Thanks for the article! It made me buy this game and i agree with you it's absolutely fantastic!

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To be honest i checked out the video only because of their name, but in 2 seconds i got the feeling this wasn't for me.

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Quoting: Marlock

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Quoting: hummer010I'd just like to see Valve move into the 2010's and make the Steam client 64-bit.

I'll second that. I think Steam is probably the only thing keeping 32-bit multilib around for me. It would be nice to see it go for organization and cleanliness.

If the steam client moves entirely to 64-bit, they'll still need 32-bit libs to run old 32-bit games.

Wine/Proton may be able to use 64-bit libs for 32-bit windows games (not yet but working on it afaik). And then there are native linux games, where it's a bit trickier, though most linux native games are 64-bit iirc.

They could just use a light container and run those games with that. These are old software, so probably one container would suffice. There are tons of them, and they do not slow games down or dictate the user to enable a foreign distribution channel like flatpak does.

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They unfortunately removed most things, like arms race and short competitive. Game is unplayable without them.

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Quoting: Naibvery nice... but :( starting to get enough points to fit to a sigmoid... if that inflection point is correct, are we looking at like 3% as the settling point
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Out of curiosity, what method did you use to fit that curve?

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Quoting: jensI think in the long term global matchmaking should be restricted to fully closed systems like consoles and cloud gaming.

PC gaming (Windows and Linux) should only support local multiplayer (separate servers like back in the days or something like friends groups only) where cheating is “banned” by social controls because players knows each other and thus no anti cheat software is needed.
Anti-cheat software is very problematic on Windows. I had to install FC25 on a Windows machine, no fun. Also Windows users don’t deserve this..

Why? Are people really that bothered by the occasional cheater? It's a red herring anyway, the anti-cheat makers have to make their money somehow.

For me all of this is very worrying i don't want more DRM pushed down into my system against my will (multimedia stuff and the web is more than enough), I'd rather not have these things on linux in that case.

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I bought it a day after release. Factorio is a solid game, one of these days I'm going to play this one too. Probably in the spring when i have little to do at work.

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Quoting: DesumShame GOG's Linux support is rather... lacking. Wine not withstanding.

Could have fooled me as I own hundreds of Linux games from GOG. I find Steam's stance on DRM free to be lacking. I know you were trying to take a dig at GOG's lack of a Linux client but I am one of the people who don't want a client. GOG's offline installers give me exactly the experience I want.

I prefer to buy from GoG too. I've never really had a problem running them. I also like that their games use innosetup, so i can just extract and install them without them messing in my homedir. I've bought all of the turn based games (and old games) from GoG. I will probably rebuy Selaco there too if it ever makes it to GoG. Even if you want '1 click' play the ad-free free software solutions provide a faster and far superior experience to steam imo.

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I played a couple of days ago, they finally resolved the terrible lag in the linux version. I'm not really a fan of this type of monetization but i guess this is how all games like this work.

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Well i only played the base game after i played xcom 1. It was quite weird compared to 1 but for 7 EUR with all DLCs it's definitely a good deal.

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