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Hard to follow up some of the recent screens people have been posting, but here's a little something for my beta testers to reassure them I've not forgotten about them! Part of a new area, really going for a natural feel with some pagan vibes, might be hard to notice but I've got some of @STRUNK's new bats flying around and they cast a great shadow in the moonlight as they pass by the cave opening (it's in the screen but looks way better in person!) Ignore the fps counter; I've got a misbehaving VP in the area.

"Bomber Crew" is free on Humblebundle, if someone is interested. I don't know the game and it does not look like a game for me, but I got the Newsletter and thought I could share here, in case someone else wants to get it.

60 fps (@ temp=55°C) with this graphic adapter. What does mean r_cinematic_legacyRoq ?

You know why stuff like that is complete nonsense? Let's say there is a TV station which negotiates deal with different countries on broadcasting licenses for sport events. The EU says geoblocking is against their laws. Which means that the TV station doesn't have any valid base to negotiate different deals with different countries, meaning every third world country with third world wages and a third world economy has to pay the same as the richest country in the world. See why that is just total BS? Apart from that, the EU can't pretend to rule everything. Engaging in non-EU country economics leads to obvious conflicts. And, imagine everyone here would buy cheap Chinese or Indian game keys. Then every single games publisher and developer studio has to close its doors. Great stuff. You know, it just confirms my conviction anyway. The EU consist of left-liberal oddballs which have no idea about the bigger picture, and only act from the stupid consumers perspective. That will only lead to the decline of everything which is positive in a wealthy society. Add Corona to that, and the prospects are really, really dark. They will destroy everything if they go on acting stupid.

Just stumbled on this video, in which CDPR apologises for the state Cyberpunk 2077 is in:

My general preference is to have DRM-free games which have no launcher/platform requirement at all, apart from the operating system to run them on of course. So stuff like GOG or the DRM-free titles off of the Humble store for example. This way my ability to play the game is completely independent of the whims of the vendor. I don't have to worry about service downtime, Internet connectivity to authenticate the game, or the health of my account so that I"m not locked out of my collection of games. The problem of course is that puts almost all of the control within the hands of the user and not the vendor, and that's just not gonna work for many large publishers with recent releases. Sure, eventually you'll get things released on GOG a few years later, but the vast majority of titles won't appear there until they've had their time in the light of Steam for example.

For me it's rather about not having to have to install a gazillion of different clients. I don't care if there is one big store (Steam). What annoys me is that I have to install UPlay, Origin, Epic and what not to be able to access all games. And then the publishers try to do the same shit as well... Rockstar Launcher, Bethesda Launcher etc. Very annoying. AFAIC, they should just release on Steam. That's where the "party" is.

It was not meant as trolling. Just wanted to point out in a funny way that there are tons of games exclusively being published on Steam and the same goes for Battlenet. This used to be true for Uplay and origin as well, but both can now be accessed through Steam as well. Admittedly, most exclusive Steam games are from indie devs that likely couldn't find a better publisher, but there are also AAA-titles, like Alyx or Left 4 Dead for instance. The only difference here is really that Epic pushed comparatively aggressively for exclusiveness in a time where people are used to buying almost everything from Steam. If Steam hadn't such a dominant standing in the PC-Gaming community, I bet nobody would really care about the couple of exclusive deals by Epic.

I get that argument. So, consequently, you obviously are also not buying those tons of games released on PC only, exclusively via Steam, right?

I don't hate Epic Launcher, but I do hate exclusivity, in general, hardware or software. I'll always be against artificially limiting access to cultural works. So I'm not buying any Epic Store exclusive out of principle. I can wait And having an app to manage all other store accounts, so you remember what you've bought is a clear sign the system is broken, and probably a mess from a GDPR standpoint

Oh really???? That's amazing, thanks! Gonna have to check that out!!

The new GOG Galaxy client is a god-send in that regard, as it can integrate with your other accounts and list your entire library. I've used it repeatedly to verify if I really don't own a particular game or just forgot under which account it is

All that hatred towards epic launcher, I don't get it. You get good sales there too and they frequently give you a 10€ coupon as well. What's bad about giving Steam some competition and paying devs more money while doing so? Then, there is also the fact that they give away games for free. Back when Steam was released, everybody was like "nooooo I don't want it, I don't want some company tracking all my games". Nowadays, nobody wants anything else than Steam. How times have changed... The only downside I see is that I never know under which service I own a specific game I want to play, but that problem had existed long before Epic Launcher, with Battlenet, Origin, Uplay etc.

Updated to version 1.1

Then a wizard with psychic powers he is

@LDAsh Thanks for posting that additional mesh. Turns out most of the work with preparing the statue is already done, so finishing this up was in reach. I've also done some optimisations to bring the asset more in line with existing statue assets in terms of texture size and tri counts. So I've done the following for this package: downsized the texture files, bringing the compressed weight down from 12mb to 3.7mb while still looking good ingame imo (1k diffuse, 1k normal, 512 specular, 256 editor image), considering that FMs with many custom assets typically range between 100mb and 300mb. I've also attached a version with the original all-2k texture files. since the 12k and 6k stages looked quite similar ingame, I've decided to set the 6k stage as the highest-detail stage rounded out the LOD stages and added shadowmeshes to them: 6k mesh + 1.8k shadowmesh 4k mesh + 0.9k shadowmesh 2k mesh + 0.4k shadowmesh 2 smaller versions of the huge base model, the middle size is the default. All 3 sizes have LOD entities. Google Drive - statue_eve_v2.pk4 Google Drive - statue_eve_v2_hires.pk4 It's also been added to the core assets and can be included in 2.09. Thanks again for providing the files!

I do plan to do updates for all of my missions, real life has been very hectic of late, so I haven't had a chance to even open TDM/DR in a couple of months now. I'm hoping 2021 will be easier to manage so I can peel away for some older mission updates and to finish off my new missions.

@Goldwell, in case you decide to update this FM in some future, please fix the mirrors (4707). I guess starting from 2.09 dmap will warn you about them.

ok idk why i quoted myself, im stoop Here is a better angle with my lantern on