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Latest Comments by Xpander
Steam Winter Sale is live and Steam Awards voting is now open
20 Dec 2024 at 1:11 pm UTC Likes: 2

This Game award voting is strange. I don't know 90% of those games. I don't own Steam Deck, I don't own VR.
Why can i even vote those?
Only know and played STALKER 2, No Man's Sky and Sons of the Forest lol

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 4:32 pm UTC

Ok completed the main story. Got bad ending i think :D
I guess time to pick up older save and try to do stuff differently

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 2:56 pm UTC

Ahh ok. Yeah i don't rebind WASD myself. Melee yeah sucks i want mouse sidebutton for melee also ,but that's unrebindable. flashlight i liked middle mouse. i just change all the quickslot stuff and leaning etc. that worked without issues..

will see with new patch i guess.

edit:
Quoting: starpolloGame is crashing while compiling shaders for me after the update :(
no issues with shader compile for me. Loading times seems to have improved with this patch quite a bit also

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 2:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Jarmer110 gb patch. That's just absurd, are you basically just redownloading the entire game?

Also, I have one big question: did they fix the key bindings for kb/m at all? I played at a friends house and was astonished that such a basic functionality was totally broken.
what was the issue with keybinding?
the only problem i had with keybinding was that i couldn't bind melee attack separately. It had to be V as the default.

all the rest like leaning and quickslots etc i was able to rebind just fine

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 1:42 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sudoerDid they fix the stuttering of the despicable UE5?

https://www.vg247.com/unreal-engine-5-has-been-a-disappointment [External Link]
Didn't really have any stuttering since patch 1.02. Few framerate dips when getting into completely new area but not the stuttering like most other UE5 games had with each new effect on the screen. I guess it depends on the game and what shaders get precompiled.

But yeah UE5 is pretty awful usually. Also the freaking smearing is just insane in UE5 games. Everything is blurry AF... nanite and lumen are also kinda bullshit marketing words. Performance cost is just way too high for the blurry image you get imo

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 11:58 am UTC Likes: 1

lol 110GB patch. Stupid UE5 i guess.
I'm near the end of the game now and didnt have many issues tbh. few strange NPC spawns, animation jank, artifact spawning inside the rocks and poor performance in Rostok Main building, but other than that its been mostly troublefree. Game has been super stable for me also.
Nice to see huge list of fixes though.

Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played
19 Dec 2024 at 6:12 am UTC Likes: 1

2007-2024 100% linux
i know there was no recap before 2022 probably or at least i cant remember

Most played game this year from steam is STALKER 2 for me
~100 hours

Chilly survival game BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2 announced
17 Dec 2024 at 10:10 am UTC

They switched to UE5?
So we can expect poor performance and the need to use upscalers and framegen again ....

Other than that, not much to go on with this trailer again. Absolutely zero gameplay again.
Hopefully its immersive First Person though like the first one.

Steam page has a bit more info. Looks interesting at least. Lets wait and see i guess

Xfce 4.20 desktop released with experimental Wayland support
16 Dec 2024 at 1:29 pm UTC Likes: 5

My second choice for DE. But like MATE, it seems the wayland stuff is extremely experimental, broken and missing features.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session [External Link]

so yeah i think this will take at least couple of years to get it functional and edge cases ironed out.

I wonder which will get there first: MATE or XFCE.

But anyway, i will have to stick with X11 for many years to come :)
at least it works the way i expect it to work.

Turok: Origins announced and it's now a third-person shooter with co-op
13 Dec 2024 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

It's this time of year where we get trailers that tell absolutely nothing about game.
At least this shows tiny clips of "gameplay" in the end, but yeah. Basically zero stuff about how it will play.
Is it open world? is it mission/lobby based?
Looks very generic tbh.

Never been into Turok games myself tbh, but first 2 were quite decent back in the days.