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Latest Comments by Klaas
The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more
11 Dec 2022 at 5:48 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Daweoffered to help
If it requires your intervention than that does nothing to raise my opinion of them. I've been a loyal customer since the second bundle (so about 12 years), but the customer experience has been getting worse for a long time. It's easy to destroy trust and hard to regain it. The shift from direct downloads to mostly reselling Steam keys was not a good one.

The newsletters are annoying as well. It is not possible to get a single mail for each bundle. Instead you can either get nothing at all or a constant avalanche of emails (several for each bundle and a flood of subscription nagging as well).

The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more
11 Dec 2022 at 5:12 pm UTC

I cannot agree to that. Either they have been selling nothing but non-existing keys for several months now or they're keeping me waiting without a real reason. Either way – contacting them seems entirely futile – you wait several weeks for a reply and then it's always “can't help you”.

The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more
11 Dec 2022 at 12:57 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweGot a ticket number? I can ask them to look into it.
I'm not sure if it is worth spending any more time on this. At this point I don't think I'll get the key at all.

I'm not sure if I made a mistake by being patient – the first weeks I simply waited and looked at the page regularly without clicking on the redeem key button that had the exhaustion message above it. Maybe I'm really late in the queue for replenished keys. What bugs me the most is that the game is still available for purchase on the normal store – I've also seen it on sale. IMO that makes them look very shady.

Windows compatibility layer Wine v8.0 has a first Release Candidate out
11 Dec 2022 at 12:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShmerlI thought winevulkan is simply Wine's handling of Vulkan path. dxvk and vkd3d-proton will have to go through it as well, no?
That's my understanding as well. If dxvk dlls are used the game should behave like a Vulkan game inside wine.

The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more
10 Dec 2022 at 4:55 pm UTC

I'm still waiting for a key from a bundle a few months ago. It has always said coming soon. Support took several weeks for a “we can't help you” reply. And then the automatic system wanted me to tell them that the support I received was good.

Saints Row IV getting a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play
10 Dec 2022 at 4:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

As expected, this is a “good news, everybody” announcement! The improved game on GOG contains less DLC than before the “free upgrade”, so if you got the update via Galaxy, old savegames generate an error due to missing content.

Saints Row IV getting a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play
8 Dec 2022 at 7:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Oh, excellent. I just found a post on reddit that claims that the Epic Online Services launcher used by the new update breaks the game.

Dome Keeper adds new cave types and little critters to make exploration more interesting
6 Dec 2022 at 4:23 pm UTC

So it means that my questionmark was right. That unfortunate for the developer.

Quoting: EhvisI thought mac did have full support for the gog api.
Probably not supported by the 3rd-party wrapper. Developing anything for Apple systems is a chore and the effort is also running on a deprecation-timer each time.

Saints Row IV getting a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play
5 Dec 2022 at 4:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ArdjeThe only thing I am missing from the franchise is the 3rd remastered.
I don't think you're missing anything except more bugs.

I've recently re-played 3, IV and GooH and they all work if you disable dxvk console output since IV/GooH do some bad things many times per seconds so that the span tanks the frame rate.

Now Saints Row 2 could really use some patching, but it seems that they do not have the source code.

OpenTTD adds variable interface scaling in a fresh Beta
30 Nov 2022 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: AvikarrI think built-in, is there option to change this?
The last time I checked, you had to edit $HOME/.config/openttd/openttd.cfg to use TTF/OTF fonts – in the [misc] section, e.g.

small_font = /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-sans/SourceSans3-Regular.otf
medium_font = /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-sans/SourceSans3-Regular.otf
large_font = /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-sans/SourceSans3-Regular.otf
mono_font = /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf
small_size = 13
medium_size = 15
large_size = 17
mono_size = 13
small_aa = true
medium_aa = true
large_aa = true
mono_aa = true


If you haven't done that, you're probably using the built-in fonts.