(but generally works better via Proton as it's an old port).

I can confirm this, the native port is still locked to low/medium settings while the Windows version in Proton runs maxed out just fine.

The game has aged really well visually, it's quite the experience on a 4K OLED display in a dark room.

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I wish I knew why Team Fortress 2 was so popular. I just don't get it.

Mann vs Machine (the PvE mode in TF2) is still pretty good by today's standards and doesn't have a lot of competition, especially since Overwatch 2 dropped the ball on this aspect.

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What do you think it might enable?

Quake 2 RTX could integrate Flow for particle rendering instead of relying on prerendered sprites (which was done for licensing reasons, as Quake 2 RTX is GPL-licensed).

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I wish they merge it with Remaster somehow...

The remaster's Kex engine is proprietary, while Q2PRO (and therefore Quake 2 RTX) is GPL-licensed. Therefore, this can't happen.

What can be done (and has been done with Q2REPRO) is to backport all the remaster functionality to Q2PRO. Q2REPRO lets you have the remastered experience but with a GPL-licensed source port. I believe Quake 2 RTX already started taking code from it, although some of the changes require multiplayer servers to also be running updated versions (especially the increased tick rate).

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Also the font size: The text is too small.

EchoPatch has a HUD scaling option so you can make the HUD and various texts larger.

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Interesting, what CTF mod is it?

Probably this one: https://ctf.rubenwardy.com/ [External Link]

There are multiple servers for it on the public server list, with some of them averaging 20+ concurrent players every day.

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Using ubershaders when `VK_KHR_pipeline_library` exists feels like a mistake, imo.

There's an open PR for it, but it's still in draft state and hasn't seen much work lately: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/72682 [External Link]

Graphics Pipeline Library doesn't make it possible to remove 100% shader compilation stutter either. It can only reduce it somewhat, which is good to have as a last-ditch solution, but ubershaders can catch more things. See also the shader baker which is being worked on: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/102552 [External Link]

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Note that all this was previously available in an unofficial patch (but developed by a Remedy employee... therefore with source code access): https://www.nexusmods.com/control/mods/90 [External Link]

This is why the update doesn't add other upscalers, since the mod didn't have those either. FSR2 injection with external tools like OptiScaler is said to work on the mod's page still, so maybe it works with this update too.

As I understand it, this update is all about making it an official patch and unlocking previously exclusive content. This is still pretty nice to see nonetheless.

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I never thought about this before but since those recompilation projects don't require BIOS or other console software to run, would they be legally safer than emulation?

Neither the N64 nor Xbox 360 (the two consoles we have recompilation projects for) require BIOS files to emulate games.

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Rather the issue is "Why do we need Fedora Flatpak?".

One of the original reasons for creating Fedora Flatpaks was legal and FOSS compliance reasons. Red Hat was afraid to give users full access to Flathub, as it ships lots of proprietary applications but also lots of applications that support patent-encumbered formats like H.264. Red Hat is very careful about not packaging those in the main Fedora distribution, so giving access to Flathub by default would have been seen as a way to endorse those packages (even if Fedora themselves did not package it).

Their stance has changed slightly over the years, but Flathub is still not enabled *by default* as of Fedora 41: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-group/third-party-repos/ [External Link]

Between Fedora 35 and 37, only a filtered subset of Flathub was also available this way unless you downloaded the Flathub repository file and added it yourself.

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