This patch, known as NewDark, appeared on a French Thief fan forum called Ariane4ever. It was the work of an unknown coder simply known as ‘Le Corbeau’. Le Corbeau was a newcomer to the forum but had somehow delivered a patch that brought all the games made on the Dark Engine up to modern standards, releasing System Shock 2, both Thief games, and the editor DromED from their 90s technological prison. They’d even updated the demos.
The impact of NewDark can’t be understated. The patch notes were so ludicrously complete, a laundry list of fixes that entire communities had dedicated years attempting to hack around, that people worried the patch was fake, potentially even a virus. But it was real. Hard limits coded into the engine had been increased, codecs changed, resolutions were updated, bugs squashed. Even the editor was future-proofed: “DromEd will no longer stop working after 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038”. System Shock 2 was modernised.
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But how had Le Corbeau pulled it off? The only reasonable explanation was that they had access to the source code. To trace that, we have to skip back in time again, this time to 2010. A modder on the Dreamcast Talk forum announced that they had a devkit Dreamcast. After a frustrating attempt to get into the unit’s hard drive, he finally managed to dump its contents. But that find wasn’t the important one here.
More interesting for the history of the NewDark mod was an old disc in the bag the machine came in. That disc contained the source code to the Looking Glass games. Though it didn’t provide immediate access to Dark Engine’s secret vaults, it was the start.
This patch, known as NewDark, appeared on a French Thief fan forum called Ariane4ever. It was the work of an unknown coder simply known as ‘Le Corbeau’. Le Corbeau was a newcomer to the forum but had somehow delivered a patch that brought all the games made on the Dark Engine up to modern standards, releasing System Shock 2, both Thief games, and the editor DromED from their 90s technological prison. They’d even updated the demos.
The impact of NewDark can’t be understated. The patch notes were so ludicrously complete, a laundry list of fixes that entire communities had dedicated years attempting to hack around, that people worried the patch was fake, potentially even a virus. But it was real. Hard limits coded into the engine had been increased, codecs changed, resolutions were updated, bugs squashed. Even the editor was future-proofed: “DromEd will no longer stop working after 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038”. System Shock 2 was modernised.
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But how had Le Corbeau pulled it off? The only reasonable explanation was that they had access to the source code. To trace that, we have to skip back in time again, this time to 2010. A modder on the Dreamcast Talk forum announced that they had a devkit Dreamcast. After a frustrating attempt to get into the unit’s hard drive, he finally managed to dump its contents. But that find wasn’t the important one here.
More interesting for the history of the NewDark mod was an old disc in the bag the machine came in. That disc contained the source code to the Looking Glass games. Though it didn’t provide immediate access to Dark Engine’s secret vaults, it was the start.
Just to be clear, an anonymous unknown entity that is unable to be reached or contacted for human interaction is reverse-engineering and updating the source code for the game featuring the most notorious self-improving AI in computering history, and no one seems at all alarmed by this.
This is the wrong thread, but I'm going to leave him here.
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I'm not a GTA fan but I am watching a streamer play some weird GTAV Online mod that is basically Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit but with one robber player and like 40 cop players.
You can't get out of your car and there are no guns.
It is just constant Blues Brothers car crash nonsense and is hilarious.
This patch, known as NewDark, appeared on a French Thief fan forum called Ariane4ever. It was the work of an unknown coder simply known as ‘Le Corbeau’. Le Corbeau was a newcomer to the forum but had somehow delivered a patch that brought all the games made on the Dark Engine up to modern standards, releasing System Shock 2, both Thief games, and the editor DromED from their 90s technological prison. They’d even updated the demos.
The impact of NewDark can’t be understated. The patch notes were so ludicrously complete, a laundry list of fixes that entire communities had dedicated years attempting to hack around, that people worried the patch was fake, potentially even a virus. But it was real. Hard limits coded into the engine had been increased, codecs changed, resolutions were updated, bugs squashed. Even the editor was future-proofed: “DromEd will no longer stop working after 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038”. System Shock 2 was modernised.
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But how had Le Corbeau pulled it off? The only reasonable explanation was that they had access to the source code. To trace that, we have to skip back in time again, this time to 2010. A modder on the Dreamcast Talk forum announced that they had a devkit Dreamcast. After a frustrating attempt to get into the unit’s hard drive, he finally managed to dump its contents. But that find wasn’t the important one here.
More interesting for the history of the NewDark mod was an old disc in the bag the machine came in. That disc contained the source code to the Looking Glass games. Though it didn’t provide immediate access to Dark Engine’s secret vaults, it was the start.
Just to be clear, an anonymous unknown entity that is unable to be reached or contacted for human interaction is reverse-engineering and updating the source code for the game featuring the most notorious self-improving AI in computering history, and no one seems at all alarmed by this.
look people scanned the files and found that they're 100% legit
stop being so paranoid and do as she commands
I'm not a GTA fan but I am watching a streamer play some weird GTAV Online mod that is basically Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit but with one robber player and like 40 cop players.
You can't get out of your car and there are no guns.
It is just constant Blues Brothers car crash nonsense and is hilarious.
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I'm not a GTA fan but I am watching a streamer play some weird GTAV Online mod that is basically Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit but with one robber player and like 40 cop players.
You can't get out of your car and there are no guns.
It is just constant Blues Brothers car crash nonsense and is hilarious.
I'm not a GTA fan but I am watching a streamer play some weird GTAV Online mod that is basically Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit but with one robber player and like 40 cop players.
You can't get out of your car and there are no guns.
It is just constant Blues Brothers car crash nonsense and is hilarious.
Link?
It was Shroud. He might be still playing but the server was having issues.
So I preordered Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and check my library and there is no option to pre-load. I tweeted dev and no response then see this article saying that preload is not even implemented yet on EGS...
My Strategos contracted smallpox, allowed his doctor to take extreme measures to cure him and when he woke up from the surgery he found that he was a eunuch, his betrothal had been broken off and his only son and heir had gone insane.
The smallpox was gone, though!
Still he was pretty miffed and decided, fuck it, it's time to start worshiping Satan.
I'm not very good at CK2 but CK2 is very good.
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The detailing in Satisfactory felt a bit chintzy at the start, which I expected of an EA game, but gosh dang getting to the right tech level makes that a lot better. The chainsaw, rivet gun, and vibro-sword all sound and feel great to use. And the guns have a super fallout-lazgun-aesthetic I appreciate a lot.
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I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Don't play slay the spire when you have an hour before you need to do the thing at 11am because it will be 2pm before you know it.
They sell keys bought with stolen credit cards that then get revoked and cost the developers and the consumer money.
still don't understand how any of that is even remotely legal
Third parties stealing credit cards to buy game keys is illegal. G2A then buys those keys but they pretend not to know that most of what they're buying is stolen. Despite offering a money back guarantee if your key is invalid, which is not a thing a legitimate retailer would need to offer.
Multiple publishers/developers have said "hey just pirate our game instead of buying from G2A, it's easier on us"
I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Don't play slay the spire when you have an hour before you need to do the thing at 11am because it will be 2pm before you know it.
It's the only game I've uninstalled because I was playing it too much. I didn't even do that with WoW.
From an indie developer point of view, it cab be literally worse than piracy due to the costs of keys sold on G2A that were originally purchased using stolen money. Some indie developers have literally said they prefer people pirate their games instead of buying them on G2A.
How jangly are the guitars in the new Rebel Galaxy?
I just watched the Giant bomb quick look, I don't think they tuned to the country channel. There's some space jazz and EDM though, and both are quite good.
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I'd say fairly jangly. The title screen seems to have the music on random select, and apparently they anticipated people doing what I did which is just sit there and listen to the music because if you do it long enough the menu fades away and you're just watching a lady drink beer in a space bar while cool music plays.
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10am central. I do wish they would just say here you go and launch it now but that’s because I have today and tomorrow off.
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Boo to that.
Launches at 8am PDT, so excite.
Well this is crazy
Maybe I should reinvestigate the version of the game I got off GOG, I never got farther than the intro last time I gave it a shot
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Just to be clear, an anonymous unknown entity that is unable to be reached or contacted for human interaction is reverse-engineering and updating the source code for the game featuring the most notorious self-improving AI in computering history, and no one seems at all alarmed by this.
I played that at PAX, it’s real fun.
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still don't understand how any of that is even remotely legal
It does? Fuck yeah, that game's rad
This is the wrong thread, but I'm going to leave him here.
You can't get out of your car and there are no guns.
It is just constant Blues Brothers car crash nonsense and is hilarious.
They're based in Hong Kong.
look people scanned the files and found that they're 100% legit
stop being so paranoid and do as she commands
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now turn on negative friction
It was Shroud. He might be still playing but the server was having issues.
That’s fine but I like your current stream where you play Civ against an AI of yourself:
Turn the Other Chico
Yeah, don't on this Terry Cavanagh joint people, the alpha has been really good, and the Chipzel soundtrack is 🔥.
https://www.pcgamer.com/borderlands-3-no-preload/
Don't worry, though, it's on the features roadmap...
The smallpox was gone, though!
Still he was pretty miffed and decided, fuck it, it's time to start worshiping Satan.
I'm not very good at CK2 but CK2 is very good.
Aug 13 - Rebel galaxy outlaw ( Space, Trading, Narrative, Adventure)
Aug 13 - Vicious Circle ( Action, Adventure, Indie, Multiplayer, FPS )
Aug 13 - Dicey Dungeons ( Indie, Strategy, Rogue-like, Turn-Based, RP )
I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Don't play slay the spire when you have an hour before you need to do the thing at 11am because it will be 2pm before you know it.
Third parties stealing credit cards to buy game keys is illegal. G2A then buys those keys but they pretend not to know that most of what they're buying is stolen. Despite offering a money back guarantee if your key is invalid, which is not a thing a legitimate retailer would need to offer.
Multiple publishers/developers have said "hey just pirate our game instead of buying from G2A, it's easier on us"
https://www.pcgamer.com/developers-tell-people-to-pirate-their-games-instead-of-using-g2a/
It's the only game I've uninstalled because I was playing it too much. I didn't even do that with WoW.
From an indie developer point of view, it cab be literally worse than piracy due to the costs of keys sold on G2A that were originally purchased using stolen money. Some indie developers have literally said they prefer people pirate their games instead of buying them on G2A.
I just watched the Giant bomb quick look, I don't think they tuned to the country channel. There's some space jazz and EDM though, and both are quite good.
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