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The original Mafia will be free on Steam from today until 5th of Semptember: https://kotaku.com/mafia-steam-free-original-limited-time-anniversary-1849481501 Looks like it's not available yet, but, will be in the course of the day.

I am not a fan of having several rulesets. Especially new players would have no idea what the difference is and mission authors would have to take both sets into consideration.

Many thanks for the hints ;)))) Regarding AI blocked or not, I made some screenshots and sent you in 3 messages.

Hello, I followed the build procedure on a fresh Debian Stable 11 (Bullseye), KDE with X11. The build went without an error, and I tried it by loading a small map I had around. I didn't test it extensively but I didn't met any runtime problems so far. Looking forward to see Darkradiant on flathub, though installing it this way is already a big step forward from building it from source the traditional way

If you are right behind the guard his body should actually block his vision. If that's not the case then I would consider it a bug. But you really would have to stand behind him, not somewhere to the left or right of his back. If I find the time this weekend I'll take a look. Regarding rng: If the player is aware of the head turning, then all it does is to increase the ai's fov, with the difference that there is an area in front of the ai where you are always visible and the area to the sides where you are only occasionally visible. And as the ai doesn't tend to turn their head like a lighthouse tower there should be an area in their back where you cannot be seen. From my experience this is the case, but as stated above, there might be occassions where something goes wrong. However, I wouldn't consider such a setup random. If you stand at the ai's side you know you will get spotted. The only thing you don't know exactly is how long it takes.

I remember there was a lot of turmoil over this. As in the employees working on it thought Alder Lake would have AVX-512 despite the hybrid design and were distressed about the outcome which was decided at the last minute. And Intel said it was "fused off" but that turned out not to be true initially, so some people have used AVX-512 with certain hardware and firmware versions but with the E-cores turned off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512 Wikipedia is claiming that AVX-512 support in Zen 4 is identical to Ice Lake and Rocket Lake, but with the addition of Bfloat16. It's only missing VP2INTERSECT from Tiger Lake and Alder Lake/Sapphire Rapids (Golden Cove), and FP16 from the latter. I don't see a source for the claims so YMMV. Finally, it's possible that AMD's approach works without huge hits to frequency that plagued earlier Intel implementations. We'll have to see once the reviews land.