Visuals over usability, that’s CIG in the nutshell.

No problem. Mihon is pretty much Tachiyomi+ so if you ever decide to switch you should feel right at home and if not, Tachiyomi should still work fine unless there are some bigger extention changes. No need to worry about it for now, especially since you’re well prepared with your backlog.

As mentioned by OP Tachiyomi is no longer being worked on. Mihon, one of the main replacements/continuations, can be found here (official site) or here (code repo with builds).

To avoid the issue that killed Tachiyomi Mihon doesn’t ship with the extention list included. You’ll have to download this file and import it from the app. After that you can import your backup from Tachiyomi and use the new app as usual.

I feel like that should be the default stance. One thing that gives me hope is the early access release - there’s a chance they’re approaching the game seriously and will use it to make something great.

It’s a decent piece of hardware designed for ease of use similar to consoles while also allowing people as much control as a normal PC. How well it works depends completely on what kind of games one wants to play.

I tend to play mostly indie and older titles, both PC and console ones, and Deck works great for that. The few AAA games I tried worked without issues but your experience might vary based on when they were released, whether they use third party launchers, DRM etc.

Deck was a bit of an impulse buy for me but I can’t say I regret it. It’s a neat device and a great way to get into PC gaming, well worth the asking price in my opinion.

Funny you say that… I haven’t used it myself yet but apparently it has an issue creating folders for the game files when used through WINE. They promise they’ll make it ready before the October deadline but you know how CIG is.

The good news is folks from LUG offered to help with identifying Linux related issues so maybe things will work out decent enough.

No problem, I hope you’ll manage to get it working.

I’m not an expert nor experienced with this software so I can’t help with the technical parts but have you tried posting on Linux specific communities? Some potential candidates would be:

• !linux4noobs@programming.dev
• !linux@lemmy.ml
• !linux@lemmy.world
• !linux@programming.dev

I’m sure they have plenty of wizards there.

Maybe so. Also, I reread the article and there are more mentions of PC than I initially thought. I just kind of glanced over them between all the talk about Xbox, a term that’s also used in regards to Windows gaming (something I forgot when I posted this).

They could also not do anything at all and leave those players on their own. Sure, it would be great if all of those options were available from the start but most of MS’s work on accessibility wasn’t developed back then. At least they can be used with PCs and should be compatible with their future consoles.

Just to clarify, I’m meant the future “policing” systems, ones they kind of vaguely mentioned before but probably aren’t even designed let alone implemented far enough to be released in 4.0.

As far as I’m aware, Pyro release will be the usual wild west with the addition of slightly more integrated reputation system.

The big update was them finally updating the progress tracker, the fact that it took them 8 months to show this little is a different matter. Release view is updated regularly so the list is usually pretty short.

I haven’t used Windows in a while now so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but it always felt like PCs were a bit of an afterthought for Microsoft. I know it changed somehow but have no idea how much so my random guess would be: it’s simply be a case of “lets market these with our main gaming product: consoles”.

It’s been in public testing for a few months now, just wasn’t ready for full on migration (there’s still an issue with 2 factor authentication not sticking for some users for example). Seems they finally deemed it ready for prime time.

Same here. While I’m very critical of Microsoft and tend to avoid a lot of things they’re involved in their continuous work on improving accessibility is one thing I’ve been really impressed with. I hope this approach will become more and more prevalent in both the gaming industry and in general as well.

This looks really cool. I hope they can pull this off since I’m really itching to play a sims-like again. It’ll probably fry my PC but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.

Edit: There’s a free character studio available on Steam to play around with.

I think these ideas sound like a good starting point to thinking about such things in a way realistic for SC universe. They would probably have to be a bit less black and white since it’s a game, people make mistakes and some would surely found a way to use them for trolling or griefing but that’s a better starting point than “players should group up and take care of the problem themselves”. On the other hand however, some of the devs are the exact people who would be the most affected by such restrictions and we can’t have that, can we?

Seriously though, I can’t wait for CIG to actually start talking about details of the reputation system and how they think they can prevent issues plaguing multiplayer games since their inception. I don’t expect much considering they want to reinvent the wheel (as always) but I really want to know what their plan is.

Same here though I didn’t have much desire to begin with as I couldn’t care less about participating in PvP, especially in a lawless system. I’ll probably make 2-3 attempts to view the sights, get shot and go back to packages and playing doctor in Stanton.

That said, I’d be lying if I said I’m not a little interested how this experiment plays out. Will the player base turn Pyro into a shit show? Probably. Will CIG see that (again, after seeing all their previous attempts at having trust in their players) and do something to improve things for the “carebears”? I have my doubts but I’m open to surprises.

There is one thing I’m certain about however: FFS RELEASE THIS DAMN THING SO YOU CAN START ON IMPLEMENTING ACTUAL CIVILIZATION. If there’s another Pyro focused presentation at Citizen Con I’m going to punch a child.

I focused on game companies since that’s what’s this article is about but yeah, that’s true.

Sometimes I forget how unprofessional the game industry still is or how little respect people have for well being of others. I’d like to say I’m surprised but that would require having some expectations towards those companies.

I hope more VAs speak up about stuff like this so we can have some real changes.