I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the price. From what I’ve read, and watched, its not going to be competitive like the Deck - it’ll be more expensive than the current consoles. I just have a feeling people are underestimating it this time around.

I really hope it won’t be a case of requiring a Steam Machine with SteamOS on there for this to work.

You can use tools like FernFlower to help turn that bytecode into actual Java.

Basically a bunch of players are dropped into a game map, and normally your objective is to go around and collect as much loot as possible, then after some time or you’re ready to leave, you need to find the extraction point - this will save your loot and that run is over.

Some extraction shooters are PvE, and some are PvP, some are both. If you get killed with all your loot before you get to the extraction point you lose it all. It can be pretty stressful, and unbalanced if its PvP where some players play much more then you do therefore have better weapons etc

The Linux community can be pretty tough, but also there’s a decent amount of people that are very anti-Linux that love to pile on the hate.

Hopefully they can automate a lot of the work out of the way to reduce the friction

We’ve heard promises like that in the past and its almost never come to fruition. So, I doubt that very much.

Didn’t even know that’s a thing. I definitely wouldn’t buy it just for that though

Did they ever end up enabling Linux support?

Definitely waiting for the v1.0 release of this. I’ve tried it a few times and its too janky at the moment, especially with path finding in your buildings. Hopefully they can keep going and actually make it to a 1.0 release.

“Stay a while, and listen.”

“With my brains and your brawn, we’ll make an excellent team!”

“Stop rocking the boat, you’re making me sea sick!”

We’re already capable of snapshotting memory state, I suppose this is just the next step of that. Maybe writing to a memory buffer etc

Its honestly such a dead game at the moment, as in the world feels super empty and uninteresting. The pathing for the Pals is really bad too - trying to build a multistorey building is basically a nonstarter as they can’t really navigate up stairs.

Based on that you can get costumes/skins for your Pals, I’m pretty sure they’ll go live service with those as micro transactions.

As a TA veteran, I could never get into Planetary Annihilation. Supreme Commander 1 & 2 were pretty good, got lots of hours in those.

Sometimes writing the game engine is just more fun than making the game itself, ok…

For this type of game, performance is really inconsistent. Without even building a mega base etc, sometimes it’ll decide to just start moving as a slide show at like 20 fps. When I first load it it runs nicely at 100fps (with some tuning of the graphics).

Its especially bad if you go into a new town. Sometimes it’ll go fine, but chances are it’ll run like shit until you close the game and reopen it.

(3070ti, 5800X, 32gb ram, nvme drive)

I actually don’t want either of those things, but thank you its good to know.

Damn :(

I’m already using gestures. With a recent update they’ve forced the little navigation bar pill/line with no option to hide it.

Thanks for your responses. Pretty incredible that its capable of being so flexible and still be a coherent game. The community behind it must be amazingly passionate about it.

What is it about Deus Ex that allows that type of mod to exist?

Feed the Deep - swim down the depths to haul resources back, so you can upgrade your air tank etc. Super chill vibe, but has some really cool mechanics with the environment and enemies that you come across which make survival much more difficult.

https://github.com/rossturner/king-under-the-mountain

Both things can be true to be honest

Its working now. Strange. Ah well, very cool.

I’m on Firefox on android and it doesn’t seem to work :(

Sweet, that’ll be a good one for Linux/Steam Deck

Its not about the sales at that point (obviously), its about bolstering the user base. Everything boils down to advertising these days. The more people they have registered on their platform, the wider advertising audience.

Not entirely true. You’re giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.

Everything.

I wish they’d make it work for Linux.