harder to support than say, doing a PC -> console port, since more than just the control scheme changes. It is a ton of work for a quite small audience (Hell, even Alyx stats don't look that impressive, https://steamcharts.com/app/546560 [External Link] , Divinity: Original Sin 2 has more concurrent players years after release than Alyx had on release).

Given how reasonable from a business perspective they are about VR, it is somewhat odd they do (plan to) support Linux, but I guess that just shows how easy it is to do a Linux build compared to a platform that is different even from a design perspective.

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Grab your stick and double throttle for space, space, spaaaaaace....

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Quoting: hardpenguinBless Stardew Valley for creating this renaissance for top-down farming RPG sims

I'm not sure Stardew Valley did this.
That genre never really went away.

But bless it anyway, just in case. It's good enough to get some extra wololo.

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Quoting: Rooster

Our installer aims to make the complicated process of installing Fedora to replace another operating system as easy as possible, but it’s still a barrier even for tech-literate people

Wait what?

Maybe in the sense of "tech-literate people, too, are lazy".
Just because I could deal with a complicated installation process, doesn't mean I want to.

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