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SUPER HOT SUPER HOT SUPER HOT SUPER HOT SUPER HOT SUPER HOT

*cough* sorry, little excited

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
best news of 2016! insta buy for me, i am after all a sucker for turn based strategy.
i can hardly contain my enthusiasm!
XCOM2... Darkest Dungeon... 2016 is gonna be a great year for Linux gaming

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Outside of the really bizzare stuff, there were some fairly common resolutions missing; 1600x900, and was 1366x768 on the options?

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Quoting: GuestI wonder if by smart single quotation mark, you mean this: ’
And if by apostrophe you mean this: '

Yes, or rather, I mean 0x92 from the Windows Codepage 1252, and 0x27.

The former is also used as a single closing quotation mark. The Unicode description is RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, with a comment "this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe". Just to distinguish it from 0x27, I called it a "smart" single quotation mark. :)

The strings in the French version Neverwinter Nights use both, interchangeably. In the texture that defines the font, both characters look the same. So some of them were broken, some displayed correctly. This has been fixed now.

The issue, in case anybody's interested was that xoreos didn't take the font encoding into account. It basically acted as if the order of the letters and their indices were the same as in Unicode (or as UTF-32 codepoints). This works for all characters in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1), because those map 1:1 onto Unicode. And because CP-1252, the encoding used in western European versions of Neverwinter Nights (and KotOR/KotOR2), is mostly identical to Latin1, this also worked.

Except for the quote/apostrophe, which is 0x92 in CP-1252, but maps to UTF-32 codepoint 0x2019. And, of course, the extended Latin-based characters eastern European languages (which use CP-1250) don't map either, let alone Cyrillic characters (CP-1251). [1]

This has been fixed, and now both apostrophes show correctly in French Neverwinter Nights versions. Likewise, eastern European versions should also work better now (but I personally haven't tested them).

[1] Neither would any of the Asian languages work, but xoreos doesn't support them at all yet, unfortunately.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearIt up on GOG, so the DRM-free promise looks to already be covered.

http://www.gog.com/game/darkest_dungeon

Great catch. In addition to the tweets and forums searches, I also visited their webpage where "Purchase" takes you directly to Steam and finally a Google search for "Darkest Dungeon DRM-free" which highlighted a wishlist item on GoG, but not the title!

I even searched Humble and found the title, but on Humble, it's just a link to a Steam key.

Very odd. Thanks for pointing that out though. The article's been updated to remove the DRM reference.

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Did not have my display resolution of 1400x1050, but I have only been using it since I got my new monitor a few weeks back, and I fully admit that it is kind of weird, so I really do not consider it too be much of an issue.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyXoreos generally works at least on certain games except for various annoying glitches, and we just cleaned up some of those

Unfortunately not, no.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyXoreos technically makes certain games run but they are unplayable, and this release cleans up certain issues but leaves that broader unplayable status largely intact

This, rather.

What currently works is this: xoreos can detect and start all games. All games show basic ingame areas, with objects and (often) NPCs. Scripts (on area enter, on object click) are evaluated and run, but many of the functionality kicked off by the scripts is not implemented yet. Sound, music and videos work for most games. NWN and KotOR/KotOR2 also have GUIs (NWN more extensive), and NWN also has NPC conversations implemented.

There's no "proper" gameplay as such implemented yet.

For some screenshots, see the screenshots page here: https://xoreos.org/screenshots/index.html
For a video of Neverwinter Nights running in xoreos, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZRvDIB7wI

For a big rambly, non-exhaustive list of things left to do, see this wiki page: https://wiki.xoreos.org/index.php?title=TODO

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe progress described, not to mention the tools for easing the continuation of progress, sound very positive

It's progress. Slow progress, and there's still a lot to do, but progress nonetheless.

Quoting: Purple Library Guybut I can't tell what that means for the general prospects.

Well, the prospects are these: it's a massive undertaking. With the current level of contributors, who are there (and I'm super grateful for them <3) and me still doing most of the work, this is never going to be finished.

I.e. I need more contributors. Anybody interested, please contact me. Anybody who knows people potentially interested, tell them about xoreos. Get the word out. Thanks! :)

If anybody has any questions about this project or the process or anything, feel free to ask.

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I've been waiting patiently for this. Best recipe for games published by companies with dlc diarrhoea: wait for a complete collection and buy it on the nearest sale. It's something different when devs release a complete product like Talos Principle or Dying Light, and then release a DLC that adds new quality and story - I don't mind buying the game right away and then the dlcs separately. But when someone turns dlcs into a business model and release a host of them on day one - my answer is to ignore the game until they release a complete package.

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Does anyone have some context for this? I can't quite tell whether this means "Xoreos generally works at least on certain games except for various annoying glitches, and we just cleaned up some of those", or whether it means "Xoreos technically makes certain games run but they are unplayable, and this release cleans up certain issues but leaves that broader unplayable status largely intact".
The progress described, not to mention the tools for easing the continuation of progress, sound very positive, but I can't tell what that means for the general prospects.

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It up on GOG, so the DRM-free promise looks to already be covered.

http://www.gog.com/game/darkest_dungeon

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Technically, KDE is the company (like Canonical), and the desktop environment is Plasma.

You could just change the entry to "KDE Plasma" to avoid confusing people.

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Quoting: tripy

Quoting: BlackBloodRumVoted. :-).

I'll be the one person in the world still using an AMD CPU in the survey :-P.

Don't worry, you aren't the only one.

yeah, we are with ya! still dont see why i should upgrade atm.
waiting for Zen though, to see if i switch to Zen or Intel

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumVoted. :-).

I'll be the one person in the world still using an AMD CPU in the survey :-P.

Don't worry, you aren't the only one.

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Quoting: adolsonI wish there was a "Same answers as last month" option that would auto-fill everything for me. Yes, I am that lazy!

Never going to happen, sorry. I might tweak things now and then, and don't want things to get broken in any way.

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Same answers as last month : that would be nice, beside the number of games, i mostly always answer the same.

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I wish there was a "Same answers as last month" option that would auto-fill everything for me. Yes, I am that lazy!

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Quoting: segulehNope. I`m the second :)

And I'm the third (AMD GPU user).

AMD rocks because their OS drivers are better than Nouveau, and their hardware is better than Intel.

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Quoting: psymin"Did you buy a Steam Machine?"

I built four of them, does that count? And is it asking if I bought one in January or ever?

No, I think it is for SteamOS Steam Machines only, e.g. the ones from Alienware, Zotac, aso.
But good point. I think we could another point like "I have build my own".

For the second point I think ever otherwise something "this month" should be added.

BTW: Would you mind to share your Builds? Maybe in the forum? Pictures if available would be great too :)

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Quoting: devlandIt was recently also released on gog but only the windows version.
This trend needs to stop. :(

Agreed!

On the Storepage of GOG you can find the reason:
http://www.gog.com/game/tropico_5_complete_collection
Multiplayer Notice: Please note that the GOG Galaxy Client is required to access Multiplayer

GOG would be better work on to improve their Linux support.

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Missing resolution: 5760x1080 ^^

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I'm the third AMD CPU user!

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Great news

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Quoting: metro2033fanboyyep...same as last month...tough that I have been thrive to install Windows again, as FireWatch, Blood&amp;Wine and DarkSouls3 are arriving

I think Firewatch is comming to Linux as well.

I am curious at what resolution people play.

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"Did you buy a Steam Machine?"

I built four of them, does that count? And is it asking if I bought one in January or ever?

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Quoting: metro2033fanboyyep...same as last month...tough that I have been thrive to install Windows again, as FireWatch, Blood&amp;Wine and DarkSouls3 are arriving

Uh, Firewatch will be Linux native...

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumVoted. :-).

I'll be the one person in the world still using an AMD CPU in the survey :-P.

I wonder how that CPU graph is going to look after Summit Ridge processors release.

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Isn't The Vanishing of E.C an UE 3 game?

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yep...same as last month...tough that I have been thrive to install Windows again, as FireWatch, Blood&Wine and DarkSouls3 are arriving

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Nope. I`m the second :)

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Voted. :-).

I'll be the one person in the world still using an AMD CPU in the survey :-P.

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