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muntdefems: I've just discovered that the Steam version of Knights and Merchants includes both the classic edition of the game plus a remake with HD support, while GOG's version only provides you with the former. :\
Are you referring to the KaM remake? You can get it here: https://www.gog.com/forum/knights_and_merchants_peasants_rebellion/kam_remake_mod_for_knights_and_merchants or http://www.kamremake.com/
Post edited April 29, 2018 by direspirefirewire
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fronzelneekburm: I'm trying to find more info about this, but I can't find anything. Do you have any links that go into details as to what the differences between the original and the remake are? The main thing I came up with were websites talking about a fan-made mod titled Knights and Merchants Remake. Not the same thing, right? The only thing that indicates a remake being sold on Steam was a bullet point in the description that said "New Musical Score".
Yeah, the Steam page is rather unclear about that. I'm not talking about the unofficial fan-made remake you mention, but simply of an HD 'remaster' of the original game: it supports widescreen and higher resolutions, but on the other hand it lacks features of the original like single maps. See e.g. this Steam thread where the differences are discussed.

Also, here's the Linux support announcement in which the devs acknowledge the existence of both versions.

I've already deleted both versions from my HDD, but if you want I can install them again and take some screenshots showing the differences.


EDIT:

Wait a minute... maybe *it is* KaM Remake after all. I hastily discarded it after seeing that Alpha 9 screenshot with 3D buildings and such, but judging from the rest of the screenshots in the KaM Remake site, it could very well be.

I'll just look at it again.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by muntdefems
No worries muntdefems. I'm sure we all just want a bit of clarity for us GOG second class citizens :( Could you reinstall both versions again and do a comparison please? Thanks
Never mind, it really is the fan-made KaM Remake. It comes with a Readme.html file that explains everything clear enough. Sorry for the confusion. :P

However, I still think that Topware is treating GOG users in an inferior manner by not including the remake with the GOG release, when they're doing it on Steam. :\
Similarly to the Ash of Gods: Redemption case, Double Kick Heroes is also regionally-locked in the Chinese GOG storefront:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/regional_locked_games_on_gog_v2/post303

But again, not on Steam, where it also supports the Chinese language. So, if you wanted to somehow bypass the regional lock to get access to the game here, hahaha sucker, no Chinese language for you!
Added Double Kick Heroes and made some refinements to the Ash Of Gods description.

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muntdefems: However, I still think that Topware is treating GOG users in an inferior manner by not including the remake with the GOG release, when they're doing it on Steam. :\
Well, it's a relatively minor inconvenience IMHO. As long as the mod is freely available for download and it works with the gog versions, I don't think we need to include it on the list.

God forbid they implemented something like Deus Ex Revision, where - if you just want to install the game via Galaxy - you're forced to download 3.5GB of mod (that you might not even want to play) on top of 350MB of actual game.
I received a private message regarding A Hat in Time. Here's what it said

A Hat in Time's GOG version always starts with a splash screen saying there is a mapping contest and whatnot. All cool and fine, except the tools you need to enter the mapping contest aren't on GOG **yet.**

The contest's award is $1,000.

I mean, they'll probably slowly and surely push the tools out, as they at least recognize GOG is their "slow lane" for stable updates and whatnot. However, it takes damn long to fix anything indeed. The in-game screenshot utility for example, doesn't actually save screenshots, this was a bug they tried fixing once, but the fix didn't do anything. We're still waiting for a fix for that since November.
On the one hand: A massive dick move to basically exclude gog users in a modding contest due to the devs having failed to provide the modding tools so far. On the other hand: They said they're working on releasing those modding tools (to quote one of their representatives: "The GOG modding tools will see an announcement when they are ready to be released"). The contest is already over, but at least there's the prospect of the game being feature-complete at some point in the future.

So the question is: Should I or shouldn't I include it on the list? And more specifically: Should the contest even play a role in adding the game to the list?



Side note:
Does anyone here know someone who owns Bubsy The Woolies Strike Back on Steam? The Steam version may have a fixed D11 mode, while GOG didn't get updates for this. We'd like to have a Steam user to confirm any info of interest here.
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fronzelneekburm: Side note:
Does anyone here know someone who owns Bubsy The Woolies Strike Back on Steam? The Steam version may have a fixed D11 mode, while GOG didn't get updates for this. We'd like to have a Steam user to confirm any info of interest here.
Seems like there was never such a DX issue in the GOG version in the first place:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_bubsy_the_woolies_strike_back_bc7e7/post67

On the other hand, the game is missing leaderboards here, so it's still a good fit for your mix.
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One of the devs of Hand of Fate just replied to my post saying that they're updating the GOG build to match the Steam build.
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Point_Man: One of the devs of Hand of Fate just replied to my post saying that they're updating the GOG build to match the Steam build.
Thank you for contacting them Point_Man.
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Point_Man: One of the devs of Hand of Fate just replied to my post saying that they're updating the GOG build to match the Steam build.
Nice and much thanks for helping to get the update here. Back on my wishlist it goes.

Edit: I'd like to add that it's sad we now have to contact the devs to keep the gog versions of games from falling behind in patches.
Post edited May 07, 2018 by Lucian_Galca
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Point_Man: One of the devs of Hand of Fate just replied to my post saying that they're updating the GOG build to match the Steam build.
Good job! Thanks for getting in touch with them!
Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition 2.5 patch is out for other versions but not the gog version as of May 1st:

http://blog.beamdog.com/2018/05/icewind-dale-enhanced-edition-25-patch.html

Not yet enough of a delay for an addition to the list, but something to keep an eye on just in case.

I think Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Edition patches will be dropping soon too from what i've gathered on the Beamdog forums.
The last patch for Blackhole has yet to arrive on GOG after over a year or I'm wrong?
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African_wildlife: Ziggurat has no leaderboards on GOG. "Daily challenge" scores won't load even when connected to GOG Galaxy and launched via the client with the latest update (patch 14) installed (also reported in this thread).

It should be noted that the game doesn't have "leaderboards" feature on its store page, unlike Nex Machina for instance.

https://www.gog.com/game/ziggurat
I contacted Ziggurat developer and promptly received a reply:

On GOG, we need to manually create each daily challenge leaderboard. Back in the day we created leaderboards for a whole year of daily challenges, but they've run out.

I've created a new set, so daily challenges should work again (until the next time...).

Regards,

Alejandro González - Milkstone Studios
Sorry for the late response to this thread. I don't own the Steam version and can't say how leaderboards are handled there.

UPDATE:
Yes, it's specific to the GOG version. On Steam leaderboards could be automatically created so they won't ever run out.

However GOG recently added that capability as well and an update will come soon featuring this, so daily challenges will work again.
Post edited May 10, 2018 by African_wildlife