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[Iduno]

adosbox is a common one, as are a half dozen others.
Strongly recommend getting a PC QWERTY on-screen keyboard layout before trying any.
The biggest difference between all the different apps is what kind of UI they offer, so free/demo versions are definitely recommended to find your style.

Ooh, good point on the control scheme.

[Robsoie]

Toyed a bit with King of Seas that is currently free to claim on gog.
After ending my test play, i went back to the menu, noticed there was a "load game" entry and checked and confirmed there was indeed a save game, hinting at it using automatic saves.

Then i just launched the game again and tada ! no more load game, the game basically deleted the save.

I was wondering if i did some mistake somewhere, but googling a bit showed that it's a problem with the gog version since at least 2021 and it has never been fixed.
Googling a bit more i ran into this from today :
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/winter_sale_special_king_of_seas_giveaway_exclusive_gog_2pack_and_gog_showdown_6044c/post13

I had to restart the game from scratch as the save i had was deleted but after ending the tutorial again and starting the actual game after sailing to a port (it's where it automatically save), i could quit the game and once i relaunched it this time the saved game was still present.

So if you use the offline installers, after installing King of Seas, go to

Code: [Select]

C:\GOG Games\King of Seas\KOS\Plugins\OnlineSubsystemGOG\Source\ThirdParty\GalaxySDK\Librariesand delete Galaxy64.dll
i assume the ones that made the offline installer fucked up and by including this file it forces the game to use the galaxy launcher save manager. Something stupid with offline installers considering they're for people that do not want such launcher.

[Robsoie]

Noticed this :
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations

While the part about "Privacy Violation" isn't really anything you don't see nearly all companies doing to make money out of our data, the "Illegal Dark Patterns" part is really the work of assholes if true.

Spoiler: quoting (click to show/hide)

The complaint alleged that Epic:

Used dark patterns to trick users into making purchases:
The company has deployed a variety of dark patterns aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases. Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button. For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item. These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers.

Charged account holders without authorization:
Children and other users who play Fortnite can purchase in-game content such as cosmetics and battle passes using Fortnite’s V-Bucks. Up until 2018, Epic allowed children to purchase V-Bucks by simply pressing buttons without requiring any parental or card holder action or consent. Some parents complained that their children had racked up hundreds of dollars in charges before they realized Epic had charged their credit card without their consent. The FTC has brought similar claims against companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Google for billing consumers millions of dollars for in-app purchases made by children while playing mobile app games without obtaining their parents’ consent.

Blocked access to purchased content:
The FTC alleged that Epic locked the accounts of customers who disputed unauthorized charges with their credit card companies. Consumers whose accounts have been locked lose access to all the content they have purchased, which can total thousands of dollars. Even when Epic agreed to unlock an account, consumers were warned that they could be banned for life if they disputed any future charges.
Epic ignored more than one million user complaints and repeated employee concerns that “huge” numbers of users were being wrongfully charged. In fact, Epic’s changes only made the problem worse, the FTC alleged. Using internal testing, Epic purposefully obscured cancel and refund features to make them more difficult to find.

[Mephansteras]

Wow. I already knew I didn't like them as a company, just based on my own limited dealings with them, but it seems my feelings were well founded.

[King Zultan]

Damn, glad I never messed with anything from those epic fucks, shitty practices all around.

[Robsoie]

The worst is that Fortnite alone has and continue to generate insane amount of money for them (and is the reason why they can afford to make those weekly free games offer, as they need to pay the developers of those games when they make them free) so why the hell do they need to use some dirty tricks on top of that ?

I remember a friend of my nephew got trouble with his parents for spending more money than he was allowed to in that Fortnite game on whatever console the kids are using nowadays, but now after reading that article i wonder if it was then really the kid's fault or if he fell into one of the money trick of those assholes from epic.

[Il Palazzo]

As long as they make more money for the shareholders from being dodgy,  than they then have to pay in fines, companies won't ever be disincentivised from such behaviour. Right now it's just that they sometimes have to pay a 'tax' on their income.

[Robsoie]

But at least the bad publicity forced them to rework their (lack of) children privacy and tweak their money traps.
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-ftc-settlement-and-moving-beyond-long-standing-industry-practices

[Chiefwaffles]

It’s good that action has been taken and all those are bad, but that’s all some pretty standard stuff to Epic’s “credit”. Epic’s probably just getting the flak for it due to Fortnite’s popularity.

Especially the chargeback stuff. It’s extremely common practice for companies to nuke your account from orbit if you issue any chargeback.

[nenjin]

And this is why I'll never give them a cent of business through the Epic Game Store.

[Robsoie]

Ah level scaling ...

Recently completed the Mothership Zeta mission (it's one of the Fallout 3 DLC that are included in the goty version)
And it was absolutely horrible from start to end.

Oh not the mission itself , the concept and the events happening within this rather long mission are really fun and good, but it was absolutely horrible because of level scaling.
Not being aware in advance of what level scaling was doing to that specific mission, i had delayed going after all the DLC mission for after i had completed the game main campaign and its side missions.

By the time i started Zeta, i was level 26
I had noticed already some of the DLC mission were much less fun they could have been due to level scaling that made combat longer than they should be with enemies being too resistant for everything that wasn't the endgame weapons, but still it was nothing in comparison to what the level scaling did for Mothership Zeta.

without spoiler, in Zeta you'll fight an insane amount of enemies , i think more than in any other Fallout 3 mission as it felt more like a FPS than RPG at some point.
But half of those enemies are coming with some kind of energy shield that surround them.

This shield does not have any weakness against any type of damage and provide a direct % of damage reduction to the enemy, meaning said enemies become bullet sponges (high level scaling health + high damage reduction to everything), additionally it seems localised damage does not do much against them so forget headshots killing things faster.

In any other places and dlc, in Fallout 3 due to level scaling the enemies with more health take more hits befory dying even with the best weapons available.
But in Zeta the level scaling affect not only the enemies, but it will affect those special shield damage reduction percentage, and if you're high level those makes fights against those particular type of enemies taking a ridiculous amount of time (and there are a very lot of them).

So before going Zeta make sure you're not high level when you'll start that mission, if you're at level 20 their shield lower 50% of the coming damage, at level 25 it's 80% of incoming damage resist , and that shield can level  scale even further !
If you're high level, make sure to take a lot of healing items before starting Zeta (because the ones you'll find in zeta never heal you fully) but still it's just not fun at all.

There exist a mod that can tone down that ridiculous shield level scaling , i just wish i had knew that before

[Iduno]

Ah level scaling ...

Recently completed the Mothership Zeta mission (it's one of the Fallout 3 DLC that are included in the goty version)
And it was absolutely horrible from start to end.

Oh not the mission itself , the concept and the events happening within this rather long mission are really fun and good, but it was absolutely horrible because of level scaling.
Not being aware in advance of what level scaling was doing to that specific mission, i had delayed going after all the DLC mission for after i had completed the game main campaign and its side missions.

By the time i started Zeta, i was level 26
I had noticed already some of the DLC mission were much less fun they could have been due to level scaling that made combat longer than they should be with enemies being too resistant for everything that wasn't the endgame weapons, but still it was nothing in comparison to what the level scaling did for Mothership Zeta.

without spoiler, in Zeta you'll fight an insane amount of enemies , i think more than in any other Fallout 3 mission as it felt more like a FPS than RPG at some point.
But half of those enemies are coming with some kind of energy shield that surround them.

This shield does not have any weakness against any type of damage and provide a direct % of damage reduction to the enemy, meaning said enemies become bullet sponges (high level scaling health + high damage reduction to everything), additionally it seems localised damage does not do much against them so forget headshots killing things faster.

In any other places and dlc, in Fallout 3 due to level scaling the enemies with more health take more hits befory dying even with the best weapons available.
But in Zeta the level scaling affect not only the enemies, but it will affect those special shield damage reduction percentage, and if you're high level those makes fights against those particular type of enemies taking a ridiculous amount of time (and there are a very lot of them).

So before going Zeta make sure you're not high level when you'll start that mission, if you're at level 20 their shield lower 50% of the coming damage, at level 25 it's 80% of incoming damage resist , and that shield can level  scale even further !
If you're high level, make sure to take a lot of healing items before starting Zeta (because the ones you'll find in zeta never heal you fully) but still it's just not fun at all.

There exist a mod that can tone down that ridiculous shield level scaling , i just wish i had knew that before

Yeah, I think it's intended as a post-game mission, like a lot of the DLC.

[Robsoie]

It's intended indeed as post endgame because you can get really powerful weapons out of it.
It's just that you must not level up too much before taking that Zeta mission or you'll really regret it as fighting tons of bullet sponges isn't fun at all , better fight them while you're +/- level 20 so they are resistant but not to insane level like they are when you reach higher levels due to that stupid shield that "level scale" along their user.

[Rolan7]

Yeah sounds like it's actually worse as post-game content, unintuitively.  It's nice that they scaled it, maybe balanced it better for lower levels than the highest.

[Robsoie]

Other missions scale with you as usual, but none of the enemies out of the zeta mission has a force field that level of damage reduction also level scale.
Apparently it can go up to 110% of damage reduction if you're really high level ?

The wiki mention that this 110% does not make them impervious to damage though, so there's certainly some minor unblockable damage still going through any kind of shielding, but i don't want to think of how much time it takes to kill just one enemy with 110% damage reduction shield on them.
Already when i fought them their shield had 80% damage reduction (because i was leveled up too much due to having put zeta in the end list of the dlc mission order i wanted to take) and it was taking silly amount of shots with the best weapons to take those down.