Quoting: bgh251f2Also they don't deteriorate and you don't really own them. You can't sell them anywhere you want and cant dispose of them in other ways (give them away, borrow them, make a poster with them, etc).

You CAN sell them - on Steam Community Market. You can do whatever Steam allows you to do with these funds (buy other games, but other cards, items, etc). You can also sell useless trading cards from other games and buy Artifact cards for funds obtained this way. And you CAN dispose cards - you can recycle 20 cards into a ticket to play in Expert modes for possibile reward of more cards. Don't spread misinformation, please.

Artifact system is much better than in most (all?) virtual collectable card games, where cards are not tradeable at all - at best can be returned for a minuscule amount of one of meaningless in-game currencies.

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Quoting: Leeo97oneI think the issue is more related to DXVK than to Unity. Because the affected games work if I disable DXVK on Steam with:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%

It's definitely related to new drivers. Yesterday I could comfortably play The Room 2 and it worked just fine, then after installing new drivers "GetThreadContext failed". There was no game update, no Proton update, no Steam update... only drivers changed.

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Quoting: liamdaweI would like to point out, even as rubbish as I am with simply the starter content you're given for purchasing it - I've won quite a lot of games against people with a lot of cards I don't have. Buying more cards isn't always the answer, knowing how to use the cards you've got together is.

Is that also the case at competitive drafting (which is paid by tickets) ?

With drafting, both sides pick cards out of stuff at random, even stuff you don't own.

Thx for the answer, Liam.
Did you try Keeper's Draft alreay? How balanced is the matchmaking at this drafting?
Do I understand that right, that Keeper's Draft costs tickets and also booster packs from your inventory and you might win new tickets and packs?

I don't know about balance (not tried it yet).

Yes, Keeper's Draft costs 2 tickets + 5 packs and you draft 5 packs worth of cards, that you keep. After that normal Gauntlet game follows (you play until 5 wins or 2 losses). For 3 wins you get 2 tickets back and an additional pack. 4 wins: 2 tickets and 2 packs. 5 wins: 2 tickets and 3 packs.

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Quoting: loggeHaha, now Nvidia gets their parts of being closed-source only! What a day!

I'm not sure what exactly you were trying to say but it sounds sort of like a dig on Nvidia yet you have an nvidia card?

Nvidia cards are reported as AMD cards now, so Nvidia usage will plummet in Steam stats. Thanks to Nvidia pushing their lock-in APIs.

Inside DXVK only. Steam stats are gathered by steam client, so it will get non-spoofed information.

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> I didn't think Proton had mac support.

It was technically possible to compile Proton for MacOS, so they experimented with it before releasing Proton to the world. It didn't work, caused problems (e.g. scripts needed dual python2 and python3 support because of it) and triggered some unnecessary discussions - so dropping it clarifies the situation for now.

I hope MacOS people will fork it and make it work, so it can be merged back again. No statements from Valve if removal is permanent or not.

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