Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer’s Nexus.

This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it’s not back up on Gamer’s Nexus’ page.

Downvoting since this is a game guide/spoilers, and not something that is intended to be brought to someone’s attention. If someone is confused about how to get this, they will either figure it out or look it up and come to this article themselves.

In fact, I’m now annoyed to find out heavy attacks are a thing in the game. I haven’t gotten to that part yet and finding new things yourself is half the point of a metroidvania.

Naw, 5 and 6 are where it is at.

Phison swears up and down there is nothing to see here. Yet, guy in the video is reproducing it on-camera.

Valve clearly uses a base-3 numbering system. Next installment after 2 is Half Life 10. ;p

Wooo! One of the few games I have been looking forward to. Decent chance I get this shortly after release when the reviews say it is good.

I have a very specific memory of coming in with a jet to shoot one of my buddies in a chopper. Then he does a damn barrel roll, dropping well out of my cone of fire almost instantly.

The helicopters in Desert Combat gave you a ton of control. They were a quite simplistic compared to DCS, which is where I get my aircraft fix now, but I really enjoyed the wild shit you could pull with them if you got good.

We transitioned to boardgame parties. Works much better as you can’t do those online.

We tried Tabletop Simulator; it works, but it’s not nearly as good as in-person boardgames.

Yet no other game requires secure boot and plenty of them don’t require kernel level access either. Many of those games have no such cheating problem.

It’s a cop-out because they aren’t good at their jobs and instead want to gobble up more and more access to your computer instead.

Root kernel access isn’t enough for them? Jesus fuck are they greedy.

People buying Steam decks are likely the majority of those numbers.

The Steam Deck shows up as Arch Linux in the steam numbers; Arch is only 10.7% of the Linux user-base on Steam. And this is on top of the fact desktop Arch Linux is a thing as well sharing space in that line-item.

The Steam Deck (and Microsoft tomfoolery) certainly was the catalyst for the current wave of adoption, but it is barely a notable percentage of Linux installs on Steam.

An interesting fact: English-language adoption of Linux on Steam is over 2x the overall, all-language adoption. This mostly cuts out Chinese (25% of users), Russian (8% of users), and Spanish (5% of users). Seems America and Europe is adopting at record pace while China isn’t.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

Just avoid the games that use them.

Agreed. I have no desire to give EA root access to my system, full access to everything I do on it … just to play a game.

I’m amazed Microsoft even allows such on their platform, given how large of a vulnerability it creates; as CrowdStrike demonstrated.

Bazzite is the go-to gaming distro. It’s basically Steam OS.

I’m personally a fan of Mint (old, stable) or Fedora Plasma (cutting edge), as both feel very familiar coming from Windows. I went with Mint personally.

This is a great use-case for a live Linux environment. Throw one onto a drive and see if it works well, and if not, just restart and go back to what you have.

But, like you said, not a big deal either way.

If you have a desktop, these work great for swapping SSDs out. Get a pair and swap them out whenever you need/want to. You just need a spare x4 (or larger) PCI-e slot, which is pretty common to have. (Technically they work fine with a x1 slot, but then you are slowing the SSD down.)

What do you mean OSes are sticky as hell?

What are your feelings on switching to a different OS, such as MacOS?

I’m currently on Arch … I’m thinking of switching to gentoo

These are both the same OS: Linux. And one of the nice things is Linux lets you switch around so much at-will as you are thinking of doing.

what “many 3rd party companies” are you talking about?

When I switched to Mint about 6 months ago, most of my programs existed on both. And my games just worked. That wasn’t the case just a few years ago.

Whereas EA are still actively blocking Proton in the BF6 beta?

I can’t imagine wanting to give EA root access to your entire system, full access to everything you do on your computer…just to play a game. I’m honestly surprised Microsoft still allows such on their platform, it’s a massive vulnerability to users, as CrowdStrike demonstrated.

Steam has over 132 million monthly active users

That month on month Linux expansion is ~422,000 computers. That is a shitload of people switching in just a single month.

OSes are sticky as hell. People don’t like switching. As Linux attracts these people away from Microsoft, MS is not going to get them back. And importantly, the adoption rate is high enough that many 3rd party companies are taking notice and releasing for both.

11% month on month expansion is fucking crazy. You can see from the data it’s mostly Windows 10 users deciding to upgrade to Linux…and even OSX.

Better than VII!

Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.

DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)

Tons of well-simulated combat aircraft. IL-2 is probably the closest simulator to it.

Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

followed by (unless you’ve been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future

It amazes me these game companies putting out game after game don’t simply reassign these people to a future game. These are your seasoned veterans, they know how to do their job. Laying them off and picking up newbies just sets you up for a rocky future.

Had a look at Offbrand Games’ games and none of them have recent review bombs. I really have no clue what PirateSoftware is talking about.

I’m not surprised he was pushed out for fear of such review bombs, but I’m not seeing any evidence of them actually existing as he alleges.

If you live in the EU or UK, sign it.

These aren’t just a petition that can be ignored, these actually have a legal process tied to them.

the website’s admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.

This is one of the biggest things. Back when I would netflix often, I would constantly be annoyed when the ‘continue watching’ dialog was not the first one. Stop moving it around! Now I just watch everything locally. It’s so much nicer.

There is no reason streaming should be such a pain in the ass, and it amazes me the industry has made basic, paid access to shows a chore. And they wonder why viewership is not great*.

*Also the writing generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention. No, seriously, they assume you aren’t paying attention and write shows as such now. It makes so many things unwatchable.

i couldn’t understand why an indie developer (if they have any ethics) would sell out like that

It’s pretty tempting to know your next offering will sell, even if not a single customer plays it. No need to consider layoffs, etc.

I’m still confused on why Netflix has any games.

I’m not sure why they call it neutered, but it is nice getting poked a bit less by the back of the board.

Linux users are also more likely to be private people and not willing to share info about their system. Both of those two effects are probably pretty small and cancel eachother for this survey.

i still need a windows installation for those games that refuse to work on Steam (I play Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 coop and I can’t get expedition 33 to run on Linux

All three of those have a gold or higher rating on Linux, meaning they run fine on linux with little to no effort. Helldivers 2, Space Marine 2, Expedition 33. If you are having specific issues, check out the linked pages where people share their fixes.

Damn, that is a solid upward trend.

Seriously.

All AMD had to do here is create a 12GB and 16GB version (instead of 8 and 16), then gesture at all the reviews calling the RTX 5060 8GB DOA because of the very limiting VRAM quantity.

8GB VRAM is not enough for most people. Even 1080p gaming is pushing the limits of an 8GB card. And this is all made worse when you consider people will have these cards for years to come.

Image (and many more) thanks to Hardware Unboxed testing

What will you argue if I bring up the fact that they ripped off countless Pokemon?

The case case isn’t about character designs, the case is about patents Nintendo filed after PocketPair released a game with said mechanics. The idea that one should be able to patent a game mechanic someone else has already released in their games is BS. Japan’s patent system sucks and Nintendo sucks for abusing it.

Summoning creatures from an object is hardly “blatant plagiarism”. Many, many, many games have the ability to summon creatures from an object. Pokemon was certainly not the first one to do it…

We are talking about gliding on a mount…a very common game feature…

Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.

Breath of Fire IV. A nice pixel art RPG I never played this when it was new. A few hours in currently and enjoying it quite a bit!