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It´s great that we can finally see some movement on the Linux-front with this title.

Ever since the kickstarter for "Darkest Dungeon", I´ve been really eager to try this game and I hoped that it would become available in "early access" but that was a no go. If I dare to hope that it shows up during late february, then this would be a great month (with both XCOM2 and Dying Light:The Following soon to come). Still that might be a bit too optimistic but with the above mentioned titles (and the Agatha Christie adventure), March would be fine as a release month as well.

There has been a bit of negativity during the "ea" period for the game, I think the gist of it, is that the development has made the game more challenging/frustrating for players with a bit too much "grinding". Obviously, I don´t know how I´ll feel about that yet but everything I´ve seen from it makes me fairly certain that this game will be a lot of fun to play until the frustration (hypothetically) kicks in.

Sooo...still pretty hyped! :)

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Quoting: PozzuoliTechnically, 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.

I don't really get how people would be confused by that, but I've changed it anyway.

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

1366x768 is there, 1600x900 has been added for next month.

I went based on what Nvidia control panel lets me change mine to, so if it's not there it's not on my personal list, but I will of course keep adding to it.

Quoting: HamishDid 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.

Added for next month.

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Quoting: kellerkindtMissing resolution: 5760x1080 ^^

Is that seriously your resolution?

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I binged on watching people stream this. It's so so so good. Can't wait. :D

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Hah, I was checking it out yesterday, thinking: "No Linux port... Odd." :)

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Quoting: wolfyrionAll great news and so on but tbh the only game I want to play in 2016 is Street Fighter V and no news for it and not even a SteamOS/Linux icon on pre-orders yet..... Should I worry a bit :( ??

Is going to get released in 2 weeks

/pokes GamingOnLinux Detectives

They never said it would be a day one release, it will come out later.

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I'm really looking forward to this game, played it already at my friend, but did not want to buy before actual Linux release. Hopefully they do not release it to soon, as I still grind through Diablo's Season 5 Journey ;)

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All great news and so on but tbh the only game I want to play in 2016 is Street Fighter V and no news for it and not even a SteamOS/Linux icon on pre-orders yet..... Should I worry a bit :( ??

Is going to get released in 2 weeks

/pokes GamingOnLinux Detectives

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Yesss! A turn based strategy game! We really, really need more strategy games. I think we can still take ten more this month, just to have something to do while waiting for the the ten tbs games coming next month!

:-P

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I cannot really offer any help (except maybe playtesting sometime in the future), but I wanted to say how much I admire your effort! Amazing undertaking and a worthy project... the golden age of Bioware games.

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Quoting: GuestThey have discarded and reworked as much of fglrx as they can - as has been mentioned many times before however, they can't get rid of a proprietary part entirely. Particularly with the workstation scene, they will have their own little tweaks in a blob userland, which may be useful for games sometimes as well.

Can we get links for some fireside reading?

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For resolutions, a suggestion for next survey: an other checkbox allowing people to enter their own :-).

Also, noticed there are a select few other AMD CPU people out their :-) - Although I must confess, I have an Nvidia GPU, so I'm AMD/Nvidia.. sorry guys!

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

No prob. :D

Though the same thing happened to me when I googled it up. The first link isn't to the game, but the wishlist. The only reason why I kept looking past that was because I vaguely recalled seeing it on GOG's front page back when it first came out.

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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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