Quoting: scainewith this I could force the game's resolution back to 1920x1080

There's nothing stopping you from doing that today, albeit without the integer scaling sweetness.

Forcing resolution in Unity games is fairly straightforward with launch options such as...
-screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080

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Tangerine Nightmare is a good one.

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Too little, too late.
Intel will be enjoying delicious karma humble pie for a good while... :happy:

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Currently nice Halloween prices, 20% off 3dSen PC (6,5€) and 30% off 3dSen VR (11,75€), the VR version also works as the normal PC version so you don't need to buy twice. :)

At the moment 3dSen does not support mapper24 or additional sound chips. Geod intends to switch to a better core for improved compatibility and performance, no ETA though. That VCR6 VRC6 chip sure does sound lovely...

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Story time.

Hellraid [External Link] is an extra game mode alluding to the eponymous game heritage, a title that never materialized as it was originally intended; a mod for Dead Island. Later aimed at a stand alone release as 'Project Hell' and eventually rebranded as Hellraid.

Back in the early 2010's, Techland was developing the Dead Island games for Deep Silver and while not regarded as a success at the time, the games were successful enough to sell millions of copies and are regarded as classics today. DI was entirely Techlands baby in all aspects other than IP ownership. 'Creative differences' built up a conflict [External Link] between the companies that eventually led to Techland creating a new IP in Dying Light, which turned out to be a massive success.

The victims of this conflict were twofold.
Hellraid development was halted as Techland most likely wasn't interested in developing any more content for Deep Silver. The official explanation [External Link] was the usual PR fluff about "not meeting expectations".

Dead Island 2 faded into the shadows as Deep Silver was left to handle the IP on their own, and boy oh boy it's been a tragic mismanagement story like few others. Since Techland, the development of DI2 has been handed over to Yager (who was bankrupted when DS dropped them due to creative differences), then it was Sumo Digital's turn (no idea why they were dropped), and most recently in 2019 the torch was passed to Dambuster Studios who earlier in 2020 were trying to hire staff to work on DI2. Your guess is as good as mine if Dead Island 2 will ever release...

Calling Hellraid an expansion is a bit much, but it is a new game mode with new mechanics and you will be able to use the weapons from Hellraid in the main game with an upcoming update. Techland has also promised to expand Hellraid with new content. In fact, we have already received a content update called Lord Hector's Demise [External Link] and more is coming.

In my opinion, Hellraid is well worth the low cost of 10€ (on sale right now for 8,5€) and Techland is worth your support. They are still updating Dying Light close to 6 years after release and still maintaining the Linux version. I can't say this same about many other game companies.

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Smashing zombies in the face with a chunky garden gnome statue invokes a rather special feeling. :)

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Quoting: Shepard62FRIn the future, I might make those binaries "used by default", that will of course depends on player's feedback if they managed to launch the game with and/or without those extra binaries.

Debian needs the -linux-extra-bins launch option for the game to work properly.

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Yes, I'm serious.
Internet connection is required for all Jackbox games, even for local multiplayer. They absolutely could have made the host serve the session locally, but that's not how they chose to do it.

The JBPP7 Steam store page lists Network: Broadband Internet connection as minimum spec for all platforms. They aren't exactly hiding this fact, but not advertising it either.

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BTRFS as default on a desktop distro... guess we'll find out how that experiment turns out before long. :unsure:

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Definitely have to add a note about the excellent dev logs and coding streams Jotson posts on Youtube. Same channel as the EA trailer linked in the article. :)

Streams on https://twitch.tv/jotson [External Link]

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