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Those games are re-releases on Steam.
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For what ever reason I didn't see stats for the most recent release, but that could be because it is kind of an expansion of the 2022 game. Or at least that is how the Internet is treating it.
Yeah, MWII, WZ and MWIII are wrapped into one client now. Combined its the 9th most played as I'm writing this. There's more people playing Black Ops 1 on Xbox right now if you believe it's in game counter (106k VS. 101k). Kinda nuts.

I'd imagine most PC players of the Modern Warfare remake and Cold War got it on Battle.net than wait the 3+ years for the Steam release.
 
The Lost Legend of Redwall: The Scout Anthology based on the books. You play a mouse (instead of a cat in Stray). It appears to be their first Mac game.


I have to correct myself. This is not their first Mac game. When I search for "The Lost Legend of Redwall" I see the earlier games. Then if you click on Soma Games you also see the older games, but if you do the same on the page for the new Anthology and browse their games none of the old Mac games are listed so that's why I thought this is their first Mac game.
 
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Those games are re-releases on Steam.
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For what ever reason I didn't see stats for the most recent release, but that could be because it is kind of an expansion of the 2022 game. Or at least that is how the Internet is treating it.

Yes and? I wasn't implying that Combat Master is more popular than every single game in the entire CoD franchise. I was curious if it was more popular than other well-known games in the same category hence the comparison with those two CoD games from the same year. Regarding the release date I wasn’t aware they were released earlier elsewhere. Since we’re talking about Steam charts and games I looked at the release date on Steam which is this year.

Being remakes doesn’t either matter much and disqualify them. All the remake from Capcom like RE 2-4 are very successful. Steam shows the stats for all three games MWII, MWIII and WZ as one and they are more popular than Combat Master but the reviews tell a totally different story.

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They were released earlier on Steam. Activision added them to the existing game since they are all pretty much add ons to the existing engine anyways. It is why the planer stats don't show up for MWIII.

I know they don't review well because CoD players are very picky.
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And yes the Modern Warfare series is a remaster of the 2010's versions, which is fine (well except they completely butchered MW3, but I digress).


I'm not saying the other game is a bad game either, it looks like a more fast paced version of Warzone for sure.
 
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Well, what do you know! Last year people said in a now ”dead" thread this won't come to Mac, as an example of developers abandoning Mac for the usual reasons we hear. Now a year later it’s coming to Mac after all. Path of Exile 2 will have a closed beta with start on June 7, 2024 for release in 2025. The system requirements on Steam for Mac and PC are just copy-and-paste from PoE 1 so it remains to see. The Mac Steam depot just say mac64 but it’s too early to see if it will be a native AS port or not.

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For reference, PoE received a major engine update with a new particle system a while ago (same as used in PoE2). That included the Mac version, as otherwise it would have been broken and not playable anymore for compatibility reasons (hello Valve/CS…). Unfortunately that update broke the game when it comes to performance. Same performance as before, it consumes about twice as much CPU and GPU resources, laggs and is buggy/crashes as hell. The already poor performing previous Mac version is pretty much unplayable on Maps right now. The PC version requires a high end system. Support forum is full of complains.

Right now, the game is in a terrible state, probably not worth playing at all. Kudos for GGG for not abandoning PoE1 players on the Mac with the PoE2-engine update for PoE1. But they really need to fix the game at this point. People are wandering off in masses.
 
It's more popular than CoD: Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War that was released back in March and those have only Win version.

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Comparing 4 year old games just to try to get a got ya on the PC gamers when mostly everyone's moved on to MWIII. Also noticed you failed to include Warzone in the mix.

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I'm seriously starting to suspect you don't actually play games and just want games natively on Mac so you can List War with the PCMR crowd like how the PlayStation vs Xbox console warrers do.
 
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Sometimes I wish people really understood what they’re actually replying to instead of writing random trigger-happy posts across the forum and making up their own tedious fairy tales to get some attention but keep spamming if that makes you feel happy and proud. We’re getting used to ignoring it by now.
 
Sometimes I wish people really understood what they’re actually replying to instead of writing random trigger-happy posts across the forum and making up their own tedious fairy tales to get some attention but keep spamming if that makes you feel happy and proud. We’re getting used to ignoring it by now.

You said, and I quote: "Combat Master is more popular than CoD: Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War that was released back in March and those have only Win version" which

1. Did not release in March, only the Steam versions released in March as both games are 3 years old which you should've known since the games are visible in the Mac Bnet launcher, and
2. Is blatantly false as you posted only Steam numbers, completely ignoring Bnet.

You then doubled down posting outdated reviews of Call of Duty HQ when diamond.g called you out on it.

You also called Combat Master a "free alternative to CS2" despite the fact CS2 is already free to play

Do you even play games or are you just wanting high profile games on Mac so you can essentially console war with PC Elitists?
 
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Given how PC eliteists act, it wouldn't hurt for us to get a few high profile titles.

On a lighter note

Interestingly, the news has been somewhat positive about Lies of P winning Mac GOTY, with some journos saying it's the first GOTY Lies of P's received.

(It doesn't actually seem to be the case, it won GOTY at the 2023 Korea Game Awards, which was two weeks before, but limited to titles released in 2023 released by Korean studios.)
 
It's coming to Steam too. It has depot but I guess it's coming on the announced date, not earlier.

Looks like we are getting a delay. Stray is now pulled from the App Store with no explanation.

But judging from thew few test videos posted on YouTube, performance is quite poor. No where close to RE8 or No Man's Sky optimization level.
 
That's often the case for UE4 games on macOS.
Question: From the graphics settings menu I don't see MetalFX toggle. But some comments say the MetalFX is "built-in". Like what does that even mean. The game upscales itself no matter what?
 
Question: From the graphics settings menu I don't see MetalFX toggle. But some comments say the MetalFX is "built-in". Like what does that even mean. The game upscales itself no matter what?
I haven't played on PC for a bit, but I am pretty sure the game has a built-in resolution scaler. Not sure if it shows up for macOS, but it was definitely useful when forcing RT on PC.

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If that option shows for macOS then maybe it is using metalFX, otherwise I think it uses TSR since it is a UE game (similar, but different to FSR 2).
 
I haven't played on PC for a bit, but I am pretty sure the game has a built-in resolution scaler. Not sure if it shows up for macOS, but it was definitely useful when forcing RT on PC.

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If that option shows for macOS then maybe it is using metalFX, otherwise I think it uses TSR since it is a UE game (similar, but different to FSR 2).
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I just now watched another video where the player showed the scaling solution can choose MetalFX (1st screen). In previous videos the player left it at default "built-in" (2nd screen), which I didn't know what it was referring to, but now I know (it is UE TSR). It is hard to tell which one does better since they were captured on different Macs.
 
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You said, and I quote: "Combat Master is more popular than CoD: Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War that was released back in March and those have only Win version" which

1. Did not release in March, only the Steam versions released in March as both games are 3 years old which you should've known since the games are visible in the Mac Bnet launcher, and
2. Is blatantly false as you posted only Steam numbers, completely ignoring Bnet.

You then doubled down posting outdated reviews of Call of Duty HQ when diamond.g called you out on it.

You also called Combat Master a "free alternative to CS2" despite the fact CS2 is already free to play

Do you even play games or are you just wanting high profile games on Mac so you can essentially console war with PC Elitists?

I make one last attempt to get some things straight in this absurd discussion since you’re trying really hard to make sense but still don’t.

I already explained the purpose of my comparison and circumstances behind it. diamond.g and I exchanged some thoughts and it resulted in just that, mutual understanding. You on the other hand chose of course to ignore those explanations to begin with in order to make such highly imaginary posts. By ignoring those explanations it then became much easier to make up all sorts of stuff in a poor attempt to alter my true intentions.

The goal wasn’t to see if any CoD game is ”better” than Combat Master. It was to see if CM is as good or better than any well-known games in the same category on STEAM. My source of statistics was also Steamdb for obvious reasons. Did I care that there are lots of CoD gamers on Battle.net? Not at all, because Combat Master is not there and there’s no easy way like Steamdb to know the stats there. Your confirmation bias makes you focus so much on details and splitting hairs that you forget the context. Steam is the keyword here and what Steam users think the focus.

There is nothing ”blatantly false” about using Steam stats to compare games released all this year on STEAM and their STEAM reviews by STEAM users when that’s the premise. That’s the thing with statistics. You can focus on different parts and compare them on different scales without being wrong.

If you find such a comparison meaningless that’s fine. If you want to do your own comparisons based on other factors and variables be my guest, but don’t complain about other comparisons when they don’t fit into your own preferences. Don’t try to make every post to be about you, your interests and your expectations. My comparison was never about you, the entire CoD franchise, the entire CoD user base or ”get a got ya on the PC gamers”. That’s just your imagination and again confirmation bias. I found an interesting alternative to CS2 not only for Mac but for all platforms, even mobile and shared the information. It wasn’t until another user praised the game I shared the Steam stats in a post directed at THEM. To go the extra mile to make that into ”get a got ya on the PC gamers” is just sad.

Combat Master being a free alternative means literally it’s free and an alternative to CS2 as opposed to a paid alternative like CoD MW II or III. To quote somebody doesn’t automatically prove your points when you make a biased interpretation. Nowhere did I say CS2 is not free. It speaks volumes that you again put such an effort into this kind of nitpicking to win some cheap points. There is very little room for misunderstanding here since everyone knows CS2 is free but to even suggest that I’m the only one who doesn’t know is another weak attempt to look down on others. We’ve seen this attitude several times lately with all the ”Do you even know anything?”, ”Suspect you don't actually play games”, ”Do you even play games” and ”How the hell did you not know this?”. There is a simple name for that, ”illusory truth effect”.

Here are some other things that are ”blatantly false”:

- To claim that I ”failed to include Warzone in the mix” when there are no player statistics for any of the games (WZ, MW II-III) separately on Steamdb. To compare a combined number of players for three games with one is highly inaccurate since there’s no way of telling how well or badly each game performs and again that wasn’t even the purpose of my post.

- To claim I should've known that both games are 3 years old ”since the games are visible in the Mac Bnet launcher”. The games just being visible there says nothing about their age or popularity. None of the games there state their release date or show user reviews like on Steam. Besides I don’t even use Battle.net since I don’t play any of the few old Mac games there. I just downloaded the client to check your claims which proved to be unfounded. Again I didn’t care about Battle.net either due to the purpose of my comparison.

- To claim I’ve said or implied CS2 is a paid game.

- To claim that I posted ”outdated” reviews of CoD games when the latest Steam reviews of WZ and MW II-III are from Dec, with negative reviews posted every day. I didn’t post any reviews from CoD HQ either as you claim. That was diamond.g and you as your screen shots shows. Reviews I shared are from each and every game in order to be more precise instead of combining them all.

- To claim that player count is more important than user experience and game quality. Since when did Steam reviews suddenly become irrelevant anyway? You used Steam reviews to defend Pirate Software, the developer of Heartbound that was released 5 years ago and is still in early access to show how good it is but when a CoD game released this or last year on Steam has mostly bad reviews it suddenly doesn’t count? It’s ”willfully ignorant”. If you want to choose quantity over quality that’s your choice but don’t try to convince others that games with negative user reviews are good. The Latest MW III has mostly negative or mixed reviews even from critics on Metacritic on all platforms, PC/PS5/Xbox X.

- To claim that negative Steam reviews don’t count because they’re ”outdated” (which isn’t true) and because the games are more popular on Battle.net thanks to more players there. Many games have been released elsewhere prior to Steam but keep being popular even on Steam. Games like Crysis 1-3 Remastered, Outer Wilds, The Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus, Maneater, Control, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Close to the Sun and more were all first Epic exclusives and were released one year later on Steam but kept their popularity with positive to overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. World War Z was for almost 2 and a half year Epic exclusive but still has very positive reviews on Steam. That can’t be said about the latest CoD releases on Steam, like WZ and MW II-III.

It’s amusing to see people suddenly complain about ”false” Steam statistics and me ”completely ignoring” players outside Steam on Battle.net but doing the same themselves without hesitation when it fits their purpose. Just a week ago you wrote ”Linux has overtaken macOS in use on Steam, and developers have taken notice of that.”, all because Linux done so by tenths of a percent, but then you didn’t mind ”completely ignoring” all Mac players on App Store, GOG or elsewhere. Back then the Steam stats and 0.2% was the law. Now I had to take the entire CoD user base in the world into account for a ”fair” comparison.

This is not a contest about being right. At least when I’m wrong or misinformed I accept and even admit to it because for me it’s not a big deal and anybody can make mistakes but you’re so eager to be right every single time that you ignore answers and explanations, make up stuff and present them as evidence and twist and turn other people’s posts to make them about something they’re not just to be able to win cheap points.

So go ahead and quote, think, suspect and plot all you want. I’m not going to waste more time on explaining myself or engage in further discussions. To put it in Roy Batty’s words, All these words will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to game…
 
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Honestly between this and that spiel in the news discussion thread, I really can't take Spaceboi seriously.

Going into threads about Mac gaming, and rambling about Steam Deck and how it's so fantasamagical. Does that mean we can go to Steam Deck threads and ramble about Mac gaming there?

As for CM and CS2, there's one really really REALLY big difference, one that Spaceboi doesn't seem to notice.

One runs on Mac. The other doesn't.
 
Honestly between this and that spiel in the news discussion thread, I really can't take Spaceboi seriously.

Going into threads about Mac gaming, and rambling about Steam Deck and how it's so fantasamagical. Does that mean we can go to Steam Deck threads and ramble about Mac gaming there?

As for CM and CS2, there's one really really REALLY big difference, one that Spaceboi doesn't seem to notice.

One runs on Mac. The other doesn't.

Ah, yes. The Steam Deck is the Way!

We’ll get it some day.

It’s like dude works for Valve, or owns stock in the company, or something!
 
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In the end all of this doesn’t really matter. Most of the arguments people have about Mac do not make sense.

“It’s too difficult to develop”
PS3 was very difficult and it did just fine

“macOS is hostile by dropping support for old technologies”
This 32 bit drop again. People do realize this was done to get ready for Apple Silicon Macs right? They gave developers enough notice. It’s not Apple’s fault if developers abandoned their products. And by the way, Windows 11 can’t play every game realized even in the Windows XP days either.

“Linux is overtaken macOS in popularity”
Well valve has an actual product that uses Linux so of course they well prioritize that. Linux gaming sucks if you use an NVIDIA graphics card. Which is what 90% of these gamers on these threads want Apple to use again. Regardless the stats do not reflect this. Even the slight increase is due to the Steam Deck. If Valve actually spent even a minor effort in macOS and made the Steam client nice, people would use it more. I ultimately just re-purchased Factorio on their website and bought some games on the App Store because I just can’t deal with Steam’s issues. I’m tired of it locking up and force closing it every day.

I mean the Nintendo switch is using a mobile processor from 2015 and is still getting ports that have significant work done. Like Mortal Kombat 1 and Batman Arkham Knight.
 
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In the end all of this doesn’t really matter. Most of the arguments people have about Mac do not make sense.

“It’s too difficult to develop”
PS3 was very difficult and it did just fine

“macOS is hostile by dropping support for old technologies”
This 32 bit drop again. People do realize this was done to get ready for Apple Silicon Macs right? They gave developers enough notice. It’s not Apple’s fault if developers abandoned their products. And by the way, Windows 11 can’t play every game realized even in the Windows XP days either.

“Linux is overtaken macOS in popularity”
Well valve has an actual product that uses Linux so of course they well prioritize that. Linux gaming sucks if you use an NVIDIA graphics card. Which is what 90% of these gamers on these threads want Apple to use again. Regardless the stats do not reflect this. Even the slight increase is due to the Steam Deck. If Valve actually spent even a minor effort in macOS and made the Steam client nice, people would use it more. I ultimately just re-purchased Factorio on their website and bought some games on the App Store because I just can’t deal with Steam’s issues. I’m tired of it locking up and force closing it every day.

I mean the Nintendo switch is using a mobile processor from 2015 and is still getting ports that have significant work done. Like Mortal Kombat 1 and Batman Arkham Knight.
Basically is is a marketshare question/problem (yet again).
 
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