Quoting: EhvisDeus Ex performance will be interesting indeed. Unfortunately Feral is tight lipped about the possible use of Vulkan. They did do a news post specifically about metal with "You can't kill progress" in the title. What they didn't mention (and nobody on twitter asked) is whether the port does DX12 -> Metal or DX11 -> Metal. If they did the first, then their knowledge of DX12 should be pretty good and Vulkan would not be too hard to do. Anyway, more patience is needed before we know if progress is not killed for us either.

Like I tell people when this comes up, I don't expect Feral to use Vulkan until later next year. If they were using Vulkan, like with Metal it would have already have been announced.

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/clustertruck

Added it in, I went by their official site which only listed Steam.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI think in terms of numbers we're more than fine now. These days, the more interesting number is indeed the % of top selling games available for Linux as quality trumps quantity. Not sure where you got the 8/10 from, but when I look at the "Global Top Sellers" list in Steam, we're not quite at 80%, even when counting Arma III (which AFAIK has an unofficial Linux port) and Civ VI (which is confirmed for Linux, but doesn't show the Linux tag in Steam).
Also, don't forget that the top 3 publishers in terms of top selling games aren't even on Steam (EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft). To calculate an accurate % of all top selling games for Linux we'd probably have to include them (although I personally won't shed a tear about never seeing one of their games on Linux.)

I said top 10 played, not top selling: http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

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Quoting: tmtvlI wonder how many of the "x most played games" are available on Linux...
That might be a bit more of a thing than pure number of available games.

I added a bit about the current top 10.

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Quoting: PicoboomI haven't tried this yet, but I loved the Battlefield series on my Xbox 360, and BF3 remains one of my favorite PVP games.

As I understand that setting up a server for a game is no small cost, so I can understand the lack of multiplayer for Ravenfield at this stage of development. But I have hope that eventually the game sees enough success to add more maps and Battlefield-like team multiplayer options, all the while maintaining the delightful toy-like look the game has now.

You could just release the server scripts and let people run servers themselves, that's generally what people do to keep costs down.

Having a master server list doesn't need to expensive either, a cheap server that receives pings from the servers setup and displays them.

All quite easy to do, in theory.

The hard part is making the actual multiplayer, dealing with sync and so on.

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Quoting: PicoboomPerhaps someone could remind me: we do get to keep our Steam copy of our game when we get the GoG copy,yeaah? Or no?

:)

Yes of course.

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I've added in the UTC time for people to not get confused.

Feral are British, they use British time, but I agree it would have been simpler to put it in UTC time.

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Quoting: sevenis this game coming to linux? it would be a great addition to our gaming library...

No mate, I covered it because it's Windows only ;)

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Quoting: Shmerl

QuoteI am a solo dev on this game, and I cannot currently keep up with player concurrency. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW IF SLOW SERVER PERFORMANCE WILL MAKE YOU REGRET YOUR DECISION.

I didn't quite get that. What kind of player concurrency? Is it a single or multiplayer game?

Yeah, it's bugging me a little now. As it claims it's single player, multi player and an MMO...whut.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWow it must be really bad for you to say don't buy it, I don't remember the last time you ended a review like that.

It's something I very rarely say, and I don't like saying it. It's just not worth it.

The 22nd of September isn't that long ago... "Waste of time"... ;-).

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dominate-the-world-in-strategy-game-agenda-now-on-linux-heres-my-review.8150

I never mentioned how long between the last time, just that it's rare. Most games have some kind of redeeming quality, this game and that linked one do not.

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