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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: Mountain Man"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

Well we should never put too much hope in promises, as too many times they end up not working out.

It doesn't mean it's not a top priority now. As a developer who works on the code behind GOL myself, I have a big list of things to do. Some things have to get done first, so I sympathise a bit especially being one guy like this developer.

I know. I'm just being cynical. It's a bad habit.

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Single player only? I'd thought a local multiplayer mode is mandatory on these kind of games. And only partial controller support? Get out of here.

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PC World's response: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3045249/linux/linux-gaming-is-much-healthier-than-steams-hardware-survey-implies.html

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I'll be getting it as soon as it runs on Linux, same day most likely.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

Well we should never put too much hope in promises, as too many times they end up not working out.

It doesn't mean it's not a top priority now. As a developer who works on the code behind GOL myself, I have a big list of things to do. Some things have to get done first, so I sympathise a bit especially being one guy like this developer.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

I would like to disagree with this comment, but it rings too much truth.

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"Mac/Linux ports are one of my top priorities. I will start looking into it seriously very soon, I promise."

Translation: "Mac/Linux ports aren't my top priority, and I haven't even started looking into it. I make no promises."

If your game isn't coded from the very beginning with Linux and Mac support in mind then it's obviously not a top priority.

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I used to play Sim-games back when Maxis was still an independent company, SimFarm/Ant/Isle/Tower/Earth and so on. But then my interest declined for some reason and it might be high time to rekindle it. This title does look rather charming, I'll give it a Day01-chanse. ;-)

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Quoting: StianTheDark

Quoting: metro2033fanboyAs their game will be my top priority at dayONE on STEAM!

goVEGAN

You keep confusing me.

He confuses everyone.

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I'm not exactly sure why we do argue about the quality of fglrx: It has never been good! I used to be a big fan of AMD but since I switched to Linux (including gaming) I sold my AMD GPU several years ago - just because of the bad driver! The hardware (HD 5850 vs GTX 560ti) was BETTER.

All in all code quality of games might be ONE reason, but it's at least not the only one. You could also see this with AMD having performance issues with D3DX11 on windows - repspective nVidia cards which should be on the same level are faster, with vulcan AMD outperforms them most of the time.

There's a reason AMD is shutting down fgrlx and is aiming for amdgpu - it already outperforms fglrx to some extend and get's closer to the Windows or resprective nVidia performance level. If you do own an AMD card, you might wait 2-3 month and check out the recent amdpu + linux kernel + mesa stack then.

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Yay! This looks like such a wonderful game! I'm a sucker for this kind of game where you can have cute little romances with cute little pixely sprite boys/girls. And it was rumored it allows same-sex relationships?? Insta-buy!!

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Quoting: metro2033fanboyAs their game will be my top priority at dayONE on STEAM!

goVEGAN

You keep confusing me.

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As their game will be my top priority at dayONE on STEAM!

goVEGAN

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Quoting: neowiz73cool, my wife has been looking forward to this game. I might have to check it out myself, I like most simulation games.

I think Co-op is planned in a future update.
Im getting this one aswell ^^.

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Quoting: PicoboomI'll not refuse to play a game simply because the developer or publisher "lied," changed their mind, or were simply the victims of capitalist Cerberus of time, resources, and a capricious marketplace. If I did, I wouldn't own Divinity: Original Sin, or Stanley Paradox, or so many other solid quality titles.

Having played Payday 2 since before any DLC, after 1,200+ hours I've seen and played it all. I boycotted the game briefly when the micro-transactions were first introduced and began playing again when the skin/mods were made available in-game, without purchase. The little bonuses the mods add are negligible and unnoticeable in general play, really.

Payday 2 is an action-soaked, wildly-replayable co-op shooter par excellence. It's often on sale for a very modest sum, and a real boon to the Linux community's game Library.

An excellent post that sums up my thoughts exactly.

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cool, my wife has been looking forward to this game. I might have to check it out myself, I like most simulation games.

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Quoting: darkone778And it looks like Dirt showdown is also available. Why do i feel like this has been available for a while now and im just seeing this? lol

VP released the Showdown port like half a year ago. Just do a search for Showdown here on GOL. You'll find several articles on it.

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And it looks like Dirt showdown is also available. Why do i feel like this has been available for a while now and im just seeing this? lol

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: mattsturgeon4.5 also has a lot of fixes for the xpad driver, including a fix for a really annoying crash in a lot of games that was related to controller vibration (or sometimes LEDs)

I did wonder when that was going to finally be put in.

Just noticed it also introduced a new xpad bug...

Two steps forward and one step back!

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Quoting: Kristian"- C#"

Can't you develop using C# in both UE4 and CryEngine V. Certainly you can in the latter. Plus UE4 has the Blueprint system.

"- Assets"

As far as I can tell there are lots of assets for UE4 and CryEngine V.

"- You don't really have to care about the build-system etc. Everything's GUI"

Is this different with CryEngine V and UE4? Do you have to care about the build system with those?

you can't develop UE4 in C#. unless you want to stay on 4.2 forever. Xamarin completely abandoned it when they realized they can't pull Unity (read up how Unity is stuck on stone age version of Mono and why) due to licensing restrictions of UE4 which prevents that. i think it wasn't 1 month when everything was forgotten it ever existed

there was also another project aiming for C# in UE4, but Ximian practically gave them cease and desist answer with the pricing for required licensing if they went forward

Mono it self is free, but you're not allowed to bundle it with application. you can freely distribute application and require user installs Mono, but for inclusion in your setup you need commercial license.

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Quoting: bridgmanThanks for the note about multi-arch... I don't remember anyone running into that during testing but will check.

Thanks - I didn't expect any sort of reply from AMD. I didn't even know anyone from AMD monitored Gaming on Linux. Nice one!

Quoting: bridgmanSounds like you got a very different 14.04.4 HWE from what we downloaded from ubuntu.com. The stock 14.04.4 HWE image should have 4.2 kernel and associated graphics stack, not 4.4 or 3.13.

I'm usually a Debian user, but just installed Ubuntu because that's what the drivers said was supported. I tried using the normal graphical installer wizard, and that would fail (with some very strange errors/behaviour) every time I tried installing my root/swap partitions on top of LVM2, on top of a dedicated LUKS partition used for the LVM2 physical volume, so in the end I just set it up manually (because I really hate not using encryption).

So in the end I basically just ran parted, crypsetup, lvm pvcreate/vgcreate/lvcreate, mkfs.ext4/mkswap, debootstrap, installed grub-efi/kernel/kernel tools/kernel headers/xfce-desktop/goodies packages, edited /etc/cryptsetup, /etc/default/grub, /etc/fstab, created accounts via useradd, ran grub-install, done. Then later I added the i386 architecture via the dpkg --add-architecture i386 command.

FWIW, debootstrap was ran using the Ubuntu 14.04.4 installer/Live CD, so I'm assuming it's supported by Canonical.

Quoting: bridgmanIf you install 14.04.0 or 14.04.1 and apply the regular security/bug fix updates the distro version will show as 14.04.4 but it won't have the 14.04.4 HWE kernel or graphics stack.

Since I used the 14.04.4 Live CD, I assume I have everything fully up to date. In case it helps:

abolte@dragon:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu-security/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://cyclops.monsters:3142/ubuntu-security/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
abolte@dragon:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
abolte@dragon:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
abolte@dragon:~$ 
where cyclops.monsters is just the apt-cacher-ng server I have on my LAN for caching packages. If you would like a complete package listing or any other details, feel free to send me an e-mail at abolte at systemsaviour.com. Really, the AMD deb packages should depend on all the packages they require so they will be installed automatically (or simply fail to install if the dependencies aren't available).

Quoting: bridgmanDid you install the 4.4 kernel on top of the 14.04.4 install or did it come in automatically ? I'm wondering if ubuntu.com might be giving out different configurations in different locations or something.

Since I used debootstrap, I didn't get a kernel by default. I simply looked at my available options, and saw there was a 4.4 kernel in the official repos that was LTS, so that's what I grabbed.

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Spring equinox is today, so we should find out what that is any day.

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I think that F1 is not the Feral surprise. My bet is for Tomb Raider

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Is F1 2015 = [e^(i π) = -1]?
What about spring equinox mystery?

Explain to us Feral. :P

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Does any one else have this demo crash right after launching? (I'm using Debian 8.3 stable/jessie with an HD6970 using the open-source radeon drivers.)

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QuoteStill quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.

Doubt that! As I'm using Wine to play older which are very unlikely to be ported.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusion

Quoting: lucifertdarkWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.

It looks like Humble picked up most of the slack. Linux gamers are just more savvy about DRM-free.

Those that prefer DRM-free rather go to GOG nowadays, Humble isn't first-class on that anymore. Sad, but true...

Humble has become another cheap Steamkey-Reseller and had some nice bundles over last month. So I'm not surprised that Humble went up.

The problem with GOG is that it misses lots of native Linux Builds which are available elsewhere e.g. on Steam for a longer time already. Then they have to improve their Linux support. I'm kinda surprised that this "joke" of Client hasn't been ported yet. Sorry, but my support for GOG has dropped to almost zero.

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I don't see a SteamOS or Linux icon on the store page. Is there a link to an announcement?

EDIT: Found it. I guess my local repo just hasn't updated yet.

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The reviews as a whole complain of the lack of features, more than the driving model that appears for me that was improved over F1 2013, as a personal opinion I think that Codemasters should find a way of modify their contract with FIA/FOM and stop releasing yearly F1 games, maybe launch one after two or tree years and in the mid time use expansions (since they like to launch a bunch of dlc lately), to update the game to the new seasons, and maintain the game making improvements over the years with patches.
As a nice addition they could make better damage models since their other games have more reasonable damage, again maybe part of the problem is the yearly release or some contract clause and speaking of the safety car I never saw one during the time that I played F1 2011-2013 the IA simply didn't make big mistakes something that I miss from the old Codemasters games.
Anyways appears a good but not great game with lack of features comparing with previous games and I will pick up a copy. If is similar to previous F1 games its gameplay is kind of similar to GRID: Autosport in the sense that isn't a simulator but isn't arcade like DiRT: Showdown or NFS, one of the most interesting parts of the gameplay is the dynamic climate that you start a race with sun or rain (heavy or light) and can end it with different climate resulting in some mid race strategy change.

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Quoting: TheBossOkay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv

Thanks! :)

By the way I see it has a Timestamp in the "2016/03/01 11:54:21 AM GMT" format, so one could figure out a trend of survey completion from 2016/03/1 until 2016/03/14 .

I was also hyped in trying to you see what happens to this trend after the news is spread out in reddit, but there is only "this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2016" without the exact hour :(

EDIT: found on Google that if you hover the post date it tells the exact day and time. So 1456858580.0 -> "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:20 GMT"

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/48fwj0/new_linux_steamos_gamer_survey_for_march/

EDIT: how and besides being called golsurveyfebresults.csv it is actually this months march one :)

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Quoting: nullzeroOpen data request:

Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?

Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.

> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -

Cheers!

I wonder what is more interesting in life than sociology :D
Thanks for sharing, love the analysis part.

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