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Latest Comments by Bumadar
Ubisoft making a return to Steam with Assassin's Creed Valhalla on December 6th
22 Nov 2022 at 7:21 pm UTC

Don't compare it with the original assassins creed games, it's a nice game on it's own, it is huge though and as BA would say "I pity the fool who gets the full game and all dlc's" it is huge, easy 200+ hour sync. But the "forgotten saga" is worth a special mention, it was by far one of the most refreshing rogue like game I played in a long time, especially if you go for the achievements like reaching and killing end boss without using a shrine. Feels so impossible at first but amazing when you complete it.

CD PROJEKT RED announce The Witcher Remake in Unreal Engine 5
27 Oct 2022 at 2:59 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlInteresting, though I'd say the first game is good and doesn't need a remake, but if they want to make one - why not.

And since it's Unreal Engine 5 they can as well make a native Linux version. What happened to such idea?
The controls of the first game were horrible, I dare to say at least 60% of the people who bought it back then stopped very soon because of the controls, lag, sluggish fighting etc etc. So in that respect I welcome a remake, but they can leave the story etc as it was, there was nothing wrong with that.

NVIDIA "unlaunching" the RTX 4080 12GB, apparently 4090 Ti cancelled due to melting
16 Oct 2022 at 5:14 pm UTC

I am starting to understand EVGA for saying bye bye, here you are with a few containers full of 4080 12gb which you can now repack, new bios and sell as a 4070 something..... if your lucky

JSAUX released a firmware update for their Steam Deck Docking Stations
27 Sep 2022 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 10

Unfortunately, there is a catch. Their firmware update is only designed for Windows. However, I have mentioned the Linux Vendor Firmware Service to them, so hopefully they can put it up on there giving Linux users an easy way to update too.
When I started reading I was thinking "it's used with a Linux device so have they really made it possible to update from Linux" and when I saw your catch line I was laughing out loud. Let's hope they check out fwupd.org and get it included.

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and some reflection on Steam Reviews
16 Sep 2022 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

I platinum it on ps4 and loved it. Its a bit hard at the start as you very weak, but once you past that it is brilliant. And the music is just awesome. So ignore the scores and have fun.

Heroes of Might and Magic II & III open source game engines get new releases
15 Sep 2022 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Lightkey
Quoting: BumadarHave the might and magic games ever gotten a modern engine/gfx etc ?

Loved those way back in the days when you would get a code and adress after completing the game and sending a letter to them you would get you an official certificate by post 4 weeks later for completing the game :)

Oooh and how might and magic IV and V created the world of xeen, that was like the most amazing thing ever :)
DreamMaster [External Link] wrote an engine for Might and Magic IV/V in ScummVM and as far as graphics go, maybe not modern but he's currently working on an engine for Might and Magic: Book One to use the graphics of the Xeen games [External Link].
Thank you !!

Heroes of Might and Magic II & III open source game engines get new releases
14 Sep 2022 at 7:24 pm UTC

Have the might and magic games ever gotten a modern engine/gfx etc ?

Loved those way back in the days when you would get a code and adress after completing the game and sending a letter to them you would get you an official certificate by post 4 weeks later for completing the game :)

Oooh and how might and magic IV and V created the world of xeen, that was like the most amazing thing ever :)

W4 Games raised $8.5 million USD to support Godot Engine
13 Sep 2022 at 6:59 pm UTC

Quoting: KimyrielleLet's see where this goes, but I am not too worried. If the worst case happens and that company gets taken over by big-evil-business, I am very confident that Godot will get forked by a new dev team and live happily ever after. It happened after OpenOffice got taken over by big-evil-business, too. The good thing about open source is that it's fairly immune against hostile takeovers.

In the best case, this could be a positive game-changer for Godot. While not everything the team will be working on will get upstreamed to Godot, I am sure that a lot of it will.
To keep it interesting for the investors I would guess the console market... so keeping that out of godot and as a payable add on, or something like that.

I do agree that forking OpenOffice in the longrun worked out, although I am not sure how that works for game engine's, the big gaming dev's tend to write a lot of in-house stuff against an engine to help there needs, a fork of a game engine which is used by companieswith self written add ons or bought add ons is diffrent from a fork of an office suit which we end users use.

Valve opens official Steam Deck repair centers
10 Sep 2022 at 6:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sorry but isn't this just normal ? The ifixit thing where you can get parts, that is cool and let's hope more companies go that route, either because new laws force them or they simply see the light :)

But you know, your still under warranty device breaks then its nothing more then normal that you can ship it back and it gets fixed. This has nothing to do with "This just continues to show how all-in Valve are on the future of the Steam Deck" but is normal consumer law/rules. And even out of warranty fixing for a price is not that unheard off.