I think given how many games out there, the spread of potential negative reviews of games that don't get on board with compatability would be thinned out so much as to have little impact. I wouldn't worry about that very much, and I doubt Valve has that as part of their strategy.

I do think having more accurate numbers of people actually using Linux as a gaming platform, which is bound to be quite a bit higher than what's currently being reported, will be a pretty good motivator to get companies more friendly to things like Vulkan.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMaybe it's Skyrim. Wouldn't that be ironic now that you can play Skyrim in Steam for Linux using Proton.

As far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

I assure you that you can, and it actually works extremely well.

Is that the original? Because I hear Special Edition still doesn't run well.

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Do I even need to say how obvious it is that this is Skyrim?

Clearly, I do.

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Now you've got me remembering 80's Canadian ska/reggae/rock band The Hopping Penguins. Gotta go listen to some of that.

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Wow, that's a lot of blur. Is the movement supposed to be as jerky/janky as it is right after the player lands?

I like the addition of explosive barrels, that's a fun touch, but a lot of the environments look pretty bland. There's no real character to them.

Hopefully they'll replace those little text tooltips with something a bit easier to read at a glance. Plus picking up stuff seems a little finicky. The player seems to take a couple of tries to pick something up early in the video. And yeah, the SFX is terrible.

Otherwise though, it seems like a fairly solid Fortnite clone Battle Royale game. Certainly better than a lot of the others on the market.

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I wonder if some devs being lazy is actually fine in the long run. After all, it remains that even with the boom in native Linux games, largely thanks to Steam, the perception that we don't have very many games is still one of the big barriers to "regular people" adopting Linux. So if this goes any distance to overcome that, then it increases the market share of people taking up the platform and gaming on it the same as the rest of us already do. Newcomers don't care how they get their games, just that they can play them.

Which in the end gives us more leverage to convince devs to give us proper ports rather than rely on Wine and the like. Perhaps that's overly optomistic, but I think that's the sort of strategy that's in Gabe's head right now.

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The frantic bullets-everywhere bits and jumping about reminds me oddly of Drunken Robot Pornography, at least what I've seen in the trailers.

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lol, of course the Canadian expansion would be all about snow. Canada only exists in the winter.

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Really been looking forward to this, although I probably won't be picking it up until later in the year for various reasons. Good for them getting to the full release stage, further updates notwithstanding!

Hopefully they fixed the deck of the ship so it doesn't kill the framerate like in the demo. :D

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Oh, these are the folks who made FarSky. I could never get that to work on my old system. Wonder if it'll run on my new one.

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