They back ported their newer in-house anti-cheat system which is in place for 2042, and possibly others.

guess I should thank them for finally giving me a reason to uninstall apex and keep it that way.

I was about to ask

what the fuck is xdefiant

I’m no fan of the 2077, but thinking of it solely as a shooter is doing it a bit of a disservice given that you usually* have different approaches to in-game situations.

You can build around hacking, engineering, speech checks, melee combat, stealth cyberwarfare etc.

I felt that the projectile mechanics were sort of neat but I will agree that I don’t think the game really has legs when merely thought of as a FPS. Perhaps it had some potential in the past, part of their PL govt funding agreement was to release a multiplayer mode as well. I’d imagine that’d focus a little more on gunplay, and slightly less on QuickTime interactions involving hacking and such, but who knows.

*there are situations which require direct combat iirc

I use a keychron Q3 and Q0. They can be remapped / programmed through a web (chrome derivs as it requires WebHID) or desktop electron app called VIA, which at the time of writing is proprietary. I believe Vial (written in Qt) is being brought up, so that may be an option in the future.

In terms of managing the firmware, the vendor offers a first party web interface (also leveraging WebHID). The QMK Toolbox GUI is only available on Mac and Windows but you can use the CLI on Linux to get into DFU mode and flash your firmware.

Not really keen on Logitech as a company but I use Piper to program several of their G series mice on Linux. You can check the libratbag support list to see which hardware can work with it.

Been playing this since demo days. The developer is a chill guy and will actually discuss feedback and implement features which make sense.

Hop into their community and say hi

I suppose some instances cut others off as well (I see only 6 total) so you have a fair point

And despite that, if was still newsworthy enough to be posted like 6 times in total 😅

naw unfortunately not. It’s kind of crazy that they nestle each individual engine within a wrapper. I’m not sure of this brings the api level to d3d11, or if they had to work to bring each engine up for that. Somewhat explains why MCC as a whole was so difficult to back port improvements to, like configurable FOV and weapon model placements, frame rate unlocking and interpolation, custom keybinds, missing assets and such.

it’s kind of interesting seeing the player models rendered in UE when you use the customisation menus; everything looks so glossy and odd.

no you’re cool

The ‘wrapper’ around each of the individual halo engines is in unreal and is arguably the wost thing about the collection from a reliability standpoint.

That said, they’d definitely be able to find people suited for the work, provided said people agent already scared away by stories of the work culture at 343i / MS

okay cool but it works with a usermode module in Linux for now, and will probably continue to do so.

slipspace was just an iteration of blam with a marketing name slapped on top, and cost them dearly in any case :/

O’Connor, Ross, Wolfkill, and several others.

yeah chances are they’ll stick with EAC and continue to be friendly towards the steam deck (and indirectly towards desktop Linux as a whole)

It means a couple things I guess.

It’ll probably still run bad thanks to associated technologies like nanite (see relevant threat interactive video).

They’re not longer constrained by the technical debt of blam engine.

they’re trying to ensure an acceptable UX with their browser.

I suppose the root of the issue is developers specifically targeting and testing on chrome.

I don’t understand how this would make Firefox look bad unless you’re pointing at the dire browser share situation.

it do be that way :(

Manifest v3? I gather they’re already moving towards this but not in a manner which harms ad blocking

Their latest microcode update from 7 days ago was declared as final. Time will tell about the efficacy of the most recent fixes.

Unfortunately it may only be available via board partners as beta BIOS updates at present.