I like to dunk on SC as much as the next guy but how can you say this at all with a straight face? For starters, can I walk around my ship? Is there a story-based campaign I can play through? Are there capital ships with dozens of players with different roles working on them?
SC will never get finished or live up to the promises it made but ED barely even tries to do anything beyond being a space truck simulator.
How far into it are you, allegedly it drops off a lot in the second half?
Dunno what you mean, the VA is excellent - especially if you consider it's only a few people doing an absolutely huge range of voices.
The main story is interesting if a bit self indulgent (I liked it tho) but the real meat is all the side stories and mini endings IMHO. You'll definitely want to replay it over and over again for those, the main story you can see within a few hours.
What's wrong with Heroic launcher? Being a linux user you should be used by now to workarounds and alternative solutions to various problems, so why is that tool (that is pretty good and can even be used on steam deck) a deal breaker? That small inconvenience pales in comparison to benefits of DRM-free games and not supporting a monopoly IMHO.
We've been really lucky that Steam hasn't been enshittified yet but it's just a matter of time, so I am happy that alternatives like GOG exist, and yes = even alternatives like Epic. Doesn't matter if my library is spread around if I can just launch anything from playnite anyway.
Got a guide or some similar resource for someone who might be interested in checking out that rabbit hole?
its a pretty fun game but i wasnt a big fan of how everything eventually boils down to logistic stations, there is one best (and practically only) way of doing things and its pretty bland. Hopefully this adds some spice
I've been using logseq for a few months now, can you go into more detail why you switched to Joplin? You can also just stick to pages rather than the journal with logseq (it's mostly what I've been doing) so I'm not sure from just that comment what's the benefit of Joplin.
From your perspective it is not a Linux problem. From the perspective of the user who sees all those "Linux is as good for gaming as windows nowadays!" posts and expects his OS to just work, it is a Linux issue that would be resolved by not using Linux.
Besides, I know nobody gives a shit what we write here in the fediverse but generally speaking you get the change to happen by making enough noise about it. If nobody talks that the dev x doesn't support the linux build, whether its because of EAC or something else, then nothing will ever change about it so stifling these discussions is not good for anyone.
It's still pretty rudimentary with bad wasteful UI design in a window that doesn't remember when you resize it, requiring tons of clicks to access, and still has bugs (not showing name or size of some mods). Still no advanced features like modlists or versioning, or showing dependencies in this UI or anything of the sort.
Can't believe we had MO2 and similar software like a decade ago and big multi-million/billion companies still struggle with the basics. I really wish workshop stopped being used so much and we go to FOSS or at least more open solutions like thunderstore.
DId you ever actually play ED Odyssey and SC?
You can't walk around on ships in E:D so you're either mistaken or outright lying at this point. I'm not even going to get into talking about thargoids like it's a story campaign, or how co-op works in ED.