I know you said no service change but I use this Tidal client which works really well and goes up to 24-bit 192 kHz: https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi
I also download FLACs from Tidal, Deezer or Qobuz. You can find downloaders for them very easily.
Are you sure about Silksong? Last I heard they were still using Unity.
I have exactly the setup you described, a Raspberry Pi with an 8 TB SSD parked at a friend of mine. It connects to my network via Wireguard automatically and just sits there until one of my hosts running Duplicati starts to sync the encrypted backups to it.
Has been running for 2 years now with no issues.
I would argue that even restricting sales to your own store is anti-competitive tying. You’re avoiding competing on the merits of a store using exclusive licensing of a creative work.
A creative work which you made yourself, which you can sell wherever you want.
Should you sell it everywhere so as many people can play it as possible? Sure. Do you have to? No.
Again, not a fan of the tactic, but they are trying to break an entrenched monopoly with a ton of network effects which is near impossible.
Let’s reverse the roles for a second: EGS is the big player and Steam is just getting started. EGS suddenly starts paying all publishers to only publish on their platform. Does that sound like competition to you? You don’t break a monopoly by using tools used by monopolies.
Their launcher is perfectly fine.
Fine? Yes. It does the bare minimum of being able to buy a game and start it. Does it do everything I expect a modern game launcher to do after existing for almost 6 years? Nope.
But they are. They’re not losing that much money, even with a tiny portion of market share. Valve having far more market share means they should be able to do it for an even smaller percentage than what epic is using, especially since Valve has 21 years of infrastructure to lean on.
They are “not losing much money” while providing a fraction of the services Steam does. They say 30% is too much, we can do it in 12% and yet they severely lack in social features, have no modding support, no VR support, no in-home streaming, no Remote Play Together, no Big Picture, no Family Sharing, a barely functioning Steamworks alternative, no Steam Deck support, no Linux support and absolutely zero open source contributions. That’s just the obvious stuff I can think of right now, every single menu you open in Steam you find a barebones menu in the EGS.
They don’t even need 21 years of infrastructure for most of these, they just need to fund development of it. Which they seem to be unwilling to do so.
I’m not saying you should, I’m saying it doesn’t make them villains or a bad company.
But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.
It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.
I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.
Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with 8% 12%.
They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.
Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.
So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.
Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it’s a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.
They can’t ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.
That’s because performance is a criteria for getting verified:
default configuration: the game must ship with a default configuration on Deck that results in a playable framerate.
Source: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat#DeckCompatibilityChecklist
There is no “target framerate” though, so what’s considered “playable” differs from tester to tester.
3D physics interpolation? Sign me up!
I’m still waiting for somebody to release a Linux tablet with an immutable distro and Waydroid pre-installed.
Could be a killer product for productivity. Solid linux distro for desktop usage with the possibility to seamlessly open Android apps on demand.
Monday Night Combat
Well, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
We also submitted our very first game in this jam and used Godot.
We had no point where the engine got in the way, it just let us do what we wanted.
The only issue we did encounter is that the shader cache does not seem to work. Every time a level with the simplest shader in the world loads, we have to wait 5 seconds. Which is really annoying when debugging. From what I read it seems like Godot is supposed to be faster on second launch? Not sure what went wrong there.
We also could not export for web because we used C#, but it appears that feature is coming soon™.
I still remember how confused I was when story DLC was announced for a game which I considered to be complete story wise.
Turns out the story was not complete.
It’s a hard game to get into. Played for 2 hours on my first run and didn’t know where to go.
After 2 weeks or so I tried again because everyone was recommending it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites, even though it took another 2 hours before I had any idea what I was doing.
Thanks for the tip! I took a look and it seems like Recognize uses this: https://github.com/jordipons/musicnn
Last update was 4 years ago but will give it a try this weekend.
I’m aware, signing the package is not the same thing as signing the code. The application is built by the package maintainer(s) and then the resulting packages are signed.
Which is the same thing that Flatpak does. Both depend on the trust for the repo owner and the package maintainer.
Neither does dnf/apt/pacman. You are always at the mercy of the package maintainer(s).
Do you use C# since you’re coming from Unity?
You can use GetNode<CustomNode>() or GetChild<CustomNode>() to find the node you need just like in Unity. CustomNode will be the type of your script or if there is no script attached to your node you can use the builtin types as well (e.g. Node3D).
Once you have the node you want, you can either use Godots builtin functions SetMeta() and GetMeta() to set and get metadata on a node or use the C# way and access the public properties set on that CustomComponent class directly.
I don’t use GDScript but I assume you have the same methods available there.
Do you mean for downloading or for streaming? I use the normal Tidal app which already does the highest quality. Not the best app in the world but it does the job and I mostly listen to downloaded music anyway.