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[TamerVirus]

I don't want to be the old and crudmogenly elitist forum goer

You gonna embrace yelling at those meddling kids to get off the damn lawn thread
It's a way of life.

[Eric Blank]

Speaking of, y'all kids better get off this thread before the mods get here!

[Yoink]

Holy heck. This is certainly some news to wake up to.

[Doomblade187]

Speaking of, y'all kids better get off this thread before the mods get here!

*hops backyard fence*

[Frumple]

Work might be starting to get to me. Just looked at a cassette tape in passing and my eyes immediately focused in on the ISBN that was showing. _{no brain you're not cataloging the tape the library doesn't even keep those things anymore what are you doing}

[Lord Shonus]

I know that feeling well.

[wierd]

Try experiencing the "That woman has 3+ pitting edema" moments when you see the diabetic fat women at Walmart, while you are doing your shopping, and the impulsive urge to get their blood sugar readings, and put their TED hose on them.

also, impulsive urge to sanitize at every sanitizing station you come across, due to ingrained professional habits.

[Eric Blank]

Are those really professional habits, though, or just the perfectly logical behavioral result of being in proximity to walmart customers?

[MaximumZero]

Holy heck. This is certainly some news to wake up to.

Yeah, it made me WTF hard enough to come back to the forums for a bit.

[methylatedspirit]

I'm simultaneously in denial and in acceptance of the fact that DF will be on Steam.

[wierd]

I am silently hoping that the improved UI code makes its way into the free version, and that this drives a focus on more optimized, and parallelized code.  this is probably a vain hope, but I still have it.

I looked in the steam forum and saw all the toxic posts from Neonivek that everyone was talking about in DF General...  Some part of me wants to chip in and be helpful, but then again, I get the feeling that rampant butthurt is going to make that difficult.

[methylatedspirit]

Part of me just hopes that Neonivek gets bored and does something else. Another part of me hopes that Neonivek becomes an entertaining source of chaos for the DF community.

[Rolan7]

The publisher, Kitfox, has a Discord server where there was a lot of discussion today.  The messages are still available, and all the big names were on to explain things.

That involves using Discord and browsing through a whole lot of talk, though, so here's the FAQ pinned to that channel:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xwhi1KKp5QD9R4-euZ0JqRB0vHdNPqdBJXjIgp-yYHA/preview?ts=5c786ef7/pubhtml
There's also a Reddit AMA happening tomorrow at noon Pacific Time.

From a quick search though, the consensus is:  The Steam (and itch.io) "version" will be the same as the free version, with the addition of: a premium artset, new music, and possibly steam workshop & achievements.
It's late here and it'll be clear in the AMA in 11.5 hours, but my understanding is that people will be free to make art assets which use all the new features, without having the paid versions.  You pay for the art and music, pretty much, and whatever unconfirmed Steam stuff.

(Also I haven't seen Neoniveks reviews   Guess I'll look when I wake up)

[JoshuaFH]

Got woke up by my cell phone being overridden by some kind of alert system, blaring a loud and obnoxious warning "Amber Alert: Be on the lookout for a white male *message repeats five more times*".

Thanks a bunch phone, I'll do that *looks in mirror* oh no...

[wierd]

The publisher, Kitfox, has a Discord server where there was a lot of discussion today.  The messages are still available, and all the big names were on to explain things.

That involves using Discord and browsing through a whole lot of talk, though, so here's the FAQ pinned to that channel:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xwhi1KKp5QD9R4-euZ0JqRB0vHdNPqdBJXjIgp-yYHA/preview?ts=5c786ef7/pubhtml
There's also a Reddit AMA happening tomorrow at noon Pacific Time.

From a quick search though, the consensus is:  The Steam (and itch.io) "version" will be the same as the free version, with the addition of: a premium artset, new music, and possibly steam workshop & achievements.
It's late here and it'll be clear in the AMA in 11.5 hours, but my understanding is that people will be free to make art assets which use all the new features, without having the paid versions.  You pay for the art and music, pretty much, and whatever unconfirmed Steam stuff.

(Also I haven't seen Neoniveks reviews   Guess I'll look when I wake up)

It looks like tile re-use is no longer a thing with the graphics engine they have appended, which means the tile sets can do things the free version cannot do.  It also apparently supports "Stacked" tiles, which means you could (theoretically, I would have to actually SEE, and mess around with) make it so dwarf sprites show what they are carrying, etc... In addition to increasing the resolution of the sprites themselves significantly over what vanilla supports.