woelkchen

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

You know that court cases are not competitions about who’s the most illegal, right?

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

This time the clicking to get the free version actually worked for me. Even though I still got the invalid URL error, the game showed up in my library.

store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

tfw half life 1 gets an update before team fortress 2 does

Wouldn’t be surprised if TF2 is currently getting a Source2 port.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

Anything concrete or just source 2 conspiracy like CS had forever?

I just said that I would not be surprised. That’s it. Valve did not hint at anything, it’s just me thinking that it would make sense that they don’t want to maintain two completely different engines and rather unify everything on Source2.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

I think thanks to Steam Deck OLED launch the store is fucked up right now:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/18f3a6cf-aeb1-4d3d-981c-e4e8cd70dead.png

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

For me the free button is now gone completely:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea29dec5-3fa5-4033-979f-a3a8f218ac29.png

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

Is the store overwhelmed? I just keep getting an error.

The store is overwhelmed because of Steam Deck OLED but according to the IMO reasonable assumption of another commenter the free button was added by mistake too early because HL’s 25th anniversary is apparently coming soon.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

the only thing I‘m missing is a convenient dual boot setup

Microsoft could release a customized Windows installer USB image that handles repartitioning and installs a touch friendly bootloader. Just like they’re not interested in releasing a GamePass client on Flathub, they rather support competitors like the Ally that come with Windows by default.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

As a board member of his own charity, he has to be aware of it at some point. Heck, he even acknowledged to know this since 2021 and still nothing happened.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s still a year later by now.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

Even if keeping the money on on a bank account for nine years was an honest mistake: Don’t tell that every penny will be donated and then deduct expenses.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

Yes, it is normal but then credible organizations then won’t make the claim that everything will be donated. When such statements are made, the reasonable expectation is that costs are covered by 3rd parties.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu

They should pay me for testing their beta software

By your own admission you buy the games anyway. You could just not. Companies only listen when it hurts their bottom line.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Wasn’t it supposed to be available for every directx game?

Not automatically, no. The developers have to support FSR, FSR just happens to not be tied to any GPU vendor.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

let’s hope it becomes some sort of industry standard

FSR2 1.x is built into SteamOS. www.phoronix.com/news/Gamescope-AMD-FSR

Edit: correction

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

FSR 2.0 uses motion vectors and temporal reconstruction, it can’t be forced by the compositor into all games like FSR 1.0 could.

I guess it’s then time for Valve to integrate it directly into Mesa then.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Good to know

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Anyone else remembering the time when Disney closed all their development studios because licensing is supposedly more profitable?

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

They should just have made it a public beta instead of calling it a finalized release.

Personally, I miss Practice mode with friends and bots the most. I don’t care for the people online.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

No, it doesn’t. Not with friends. They get disconnected and bot difficulty can’t be changed either. The skill command does nothing.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Why? So they can get that coveted “Overwhelmingly Negative” rank on Steam like they have elsewhere?

Maybe it’s a bet to release the three worst reviewed games on Steam?

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

FYI: Always online, even in single player. Game will be useless once Activision turns off the authentication servers.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Only for the Switch port. The EGS PC release was never cracked, AFAIK.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

This information now makes me wanna buy that game. Like so many, I don’t mind paying for entertainment, I just don’t want to be suddenly without access to the game. Activision is so stupid.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

If I’m able to make the game work down the road, it’s enough for me.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

3D Realms, today a publishing label by Embracer Group, focuses on retro games. Just like 10 or so years ago pixel art games had a resurgence, since about 5 years old school FPS games came back as well. This is both a path to reduce workload as well as a gameplay design choice.

3D Realms’ annual event, Realms Deep, is the biggest showcase for such games.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Cultic. GOTY 2022.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m really excited about this one. Looks great, IMO

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

That’s the expansion by the Voidpoint people who didn’t leave a good impression with some of their hurtful “jokes”. Personally, I’m not looking forward to it but it’s the closest thing to a new Duke3D, so some people might be interested.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

they said people should just pirate the game instead

Still Build engine, so I’m going to pass on this opportunity.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

It’s more like Duke3D

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I have many fond memories of opening up Build and making maps and mods.

Same here because the map editor was relatively easy to get into but Build engine always felt off to me.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

This is bonkers. I already liked the demo and and I’m still blown away by the fact that they achieved that amout of graphical fidelity using the GZDoom engine.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Anyone actually believing this will come out at the announced date?

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

It looks like a game straight from 2004

Yes, retro-style games look like games from past decades. That’s the point.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Not sure how to feel about this…

It’s free and optional.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Played the demo for a bit. Game and music are great.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Neat. Can’t be too long until release, right? Right?!?

The demo looks quite polished.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Looks like an interesting immersive sim

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

You know what’s a good way to get people to ignore your posts and community? Spamming.

It’s not really my fault that 3D Realms released dozens of trailers at the same time because they have their Realms Deep event going. I got up (European time), watched the stream (skipping the weird talk show parts) and posted the selection of the trailers that I like.

Talk to 3D Realms if you prefer trailers being spread more apart.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Don’t worry about it

I don’t. The entire stream recording is over 4 hours long, packed with trailers and the stupid talk show bits. Me posting 9 of those trailers is hardly spamming. Given that I commented on each trailer should be proof enough that I actually watched them.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

More Prodeus = good.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

When will it release on GOG?

Never. It has always online DRM.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

This would be an amazing game for Steam Deck

Only if your Deck is always online because that’s the DRM scheme.