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Latest Comments by TheSHEEEP
Please look at this Wine graph showing a 4.18 increase
19 Oct 2019 at 6:20 am UTC Likes: 1


No Linux version of Lonely Mountains: Downhill yet due to IL2CPP in Unity
17 Oct 2019 at 5:23 am UTC

Quoting: GuestI wonder why they think they need il2cpp. Thousands of games have been made with Unity3D without il2cpp.
I think some brought up security issues as an argument.
Which... on one hand isn't totally wrong, as games using "just" c# are super simple to modify, given how easily C# can be reverse engineered, modified and put back in (that's how many mods are made).
On the other hand, the same can be done with C++, it's just harder as it doesn't keep the code structure as intact when built as C# does.

I get that somewhat for games that are primarily multiplayer, but for single player games I really don't.

But in the end, only a server-client model, in which the server does all the decision-making and the game client is merely there for the simulation and input, can make sure there are less hacks.

No Linux version of Lonely Mountains: Downhill yet due to IL2CPP in Unity
16 Oct 2019 at 2:29 pm UTC Likes: 4

I find this weird, to be honest.

Doesn't IL2CPP merely convert C# scripts to C++?
C# is quite fast to begin with. You really have to make things very convoluted and messy to get bad performance with Mono/C# that you'd then need to convert to C++ for a very noticeable boost.

Of course, it might be that Unity adds some problems of its own here.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition arrives on Linux on November 5th
15 Oct 2019 at 4:12 pm UTC

Probably gonna get it from their site as well.
That is, once my backlog... oh dear, not gonna happen this year, is it?

Dota 2 matchmaking may be less terrible now for solo players and more difficult for toxic people
11 Oct 2019 at 10:29 pm UTC

Aha. So it's getting satisfaction not from your skill, but from being able to ruin other people's experience with little effort.
I guess that does make some kind of sense if you are a pathetic person.

Dota 2 matchmaking may be less terrible now for solo players and more difficult for toxic people
11 Oct 2019 at 5:07 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Geppeto35Do you know games like CS:GO danger zone without this mass of cheaters?
All massively popular games have a lot of cheaters in them, sadly. They constantly ban accounts but more keep coming.
Does anyone have an explanation for this?

I just don't understand it.
Why play competitive games with cheats? If you win, you know you only won because of cheats. It's hollow.
And you don't even gain any money from it - I do understand grinding bot accounts for MMOs, someone's gotta farm that gold to sell online.
But maybe I'm just too much Klingon and Ferengi to get the point.

Dota 2 matchmaking may be less terrible now for solo players and more difficult for toxic people
11 Oct 2019 at 2:30 pm UTC

How is this behaviour score calculated?
I can only imagine it being based on other players' ratings.

Pegasus Frontend, the customizable open source graphical game launcher has a new release up
11 Oct 2019 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 8

A game launcher that is not restricted to a single platform?!
What weirdly sensible black magic is this!

Valve will bring out 'Remote Play Together' to give online support to local multiplayer games
10 Oct 2019 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 12

Quoting: joaojottaIt honestly doesn't sound that great. Maybe I'm just not seeing it. Where could it be applied?
?????
How about every single game that can (normally) only be played together via local shared-/splitscreen?