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woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I don’t really believe them but they released a new trailer because of Realms Deep 2023, so here it is.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Really loved Cultic.

A bit of a shame it was ignored by pretty much all GOTY discussions. It would have deserved to be at least in consideration but at least the outlets follow were not even aware of the game.

I wish they expanded on the survival mode

Well, it’s just one guy who does everything…

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I was initially interested in the original, but the studio’s transphobic, misogynist, and homophobic “jokes” both within their games and their communities pretty quickly dissuaded me.

I was not aware of that. I’m not the biggest fan of the Build engine, so I was never anything more than barely aware that the game exists. I’ve skimmed over en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Fury#Controversy a bit after your comment. I agree with you. Had I’ve been initially interested in the original, such “jokes” would have put me off as well.

it sounds like this has a new team behind it, so possibly disregard the above

The successor is done by a different studio (Slipgate Ironworks, who are also doing the RTS Tempest Rising). The original team (Voidpoint) works on the expansion for the first game. I hope Slipgate isn’t using Voidpoint’s “joke” template.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Playable maps need to be recompiled. It’s a completely different engine after all.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I rather see Valve work on actually crucial features than to put effort in removing features that are already implemented.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

They seem to claim it was all an innocent mistake:

@EpicPublishing We are looking into this and the team will be reaching out to you directly.

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woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Not replying to the dev’s messages and not paying them for 2 years is not an innocent mistake.

Yeah, they only announced to reach out in the future after bad press.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Playing with other people’s livelihoods is the hobby of so many rich people.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I think people expect a game made by Valve to run on gaming hardware made by Valve, even if it’s only for casual playing.

Yes. Why else did CSGO get controller and gyro support? While Valve did not promise anything in that regard, there was the expectation that CS2 would basically be fully optimized for Deck. Maybe it will still happen. The “final” release is nothing but an open beta.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I tried CS2 on my Deck after the update. I only tried against bots on Italy but found that given the hardware, it ran surprisingly OK. 40 FPS with default settings. Obviously the controls are not so great. I’ve read somewhere later that resetting Steam Input for this game to defaults is required but didn’t know that at the time.

Btw I played with the Deck on a stand and my left hand on the controller part while my right hand held a Bluetooth mouse.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Is that… comfortable? That sounds like a really awkward way to play.

It was kinda OK. It actually had the benefit of analog movement as compared to WASD. Biggest downside was the small screen.

Any reason you didn’t do all in on the controller or keyboard+mouse?

The game did not seem to work with controller only and forced me to use the trackpads and I cannot play FPS games with just a controller anyway. As for why no keyboard, the answer is simple: I was too lazy to get up and get my BT keyboard and my USB C dock (all my Deck accessories are stored in a dedicated bag).

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I hope it’s more stable than the limited test I’ve been playing.

At least practicing with friends+bots is broken as of today. I guess that’s what you get when the beta program only targets die hard competitive players who don’t care about anything the casual majority cares about.

I think the worst bugs will be remedied very shortly now that a wide user base has access to the game.

The hitboxes feel really weird.

From what I’ve heard, this could be that new sub tick system where inputs are handled as closely to real time as possible but the animations are not (it would be too compute intensive to do that as well, if I understood correctly).

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Still funny that valve still can’t count past 2

SteamOS 3, btw.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

it looks a lot like the last one, not very excited

I don’t think it’s much about excitement and more to converge their games on Source 2 engine. Dota2 moved years ago and it was barely a footnote for casual gamers. This time the switch is more noticeable and for the time being even a regression (which some vocal people are very mad about which I don’t get about a free game).

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

It’s a 27gb download that’s 35gb after installation. Not sure where you got 85gb from.

Maybe for temporary files during installation?

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

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woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

Released 2012? Huuuh???

Maybe they just renamed the successor to 1.6? 🤷

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

they probably reused the same listing.

From the first announcement of CS2, it has always been clear that CS2 would be an update of CSGO: theverge.com/…/counterstrike-cs2-valve-smoke-gren…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

What a strange time for release though.

“Summer”

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Whatever the EU default server is, works fine for me.

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woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Valve just did with CS:GO and CS2 almost exactly what Blizzard did with Overwatch and Overwatch 2.

Except that Overwatch 1 was a paid game replaced with a version with broken promises.

I know CS:GO has been Free to Play for a long time, but seriously, this is kind of a big fuck you to any archivists who wanted to keep a copy around for history’s sake.

You had half a year to archive CSGO. Don’t act as it came as a surprise or something. Steam emulators like gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator exist to play archived copies.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

So you live under a rock, don’t even take a short look at the news section of the Steam main view and because of this VALVE DID A BLIZZARD! OK…

Literally almost every gaming outlet and even many IT news pages reported about the announcement of CS2. It’s totally on you. Don’t blame others.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Reported, you don’t gotta be a dick.

Reported for what? You’re the one throwing an insult against me by calling me a dick, not the other way around.

PS: You can just block me, you know …

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

You calling me a dick and fanboy definitely is more uncivilized that the colloquial term of living under a rock, especially when you yourself agreed that you don’t have motivation to check up on CS news. Fact is they announced it, it’s no surprise, you not getting the memo isn’t anybody’s fault but your own, and yet you’re too sensitive when someone just says that and feel the need to report it. Yeah…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

I hate to be the advocate of EA here but I’m convinced it’s because FIFA is not allowing them to use the trademark any longer and the mentioned loopholes are either permitted by FIFA or will be closed soon.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

You could still purchase them.

Licensed stuff in games expires all the time, leading to them being delisted. Usually licensed music, though.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

I just have trust issues with EA.

I’m not here so make anyone trust EA. Fuck them.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Had you cared to read the fucking article.

I did and unlike you I even understood it.

That would prevent someone in, say, Germany buying a cheaper key in Latvia, where prices are lower.

ACTIVATION KEYS from key retailers. It’s not about prices within the Steam storefront.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s not like Valve played no role in this.

I never claimed otherwise.

This still negatively impacts consumers.

Some consumers maybe. It will benefit others.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

I can order any goods via mail from across the border, like a BluRay of a PS5 game.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

digital goods are regulated differently than physical goods.

But this is still about activation keys which are frequently printed out, put in a plastic case, and then sent to retail markets.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu

So it would be on publishers to abide by EU laws, no?

Yes. Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media, and ZeniMax are named by the ruling. Never heard of Focus Home before, though.