Quoting: Alm888The second group of Linux-wannabees

Please just stop with the elitism already. Some of us do everything on Linux, others are not as committed to the "cause". This isn't about good and evil, or even about real Linux users and pretenders. It's just people running whatever software they choose on their own computers. Zealotry will only hurt our community in the long run.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOn that note, I was trying to figure out how you'd even have 100 mile per hour winds... if there was too thin of an atmosphere to properly have winds? I'm pretty sure there are large dust storms on Mars, but are they more in the upper atmosphere? I recall the first pictures before we'd landed anything on there was always showing that it had nasty weather patterns, and giant dust filled hurricanes. But it seems all the rovers aren't seeing that, except for maybe some sand dunes on the edge of craters.

You might find this interesting. [External Link]

Spoiler: It's the first Google hit for "Mars storms".

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Quoting: FredOWell this the first Feral port where I get a Segmentation Fault just trying to start the Launcher... I'm on Nvidia 384.90, but still on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Have they finally dropped support for this old LTS version? Can anybody confirm if it's working fine in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Ekianjo over at Boiling Steam [External Link] tested the game on Mint 18.3, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Should work just fine.

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Quoting: liamdaweI'll be honest, racing in F1 2017 does feel like a bit of a tiring experience.

F1 games feel more like work than fun. Real men/women/helicopters do it sideways.

Dirt 4 in the plans maybe? I'll stick with Dirt Rally until then.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, my point in linking that article is that pretty much none of the images we've seen really show what the surface of Mars looks like and are 'best guesses' by the imaging team, because (for some inexplicable reason) they don't just get a lens from Samsung or Nokia to get correct pictures :P

We don't know what it would look like to a naked eye yet, but we do know the "soil" is mostly hues of reddish brown due to its composition. Apparently there's a lot of fine, rusty, iron-rich dust in the thin atmosphere as well, and if that dust is red... I bet everything looks blue with invisible pink polka dots.

It's not the lens that's the problem anyway. It's trying to guess how to interpret the raw image data. Modern digital cameras use complicated algorithms based on reference images (often getting the white balance wrong anyway), but as we don't have any references from Mars, it's all guesswork.

EDIT: As MayeulC pointed out, I should think before I write.

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A turn-based CRPG that isn't also party-based? Hopefully they can pull it off.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotThe wayland part is what I don't get at all. Is wayland this broken still?

No, Wayland isn't broken. It seems to work just fine for many use cases, otherwise Fedora wouldn't have it as default, and Ubuntu wouldn't be planning on adopting it quite soon. Seems to run nicely on my phone as well.

That said, Wayland is quite a departure from X or other traditional windowing systems, and that trips developers up. Porting software over can be anything but straightforward, and Wine's requirements are not exactly common. I'm sure there's a lot of work still needed to cover every use case. Broken is the wrong word to use in any case.

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Quoting: IconicGamesHello Guys!
I just wanted to pop in and answer any questions you may have.

Always nice to see developers stop by. Welcome. :)

Quoting: IconicGamesI saw you guys were interested in DRM free copies and just wanted to ask why it was a deal breaker?

You might find that we Linux gamers are a diverse group of penguins, but most of us tend to value a degree of control over the software we run on our computers. I think the majority are fine as long as our essential software is free and open source and take a more lenient stance when it comes to entertainment like games, but some draw the line elsewhere.

Personally I dislike the games-as-a-service model of Steam, but grudginly accept and use it for the convenience. Others in our community will exclusively buy games on stores like gog.com or itch.io that allow them to "own" the games they buy in a more traditional sense. You can probably see that DRM as a concept is not compatible with this mindset.

Does this make things clearer for you?

PS: Good luck with your game. I won't pledge to a Kickstarter, but I do hope your campaign is successful.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTHaving wine working on Android would be really awesome! I wonder why no one talks about that.

Maybe they do on gamingonandroid.com or equivalent. ;)

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Quoting: KelsThe design of the environments oddly reminds me of Stardew Valley.

Nothing odd about it. Neither strays far from the classic JRPG style.

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