troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Comment on KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now 3 weeks ago:
There is a world where Plasma release announcements are gaming news. And we are in that world. Never would have dreamed it.
- Comment on Paradox are bundling four DLCs into Europa Universalis IV free for all players 4 weeks ago:
They’re slowly laying the groundwork for EU5 being released. And that means slowly end-of-lifing EU4. I expect to see more and more DLC moved slowly into the core to keep people buying EU4 for a year or two.
Mods like Anbennar are doing more to keep EU4 alive than Paradox is, at this point.
- Comment on All five of you will get a free buggy when you next boot up Starfield 1 month ago:
Looks cool. But it’s no Mako
- Comment on Check out the fancy new trailer for Beyond All Reason a really great free and open source RTS 1 month ago:
Looking at it, the engine is GPL: beyond-all-reason.github.io/…/choose-recoil
But while BAR releases their source, it isn’t really open source (no derivatives): for example, with the many of the art assets, “all rights reserved”: github.com/…/license_general.txt
It does look good, that said.
The Recoil engine is interesting to me. It’s not something I’d seen before in the open source ecosystem (sometimes I live under a rock). I suspect the underlying mechanisms (although written for RTS games in the Total Annihilation family) might permit implementing something like a Paradox game with some tweaking.
- Comment on The next Total War: Warhammer 3 update will let your dwarves play tall by delving greedily and deep 1 month ago:
Ironically, Anbennar’s hold digging mechanics?
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 is looking "incredible", says Obsidian boss, but they did consider "throwing the whole team on Avowed" 1 month ago:
I absolutely love the first game, although some elements get a little repetitive. I replayed it this year with all the DLC and had a blast. Played it in story mode though, and just cruised through it to get to DLC I hadn’t previously played.
I do hope that inventory management gets cleaned up a bit. And that save games import.
- Comment on Sci-Fi Puzzle Platformer Planet Of Lana Hits PlayStation And Switch Next Month 6 months ago:
I’m assuming it’s on PC already based on this comment?