Quoting: CybolicIf they use it in the second meaning here, you could indeed be controlling the environment (second third-person) instead of the little guy running around (third-person).

I think the developer (or their PR guy/gal) simply errs on the side of pretentiousness. This is clearly third-person, as in games the term simply refers to a viewpoint that isn't first-person.

Ignoring the blurb, the game looks like something I might enjoy.

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

Or Arch.

Nah. My comment/joke was in reference to Gentoo's portage package manager, which in my experience is much closer to BSD's ports than pacman.

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Quoting: HamishGiven that we are on a PC gaming focused website, I would have thought that the amount of people who grew up with and still mostly play PC focused games, which at least were typically designed around the mouse and keyboard, would be higher. So it would have had a bigger effect on the culture.

Being one of those people, I don't think that's it. I've been gaming on computers since the mid-eighties, and I don't see myself ever owning a console or even running SteamOS, mostly due to a perceived loss of (practical) freedom and flexibility. Still I've found in the last couple of years that I very much enjoy gaming with my controller, lounging on my sofa.

I don't believe this is a betrayal of my culture in any sense of the word. Perhaps this is about different personalities; Maybe you're just conservative by nature (as opposed to politically, which is not relevant). Not that I'm much of a trend chaser either, thus far refusing to own a smart phone and having no interest in stuff like VR. Heck, even social networks and online gaming barely exist as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not much of an extrovert, so there's that.

Also, as you implied, PC games were designed around the mouse and keyboard, but I am not sure this is still true outside a few obvious genres. Maybe even game designers are increasingly of a generation that grew up holding a gamepad.

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

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Quoting: BeamboomIt's not like games are the epitome of realism anyway, but FFS: If they want a space theme, at least place the two dimensions onto a planet surface? Or a star base?

Realism doesn't always trump fun. :)

Not that this game is my kind of fun.

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Quoting: HamishI am actually kind of surprised by the amount of people with gamepads, but then I already knew that I was the odd one out for having barely ever used a console in my life, and pretty much never using one as a kid.

For me gaming has always been a keyboard and mouse affair.

I've never owned a console, but some games are simply much more enjoyable with a controller or some sort. I remember the first driving game I had on the Amiga with real 3d graphics and analog control (the title eludes me), and driving with the mouse was doable but unwieldy as heck. And now that I do pretty much all my gaming on the sofa, using a mouse and a keyboard is simply uncomfortable. Of course there are entire genres of games that I'd prefer playing with a keyboard and mouse as well. (A steam controller might bridge the gap somewhat. I hope I'll have the opportunity try one at some point.)

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Quoting: crazyg4merzIt's better to let them know though, whether they are going to fix it or not at least it shows that we care about their games. There's no such things as bombarding when the issue is really happening :)

I'm not sure this is what you mean, but bug spam is a thing. If the bug is already reported and known, only comment if you have useful information to add. Duplicate reports help no one and saying "me too" is rarely useful. But by all means, please do report a bug if it's not already on the tracker, even if you think it might be trivial and/or obvious. Just check existing reports first and follow any guidelines set by the developer.

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Quoting: GuestFor me too Talos is slower with Vulkan: 49 FPS instead of 65 FPS in OpenGL.
Nvidia 364.19, GTX 660, i5 4690K, Steam overlay disabled, 1920×1200, Xfce (no compositing).

You've got a 660 just like Nel above, and he gets much better performance using Vulkan, with a slightly older beta driver from the same series. Does the Vulkan implementation use more video memory (and you've got less than him), or maybe your settings are different somehow? Oh, or maybe you're running the game from a slower drive and their new Vulkan backend doesn't do asset/shader loading/caching/compiling as efficiently as the OpenGL backend? I also assume you might not be running Debian Jessie with an older kernel like him. The possibilites are endless. :)

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Quoting: Psycic101I've been wanting to get a racing wheel for a while now but I've been holding it off until the Formula 1 Linux release (which looks like it will be coming quite soon, as Feral have updated it's position on their release radar). Any suggestions as to which racing wheels work well with Linux. I'm keen for a mid to high range wheel.

I've been lusting after one of the better Logitech wheels for what seems like half my life, but they've always seemed a bit too expensive for an occasional desktop racer like me. It's not like I can't play and enjoy driving games with my joypad. I'd love a good wheel but I don't think It'll fit in my budget any time soon.

To answer your question, I don't know if any of the wheels have full support out of the box, but there are third party tools for Logitech wheels at least (LTWheelConf [External Link]) which enable features like 900 degree rotation. So be prepared to fiddle with your system if you want it all now. Many of them have most of their features working OOTB on modern kernels though.

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Quoting: lvlarkNot sure if you should split Debian tbh. It would break the continuity of the graph, but that might not be too important. I suppose a dev would want to know which platform to focus on? When the Debian-group is split up, Arch might come out on top and that would be kinda misleading.

I agree about not splitting them up, but it would be interesting to see an additional graph in the lines of "Which Debian-based distro are you using" with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, SteamOS and "other Debian derivatives" as options. Well, anything that works on an Ubuntu LTS is pretty much guaranteed to work on Mint, but not necessarily on Debian or SteamOS. Maybe there could be another one for Arch and its derivatives, but this might be of more interest to users than developers. It's pretty hard to explicitly target a rolling release distro after all.

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