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Picked up a key, will give it a try as soon as I can.

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Took one as well, this was just too tempting. :)
I'll give it a try soon.
Thanks!

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Hi!

Firstly - thanks to all of you for testing the game for us and letting us know if it runs OK on Linux. We have installed a machine with Ubuntu but, since we are very new to Linux, we needed some expert help for compatibility testing...and testing in general!

Quoting: jordicomaI runs without touching anything. It's already a first step. It's a really simple game made with unity (has a big unity logo). For the first look they should improve the menus. They are really simple.

Indeed, the current menu system is just place-holder until all the game modes are finalised. It will be one of the last things we tackle before moving out of Early Access and into Full Release.

Feel free to leave feedback here or on the Steam community page. Also, as Liam mentioned, we would really appreciate your reviews for the game as they are so important to help get the game noticed. We welcome all feedback and will address any and all issues.

Thanks again!

Rich
DarkDuoGames

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I got a key and tried it out for a minute or two this morning before work and works great. No problems I could see and looks fun. Thanks!

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Quoting: skinnyrafAnd yet no Steam BPM/steamcompmgr as an option for the desktop environment.

Sure, I'm using KDE or XFCE on my main purpose PC, so I could put it in the PC info, but this would suggest I tweaked SteamOS. It's already misleading I stated I dual boot. Yes, I do, but on the old PC which I use to play Windows-only legacy games, not on the Steam Machine.

Perhaps the question should be "Do you use another operating system to play games unavailable under Linux?"

The whole point of this is about your main gaming PC, it is not to encompass every single PC you use in your house.

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Finally!

After many years of visiting this website, I finally got a key! I can't even remember how many of these giveaways I've missed.

**passes out from joy**

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So do we leave feedback & test results here or on Steam?

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Cheers

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I runs without touching anything. It's already a first step. It's a really simple game made with unity (has a big unity logo). For the first look they should improve the menus. They are really simple.

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Thanks! I grabbed myself a key and I'll be sure to check it out

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thank you

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Quoting: Al3sI'm surprised the Steam Controller is the most used. I've never used it but I thought people wouldn't want to risk it and the xbox360 is proven to be good already.

I'll keep an eye on it next time I have to buy one, but I'm using a xbo360 at the moment and I have a thrustmaster gpx still in reserve

I have to admit that XBox 360 controller is a more comfortable controller as far as contollers go. But Steam Controller has completely replaced all other input devices for me, and I have not touched a keyboard and mouse ever since I got it. Granted it's not really for competitive play, but I can do ok against bots in CS:GO on easy to medium difficulty with a Steam Controller. I also completed Postal 2 with a Steam Controller. I still struggle with RTS games where you have to click all over the screen, but it's doable. All without lifting by butt from the sofa. :)

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And yet no Steam BPM/steamcompmgr as an option for the desktop environment.

Sure, I'm using KDE or XFCE on my main purpose PC, so I could put it in the PC info, but this would suggest I tweaked SteamOS. It's already misleading I stated I dual boot. Yes, I do, but on the old PC which I use to play Windows-only legacy games, not on the Steam Machine.

Perhaps the question should be "Do you use another operating system to play games unavailable under Linux?"

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I have almost finished the first trends graph and it's looking slick as hell.

I've switched to chart.js, an MIT licensed JavaScript graph library and damn, it's so much nicer to work with! For now only the first trend graph is using it, but I may switch over all the others to it as it's not only nicer to work with, but better to look at and you can interact with it to turn off different labels and so on.

Here's a preview:
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I'm surprised the Steam Controller is the most used. I've never used it but I thought people wouldn't want to risk it and the xbox360 is proven to be good already.

I'll keep an eye on it next time I have to buy one, but I'm using a xbo360 at the moment and I have a thrustmaster gpx still in reserve

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI also buy Linux games. If there's an kinda interesting game, but it doesn't support Linux, it will fall off my radar more easily. But if there is a game I really want to play because I know other games from the developer or it's a successor of a game I loved, I will still buy it. Even if the developers state that they will never support Linux just because they don't have any experience nor interest in that. That's OK for me. I still like to give them money for a good game that is fun to play.

I totally understand that. It's hard for me to turn a blind eye to Fallout and Elder Scrolls...

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I also buy Linux games. If there's an kinda interesting game, but it doesn't support Linux, it will fall off my radar more easily. But if there is a game I really want to play because I know other games from the developer or it's a successor of a game I loved, I will still buy it. Even if the developers state that they will never support Linux just because they don't have any experience nor interest in that. That's OK for me. I still like to give them money for a good game that is fun to play.

I still have my old windows partition, and I have to actively delete it to get rid of the option to play such games. I'm glad I did not, because playing Abzû was really a brilliant and otherworldly experience!

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI have to say that I wouldn't have thought that 67% are not dual booting - not even another Linux distro. Is it really that common for Linux gamers to not have a Windows partition ready for the case a game will not have Linux support - or just older Games which do not work well with Wine?

I guess GoL readers are a bit more hardcore than the average also-on-Linux gamer. I dual booted for over a decade for gaming and stopped in April 2014, when I felt there's enough to play on Linux. I tend to play through games and not revisit them, so no need to run older games.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI have to say that I wouldn't have thought that 67% are not dual booting - not even another Linux distro. Is it really that common for Linux gamers to not have a Windows partition ready for the case a game will not have Linux support - or just older Games which do not work well with Wine?

Well, I for one don't have the patience to run Windows on anything plus I believe the only way to ensure the growth of Linux as a gaming platform is to buy and support games on that platform. So, no Windows games for me.

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I have to say that I wouldn't have thought that 67% are not dual booting - not even another Linux distro. Is it really that common for Linux gamers to not have a Windows partition ready for the case a game will not have Linux support - or just older Games which do not work well with Wine?

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I think I will try it, but yesterday we had the strong feeling that this whole planet thing is not a necessarily good thing for RTS games. There are no real choke points on these planets, especially if you play in a star system with more than 1 planet. You have to constantly expand in every possible direction and take care of your fabbers.

I think being "restricted" to a 2D map section and premade maps is better suited for typical RTS game strategies. We're playing Supreme Commander 2 tonight - I'm really looking forward to it. It gives you a better overview over what's happening.

And what's even more important: You can disable Nukes in Supreme Commander 2. I hate those thingies. :D

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I was going to say I'm missing the special questions we used to have in the monthly surveys, but I couldn't come up with somethin interesting to ask. Maybe the following could the be a one-time question (instead of adding to the user data survey)?

Quoting: GuestI don't know if it's just me but I'm curios how Linux gamers are scattered around the world. Are you open to the idea of adding the continent where a GOL member resides?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAlso, are the graphs truncating things to show only ten options? In the first graph of Linux Distributions (Combined) things like SteamOS and Slackware show up, but are absent from the Linux Distributions (Split) graph. I can see this being a stylistic choice (for instance if there are several dozen distributions with only a few users each), I'm just curious if it's intentional.

Those two graphs are quite different. All graphs show a max of 10 items.

The combined graph has SteamOS (for example) as the others are combined, so Xubuntu, Kubuntu and so on go under "Ubuntu-based" which frees up space for more. Even though SteamOS is technically just Debian-based (unless it has a lot of divergence?), it's useful to show it by itself anyway.

All graphs allow you to view the full statistics of each in the dropdown below them.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAlso, are the graphs truncating things to show only ten options? In the first graph of Linux Distributions (Combined) things like SteamOS and Slackware show up, but are absent from the Linux Distributions (Split) graph. I can see this being a stylistic choice (for instance if there are several dozen distributions with only a few users each), I'm just curious if it's intentional.

I think there used to be a combined "others" entry in these cases, or was this only discussed in comments somewhere? Anyway, under the graphs there's a "Click for full statistics" thingy you can click to see the rest.

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Good on the dev for this decision, let's repay them with our patronage!

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Huh! My desktop resolution (1920×1200) is actually the second-most common. I totally would not have guessed that. (Though I kinda regret going for it now, as it makes it troublesome to record full-screen videos for YouTube.)

Also, are the graphs truncating things to show only ten options? In the first graph of Linux Distributions (Combined) things like SteamOS and Slackware show up, but are absent from the Linux Distributions (Split) graph. I can see this being a stylistic choice (for instance if there are several dozen distributions with only a few users each), I'm just curious if it's intentional.

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Quoting: rick01457I looked over the Linux distro breakdown with interest because I was wondering if anyone was using Solus. I only found out about it a couple of weeks ago. Has anyone used it? Is it good/bad?

It's very good. Just a shame the Roccat driver software isn't available through their software channel, like quite a few other things.

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Quoting: throghYet this is only possible with non-free firmware, so in fact the Mesa-drivers are cool but not complete open. :(
Especially newer cards have those problems, when installing the libre kernel!

No, Mesa is completely open. It's the AMDGPU kernel module that requires the non-free microcode.

Speaking of which, it looks like there might be some hope for a free software microcode implementation soon as well.
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PS4-Linux-Radeon-Driver-Mods

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Quoting: Avehicle7887This is great news for AMD users, I'll be ready to see how it performs when compared to Nvidia then. Regardless of the outcome, this brings me one step closer to a full AMD build this year.

I think 2017 will be a very good year for Linux, there's a lot of room for improvement.

Come on over to the AMD pool friend! The water is nice!

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Always nice to see a game I helped Kickstart working out well! I didn't get their usual monthly newsletter so this is the first I've heard of the update.

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