Looks like Left 4 Dead with bugs, which is exactly what it should look like. Starship Troopers as an IP lends itself to coop rather than competitive gameplay. Had a very vague idea along these lines all the way back when Roughnecks was still airing eps on TV, as in "wouldn't it be cool if...." Glad to see someone else did too and ran with it.

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Quoting: Redhacker2

Quoting: legluondunet.....

Indeed, who remembers the no-cd patch to be able to play your own game without putting the f*****g CD in the player making the sound of a plane ready to take off…

Oh, I remember. As of two years ago I still needed a No-CD crack to play Warhammer40K Space Marine on Steamplay. That's since been fixed, but still a great example of how that crap is still screwing people over ten years after release.

I was there for the DOS age of PC gaming. I was there for the transition to Windows95/98, 3D acceleration, etc. Over the years I noticed certain trends that continue to hold:

1) Software companies do not care about the future. They just want you to buy whatever they are releasing right now.

2) If that release is buggy it will never be completely fixed. It will be "good enough" and then dumped on the market with nothing further spent on it.

3) The companies that deliver quality up front will deliver support down the line, and vice-versa.

4) It's obvious that software is covered under the wrong branch of IP law. Instead of copyright it should be covered under patent.

5) Copyright law is a sledgehammer that corporate uses to beat little guys over the head with.

My solution is that all software should be required to be open-sourced at no latter than five years from date of first sale with a very limited grace period for existing software at time of making this change to the law. The software companies don't want to support their product, and will fight it with everything they have, so why force them to? Simply force them to provide the code that will make it possible for others to support the older software and the problem will disappear.

This rule will work as well for operating systems and productivity software as it does for games.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Cybolicwhen it became possible to play DVD films on PC DVD drives

Wait, it wasn't possible initially?

If you bought a capable drive with legal software it was. I bought mine at a CompUSA so that I could play the DVD version of Wing Commander IV.

It would be a few years before DVD John cracked the DVD copy protection, which is the reason all the media software these days can play it all.

I used to rip copies of movies off of the DVD specifically to have a copy without the unskippable commercials and stupid menus. Thanks to DVD John.

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Quoting: legluondunetThe gap between today's consoles and working emulators is narrowing. We had never known an emulator that emulates a console still on sale. ......

Emulators don't cost them anything. Anyone who pirates wasn't going to buy the game to begin with for the most part, nor were they going to buy the console.

To play legally, you both require an actual hackable switch's key and your own dumps from a hacked switch.

Also, Nintendo is one of the most anti-consumer companies to exist in the gaming industry right now.

Weeeeelllll....... I bought a Wii-U copy of Breath of the Wild a few years ago because I hadn't bothered to look into how much trouble it was to get a legal copy working with CEMU. I still haven't played it, but I'll get around to it some time probably this year. The sequel looks pretty interesting.

I have a 5900X/RX6800XT CPU/GPU combo with 32GB and a 2TB PCIE4 NVME all to drive a 43in 4K AORUS monitor. I am not going to buy inferior hardware to play a game. ANY GAME. FROM ANYBODY. If I can legally buy a copy and get it running on my hardware, I will gladly do so. Better, if they bring it to our platform and I will gladly buy it there.

For context, I have the entire SEGA Genesis library on Steam, along with all the Konami gems from the 8/16-bit era. I have all the roms and a working emulator. I didn't need to buy any of it, I WANTED TO. Second time buying a lot of it as I owned the cartridges back in the day, and happy to do it both as reward for bringing the software to our platform, as well as to signal Valve that they made the right decision to support Linux and make it possible for game devs to easily distribute to it.

If Nintendo released it's back catalog of games via Steam, I would buy them just as I have the SEGA catalog. But they won't, so I guess I'm stuck with roms.

I happily bought a lot of the Final Fantasy games, especially FFX/FFX2 on Steam for same reason, as well as the much more recent MARVEL'S SPIDERMAN REMASTERED which I never expected Sony to EVER release outside of the Playstation network. But they put it on Steam and it plays beautifully via Steamplay. and I paid full price as a thank you. Glad to do it.

So you see, I have absolutely ZERO problem with buying software, but I already have the hardware that I both need and want. With the way things are now, if something doesn't work on Linux, 9/10 it's because a corporation is standing in the way deliberately, they are spitting on us, which means they don't want my money and as such will not get it. I'd rather pay them for their product, but it's not required.

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I'll take back every bad thing that I was going to say if they are willing to risk the FOX lawsuit and release the remastered NOLF series.

https://www.thegamer.com/no-one-lives-forever-nightdive-update-interview/ [External Link]

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: jarhead_hHow to get it? Just switched to Debian 11 with SID repo... so maybe next year?

Point releases usually go into sid within a couple of days. Major release, like this one, often spend a couple of weeks in experimental.

At least, that's been my experience in the past.

It's a bit of fun. Was just ribbing Debian a little bit.

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How to get it? Just switched to Debian 11 with SID repo... so maybe next year? :grin:

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Someone found a way to make Cloudpunk less boring.

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When Valve first integrated Proton into Steam I predicted it would be about five years before we overtake Apple. I didn't expect it to require the Steam Deck to do it, but I'll take it.

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Guys, it's VERY likely that the CCP launches an invasion of RoC(Taiwan) very soon, like before Thanksgiving or even Halloween. This matters because AMD IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON TSMC. TSMC does not have a backup chip foundry anywhere in the world, and won't for a couple of years as the earliest that the fab in Phoenix is set to open is something like 2023 or 2024. So factor in normal launch shortages in addition to all the other problems and I wouldn't get your hopes up on buying a Zen 7000. Or RDNA3.

I put my money where my mouth is and just pulled the trigger on both a 5900X and a RX6800XT for my existing ASUS Prime B550, which may get upgraded to a TUFF X570. That should handle everything I play at 4K well enough. And it will last a good two-three years which should be long enough for all of this to shake out.

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