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Does anyone know if "purchasing" the game here:

https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/282531/life-is-strange-pc-download

Counts as a Windows or Linux purchase? It gives you a steam key, which in turn will allow you to get the trading cards, where as without the key using steams free system you get no cards.

Just curious if I should "do it" or not.

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Hell yeah.

I've completed this. Been wanting to play this again on Linux exclusively!

This is worth the money. I went at it non stop. I'd pay full price for this again gladly tbh.

You people should get it. Good on Feral and Square for this. Next should be "I am Setsuna"!

Anyone of you skeptical about this game? I guarantee you that if you play it till the end, you will come back here and say it was good. I was skeptical but this beats any of the Telltale Games hands down and i've played all of those to the end (except the new Batman which i'm not going to get because Telltale does not support Linux).

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Quoting: ShmerlAre they already using GTK3 for the launcher? They used GTK2 for TW2.

Yes, GTK3.

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Quoting: marcusHm ... So Feral gets money only if I buy the Season pass. But is it guaranteed that Seasons 2-5 will also be on Linux? Can anyone from Feral comment on that?

All episodes are on Linux.

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It appears to be available on Steam now.

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Hm ... So Feral gets money only if I buy the Season pass. But is it guaranteed that Seasons 2-5 will also be on Linux? Can anyone from Feral comment on that?

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Quoting: WienerWuerstelThe only difference is that my head tells me to buy the GTX 1070.

AMD is heading into a good direction but it's still going to take a couple years before it's really going to be competitve with Nvidia in all games on Linux (*cough* Feral and VP *cough*.

Yeah GTX 1070 is very good card with very good performance / watt ratio, recently gigabyte launch mini model but is so expensive

Maybe when appears RX 490, GTX 1070 hopefully can reduce price

^_^

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buy it guys! This game is awesome trust me! : )

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On SteamOS have this notice related with amd gpus

NVIDIA GPU's require Driver version 367.27 (tested).

AMD and Intel GPU's require MESA 11.2 (tested).

AMD GPUs are not supported on SteamOS

^_^

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Finally some big Triple-A news again! Will pick this one up right in a second. Very curious about the game how it lives up to its great reviews. Thanks Feral!

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Are they already using GTK3 for the launcher? They used GTK2 for TW2.

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Quoting: libgradev

Quoting: WienerWuerstelVery nice! I hope that some AMD owners out there can report us that it also runs great with the AMDPGU(PRO) drivers, or else it makes my decision for a new graphics card even harder ;).

Ha, yeah I'm in this boat too...

My heart says RX480, my head GTX1060!

We are in the same boat indeed :D. The only difference is that my head tells me to buy the GTX 1070. AMD is heading into a good direction but it's still going to take a couple years before it's really going to be competitve with Nvidia in all games on Linux (*cough* Feral and VP *cough*.

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On feral radar spacious skies and f-foxy* remains equal

*f-foxy dont is life is strage and so which game could be???

^_^

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Added requirements in now it's properly live: Requires Nvidia 600 series, AMD 6000 series, Intel Iris Pro or better.

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Quoting: WienerWuerstelVery nice! I hope that some AMD owners out there can report us that it also runs great with the AMDPGU(PRO) drivers, or else it makes my decision for a new graphics card even harder ;).

Ha, yeah I'm in this boat too...

My heart says RX480, my head GTX1060!

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Quoting: rkfgDon't fret, I've just bought it and here's what the order screen looks like:..

I did discover that a while later after purchasing, but thanks for the feedback!

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Very nice! I hope that some AMD owners out there can report us that it also runs great with the AMDPGU(PRO) drivers, or else it makes my decision for a new graphics card even harder ;).

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is this the final act so as to start playing? or I have to wait for another act in a year?

You know my memory is not that good to remember a game after 2 years so I prefer to play it once the game is finished :D

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Quoting: ellieferalTralala...

Feral...what else?

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Quoting: qchtoThat little "All digital products are delivered via the Deliver2Mac client." message don't give me a good vibe, considering the client is Mac exclusive..

Don't fret, I've just bought it and here's what the order screen looks like:


What's funnier is that the URL isn't bound to the purchase/account/session in any way, it's just a direct link to the cloudfront.net CDN and you can download with wget or whatever. So if you have that URL you technically don't need to pay (I don't encourage you to share it of course).

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I have all overlord games bought in Steam years ago, it's a pity that I can't play it If I own the game. I think that this circumstance is a big error from VP. A lot of people wants to have all the games in the same place. When I buy a game (in Humble Bundle, Bundle Stars, Games Republic, Greenmangaming..) I only have two premises: the game can be activated in Steam, and of course, can be played in Linux natively.

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Quoting: XpanderWill it be redeemable in steam when i buy from VP store?
i just don't want to have games from different places and deal with manual updates.

Ditto.

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QuoteThey also removed the "Exit to Windows" text (yeah I know, it’s an old game), so it just says "Quit" in the Linux port. Funny, because I noticed people whining about that on another website. Goes to show that VP do have a nice attention to the small details for us Linux gamers.

This is because in many peoples eyes, Eon does the same thing as Wine. While there are details on Eon exactly works, from the data that I have, I suspect Eon differs quite a bit from Wine.

What is similar about both technologies is that they load the original Windows executable in memory. However, while Wine is generic and makes no assumptions about the game in question, I believe Eon needs actual porting works on the game.

What is the difference. A good example would be the filesystem. Wine needs to emulate a full Windows filesystem with C: drives letters. I believe Eon is much more smilare to:

function OpenFile(name:Pchar):HFILE;winapi;

begin
if string(name)='settings.txt' then
OpenFile:=open(homedir+'/.config/Virtual Programming/Overlord/settings.txt');
end;

... the result is that VP ports behave like native Linux applications and don't need a filesystem with Dos drives letters.

Much more fundamental is that Wine needs to emulate DirectX shaders with low level OpenGL shaders. Because Eon knows what shaders to expect, native GLSL shaders can be used (Peter Mulholland from VP once said that they use native shaders).

Another thing that I belive Eon does, is runtime patching: Consider the machine code of the game in memory the "source code" and modify it at runtime. I believe this way, you can replace "Exit to Windows" with "Quit".

So yes, there are similarities between Wine and Eon, but I believe the VP ports are a lot closer to native applications than what some people believe. It certainly doesn't look VP just wraps the game and work is done.

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Quoting: XpanderWill it be redeemable in steam when i buy from VP store?
i just don't want to have games from different places and deal with manual updates.

Same here..

And what's even more worrying: Will I be able to download the game at all?



That little "All digital products are delivered via the Deliver2Mac client." message don't give me a good vibe, considering the client is Mac exclusive..

Edit:

Ok, for anyone interested, the download of a ".run" file (around 3.2GB) is active from their site:



I don't think they will offer a digital Steam key however.

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I already have it on Steam. I guess I'll wait :\

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It's great to see a DRM free release but it's also a shame that I can't play it (for now) even though I own it on Steam.

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Quoting: ellieferalTralala...

You don't say so! :P

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Tralala...

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Will it be redeemable in steam when i buy from VP store?
i just don't want to have games from different places and deal with manual updates.

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I'll buy it when it will come out on GOG. Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is quite good.

Original idea of the "zone" (for those unfamiliar) comes from Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky brothers.

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