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So you're going to be able to send those little dweebs into space now? Oh, I'm sure that'll work out well.

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Bought this a few weeks back on Itch. Great game, but could use a bit more content. The version I played had three characters playable and was waiting on the Witch and the Robot. Recommended!

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Quoteplus free content added into some DLCs

Lol

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Don't forget that this update also includes a new faction for endless mode, the tree-like Briarfolk (full patch notes on non-combat related changes can be found here.

This stuff is also related to the exciting modding things we mentioned in the previous announcement for this patch (covered on GOL here. We (I work with Defiant from time to time) just updated the SDK to work with Unity 2017.4.2f2, which has an editor build available for Linux.

It'd be really awesome to see more Linux based modders out there, and I'd be happy to spend some time showing anybody interested the ropes. For anybody keen to get into the community, myself and other developers can be found in the HoF Discord thingy along with a few other modders.

Hope everybody enjoys the update!

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I wonder if the Linux version of the Enhanced Edition will be available on GOG.

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It's UE4 right? There may be technical difficutlies too.. a lot of UE4 games sadly ended up having quite some issues on Linux.

Better that and they polish the game instead of releasing it bugged, but I hope they don't abdon it due the difficulties, as other studios already did.

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I really need to start killing more dupes take more time to play this game!

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Also if you're looking for games or how to get good you should join the PA Community Discord ;)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: lucifertdarkI thought they removed it from sale back when they first released TITANS?

They kinda messed it all up, but I'm glad they finally done it properly. What they're doing now, is what they should have done from the beginning.

Due to *outrage*, they made it re-available. But this outrage was never based in reality and so I'm glad to see it removed once again.

Quoting: WYWI own Titans and half the time have the Titans DLC turned off to change up the gameplay.

It should be noted that the expantion never needs to be disabled to play with the original game users. Only to host lobbies without the expantion changes (joining others has always ben seemless).

Quoting: wojtek88The problem is that it isn't running well on my rig and I doubt today for me it is worth to pay even 10 percent of original price.

Indeed there's no point getting the expantion if you can't run the base game. What graphics card and drivers are you using? I can run it fine on Nvida and Intel, have no AMD hardware to test on myself.

Quoting: wojtek88And I believe this 90 percent discount will vanish and when I upgrade hardware, I will be forced to pay whole price.

Just as with the 66% they had always had on it before, they have said this upgrade discount is permanent.

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I'm breaking two rules of mine at once for Feral: Not paying with credit card and not preordering.

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Quoting: SnowdrakeUnder Night in-birth ExeLate [ST] and Blade Strangers.

Man, got me excited there for a moment. But those are not Linux games. :(

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I don't know... I played vanilla Europa Universalis IV and I was bored with it. So much time have to spend on waiting something. And so little strategy in war itself. I better prefer something like Total War: Warhammer. Spend so much time in that game. Will wait for second part.

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Insta-buy for me. Really good to see another FG on GNU/Linux.

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Definitely interested! There is only one officially supported fighting game on Linux (Skullgirls) and another one is very welcome.

I bought Under Night in-birth ExeLate[ST] as well. It works well through proton but supporting a native effort is worth it. Plus the game looks nice (and maybe I can get my non-fighting game friends to play it with me since they don't need to train for 100+ hours to be able to play it).

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Quoting: LinasWhich ones?

Under Night in-birth ExeLate [ST] and Blade Strangers.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: SalvatosAm I a poser for not going full Stallman? If so I don't give a damn, these are my opinions, choices and preferences and I'm not trying to conform to anyone's model of who deserves free software.

Even Stallman does not conform to the "full Stallman" strawman:

Quoting: Richard StallmanHowever, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid the harm to your freedom that Windows would do. Thus, in direct practical terms, this development can do both harm and good. It might encourage GNU/Linux users to install these games, and it might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux. My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html

If I remember right, Stallman also considers the art, story, dialogue, voice acting and so forth in games to be somewhat different from the code itself in its copyright & freedom implications, and that because of the importance of that kind of thing to games they need to be considered a bit differently from most software. So while I'm sure he would support opening the code of games, and absolutely would consider that game engines ought all to be Free software, he would not necessarily oppose relatively normal copyright restrictions on the creative assets in games.
Stallman considers code to be rather like recipes in its ability to be shared and improved. So if you publish a recipe book, he would say your pie recipe should be shareable and maybe someone else would change it to have a bit less sugar or a dab of ginger or something. But he wouldn't say the picture in the recipe book of you making the pie, should be shareable. Game art assets and such are like that.

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I might actually back this one. There is a Linux demo and his previous game was released to Linux and has great reviews to top it off.

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I have tried it on proton and it just crashes once you try to join a server. I thought it was going to work but proton is early in its developement. So I don't expect a lot to work yet very well, but I'm happy it's just happening. I don't know of any work arounds to try sadly. The original game was very fun, it was a long time ago. The more stuff you carry the slower you run, the core aspect of the game was the same just much worse graphics. I very much await the linux build I loved the original game. I would love to play the original some more but oh well.

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Quoting: SnowdrakeJust bought two fighting game last week...

Which ones?

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Quoting: SalvatosAm I a poser for not going full Stallman? If so I don't give a damn, these are my opinions, choices and preferences and I'm not trying to conform to anyone's model of who deserves free software.

Even Stallman does not conform to the "full Stallman" strawman:

Quoting: Richard StallmanHowever, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid the harm to your freedom that Windows would do. Thus, in direct practical terms, this development can do both harm and good. It might encourage GNU/Linux users to install these games, and it might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with GNU/Linux. My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html

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I fear Crusader Kings II. I own it, and I have this feeling that if I ever really start playing it, I will never get another constructive thing done with my life.

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Just bought two fighting game last week... sounds like I'll buy another one too :)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI really need to find the time to LEARN how to play one of the Paradox grand strategy games... They look awesome, but when I see 7 1 hour tutorial videos on youtube to learn Crusader Kings II...

I think the best way is through trial and error, these tutorials just fill you with way too much information and it can be completely overwhelming. It's best just to play and enjoy yourself without too much worry for winning and losing. There's a lot of mechanics you can just completely ignore to begin with, and it won't result in a game over for you.

I've been playing Paradox games since around 2004 and EU4 since release day, and sometimes I still have the laptop open to look up country-specific mechanics and events because it's just impossible to learn all of it. When I leave it for 6 months and come back to it, there's usually been a couple of DLC and I have to learn to play certain mechanics all over again.

That said, I can't even imagine how much more complicated it must be to learn to play now from scratch, after adding so many features and mechanics since the base game. Maybe your best bet is to wait until they release the next game in the series (hopefully Victoria III, which is the best of their franchises anyway) and learn to play from scratch with a vanilla game, then slowly master it as the updates are released.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Boldosan you please elaborate on how far is it? (with some - at least generic - examples...)

Visual Studio Code is basically an editor with loads of plugins (which as far as I know come from lots of different sources). The base as well as the plugins I tried the last months were getting frequent updates, some stable, some not so much. In my humble opinion, the plugins (ab)using parts of the interface make its usage incoherent. It's a quick and dirty tool for hacking something together. Again, IMHO.

Visual Studio is a professional software development environment. Its not without flaws, of course, but it is the stable tool I need for big team projects. And it would be my tool of preference for C++ programming under Linux, if it would let me.

I'm probably biased. I prefer the stable stuff, and I'm using (and getting used to) Visual Studio for at least 20 years now.

In addition this info: Visual Studio Code is an Electron application and quite similar to Atom (Text Editor), whereas Visual Studio is a full blown IDE much like e.g. IntelliJ.

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Quoting: SalvatosIs it a bad thing that not everyone in the Linux community is a hardcore activist, that some are just looking for a more respectful system than Windows and Mac OS or simply can't afford proprietary software and rely on FLOSS to have access to computing?

You said it yourself: it's not all black and white. To me open source matters when it comes to things like science, knowledge, and basic functionality like Internet browsing or text processing. I really can't care less about reverse-engineering my music, movies or games and changing the way they work, since they're meant to be distributed and used as a specific experience. Am I a poser for not going full Stallman? If so I don't give a damn, these are my opinions, choices and preferences and I'm not trying to conform to anyone's model of who deserves free software.

Of course there's also the issue of trust and privacy, but frankly it's not like I go and monitor the source code of every piece of free software I use anyway. I see privacy as a losing battle -- every part of the network/system is potentially compromised by corporations, governments as well as individuals -- and if I wanted to win it at all costs I'd probably stop using computers altogether and start growing vegetables in the woods. That doesn't mean I can't make the better choice where it's convenient and sensible to do so.

No it is absolutely not a bad thing, and you seem to be honest about your stances. The problem I have is with loud advocates of Free and/or Open Source software who don't practice what they preach.

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Thanks for mentioning that upgrade discount, I had Planetary Annihilation from a while back and have now upgraded it to Titans.

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Quoting: x_wingApple deprecated OpenGL, which doesn't mean that they doesn't support the API on their current platforms. I doubt they will completely remove the API in the short term, there is a lot of software that still uses it.

Remember, they're also completely removing 32-bit support with the version after the coming Mojava. Apple doesn't care about compatibility with third-party software. They proved that time and time again.

I have no doubt that OpenGL will be removed, relatively soon even. Probably not the next macOS release after Mojave, but possibly the one after.

As for the way forward, one possible way is for ANGLE (an OpenGL ES implementation retargeting onto Direct3D) to add a Metal backend.

There's also MoltenGL (from the same people who are doing MoltenVK), but that's currently commercial and proprietary, and I personally haven't heard anything good about it.

Another idea is to go OpenGL -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK (-> Metal).

I haven't heard that anybody has done anything to move into any of these directions yet, though, so take that all with a grain of salt.

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Quoting: thelimeydragonTried playing CKII again today, then remembered why I stopped. It's a good game but I'm so confused whilst playing it.

Watching Arumba (or any competent CK2 player) helps a lot, personally I did not consider myself "good" at the game until I had sunk 400 hours... it's a commitment for sure.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: ArthurBut it's become clear to me that a lot of the Linux community is not very consistent. Free and Open Source only matters to some, while a good bunch are just posers.

Is it a bad thing that not everyone in the Linux community is a hardcore activist, that some are just looking for a more respectful system than Windows and Mac OS or simply can't afford proprietary software and rely on FLOSS to have access to computing?

Well, it would certainly be a good thing if everyone who used a computer was a firm believer in Free Software, and Open Source ruled the computing universe. :D
But, well, life is what it is, eh? Maybe after the revolution comes. :D

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Tried playing CKII again today, then remembered why I stopped. It's a good game but I'm so confused whilst playing it.

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