It's not cheap at £44.99

IIRC, the previous ones were waaay more expensive ;)

I especially like the new UI. That was the biggest gripe people (myself included) had with it, and the reason why people kept comparing it to FSX.
That weather selection system looks very nice.

Now, if only they could include some ultralight planes by default... I don't have a Boeing pilot license ^^"

But still, definitely one of the best simulations available out there, if not the best (depending on your criteria).

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Quoting: t3g

Quoting: M@yeulCThat's great news, I'm really excited! Good work Feral, as always!

Now, I just need to buy a Vulkan-capable card... :D

What do you have now? A $100 AMD RX 460 or Nvidia GTX 1050 can run Vulkan. Heck, even older cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)#Compatibility [External Link]

It's listed on my PC info: HD6870. I am pondering whether I should get a RX 480 or R9 Fury (which are approximately the same price) now, or wait for Vega to come out (at the very least to judge how they fare, and maybe grab one of the former top-end cards as their prices go down. I'm quite constrained budget-wise, but a complete upgrade wouldn't be overkill, I think).

This article also explains the fact that today was a rather slow news day. I guess Liam was busy with these benchmarks :P

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That's great news, I'm really excited! Good work Feral, as always!

Now, I just need to buy a Vulkan-capable card... :D

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Quoting: natewardawg

Quoting: omer666

Quoting: ZeloxSomething Bungie founded that Microsoft shamelessly bought during development hell

Fixed for you ;)

Haha, I was thinking something along the same lines... back when not only did Halo release on PC's, but some of those PC's running it were running Mac OS even when Mac OS was quite unpopular. Now people in general think of Microsoft when they think "Halo". Of course, some of us think of Bungie and Halo's predecessors, the Marathon series :)

Well, to be fair, the game was first developped under Apple's umbrella. You can find youtube videos of the first announcement... By Steve Jobs [External Link] (first link in a quick search, I didn't check if it was the best one). Dear irony...

Quoting: Beamboom"it will be released on windows, mac and other PC platforms". Why on earth did they pronounce "Linux" like that?

Technically, Mac is a PC "platform" nowadays. So are other consoles :P

I have so many questions about this project, but I think I'll contact the devs directly.

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Very nice to see such a project. I had heard about one using the source engine, but this one looks promising.
I would be willing to help, if that's not a completely closed project.

I still remember my Halo CD key! The Halo universe isn't amazing, by today's standards, but it was one of the most coherent and realistic ones at the time. And the gameplay was pretty revolutionary as well.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCMmm... Not sure if it is a bug from the website or my gateway proxy, but I couldn't access the livestream page before setting my timezone. I didn't try reloading the page before setting it, though.

What happened when you tried? There's nothing in place to block it at all, we default to UTC for anyone who hasn't set it.

I just had a blank page, but I can't reproduce it anymore, even when reverting to UTC. Since I can't reproduce it, I don't think you should pay much attention to it, unless someone else reports the same.

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCI must say that all those dates are pretty hard to read on the livestream page. But timekeeping is hard ;)

Agreed, I've removed the extra UTC time, it will only show the one localized (or UTC default) time plus the countdown now. Was a little bit of info overload.

Thanks, it feels a bit less cluttered now. I don't think the UTC information is that necessary, unless sharing it with other people, in an online chat, for example.
It could be reintroduced as a tooltip on the date or the timer itself, but I don't know how useful that would be.

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCDoes it affect the timestamps in the messages as well?

The timestamps on messages are already localized using the jquery timeago [External Link] plugin. Have been for a long time.

That's true, I didn't see it that way. I was thinking about the time we get in the tooltip when hovering over the timestamp. Not sure if those need to be localized.

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Mmm... Not sure if it is a bug from the website or my gateway proxy, but I couldn't access the livestream page before setting my timezone. I didn't try reloading the page before setting it, though.

Other than that... great idea! Does it affect the timestamps in the messages as well?
I must say that all those dates are pretty hard to read on the livestream page. But timekeeping is hard ;)

How about using some client-side timezone detection [External Link], to display a notification in the likes of: "Your browser seems to be configured to a different timezone than your account, click here to manage your timezone settings". I think that some websites such as bitbucket do it that way.

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You might also be interested in the book of unwritten tales on Steam. It's 80% off, u just picked it up.

I'm torn on deus ex... On one hand, I am pretty sure I won't be able to play it with my current setup; but on the other hand, it's a pretty good discount, and I don't know if I'll see another like this before I upgrade it (let's say six months).

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: HailToTheGrail

Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.

No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

Are you sure it is owned by root?
chown root script.sh

A plasmoid to change the CPU governor doesn't seem a bad idea, I might look into that.

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Quoting: Keyrock

Quoting: M@yeulC...

My Manjaro system doesn't even have an interactive governor

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
performance powersave

Yeah, I remembered reading the other posts that it might not be standard. I don't have my computer with me ATM, unfortunately, so I can't check, but I will do in a couple hours.
"interactive" seems to be more of a real time governor, it looks more common on Android [External Link].

What I said is generally valid about "ondemand", though it ramps up a bit slower.

My bad, here I was thinking defaults were a bit less fragmented all over the place. Hey, that's part of the Linux charm, no? :D

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