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The actual downloads are very small - it seems like all it's doing when you pick a mission to update is download an extra .pk4 file with a "l10n" in the filename, which apparently means localization. I figure that might happen if I had a language selected other than English, yet it seems like the mission server is basically pushing these out to everyone (assuming it's not just me of course). It seems harmless to just select them all since the downloads will be pretty quick - I'm just not sure why it's happened all of a sudden.

Wait hold on, Sin 2? I didn't know there was even a Sin 2 in development to have an engine in mind, much less idtech 4. I thought after Sin they waited for a long time before doing Sin: Emergence as the first of the games in their episodic format (yeah that worked out well), but using the Source engine.

I may as well link it, is there any basis to the concern? https://reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/ix0azm/microsoft_buys_bethesda_could_that_mean_future

There are solutions. I prefer a Windows 7 workflow despite using Windows 10 so I have a start menu replacement, Explorer replacement and make a number of other tweaks to give it a more familiar (and more functional) feel. Win 7 honestly feels garish now despite feeling "fresh" at the time. I guess that's the outcome of sliding expectations and trends.

They don't hate Windows. They've just got the B, maybe C level folks working on it now. It's still the best general-purpose OS out there in my opinion, just with flaws.

I'm not sure what motivated Microsoft to buy Bethesda/ZeniMax (and likewise for Bethesda/ZeniMax to sell to MS), but I'm sure for smaller developers like Obsidian and InXile, being bought out by a larger corp means there's a certain comfort of not having to deal with the threat of collapse due to barely staying afloat in such a cutthroat business. I was under the impression Bethesda/ZeniMax were doing well with owning popular development houses that create such lucrative IPs, but maybe I was wrong. I do appreciate this kind of chatter though. You try going to reddit for any of the threads about this news and there's almost no talk about the consequences of fewer and fewer individual companies, it's mostly about the potential for games. Having said that, /r/linux_gaming has gone nuts and think this is a $7.5 billion attempt to squash Vulkan despite Microsoft being on the Khronos contributor members list. But of course, the lack of attention for games on Linux is never due to the incredibly small desktop user base, it's always some conspiracy. I don't like being a Linux user sometimes.

I don't get the pessimism. Frankly it's Microsoft who's been the one hosting various open-source repositories for various projects (not just Github as a whole but also certain Windows apps), I'm not aware of Bethesda even bothering to do anything like that. The modern Microsoft isn't quite the same as the 90's one, and I'm basing this on their actions and not just feeling, and yes I'm aware of the anti-trust period, I lived through that too. They're bastards in certain areas of course (like any corp) but in this particular situation, it's not really going to change much. Overall however, it is an example of yet more consolidation and another step towards less competition due to the amalgamation of companies by megacops such as MS. Be thankful Carmack open sourced the iD engines when he did.

I'm pretty sure I haven't changed anything, but I did a "new missions" check within TDM after being fairly up to date (having last checked maybe a couple days ago) and now there's apparently a TON of mission updates with the hash (#) indicating a translation. Did someone go nuts or a server misconfig, or is this something that's been in the pipeline and just made available now?

Great mission joebarnindsds! Was a bit dark to see some stuff but I think that was more due to the update to 2.08 and it changing the gamma to the point where some extra fine-tuning was needed