Got to really wonder what’s going on at Mozilla. Between the previous CEO milking it for cash, the purchase of an ad company, and now this?

The only hardware worth purchasing is that which is supported by the developers directly

My thoughts exactly.

For a consistent and complete user experience that isn’t completely driven by ulterior motives, this is usually the best way to go IMO

Yes, this please. Although I don’t have a cargo bike, I load up all 3 sides of my pannier and fill a backpack with my cargo 😅

Standard sh*tty behavior from AdmiralAnti-Adblock. I usually either disable JavaScript, or enter Reader mode

I wish that company would cease to exist tbh

Damn this sounds really impressive, especially the possibilities this could offer in medicine.

Must have been really expensive to develop!

Can’t wait to try this on deck!

They’ve implemented a ton of QoL stuff (I for one will appreciate the magic chest contents now available at the workshop craft machines!!) and the performance improvements give much to look forward to!

Very nice of them to teach new recruits how to use UE, to see if they could bring any new ideas and insight into the Dragon engine

I’d nominate the one user that posts here the most, [email protected]

At my current dev role I try to do optimizations to make new system area pages pretty lightweight, but it’s a bit of a struggle as I’m working with devs who have been in the same role for decades. WCAG is not prioritized, and they pull in a ton of JS libraries that usually aren’t even used. A lot of the practices I see in use are from 10 years ago, but slowly tidying up the horror show with each dev product meeting.

Admittedly could be much worse though, at least our pages aren’t 21MB large.

The devs over there were able to create an engaging and fun game on a constrained budget, using a combination of various unity assets, in house design and modelling and a lot of attention to detail (especially with animations), which ran exceptionally well for an early access release.

An AAA studio with the same limitations applied would likely not have made anything close

Same here.

A small part of me thinks they saw the success of Enshrouded and Palworld, and are following the money, but I’d absolutely love to be proven wrong here. This sounds pretty cool.

I honestly wonder why the Claw looks so much like an Ally, down to the screen type, logo placement, and button placement.

Some of the edges and angles are completely different, but hold these at a distance and you could probably mistake it for a black Ally

To quote a certain video creator: Skull and bones is literally skull and bones, there is nothing there.

Personally not surprised seeing as its an Ubi live service title

Fighting in court probably wouldn’t have got them very far, Nintendo would likely just keep going until Yuzu’s LLC ran out of money. Even with $30k/mo in patreon donations, totalling around $2.5m since the switch release (assuming Yuzu devs didn’t eat or pay bills), it’s miniscule compared to Nintendo’s $15B value and lawyer army on standby.

They probably also saw what Nintendo did to Gary Bowser (he’s practically Nintendo’s property now) and decided this is the safest way out without having their lives destroyed, while they still have some protection under the LLC

No idea what this is, but it’s crashing my Lemmy client 🤷‍♂️

Steam Discussions is the only one coming to mind, besides emailing the studio

Steam Input integration with the touchpads is so underrated, mode shifting between a keypad and game commands is something that literally nothing else can replicate. Not to mention the dual haptic feedback, and accurate pressure sensing. Really opens up a world of possibilities

Wish Valve considers a Steam Controller 2 with the game guts as the controller in the Deck. Despite the Deck taking heavy inspiration from the OG controller, the difference in experience is night and day

Annoyingly well. If you turn on your Xbox controller accidentally, it’ll power on the Steam Deck (same behavior as the discontinued Steam Link). Very handy for a lounge/bedroom setup though if you use your deck docked.

You can also hold down the Xbox button to see the shortcuts for things like the main menu, the QAM, taking screenshots

The way Proton works is really fascinating, and also requires a ton of effort from Valve. Recently found out most games are “unsupported” because they require proprietary Windows Media Foundation libraries that can’t be redistributed on the Deck - so Valve actually modifies the source game assets to no longer depend on the proprietary libraries.

These games often run flawlessly with Proton GE, a community version which includes the proprietary libraries (but must be installed via Desktop mode, thankfully there is an app on the Discover store that does this automatically)

I’m glad to hear that the main author of Proton-GE is joining forces with the various non-Steam Linux game launchers to make game compatibility even more seamless for the wider Linux user base in general!

I’d have suggested the Clicks keyboard case, but it doesn’t slide out + supported iPhones are the 14 and up.

I don’t own one though, only heard of it.

I don’t usually swear on Lemmy, but fuck Unity.

I don’t think any studio could predict they’d need to throw out 6 years work on a full game rewrite, nearing completion, but abruptly rendered financially unfeasible because of a greedy engine developer…

Hope this studio is able to keep going.

Quite a well thought out and fair overview of Palworld in its current state, pretty much agree with everything said.

Could do with a crosspost to [email protected]

Edit: fix community link

That’s sad to hear, ugh…

Thanks for sharing the article though, I never knew they went after that game

I hope Take Two loses this, what an absolutely disgusting publisher to file something as baseless as this.

There is no star or blue/yellow background on Remedy’s logo, even the R is a different color

These analysts can take their ambitious thinking elsewhere. I for one have no plans to upgrade, especially while GPUs cost as much as a console (originally mentioned by @[email protected] )

My R7 2700 + GTX 1060 will carry me until prices come back down

My partner has a bunch of AC games and it’s pretty much a ritual at this point to delete the launch screen logo files from the game’s data folder.

For other games like CS, there’s a flag to bypass the whole launcher which is really nice 👌 if only more games did that

Steam also releases pretty cool stuff, and continues to support them way after release… My steam link got an update about three weeks ago, despite being discontinued back in 2018

Also, the steam link can run custom apps (like Moonlight for those who would want to use it for generic low latency streaming without a Steam account) and has the ability to enable a SSH server and root access. There are some limits though on what things you can modify, particularly relating to the boot sequence and the included kernel, as it has a hardware secure boot implementation. The OS is on GitHub anyway.

I will happily give my money to companies like this that actually provide value to their users, even years after the fact. Doubly so if they are domestic or western - it is so rare nowadays to find a western company that isn’t blatantly and purely leeching their users

I like my software cracked wide open.

On a serious note, soon I can check out OpenFive/FiveM or whatever those multiplayer mods are that let you play on selfhosted GTAV servers, without Rockstar having a fuss…