As always, more nuance is inside, but some major bullet points:
- native Linux support for the launcher
- very openly vibe coded, if that’s a line in the sand for you
- Fortnite will be, but is not yet, updated with a new version of Easy Anti Cheat to be compatible with Linux. Yes, there are versions of EAC compatible with Linux today, but not up to Epic’s standards of cheat prevention, and whatever is up to their standards requires coordination with distro maintainers.
- their FAQ openly mentions the necessity of compatibility layers, but I don’t see any mention of native integration with them
The OP acknowledges the vibe coding, but the opening from Epic’s announcement is worth quoting:
It’s like they’re saying “Our launcher sucks and we couldn’t fix it, so we used AI to make a new one”. Other companies have been able to make good launchers without AI, but Epic just couldn’t do it.
They suck so much even the slop machine out coded their devs
Damn man, how bad are they at their job?!
Vibe-coding a program that manages and deletes massive amounts of files, what could possibly go wrong?
Also handles payment information. Oh boy.
nothing could possibly go wrong
GH Issue link if you don’t want/have time to watch the video: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
JFC. An
rm -rf /*because they didn’t check if a variable even had a value, let alone whether it pointed to a directory that should be removed. What a noob mistake.Dont forget the line “advanced shopping features like a cart”
I can’t believe Tim Swiney is this fucking dumb. My expectations were on the floor and he got a shovel.
I can’t tell if this line is supposed to be self-deprecating or what
Tim Swiney is really dumb and has no idea how to read the room. I doubt this was a joke
It is. The Epic Games Store infamously launched without any of the features that are standard for online stores, like customer reviews or anything more than basic information about the product. They didn’t even have a shopping cart, something that was widely mocked at the time, and it was like an entire year before they got around to adding one. The only reason the store got any traction at all was because they used the billions they were making from Fortnite to bribe players with free games if they made an account and visited the store every week.
I don’t know why he’d poke fun at himself like that. The whole thing was the sort of fundamental development failure that you’d normally want everyone to forget about, but here he is giving people excuses to share stories about how incompetent his company is.
I thought you were jokingly rephrasing a quote, but no that’s actually the very first paragraph jfc
I understand that LLMs are useful tools for programming, that they churn stuff out fast and whatever.
But I so hate this anti-intellectual, exuberant embrace of ignorance. It’s one thing to vibecode out of necessity (those single dev slop projects), or to say you’re doing agentic engineering or whatever cleanup label, but it’s so frustrating for them to purely vibecode and not even try to hide it. And then to expect us to think it’s cute.
This behavior is unfortunately normal for epic, this is the same company that said their competitors giving users more information about what they are buying “irresponsible” https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/epic-boss-tim-sweeney-blasts-steam-for-putting-ai-tags-on-games-says-move-is-irresponsible-of-valve
That’s such a Tim Sweeney move
That is such whiplash from the culture of engineering excellence Epic was known for.
Tim has been on the sauce for a while. He basically does the opposite of everything Valve does. Valve banned blockchain-based games, Epic opened the platform to scams with asset flip “games” attached. Valve regulated AI and required disclosure, Epic is now a safe haven for shovelware and Tim is screaming into the void that publishers should be allowed to hide AI usage.
Sweeney is like the Shadiversity of gaming. Massively overcompensating for his inferiority complex and forever doomed to live in the shadow of his more successful brother.
I don’t know, Shad wrote one of the worst books I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading, it’s pretty hard to beat that.
I’m OOTL on what’s wrong with Shadiversity. Got a link?
I’ve got links. Do you have two and a half hours and enough alcohol to numb the pain?
About the person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8xmhI5WjA
About his disgusting atrocity of a novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOnElCEliA
Summary (cw: mention of fictional rape)
tl;dw: he’s an Australian sword youtuber who practices historical European martial arts (HEMA) and is much criticised by the HEMA community, he’s an anti-woke nutjob with a fragile sense of masculinity, he’s a gun nut who thinks Australia should have an equivalent to the 2nd amendment (which he’s ranted and screamed about at length, showcasing why it’s necessary to keep guns away from him), he’s an “AI activist” who thinks writing words into a text box makes him an artist (while producing images that, even among his peers, look horrid), and he’s the envious brother of the actual, successful artist Jazza (who seems like a genuinely fine dude). He also wrote the novel Shadow of the Conqueror, which is a boring, badly written, preachy self-insert power fantasy, where he moralizes that rape and the resulting pregnancy is good actually because motherhood is wonderful (I’m not paraphrasing that much, and it’s still fucking disgusting to think about).
WTF, Shadiversity is Jazza’s brother?! 🤯
Also, why is he much criticized by the HEMA community?
I’ve watched a few of his videos, but don’t know enough about HEMA to understand what’s bad about them.Never mind, I’m 10 minutes in on your linked vid and I get it now.(The rest of it I didn’t know… but I’m not surprised. Oh, and thanks very much for the TL;DW!)
I frequently use the phrase “coding is hard, let’s go shopping” when I encounter a particularly
poorlylazily written piece of software. “Coding is hard, can’t someone else just do it?” Doesn’t seem too far off.