awgamer wrote on 2022-10-03, 01:44:

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition posted in this thread, also given away by Origin, which I grabbed, includes 2 & 3, and grabbed these DLC bundles just now too, BUT, Origin won't let you use them, saying you have to have ME 2 & 3 first..

Legendary Edition includes all DLC, these bundles are for the individual games sold before Legendary Edition.

GOG

Noticed this on EPIC

Claim 2 free games as a time-limited welcome gift

Download GOG GALAXY now and get Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition on GOG for free – the offer is valid till October 30th, 6 AM PDT / 9 AM EDT / 1 PM UTC. Next, grab for free Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection on GOG between October 31st at 6 AM PDT / 9 AM EDT / 1 PM UTC and November 3rd, 6 AM PDT / 9 AM EDT / 1 PM UTC.

Halloween treat.

‘Candy Creeps’ is free until October 31st if you join the ‘Digital Eclipse’ mailing list @ Itch.io.

https://digital-eclipse.itch.io/candy-creeps

Edit: Just to confirm, I joined their mailing list and received an email the next day with a link to the download.

Wow, New Vegas. Can't wait for Nvidia's RTX Remix to come out, should expand and speed up modding.

awgamer wrote on 2022-11-04, 08:26:

Wow, New Vegas. Can't wait for Nvidia's RTX Remix to come out, should expand and speed up modding.

Sure except that its locked to cards that can run Vulkan Ray tracing which pretty much means its useless for the vast majority of people who either don't have a RT capable GPU or don't have one capable of running RT at playable levels. Its also heavily biased towards DLSS3 usage and well NVIDIA 4000 GPUs in general.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/rtx … x-announcement/

perhaps in the future when NVIDIA gets their heads out of their asses it might be opened up but right now initially its pretty much RTX 4000 GPU territory.

I do love the idea of it all but I fear it'll go by the way side like so many other cool ideas simply because nVidia likes to lock functions down to their cards.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-11-04, 08:45:

Sure except that its locked to cards that can run Vulkan Ray tracing which pretty much means its useless for the vast majority o […]
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awgamer wrote on 2022-11-04, 08:26:

Wow, New Vegas. Can't wait for Nvidia's RTX Remix to come out, should expand and speed up modding.

Sure except that its locked to cards that can run Vulkan Ray tracing which pretty much means its useless for the vast majority of people who either don't have a RT capable GPU or don't have one capable of running RT at playable levels. Its also heavily biased towards DLSS3 usage and well NVIDIA 4000 GPUs in general.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/rtx … x-announcement/

perhaps in the future when NVIDIA gets their heads out of their asses it might be opened up but right now initially its pretty much RTX 4000 GPU territory.

I do love the idea of it all but I fear it'll go by the way side like so many other cool ideas simply because nVidia likes to lock functions down to their cards.

Most thing goes like nVidia develops or buys something and makes it 100% proprietary. Someone else develops something similar and make it more open/fully open source. Then the one from nVidia dies off and either the open solution takes its place (adaptive sync) or the whole thing dies (physics acceleration in games). Proprietary stuff just can't get wind in their sails these days. As long as nVidia is willing to buy support it lives, but the moment they give up on it, developers also ignore it. No point wasting developer hours on features half your buyers can't use.

Its scene ripper uses standard USD format. This functionality helps all modding, you don't have to make an RTX mod, you can just grab the assets of a scene and go from there. Instead of hunting down what you wanted to mod you just go to what you were looking at in game, capture, mod, re-inject. Big speed up to modding. Maybe I'm missing a gotcha but I don't see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg52-HZhrFc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Scene_Description

Fanatical -
Internet Cafe Simulator
https://gg.deals/freebie/claim-a-free-steam-k … cafe-simulator/

Making a fanatical account and accepting fanatical email spam gets you the steam key.

awgamer wrote on 2022-11-04, 22:28:

Fanatical - Internet Cafe Simulator https://gg.deals/freebie/claim-a-free-steam-k … cafe-simulator/ […]
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Fanatical -
Internet Cafe Simulator
https://gg.deals/freebie/claim-a-free-steam-k … cafe-simulator/

Making a fanatical account and accepting fanatical email spam gets you the steam key.

Probably region-specific. Doesn't work in India.

I wonder if a VPN would fix that, seeing as how that's an often touted feature.

Narita Boy @ GOG

EPIC-

STAR WARS: Squadrons

This is a different list of free games on GOG I had not come across before. Most have probably been free for a long time but might want to check if you are missing anything:

https://www.gog.com/partner/free_games

Just to note, Quake is the 2021 remastered version with all the expansions and a new one.

Steam

Portal RTX - Dec 8

Steam - GOG - EPIC
Saints Row IV getting a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/saints- … ore-cross-play/

Knights of Honor II - Goodie Pack @ GOG

The 1GB+ of artwork in this goodie pack is rather nice.

Portal RTX and Saints Row IV are up.

I've already played Portal so don't see the point in playing it again when I have so much to play so have fun for those that play it.

Portal RTX works offline with hl2.exe -game portal_rtx
Makes you wonder why they used Remix for Portal instead of updating the game.....

Looks like the Steam ver of Saints Row IV is now the Epic ver but Goldberg appears to work.

Ghost of a Tale @ GOG

CDPR Goodie Pack @ GOG

Also, The Witcher 3 'next-gen' update has finally arrived.