Soo wouldn't it be funny it this was the "cs2.exe" leak?

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Quoting: LinasCounter-Strike holds strong because it is a time-tested formula that has been refined to perfection. If Valve wants to add or change the core mechanics, they would be taking a risk of not being received positively and driving the fans away. Making it a completely separate game would allow them much more freedom to do what they want. I just hope it does not become another Battlefield of Duty.

Like they did with CS:GO, and CSS before that, and CSCZ before that, and CS 1.6. Damn you CS you ruined CS! *insert Simpsons meme here*

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Quoting: gbudnyI have never played this game, but it reminded me Maniadrive.
It has a Linux version, and I spent many hours playing it.
I still listen to songs from this game.

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ [External Link]

Now that website is a blast from the past

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sounds like they normaly render with dx12 but have a buggy fallback for dx11 or vulkan in the engine. they saw that their default dx12 renderer didn't work on the SD but the fallback did. so they hacked in an if-case based on that env varble to chose the fallback. obviously not much thought went into it, otherwise they would have choosen something more semanticaly sensefull, like checking for wines self identifying env variables

just educated guesses

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it's basically steamcache but now official? nice

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Reminds me of the old days: I once discoverd a server in "The Specialists" (HL 1 Matrix Mod). Had a nighttime city map with some Houses being enterable. Most rooms had a gun in plain sight or hidden. And there ofc also was a weapon shop and a police station for the big calibers. On the streets zombies spawned at random. Round time was endless. It was basically just a casual: Who can shoot the most zombies from a roof. with an ocassional dash through the streets to get a new weapon when the ammo ran out (weapons respawned always in the same location after some time).

It was very barebones and simple (there wasn't really a goal, there was a scoreboard, but since there was no timer it was more about how long a player was already connected, then how fast he could shoot zombies), but god knows how many hours I sank into it.

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Quoting: omer666At least there is now an official line drawn between Epic MegaGames and Epic Games.
As for the master server, as with many late 90s multiplayer FPS, players have been using their own server lists for a long time now.

I just hope that some day, a (yet to be known) dev is going to release titles as groundbreaking as Quake 3 or UT, so that we can live another golden age of the arena shooters...

i would argue that battle royals are somewhat the modern successor of arena shooters. just with more players bigger maps and only last man standing gamemode

think about 100 player ctf in pubg or apex. it could work ...

We already had 64-player CTF in Quake 2...
While battle royals may be fun, it is no Team Death match and the intricate level design we had before is not here either. Add to this the silly cell shaded graphics and the gatcha inspired character rooster, what you get is a no-go for arena FPS players.

As surprising as it may be, the only "recent" FPS that remotely matches my tastes is CS:GO

q3 arena had a very colorfull rooster too
just no microtransactions

on the level design: BRs have very big maps. but at least apex has some thought put into it: the maps feel a little bit like connected arena maps

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will it have items?
i know pro smash players hate items. but for a party game you need some level of radomness to give also the unskilled players an occasional win

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Quoting: omer666At least there is now an official line drawn between Epic MegaGames and Epic Games.
As for the master server, as with many late 90s multiplayer FPS, players have been using their own server lists for a long time now.

I just hope that some day, a (yet to be known) dev is going to release titles as groundbreaking as Quake 3 or UT, so that we can live another golden age of the arena shooters...

i would argue that battle royals are somewhat the modern successor of arena shooters. just with more players bigger maps and only last man standing gamemode

think about 100 player ctf in pubg or apex. it could work ...

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Reading the comments and wanted to clear things up:

EmuDeck is just an installer including a set of configuration presets. After the install is finished it is not required to launch the games.
EmuDeck installs one of 2 or both ways to launch games: Either by by creating a "external program" entry in steam per game that launches the emulator with the commandline option to directly load the game and hide the emulator ui. Or by installing EmulationStation witch is just a gui in between that effectifly does the same. After the game is launched both ways don't have anything to do anymore with the actuall running game and tge emulation.
The Emulators themself are installed in their standalone version where a stable flatpack is available or no libretro wraper exists. the other emulators are installed via the retroarch eco system (retroarch itself is installed in the flatpack, not the steam version, as the steam version is still lacking behind)
These emulators are also configured that the retroarch ui is skipped when launching the games. So when the game is running the actual stack on a program level is: emulator -> game or retroarch -> emulator -> game

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