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Mac editors have Vulkan support? Doesn't sound right...

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Awesome game, highly recommended!

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@Swiftpaw that's not quite fair. PoE was not riddled with DLC, and you didn't need to play them at all to enjoy the main story, in fact they were completely irrelevant to the main plot. What was annoying though is how the DLC's were meant to be played halfway through, and I thought they broke the balancing of the main story. I played through to the end and felt like I was much too powerful at the end, even though had upped the difficulty.

Having said that, PoE + DLC was epic, it took me 200 hours. I'm not ready for another similar RPG this size, going to take a rest!

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Great article Liam. Great work Feral!

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This update came to Linux before Mac. Penguins FTW!

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OK this 32-bit argument is entirely fallacious. I really, really don't understand why people are still advocating 32-bit Linux for GAMES. There is an argument for 32-bit outside of this, but even then it should really only be for archival purposes. Quoting debian as having a 32-bit download "as reasons" is laughable. Of course they have to supply a 32-bit image, right until the end of 32-bit support. The 32-bit distro will be the last thing to be turned off. Games and other applications however, that's a different story.

Comparing 32-bit vs 64-bit with Windows vs Linux is a specious argument. 64 bit is an industry standard, not a choice.
A better comparison would be Microsoft Windows supporting Windows XP. Windows XP was a past industry standard that was no longer being supported and no longer secure, plus could no longer take advantage of software and hardware improvements. So Microsoft finally shut it down - no more updates (inc security ones) anymore. Users were told to upgrade.

If you are running 32-bit hardware, it's very likely you can't play Natural Selection 2 at all. Not in any meaningful way. As someone pointed out, this is hardware from 2006, that's 10 years old. You'll still be able to play some games though, just not the recent, modern ones that rely on the latest hardware.

32-bit makes more sense on Windows, although not in a good way. The Win32 api is so well established and the Windows application ecosystem is so large that it will take a very long time for them to transition to 64-bit. This is also the reason why many Windows devs make 32-bit ports for Linux, because they are stuck in that mindset. Under Linux though, we have very few standalone 32-bit apps, we pull all of our software from repositories where it's compiled for the right platform. We don't have ".exe" files that just run (although snappy and flatpak are coming, but lets hope they are mostly 64-bit). So we are not dependent on 32-bit otherwise so there's no reason to stay with it.

@Corben I like how you just casually dismiss those statistics. Of course they should be taken with a grain of salt. However if you can't see the trend you really are deceiving yourself.

32-bit versions of games are just generating more work for developers. We are already such a small minority, you are doing Linux gaming a disservice by running a 32-bit OS, unless you have old hardware, in which case, you have no right to complain about games being only 64-bit.

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Can't wait for the command stream stuff to be finalised. Great work WINE team...such an amazing project, and they've come so far.

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This is great news. The SS devs were very reluctant to port to Linux properly (they had a working internal build you could ask for if you had the game ,i.e. if you counted as a Windows sale) for a very long time, and this gave me a bad taste so I didn't purchase their game.

With the release of this DLC, I'm now considering buying their game!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Comandante oardoAnother low poly graphics game... No thanks.
next!..

To be honest, in this case it's a very clever decision in game design. The style is basically timeless. This kind of graphic will look still great in 5 years because it's not trying to be realistic. Realistic graphics ages and will probably look awful in some years.
Also, in my opinion, this graphic is perfect to transfer the feeling of the dark, bleak and hostile setting of the future.

Agreed. The style is intentional and super effective. It looks like a work of art.
I am hyped about this. Or rather, "No Man Skyped" about this.

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Cool, I love anything lovecraftian.

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