Usually in these cases, I just start writing a long and thoughtful reply, and continue to edit it until I'm satisfied with it. Sometimes, I get sidetracked along the way, which has often resulted in my not sending important emails or timely answers. Not saying that's what happened here, but communicating is hard, as a whole :)
(nowadays, I try to acknowledge receipt, and write a more comprehensive answer later)

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In a perfect world, we'd soon have a federated store platform, that would bring together game management, as well as payment processing, etc. for every developer or store out there.

Slightly less convenient would be if storefronts agreed to cooperate on some piece of backend and frontend software. Only frontend would be a start.

Maybe they'll agree on a common frontend API, after all? That doesn't seem difficult to do.

Oh wait, I forgot about monopoles, and how the biggest player always tries to lock game developers in. I guess that won't happen, and we would need to rely on the community. How long before Icculus or another steps up and cooks a nice command line tool to cover all of these?

Or game developers and wanabee stores could unite and support the first solution :)

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for those of you using Mesa, you should see "drastically improved memory usage" for versions of Mesa below 19

So, is it below as written, or above, as I previously thought?

Unfortunately, I am VAC banned from the game (3249 days since last ban, it says...), but I didn't find the game to be so fun after they added all those new weapons, anyway :/
Still glad they support us, though :)

I am still a bit doubtful about this patch, though. Shouldn't that optimization disabled only when running low on memory, or in 32 bit apps?

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I hope it is implemented on smartphones as well. STK LANs on Android phones sounds really cool! I could have used it in the bus the other day.

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Well, on the bright side, that's another advantage on Godot's side :)

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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the "industry interest" refers to Google's project stream, as hinted at by the AMD announcement.

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Only Vulkan works for me, with some flickering (random). There was quite a bit of stutter on my first run, with a high number (>100, maybe > 1000) of sub-60 frames, which I attributed to shader caching. No stuttering in the next runs.

OpenGL crashes after the first corner, Vulkan low-en doesn't show a single window before crashing.

Quite good results with Vulkan

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Quoting: ThetargosOnly time will tell. Good to know Valve is back making games.

Time, Mr Freeman?
I really hope they take theirs instead of releasing a half-backed HL3. Epistle 3 sounds amazing in my head. There is so much to explore, so many questions to answer.

If I have any wishes for the next HL, it would be to make it a bit grimmer, with no clear-cut good decisions, but rather more unintended consequences. Also, reinforce again the sentiment of being colonized by an overwhelming force, just like Oceania was.
I've read a reddit post on HL being an essay on colonization, and teleportation technology, and it made me dream a sequel even more. But a good one :)

Edit: Now that I think more about it, a whole universe dedicated to teleportation might be ideal for a VR game.

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It indeed still has a lot of UI issues, with corruption popping up, and Steam crashes (while the game runs fine) if the overlay is enabled. But it seems to be better, as I could finish a skirmish :)

Liam, it seems the website has issues with the comments area, at least on Firefox Android. The smileys cover everything.

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Did they fix the crash [External Link] that required moving the bodies around a chopper before blowing up the tank truck? This was quite annoying, although I didn't test in a long time...
The only other bug I can think of was a weird thing with shadows [External Link], but that probably has been fixed by now :) Oh, and vortigaunt's terrible aim [External Link].

Nevertheless, I am glad to see them working to polish it on Linux! Very much appreciated!

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