[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

All the Constellation companions get absolutely mad at you and will stop being your companion the moment you try to do something that's not lawful good, as Bethesda loves to railroad people in this path. It's quite annoying since the Crimson fleet questiline is one of the best (best as strictly comparative) in my opinion, and your companions will go batshit insane against you if you follow that path.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago

I didn't have any bias when playing this, and I definitely steer clear from the usual Bethesda hating bandwagon, but this DLC was so lackluster and disappointing that it's no wonder I completely missed the two new minor companions from the DLC, specially since it wasn't added to my misc quest log to meet and hire them, so I was none the wiser. I've edited my comment to reflect this.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 8 points 11 hours ago

It's about 10 hours of content if you go slow, with a handful of new items that are mostly just reskins of existing things. No new mechanics, no new powers, no new ship parts, ~~no new companions.~~ EDIT: I've googled and there are actually two new companions, they are minor characters you meet during the main questline and once the respective quest is finished they say "meet me at X place", where you can hire them. Mind you, this was not added as a misc quest on my log at all, so I forgot to ever check it, and judging by what I'm seeing, they are nothing different from the usual minor companions you can hire on pubs around the galaxy, nothing like the full fledged companions from Constellation.

Writing is comically bad even for Bethesda's standards. I give a pass to them many times but on this DLC it was painful. So we got this overly religious faction that's almost completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy, to a point that members leaving the planet literally cannot return because they cannot know the way back, except for a other faction of even more overly religious zealots, traders and you that come and go as you please. Despite all the secrecy and isolation and whatever, within 10 minutes of you arriving at their planet, you're considered "the one" because you said a phrase that you heard every single zealot of this faction repeat it before but for them there was no way for you to know that, so then they make you do a guided tour on a cave and suddenly you're part of the cult and everyone is fine with that. The few quests are mostly fetch quests, or the "this could've been an email" quests, but at least it's all within one planet. Some quests have that trademark "moral dilemma" Bethesda is known for, where it tries it's best to not allow you to be anything but lawful good, and the only consequences of picking the ""evil"" option is that the NPC will will raise their voice when speaking to you, and your omnipresent companions on the other side of the galaxy will instantly hate you for that. The very few choices you're given during quests are false choices since they lead to the same outcome always.

Main quest spoilersThe main quest is 5 or 6 quests long (really), and revolves around the most xenophobic and isolated faction ever blindly trusting an outsider to complete 3 errands for each house and allowing them to enter the Citadel (the big building which is centre for the faction and looks like a corporate building, in and outside) to stop the quantum shennanigans happening there and save their leader. You get there and find that the leader is a prick that wants to commit genocide of the other factions in the galaxy and you kill them and stop the experiment, which destroys the citadel. Coming back, the council of this faction, absolutely fanatic and desperate wanting to get their leader back, ask you where he is and you just say "lol he doesn't care about you", and everyone immediately believes you. You, the outsider that just reached this planet 5 hours ago, is then given the most important decisions as to which house shall rule the faction, and if they should continue the genocide crusade or not, but in the end it doesn't matter because in typical Bethesda fashion, the game is not allowed to be changed since that would "spoil the fun" for your current run, are you are awarded a two room house their city and you can build 2 structures in their artchitecture in your outposts.

What also bothers me immensily is how Bethesda absolutely lack depth and scope perception. This is a major faction with supposedly an army that could ravage the entire known galaxy, but all they have is one single city that has less than 10 buildings in it and 2 parking spots for ships, and that's it. Of course Bethesda would come with an excude for that, saying that the explosion which happened there deleted over half of the city. There are a couple of landmarks outside the city walls, which is a first for Starfield, but most of them are a 2 minute walk away.

On the good part, the atmosphere, architecture and design of the planet and everything is really fucking good, but it's overshadowed by how absurdly shallow the DLC is.

30€ for 10 hours of what seems to be cut content.

I kow that some people will claim whatever about the Creation Engine (or call it Gambryo as if it's some sort of slur) for the limitations and why their games are bad, but I wholly disagree. The engine is not the issue with Bethesda games, it's who's making the games. There are engines more limited than Creation out there (build engine) and people are making impressive things with them. You could give Bethesda Unreal Engine 5 like these armchair developers campaign for, and you'd still get the same tasteless blob from before. Their game design is severyle outdated and severely limited, as as long as they keep beating this long-rotten horse's carcass, their games will keep falling in quality headfirst.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Mind you, this article is about the Google Settings, not Android settings. Android settings will get an UI update though, separating settings into categories (kinda like OneUI, a welcome change), but everything else should remain as ia

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

I think Thunderbird has feature party with K9 though, at least from my quick comparison. Seems that this is just a rebranding and UI update to Material 3 (a welcome one), but they intent to develop and maintain both apps for the time being.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 72 points 1 day ago

Don't these pans last like generations, being passed down? I doubt your grandma and her grandma were bothering to apply 8 coats of flaxseed oil and heating it up to 1000 degrees and the pans would still perform as expected for ages

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 77 points 1 day ago

It was a manual review conducted by an actual person that in the end admitted they were wrong

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago

GitHub has nothing to do with this. All the information we have is that the dev himself took everything down after an agreement with Nintendo.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago

C&D in Brazil stands for Comedy & Despair, where you're the one laughing at the company desperate to get you to do what they want without having any actual legal leverage

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

The problem is that people tend to mistake being private to being above the law. You can argue against what law enforcement decides is a crime, but that matters little to service and providers and it's a another type of discussion

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago

And here I thought K9's design looked a decade outdated already

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 21 points 3 days ago

It's a new story all contained in one planet, with everything being handcrafted instead of procgen.

On a side note, I can't remember the last time I played a DLC that added new mechanics

EDIT: folks, it's nice that we're sharing games with DLCs that alter or add game mechanics, but let's not forget that I said "I can't remember the last time I played"

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SYSTEM INFO: 
- endeavourOS 6.10.3-1-cachyos
- Kernel parameters:
  - nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
- KDE Plasma 6.1.4 on Wayland
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D with iGPU enabled on BIOS
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 with nvidia-beta-dkms 560.31.02-1
- Main display plugged on NVIDIA GPU (display port)
- Secondary display plugged on motherboard (display port)

I want to be able to make use of my iGPU (AMD Raphael on a Ryzen 7 7800X3D) to render everything, and run my games on my NVIDIA RTX 3080. It's a desktop PC, I have 2 monitors, my main one is plugged to my 3080 and the secondary is plugged to the motherboard, and by doing so, VRR/Gsync works on my main display (the only workaround to get VRR working with a NVIDIA card and multiple monitors). The second thing I would like to do is for Firefox on my second screen to render/decode with my iGPU, so I can watch videos and streams there without sacrificing my frames on my games (losing about 20 frames playing Helldivers 2 if a video is playing on the background because it uses my dGPU to decode).

I've installed nvidia-prime from AUR and added the udev rules as written on arch wiki, however it seems that my iGPU isn't being used at all

❯ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate] (rev a1)
11:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raphael (rev cb)
❯ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2

I've noticed that moving my cursor and windows on my desktop is now slower/laggier (check notes below), and my turing smart monitor can't detect my NVIDIA GPU, but that's the extent of the changes. When I open Firefox directly on my second screen and play a video, with nvtop I can see that my NVIDIA GPU is the one doing the work with my iGPU not being utilised at all: https://i.imgur.com/CPPICUk.png (notice how there is no usage at all on my iGPU)

I've got a screenshot while I was playing Helldivers 2 and playing a video at the same time, and if I paused the video I'd get my frames back. Using prime-run to run my games has no difference since everything is being handled by the dGPU anyways.

Is there anything I'm missing here? I'm happy to provide more info but I'm a bit clueless on how to troubleshoot this more so any help is much appreciated.

NOTE: Regarding the choppy cursor, it is not because of GSP firmware. I've tested the proprietary drivers with and without GSP firmware, and the open drivers since 550 and I haven't noticed a single difference in my setup, they all perform exactly the same. Besides, I'm using the beta 560 drivers which are open modules only, which needs GSP firmware enabled.

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