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Do you need to have any knowledge of Warhammer to understand/enjoy/appreciate this game, or could they cut and paste in some other franchise and have it work just as well?

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Quoting: razing32Will be picking this up to support Feral.
Hope more people get it so we can play online.

Also , Liam , your Orkish is terrible :

QuoteHey you humies! Time to die! Feral Interactive have done it once again! We now have a native Linux port of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III [Steam, Feral Store] and here’s my port report. Waaagh!

Allright ya hummie gitz. Wa-boss Feral doz it 'gain. Wiz havin ourz own port of them dar Waaaghh-ammer Dawnz of Waaaggghhh. Here be me statuz reporta.
Waaagghhhh.

I admit my Orkish is a little rusty, I'm more of a Blood Raven Chapter Master myself ;)

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Will be picking this up to support Feral.
Hope more people get it so we can play online.

Also , Liam , your Orkish is terrible :

QuoteHey you humies! Time to die! Feral Interactive have done it once again! We now have a native Linux port of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III [Steam, Feral Store] and here’s my port report. Waaagh!

Allright ya hummie gitz. Wa-boss Feral doz it 'gain. Wiz havin ourz own port of them dar Waaaghh-ammer Dawnz of Waaaggghhh. 'Ere be me statuz reporta.
Waaagghhhh.

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While the control scheme is taking a little while for me to get used to, the game is excellent

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I'm fairly certain it doesn't but I want to be sure. Does the Linux version of Dawn of War III have Denuvo ?

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So what I can understand from the article it doesn't matter if you run opengl or vulkan on low settings. So then is my question is it because opengl is heavy to run and on low settings it have enough hardware to handle the same fps. Or what is the reason for it.

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no, not Crossplatform Only Mac and Linux

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Grats on another release, Feral.

I'm quietly hoping there will be some good single player campaign stuff later on though - then I miiiiiight possibly get my arm twisted into buying this since I enjoyed the DoW II single player stuff.

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Quoting: CSharpQuestion: Is the multiplayer cross-platform? Would I be able to play with friends who play this on Windows?

I address that right at the top of the article ;)

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Question: Is the multiplayer cross-platform? Would I be able to play with friends who play this on Windows?

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Quoting: MayeulCHere come a thought: they could partner with publishers to offer free steam key when you buy a game on GOG (or redeem it to your linked account; this would avoid keys being resold).

It doesn't make sense really. GOG is competing with Steam, and giving out Steam keys means promoting their competitor. So if anything like that would happen, it would be Steam's project (i.e. Steam connect or whatever).

I would argue that it doesn't make sense for Steam, since (based on my totally biased perspective) they are the biggest by far; and as such, they don't need to grab customers from GOG.

I get your point, however. But as great as GOG connect is, I probably won't switch my primary store anytime soon, given the number of games I have on steam (lock-in FTW -_-). And with every game I buy on Steam instead of GOG, Steam gets money instead of GOG (which actually don't bother me that much, as long as they support Linux).

To put a dent in steam's profit, my suggestion would probably work (but then you risk losing customers to Steam, as you said). Maybe add an extra fee for the "Steam Connect" functionality on GOG? Or make some time-limited promotions? I don't really know; but at the end of the day, isn't part of the DRM-free appeal the lack of vendor lock-in?

Sure, it might hurt the bottom line a bit, but that's arguably already the situation they are in with they DRM-free model. And with such a business model, what makes customers come to you instead of the competition, if not the fact that they are respected/listened to/well treated? I think that it would tremendously increase the value of the GOG store. Wasn't the Humble Store doing the same at the beginning, before it went full steam key-reseller?

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My youngest Son runs his own private server & plays it for hours & hours with his Fiance. Damn that last word makes me feel so bloody old. :D

I'm having the same issue with missing dependencies as other have reported, my version of the library is 55 not 57.

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Quoting: throghWell? And what about Minetest? Because that's a native, complete free running game and engine for Linux. Minecraft is therefore just some kind of (over)hyped product from my point of view. Yes I've played it also in the past and settled with it onto Linux years ago. But after Microsoft bought Mojang and after so many other things: It's just overrated now even if it got nice graphics with shaders.

I suppose the issue is that people rarely play "out-of-the-box" Minecraft, which is what Minetest is most like when you fire it up. You have to add a lot of add-ins to get Minetest to even be a game. It's just a creative-mode sandbox at first, no enemies, no end game.

In fact, even the underlying feel of the game is pretty different. But there are full-skin modules/customisations which are attempting to recreate the entire Minecraft 1.7 experience in Minetest.

Full list here: http://wiki.minetest.net/List_of_Subgames

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Quoting: EhvisThat's the date that has been on whenisthenextsteamsale.com for ages. I'm not so sure I need anything. But has that ever stopped anyone? :D

Pretty sure that's a good part of the Steam business model.
Oh well , I guess i can pawn off both kidneys.

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Haven't played in over a year now.
May give it a whirl again if I ever stop playing FTL.
Just a pain to install on Steam OS

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Quoting: jkaartGood launcher but I get "./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error in Ubuntu 16.04. :(

Same on Mint 18.1

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Quoting: jkaartGood launcher but I get "./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error in Ubuntu 16.04. :(

On my Debian Stretch system, this is in libicu57.

sudo apt install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search libicui18n.so.57

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Quoting: MayeulCHere come a thought: they could partner with publishers to offer free steam key when you buy a game on GOG (or redeem it to your linked account; this would avoid keys being resold).

It doesn't make sense really. GOG is competing with Steam, and giving out Steam keys means promoting their competitor. So if anything like that would happen, it would be Steam's project (i.e. Steam connect or whatever).

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Quoting: throgh*snip*

MC was first.

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Well? And what about Minetest? Because that's a native, complete free running game and engine for Linux. Minecraft is therefore just some kind of (over)hyped product from my point of view. Yes I've played it also in the past and settled with it onto Linux years ago. But after Microsoft bought Mojang and after so many other things: It's just overrated now even if it got nice graphics with shaders.

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This parrot is once more. It has begun to be. It would voom if you put ten million volts through it!

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the AUR version is maintained by mojang employees, shoghicp uses Arch, that is why this exists at all.
this is the pinned comment from the AUR:

Quoteshoghicp commented on 2017-03-08 09:37
This is maintained by employees of Mojang.

We have no "current" release for any Linux distribution, due to some issues that we are working on fixing.

As soon as we have any release, we will update this package. Note that any old versions (like this one, or current "new" one some people are suggesting to use) might stop working in the future, until we fix these issues.

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That's the date that has been on whenisthenextsteamsale.com for ages. I'm not so sure I need anything. But has that ever stopped anyone? :D

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: elmapul"Note: For some reason they still aren't linking the new Linux launcher on their downloads page, the one that doesn't require Java. You can download it here."

.tar.gz

Really? i will have to type configure, make install and find the dependences my self? in 2017?

No, it's all built for you. They do also have a .deb file, but I decided to link to the main tar file so everyone can enjoy it, not just debbers.

However, they haven't updated the AUR version of minecraft-launcher at all since the day after it was put up there.

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Quoting: rcritI still remember the dark days before GoL where finding reliable, reasoned news on Linux gaming was hit or miss and not even close in terms of real-time information. I'm happy to contribute to the site.

Agreed! This is the best Linux gaming site by far and has well written timely articles and interesting content, as Liam said in one of the above comments you would pay about the same or more for a gaming magazine and I find this site way more valuable than any gaming mag I've subscribed to in the past.

The youtube sessions must also take quite a bit of time out of his day so think that its fair that those who want to and can afford to can pay something to keep the site going. I don't subscribe at the free key level but even if I did I wouldn't do it specifically for the keys, that's just a nice extra 'thank you' for being a patreon.

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Good launcher but I get "./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error in Ubuntu 16.04. :(

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QuoteAdded text-to-speech narrator

I can't wait to see this be horribly, horribly, abused… :S:

I'm still playing Minecraft frequently, but only version 1.7 as that's where most of the good modpacks are still. I think I tried 1.8 once, but that's about as far forward as I've gone.

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Quoting: razing32Speaking of great deals , any leaks regarding the Steam summer sale ?

June 22nd is the latest I've heard.

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Quoting: elmapul"Note: For some reason they still aren't linking the new Linux launcher on their downloads page, the one that doesn't require Java. You can download it here."

.tar.gz

Really? i will have to type configure, make install and find the dependences my self? in 2017?

No, it's all built for you. They do also have a .deb file, but I decided to link to the main tar file so everyone can enjoy it, not just debbers.

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"Note: For some reason they still aren't linking the new Linux launcher on their downloads page, the one that doesn't require Java. You can download it here."

.tar.gz

Really? i will have to type configure, make install and find the dependences my self? in 2017?

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