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What's been updated now? I don't see a "new" notification on the download page.

Seriously, gog people, this site really needs better notification of updates, i.e. a list of recent changes etc. The simple update flag isn't very helpful in most cases.
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rivaxon: What's been updated now? I don't see a "new" notification on the download page.

Seriously, gog people, this site really needs better notification of updates, i.e. a list of recent changes etc. The simple update flag isn't very helpful in most cases.
Looks like some goodies were added:
- The mocap session
- Sketches
- Poster
- New artworks file

/edit
And I fully agree on the topic of an update list
Post edited July 04, 2014 by Murfallo
Okay, thanks!
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rivaxon: What's been updated now? I don't see a "new" notification on the download page.

Seriously, gog people, this site really needs better notification of updates, i.e. a list of recent changes etc. The simple update flag isn't very helpful in most cases.
This has been requested, and voted on, for years.
Yeah, I just wonder why it's got so few votes...
There's a FLAC soundtrack as well. Is that new? I have so many games I can't keep track of which have gotten that already and which haven't.
and put the full version number ..
Well since I'd downloaded it before they added the Mocap Session, Sketches, Poster, and both Soundtracks.

The update's probably somewhere in that pile.
Comparing the game webpage, then, and now:
2013 Dec - 48 artworks
2014 Jul - 37 artworks


EDIT:
2013 Dec - I count 11 sketches in the artworks file.
2014 Jul - I count 38 artworks.
Post edited July 05, 2014 by solar_dome
... and no need to download the FLAC version of the soundtrack. It's THREE times bigger than the MP3 version but the quality is exactly the same

Seriously GOG; why do you bother uploading the FLAC if it isn't in better quality. Totally unnecessary.
Post edited July 05, 2014 by Choosername
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Choosername: ... and no need to download the FLAC version of the soundtrack. It's THREE times bigger than the MP3 version but the quality is exactly the same

Seriously GOG; why do you bother uploading the FLAC if it isn't in better quality. Totally unnecessary.
FLAC when decompressed, gives you an identical copy of the original audio data.
MP3 actually discards bits, so a decompressed audio file can never be restored to the original

So there is really a big difference between the two encodings. Some people can actually hear the difference between the two and will prefer FLAC files.
He said: "if it isnt in better quality"

It seems that they used the MP3 as source and converted it to Flac. If this is true then it is nonsense.

Also I doubt that there are humans that can here the difference between FLAC and MP3 if the bitrate of the mp3 is high enough.
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ThomasD313: He said: "if it isnt in better quality"

It seems that they used the MP3 as source and converted it to Flac. If this is true then it is nonsense.

Also I doubt that there are humans that can here the difference between FLAC and MP3 if the bitrate of the mp3 is high enough.
No but in 30 years and 3000000 copies later the FLAC should still be the same quality where the MP3 will likely have corrupted by then.
Just a quick and dirty reason example. Besides, what harm does the FLAC do to anyone?
You wont loose any quality by copying mp3s! Did you maybe mean converting and editing? Of course you would loose quality in this cases, but this was never the question. Also you could convert it yourself into FLAC if you plan to do so.

I dont have any problems with FLAC itself and would usually prefer it, but it just makes no sense to convert the existing mp3 to FLAC and deliver it afterwards. This is even worse than just delivering mp3, because you dont know if the FLAC was just converted from mp3 (which can be achieved by everyone) or if it is of better quality (because converted directly from a raw or lossless format).

So people think, hey its FLAC so lets download it because of the superior quality, while it is just the same quality as the mp3. The problem with this is that you will waste much space without gaining any benefit out of it.

All in all delivering FLAC files which were just converted from MP3 files, is complete bullshit! Desirable is delivering FLAC in cases where it was converted from raw or lossless formats or not delivering FLAC at all in case such a source isnt available (anymore), so that the people wont be misled.
Can anyone confirm that the quality is indeed the same, or is this just based on an impression that the FLACs don't sound too good? I somehow doubt that GOG.com would do a transcode like that, and if they did, they'd probably do it for all soundtracks and there'd be no games with just an MP3 soundtrack. More likely the publisher would have provided a supposedly-but-not-really lossless version.

It should be easy enough to compare, because a standard MP3->FLAC transcode should decode identically down to the bits. I'm just too lazy to do it myself right now =P