I think the creator of the Stanley Parable got it all right, he made an achievement you can't earn unless you you purposely hack the game.. Says it all, can you stand a to only achieve 99% of a game ?

Some people have compulsory behaviour and game marketing divisions know that, and surely they'll have more people playing longer if you put in something like "Unlock max level in multiplayer" or "Unlock all content"...

Anyways on the other hand, global stats are SO valuable to game devs and marketing as it allows them track where most people stopped playing. It usually goes like that:
- Finish tutorial: 85% (a few people never played)
- Complete 1st chapter: 70% (a few people didn't like gameplay or what they've seen of it so far)
...
- Kill last boss: 30% (okay story and gameplay weren't this good or game was too long)
- Achieve game in difficult mode: 10% (these people liked challenge, should we have more or less in next game ?)
- Unlock 100%: 0.9% (these guys will buy DLC)

While it's just interpretation and roughly inaccurate, I doubt a fistful of people using SAM would actually change the stats significantly.

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Quoting: ageresUgh, cheating software...

To be honest, I'm really debating this internally.

My user case is the last Dying Light achievement: "Be the last standing at the end of Bozak trial".
Bozak's trial is a pain in itself but for this achievement you also need co-op partners which can be even worse as even if you do your best, if someone is lost, dies or anything, it's a collective fail.
Anyway it turns out I've done that at least 4 times now, with lovely people who played way too many hours but I can not steal more solid ours from them for them to help me get a bugged achievement.
There are whacky "faith" strategies all over the net to "increase your chances" to get the achievement even though each time your fulfilling the actual condition. Those strategies doesn't work obviously, as a game developer I suspect a bug in the netcode not so obvious or easy to fix but it ain't nothing to do with such things as "crouch 4 times", "turn around", "sing a song", and crappy BS.

I've pretty much done everything in this game, met nice and awkward people, but now it actually is holding a few dozens GB on my SSD and yet I'm here debating if I deserve this achievement or not.

I have a few other examples:
- Dead Rising 2 TIR netcode crashes the game (I manage to unlock the achievements following a very specific procedure which is a pain but still).
- Red Faction: Guerilla, last event up north was never available so you were missing one mission out of your 60h game save. Yes it was on Xbox360 but I haven't gone through the remaster for this very reason.
- Borderlands 2: all arch symbols on slot machine. I spent a few hundred hours on the game, this achievement is totally random and you have a 0.02% chance to get it (provided you have money to spend in the machine) which is roughly one over 5000 tries.
- Jet Set Radio: use all graffitis in missions. I have the achievements for all soul spirits, meaning I unlocked all graffitis, I just had to use them but since then, I lost my save as this game is known to corrupt saves from update to update.

While I will never use it to unlock achievements which I didn't meet the condition.
Currently I think I still won't use it, but I might consider from now on that if I deem I earned an achievement and it is bugged, I will manually unlock it.

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Quoting: SamsaiBeginner's guide to laundering money using G2A

1. Steal credit card details using phishing techniques.
2. Buy loads of game keys on Humble or game developers' own websites.
3. Sell keys on G2A to cash out.
4. Leave game devs to deal with chargeback fees while G2A gets rich off of the cut they get from stolen keys.

Makes sense :O

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I wonder how can they even flourish a business out of stolen keys...

Are there any rogue agents trying to generate collisions ?
Or do they actually stole them from phishing, unauthorized access or from the inside ?

That's the kind of questions I'd love G2A to answer as they might know better.

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Can't stop myself thinking we're closer to get Death Stranding working on Proton when it's out.
Though playing offline would defeat the actual point and message of the game...

Also I'm fucking mad they want to bring that shit over Linux, but I'm even madder:
1) Devs don't take the time making native Linux versions because of industry momentum, ultimately games would run better/faster and users would jump straight on switching to Linux to get a few more FPS and pay 100-200 quids less off of their computer for windows;
2) Devs can't code decent multiplayer with safe autorithative checks server side because they ducttape multiplayer on top of a singleplayer game engine, as industry standards expect your game to be multiplayer but no-one plays those.

Don't get me wrong these are not easy things to get done, but they are not even trying.
Hopefully we had exceptional initiaves from the community to get Wine and DXVK.
(Not to mention the efforts the Khronos group is putting struggling to bring standards against industry monopolies).
But come on.. Do we have to wait another decade to enjoy the same games than people playing windows or consoles ?

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I'd be curious to actually know how accurate are the depicted electronics. :)

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We ain't the top 1% anymore fellas :P

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I fled gnome shell from Debian but it's coming after me, help!

On a serious note though would anyone teach me what is the advantage of snap and flatpack ? I always thought packaging libraries versions would open the way for flaws and exploits, is it neatly contained from the system ?

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: aokamiI'm going to upgrade my FX-8350 for a Ryzen 7 Gen 2 as well, haha.
Would you go with a X570 motherboard ?

Well, I finally bought my new CPU: Ryzen 7 3800X (only 50$ more expensive than the 3700X).
So I went with the X570 eventually, and honestly, for now, I can't complain.
To support it, I took the Asus X570 TUF-Plus motherboard and some 16 GB of Corsair RAM @ 3600MHz.

Be careful: and I think this is true to any motherboard supporting DDR4, the base RAM clock is 2133MHz. DO NOT increase the memory frequency from the BIOS "Advanced" menu (I did that, got a permanent black screen and thought I bricked my machine), instead, use the "Ai Tweaker" menu and change the memory frequency there. I don't remember exactly but it was very simple in the end, one thing to change, like "Best frequency" or something, and it worked out-of-the-box.

Hey, on my end I a 2700X with a B450 and 16 GB of ram, it was enough for my use case and it was cheap AF. :D

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Quoting: Creak

Quoting: aokamiI'm going to upgrade my FX-8350 for a Ryzen 7 Gen 2 as well, haha.
Would you go with a X570 motherboard ?

Well, I finally bought my new CPU: Ryzen 7 3800X (only 50$ more expensive than the 3700X).
So I went with the X570 eventually, and honestly, for now, I can't complain.
To support it, I took the Asus X570 TUF-Plus motherboard and some 16 GB of Corsair RAM @ 3600MHz.

Be careful: and I think this is true to any motherboard supporting DDR4, the base RAM clock is 2133MHz. DO NOT increase the memory frequency from the BIOS "Advanced" menu (I did that, got a permanent black screen and thought I bricked my machine), instead, use the "Ai Tweaker" menu and change the memory frequency there. I don't remember exactly but it was very simple in the end, one thing to change, like "Best frequency" or something, and it worked out-of-the-box.

Hey, on my end I a 2700X with a B450 and 16 GB of ram, it was enough for my use case and it was cheap AF. :D

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