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Quoting: liamdaweWell the thing is, with DX12, aren't things supposed to be simpler? So it won't take something like Wine as long?

Simpler?

I bet what he meant is that the D3D 12 API has a very similar, in large parts almost identical design to Vulkan. D3D 11 and OpenGL are quite different. Thus it is reasonable to assume that translating D3D 12 to Vulkan might be much more straightforward than emulating the previous versions of DX with OpenGL.

Sorry if that's not what you meant, Liam.

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Quoting: GuestWe need less of this on GoL in my opinion. It gives a bad impression of linux gaming when these fill the front page.

Who gets to pick the games that are cool enough to showcase? Personally I don't mind these articles. AAA games already get plenty of coverage. Several articles before and after release in many cases.

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Quoting: MrokiiAs far as I can see and understand the term, there's nothing roguelike in this game.

Like the article states, the upcoming sequel is supposed to have roguelike elements, not this game. Does anyone actually read the articles they comment on?

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Your quote has all the Linux games available except for Frozen Cortex, Frozen Synapse, Risk of Rain and Vangers. Of course Metro 2033 Redux is Windows only on GOG for some reason.

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Uhh... Weird. Weird is the word. Like an interactive hallucination. A pixelly fever-dream. It's the strange cut-scene in a film where the protagonist has been hit on the head and fallen unconscious. This is undoubtedly art, but I can't see myself enjoying it as a game.

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"Early Access", "Zombie", "survival"... Three strikes, I'm out.

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The Vulkan panel confirms what we already knew: The big engines are currently built around abstractions modeled after DX11 (or even DX9), and all of them use HLSL shaders internally, producing their GLSL with all sorts of automated converters. No wonder their Linux/OpenGL implementations aren't exactly optimal. Of course there are genuine problems with the OpenGL infrastructure, but the development bias--while understandable--is clear and Linux performance suffers as a result.

But that is all changing. All of these people really like Vulkan, and all of the engines are being or will be redesigned to make better use of its functionality and benefits. That's what we want to hear. The future is bright for us penguins.

Quoting: stickyparadigmI won't pretend I understand the details but I think the gist of it is that they (Croteam) implemented Vulkan support as a kind of wrapper without any real kind of optimisation and still saw big performance gains on Linux, which (correct me if I'm wrong) points to the poor quality of GPU drivers on Linux.

Maybe. We don't really know about the quality of Croteam's own OpenGL code so it might not be that clear-cut.

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I'm not really a fan of the retro-for-the-sake-of-retro aesthetic (and I don't have nostalgia for NES graphics or the NTSC-tinged colours), but Pittman has proven he can create a mean platformer. I'm not too happy that the sequel is picking up roguelike stuff though, especially if it means permadeath.

That came out a bit negative, didn't it? I am interested and will very likely buy and enjoy both games at some point. I'm just not thrilled about the design.

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Quoting: GoLBuzzkillWhy did you ignore the only situation that Iam aiming at? On purpose? Not number one priority, not last priority, but same priority.

I didn't ignore it. I just think it's a silly thing to expect at this point, and I didn't think that was indeed what you were "aiming for". I simply countered your claim that they don't really support Linux if they invest more on other, more profitable platforms.

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A very pythonesque idea for a game and brilliantly executed.

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