Oooooh that looks nice

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Yes, I've got my eye on it for the same reasons...Flashback was/is excellent

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Wow that looks AMAZING. Something out of Gattaca.

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A "first load" might involve compiling GLSL shaders (directx does offline compiling), and if they're not cached this will happen every time you run the game. In which case you can do nothing about it (except pray for Vulkan). Just a thought anyway...

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With the cross-platform capabilities of Unity it won't be a problem.

I don't want to be too cynical, but I think I've heard that before.

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Quoting: SeegrasI actually like it. And the reason may well be that it does NOT adhere strictly to D&D rules. Yes, they've patched them around the last few decades, but the core D&D is bad, incoherent, messy, ill-suited for _role_-playing games and ill-suited for computer games.

D&D is the Microsoft Windows of RPG rule-sets. (Before you think I don't know what I'm talking about: I know at least one set of RPG rules from 1978 which is everything that D&D is not. The Unix of RPG engines in other words ;)).

As much as I love D&D, mostly from nostagia, I totally agree. Once you've experimented with different rule sets you realise how crap it is. I played Icewind Dale EE and it reminded me how unbalanced and clunky the D&D game mechanics are, particularly the spells...there are so many pointless spells that are unbalanced that you never use. I love them because they are familiar and nostalgic, but I couldn't say they are good. PoE got their mechanics done really well (after a few patches however).

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. I played it at launch when that game had no companion AI, zero. So every battle became a micromanage fest where I paused the game every 2 seconds to issue commands to every party member.

This has long been fixed by the way. I found PoE very exciting then progressively dull (story-wise), but now I'm getting back into it via the White March, which is really quite good. All in all it's a really great game, but I'm starting to see the similarily in the main game vs the DLC that I saw in NWN and NWN2 - that the base game has a long and tedious story arc that you lose interest in and can't be bothered following, but the smaller stories and DLC are much more polished.

I was very much looking forward to SCL, but I hate diablo style click fests, they bore the hell out of me as there's rarely much strategy, and SCL seems to have fallen to this. NWN and Dragon Age: Origins had some fantastic realtime pausable 3D combat on the other hand. PoE has some very interesting and original Spells, the Priest and Druid classes in particular, that make combat really fun, but you need to play on a hard difficulty, otherwise you end up relying on the camping mechanic too much and it's far too easy.

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You have to play all the way through BG:EE to get access to it, right? It's pretty amazing that they've made this, this is true dedication.

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Very exciting news...although there were strong hints!

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Quoting: amonobeaxWhich game are in the horizon in terms of Vulkan? Dota 2 what else? Ashes of Singularity probably?

ll and all, it's so exciting to be a linux gamer right now!

The Talos Principle of course will have Vulkan support.

Banished is supposedly releasing on Linux with Vulkan support:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/46o7g8/any_news_about_the_banished_linux_port_the_devlog/ [External Link]

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