I see. So they just released the tools and SDK because.. quake was mod friendly?

That may be normal nowadays. It was not back then. And boi that simple quake mod really made a wave.

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Quoting: JuliusIt wasn't so much that Valve understood, but rather that they were providing the latest version of the Quake1 engine in a really popular game (Half-Life). Quake1 has to this day an active modding scene as id really understood (back then).

I remember this quite different. Quake itself was popular but not like this. Not at all. Sorry. Half-Life _became_ popular due to it's superb modding support.

Releasing the tools needed for this was a perfect move at this time.

I was there. Run my own mod projects (as in plural).

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Quoting: liamdaweSo what we've learned is that mods are awesome ;)

tbf I wonder how modding would look nowadays without Half-Life back then. That modding support and scene, that evolved around it, was unseen before.

So yeah.. Valve understood this. Back then at least.

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Quoting: bekoFedora next?

Nope, they will not include proprietary bits by default. It's well supported via RPMFusion though.

I know and I do use RPMFusion - like anyone else. A man can dream tho ;)

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After so many years of adding foreign repositories for decent GPU support we really get NVIDIA to a huge distro? I almost shed a tear :woot:

Fedora next? :D

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Played this a while today and I liked it for a very early alpha game. Sure, it's a lot of running around type quests to get familiar with the area. And yeah, it does crash. As expected and noted. Shame on me I forgot so save. No autosave so far ;-)

My attention was more on the details from a historic perspective and while I take issue with _some_ stuff - like clothing - I'd file this as alpha issues that will probably be resolved. Attention to detail, like no potatoes and not even orange carrots, really fill my heart with joy :)

Other stuff I've seen is subject for discussion. Hard to put a nail on this. Mayhap it's creator knows some sources I don't.

Oh yeah and Edit says:

> 24 hours real-time

Time is progressing faster and you can sit down (or sleep - or pray) on many occasions to speed that up a lot. Useful when waiting for some stuff like cooking to finish.

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Very hyped but as @Ketil already described: Kinda wary. Will they fix their stuff this time? Performance and bugs were always a huge dealbreaker before.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2BLiterally me. That's why I mentioned it ;)

Cookies which way? ?

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Be aware that the moment you enable "SteamPlay" Steam starts to redownload the whole thing for Windows (as expected) overwriting the installed Linux version. No further confirmation or question _where_ this download should go. A switch back to the native version will probably result in the same thing.

It was probably a bad idea of mine to try this on ARK, that requires already the most of my SSD, first. Now Steam is stuck in an unpacking loop after disk usage went to 100%. Time to shovel other files away to free some space *sigh*.

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Quoting: TheRiddickAs for devs becoming lazy, I think its well past that if they haven't fixed things for their Linux port already. ARK being a prime example..

It's also a primal example ;) *SCNR*

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