Quoting: HythlodaeusThis game is good, but I feel the devs are torturing themselves at this point by continuing to use the doom engine. There's so much impractical hacking to make this thing work it would be much much simpler at this point to switch to a proper open source 3d engine like Darkplaces or even Q3. For instance, the game still doesn't have working loops because the engine's (lack of) physics do not support them at all. It's also permanently capped on 35 FPS because of similar reasons.

Doom source ports generally have more complete modding documentation than Quake source ports do.

Also, uncapping the framerate would be possible if Doom Legacy supported physics step interpolation (like GZDoom and PrBoom+ do).

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After testing various launchers and games that use extra screens, Gamescope that handles the display of windows gets confused and madly flicks between them.

This seems to be a widespread problem with games/apps that use some kind of launcher or multi-window functionality in general. Godot suffers from the same problem when running a project from the editor too, since a separate process (and window) is spawned for that purpose. I wonder if Valve could do anything about it, but it might not be possible without lowering performance (since I assume the Steam Deck's single-window paradigm is here for a reason).

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Cube recently celebrated its 20th anniversary! Someone made a page that hosts the very first version available (no Linux binary, but runs well in WINE): http://cubeengine.com/forum.php?action=display_thread&thread_id=2763 [External Link]
I only played the last Cube release (20050829) before trying out the first version, so it's interesting to see how it evolved over time. It's interesting to note that the old shotgun sound is very similar to the super shotgun sound currently used in Freedoom: Phase 2.

Fun fact: In February 2022, the game's source code was relicensed to Zlib [External Link] (after using a modified Zlib license that made it GPL-incompatible.

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Judging by the article name, I thought it was going to be about the first-person shooter SiN. :P

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Quoting: BogomipsJust tested it for 5 minutes, still stuttering for me. I think less than before with a good FPS gain but still not acceptable in competitive.

Getting rid of stutters typically requires playing a full game on all maps, ideally against human players who use agent skins (instead of bots which never use them).

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It is possible to release emulators legally on Steam, but you need to be careful not to mention the original consoles' names or show their games in any way. The Steam page screenshots should show homebrew projects that can be legally redistributed. This is what RetroArch on Steam [External Link] does :)

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According to the promo image, this new laptop is clearly the best laptop to read the Godot documentation with. :P

Edit: Oh, it's actually a video on the website showing use of Godot and Blender.

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Godot doesn't have motion vectors yet, so implementing a temporal AA/upscaling solution is still a way off. Support for TAA is planned in a future 4.x release, not 4.0.

NVIDIA's DLSS SDK is proprietary, which means that support would have to be done by a third-party engine fork (it can't be done officially or at an add-on level).

Intel plans to open source XeSS once their GPUs are released, so this may be an usable solution that could be integrated in the engine (depending on how good it turns out to be).

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Quoting: DrakkerUnless they tweaked it over the years, medics are not only strong fighters, they are totally overpowered! Their berserk thing when used by an experienced player made them close to unstoppable.

The Adrenaline powerup is disabled on the server I mentioned because it's pretty OP :)

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Quoting: iiariI have heard great things about this old title but never played it in the day. Is it worth trying in the modern age for those without any nostalgia?

ET: Legacy still has an active community nowadays, although the skill level is high given some players have been around for more than 15 years now. It's one of the earlier successful examples of a class-based multiplayer FPS, but class layout isn't quite as restrictive as they would be in a game such as Team Fortress 2 (medics are really strong fighters, for instance).

If you're a new player, I recommend playing on the TeamMuppet Legacy public server. It may take a bit to get used to the gameplay, but I think it's worth it :)

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