Can it still be used to snap an SD card in half?

Seriously though, looking forward to your coverage

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According to my Steam "time played", I've played 102 hours of this - which puts it at my #21 most played Steam game ever - which puts it ahead of Rimworld, which I love. I did buy Rimworld before its Steam release though, so there's probably a chunk of unlogged hours - but anyway, it's pretty high up on a fairly exclusive list. It's turning into a great game, and I hope more people get the chance to play it.

Speaking of which, it's 35% off on Steam for the next few days, and it has a demo, so probably as good a time as any to give it a try.

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Looks lovely, but I can't find any info on keyboard layouts - they're only showing it with an American layout. The FAQ doesn't say anything about other keyboard layouts, though does mention you can replace the keys, but doesn't say where you get those keys from.

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Also a fan of this one. I've put a good 80 hours into it over the years. I've not tried it on Steam Deck though - I tend to play it with Logitech G920 wheel, pedals and gears. It's quite a lot of fun turning various knackered old cars into specifically tuned vehicles for different surfaces and race styles, and sticking sports car engines in old trucks and so on. Part racing game and part mechanic simulator. Currently no force feedback, which is a bit of a shame, but it's a pretty solid and fairly forgiving driving game otherwise.

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In Wine, all the trees and obstacles used to disappear after about 1 minute - so you'd know they were there in the distance, then suddenly all the scenery would go. I was always confused why I was crashing into grass/nothing, until I watched a video of someone driving the same level, and realised it was full of invisible trees!

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I'd be interested to know how well the Pangolin runs various games actually. Lower benchmark numbers on the GPU doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be worse overall, particularly considering the vast increase in processor speed. I think I'm just a bit scared of integrated graphics cards, probably based on how they were 15 years ago :)

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I'm really looking forward to this. It had NPCs in the far earlier versions about ten years ago - though I think they were a bit primitive (I can't quite remember, it's a really long time ago). I can't remember if they removed them for bug reasons, or because they were changing from sprite-based to 3D based, and wanted to basically remake half of the engine.

Anyway, I feel reasonably confident they're going to "do them right" and not ruin anything, though. They've kept delaying them over the years because they were determined to put them back in "properly", and not half-broken, and wanted all these different systems in place first. They're also probably a bit scared of doing it wrong, as people have been asking "When are you putting the NPCs back in?" every day for a decade :)

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: sgtnasty369Why can't I get a pure AMD Ryzen/Radeon Linux laptop? They always have to throw in NVIDIA.
I'm so bummed.

System76 already sells this as the Pangolin:
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

That's still only an integrated CPU/GPU though - it's not that it uses an AMD Graphics card, it's that it doesn't have a graphics card.

Not to say the Ryzen Integrated GPU is useless by any means, but it's not as fast as the old Nvidia graphics card from my cheap, knackered 2015 laptop (though the processor is like 10x quicker, so perhaps it all balances out).

Separately, I'm still praying for someone to make a new laptop with proper physical mouse buttons under the touchpad.

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I thought the fairly new buttonless touchpads were a pain in the ****... but that's a whole new level of "What's even going on there?" Is it a touchpadless touchpad? Is it touchscreen & keyboard only? Does you need an external mouse to even use it, or is it somehow hidden? Does it light up to show you where it is, or is the entire frame of the laptop a touchpad... or do you just sort of guess where the touchpad is each time you use it?

Seriously, what was wrong, in any way whatsoever, with having a touchpad for moving, scrolling, zooming and having two or three clickable buttons beneath it for left/right/middle click?

Have I just reached the age where anything I don't understand looks like "new-fangled rubbish"?

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I'm glad it's picked up some popularity - and hopefully therefore sales and a bit of funding. It's the base for a great game, but it's been stuck in "half finished" for a decade.

I was very pleased to see them announce today they're finally working towards reintroducing the NPCs. I think I originally bought this about ten years ago, and they took NPCs out about 8 years ago. The various "Super Survivor NPC Mod" things have given me a good few playthroughs over the years at least, but they were always a bit glitchy.

I have to do too much "grown up stuff" these days to be able to play multiplayer things with any regularity.

Quoting: MicromegasDidn't they add multiplayer some weeks ago?

I'm pretty sure it's had multiplayer for more than 5 years - though they have been making continual improvements for years, and they did release a new "Stable" version recently though.

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