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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: minj:rolleyes:

Game level designers are not the sort of people to get platform news from, Liam.

You need engine devs for that. Or porters.

Why is some guy who hauls baggage supposed to know what's going on? ;)

If I was working at a game developer, I would still expect a level designer to at least know the platforms it was being released on, I mean why wouldn't they know unless the company is tight lipped to employees about such things?

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Who cares about the Linux version, I play it on the Atari Falcon; http://files.dhs.nu/movies/misc/msbduke_66-16.avi

Ha, only kidding, I think I have all the Duke Nukem games in my Steam library already. Pretty sure there was some bundle sale I'd picked up long ago.

I think in general once you've bought a game on Steam, you have it forever, otherwise it's a breach of contract to just steal them away. I have seen games pulled from the store before, but you can still download them.

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Ah damn, didn't see that coming, I was just refunded for this game, as it sucked balls in it's current state. Well, I will wait for a sale price then ;)

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Quote11819 The Longest Journey Demo: characters mostly invisible (broken TransformVertices with D3DVIEWPORT2)

Could this BE IT? The moment Wine lets you play TLJ from start to end without visiting the seven gates of hell?


Must search for my old TLJ CD's.

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The "About the game" lies! There is no such thing as "a decent Monday"!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: devland

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: devlandI'm still not sure what they mean when they use the term "open world".
The game looks like a space strategy game. Where and how does the "open world" aspect kick in?

You're not forced down a set path, you essentially do what you want.

So the games have persistence? I had the impression you played games like in every other 4x/strategy game. Aren't the games session based? Aren't there maps? Is there a universe in which you can travel?

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. It's an open-world open-ended space game, you build up your fleet and do whatever you want by the looks of it.

I guess the question is "Then what did you do before?"

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'· Secret levels and “funny” jokes!'

This made me giggle, and wonder if they're just not confident in their humor writing :P

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Actually thinking about it, there are probably more distros that have standard KDE than have weird custom ones (I can really only think of Suse based ones off the top of my head)

Regardless, where is my working SteamVR? Would love for a fully supported Talos Principle in VR! Pretty sure games like Dying Light would make most people yak. But then I can play windlands without spewing.

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I've been enjoying the 1.18 patch so far (can't afford Rights of Man at the moment :( ). With the change that allows migratory nations to migrate over one sea zone I played Carib, migrated into the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, then started colonizing like crazy so that I had about 7–8 provinces by the time Portugal showed up. They then took my capital in a total curb-stomp of a war, which let me reform my government, catch most of the way up in technology, and take it back a decade or so later. ^_^

At some point my dynasty spread to nearby Muisca due to a royal marriage I had with them, but when I converted to Catholicism I kept getting messages while my ruler was heirless about falling under a personal union with them. This intrigued me enough that I actively pursued it, taking event choices that ended up with my heir dying and turning down three separate events that would have given me a new one, until I finally pulled it off, my ruler died, and I came under a PU with Muisca. Who is still Inti.

Just realized that doesn't really have anything to do with the patch, per se, so…I like the new institutions and how they affect technology cost. It's a really cool idea for making technology cost increases over time a bit more organic, and it's amazing to watch them spreading out across the globe from their points of origin.

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Parkitect's main menu music is ridiculously, ludicrously happy. :D

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FUCK YEAH A TIMER! I FUCKING LOVE THAT SHIT THANK YOU!

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Well I'm sure they don't mind the PR remembering them - sales of their game no doubt go up when they hit 100's of news sites and people take two seconds and are like "oh, remember X" - "oh yeah what's going on with X?"

Much like how lots of video game information or trailers are "leaked" these days - lol.

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I don't think they need to use SteamOS for desktop demo. KDE is just fine for that purpose.

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Quoting: MGOid

Quoting: MyeulCWell, to be fair, we don't even know if it's kubuntu (the tweets aren't from the computer's owner, AFAIK). It could even be that they decided to switch to KDE for their next SteamOS release, who knows?

Kubuntu is one of the few distros that delivers a pure KDE, without any customization, as showed in the images. And as Valve uses Debian as platform for SteamOS and Ubuntu as a target distro, I think is safe to say it is Kubuntu.

Or it could be Neon, Debian, Arch, or a whole host of other distros that have a truly 'pure' KDE desktop. At this point Kubuntu is one of the worst choices for a KDE distro - it is still an entire version behind in Plasma/KDE/QT.

Agreed - KDE on Arch is a dream, KDE on Kubuntu is a nightmare. Pacman vs PPA, the thought makes me shiver.

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Quoting: minj:rolleyes:

Game level designers are not the sort of people to get platform news from, Liam.

You need engine devs for that. Or porters.

Why is some guy who hauls baggage supposed to know what's going on? ;)

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It seemed to be running awesomely on worse card then my GTX 970 so I guess they really are getting better and better with quality every new port :D And they do so many of them... They are awesome

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"Are we there yet?"

:)

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Quoting: kDombAaahhh time to beat liam again.
Please don't rage quit this time ;)

I have my "Connection error" overlay text ready for you ;)

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Aaahhh time to beat liam again.
Please don't rage quit this time ;)

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I saw the stream and the game looks incredible!
Can't wait to see how it works on AMD :)

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Quoting: m2mg2Looking at the steamdb entries I don't see any indications the Linux version has started development. We may be in for a long wait. Also makes me worry they may not have paid attention to cross platform support in their development tools.

Hopefully it all works out. Just don't buy it until Linux release, no matter how good a sale comes along.

Valve provide tools for developers but not everyone has to use them, they may be using their own versioning system, their own continuous integration tools and their own automatic deployment scripts and if so they will probably only put it on Steam servers only a fews days before release for Valve quality control.

There is not a lot of games developers used to Linux and the same goes for game testers, and that's why when porting project are done internally it often take longer than anticipated. But it can only get better with time as we get more and more games to our platform.

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Quoting: HalKadoWaiting for Vulkan to become stable and widely available makes sense, and its encouraging to see the dev's playing the long game rather then rushing something out. Shows some long term commitment and planning.

That is true but they could as well hurry up a bit just to show developers again that they are serious :D But ofc this is not how open-source works... It will catch up eventually and when it does proprietary shit will be a joke for game devs :)

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Quoting: EhvisColour me not surprised. And excited. I may use this weekend to finally play through the first (well, the remake) one. I only played for about an hour when I first got it.

Go for it, it's a great game if you like the style of old-school games like Doom or Duke Nukem.

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Quoting: MGOid

Quoting: MyeulCWell, to be fair, we don't even know if it's kubuntu (the tweets aren't from the computer's owner, AFAIK). It could even be that they decided to switch to KDE for their next SteamOS release, who knows?

Kubuntu is one of the few distros that delivers a pure KDE, without any customization, as showed in the images. And as Valve uses Debian as platform for SteamOS and Ubuntu as a target distro, I think is safe to say it is Kubuntu.

Or it could be Neon, Debian, Arch, or a whole host of other distros that have a truly 'pure' KDE desktop. At this point Kubuntu is one of the worst choices for a KDE distro - it is still an entire version behind in Plasma/KDE/QT.

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Quoting: GuestIf they actually needed more money for developing a bigger game, then ask for more money for the complete version.

And this is when the anti-DLC crowd has me scratching my head.

If you don't mind paying extra for "the complete version" (whatever that means to you) then why do you have a problem with paying extra for DLC? Either way, you're paying more to get more, so what's the problem?

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Waiting for Vulkan to become stable and widely available makes sense, and its encouraging to see the dev's playing the long game rather then rushing something out. Shows some long term commitment and planning.

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Ha! That's what I thought when he gave his answer on Twitch. I felt he didn't even knew that the first one has been ported to Linux... as soon the Linux Version is out, I'll buy the game!

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It looks nice. There is a free demo on Steam. I'll try it soon.

It reminds me a little bit HoMM Clash of Heroes. I can"t plat it on Linux.
Really fun.

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