Looks good, I don't really like the pixelated design, but I undersand the "retro" look.
I had mouse issues, like with every single Unity game out there, excepted SuperHot.

But I would have loved a fully newtonian game, like Evochron Mercenary (not on Linux, sadly).

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Thank you for the port, I never played XCOM before, but I am enjoying this ;)
However, I encounter some random segfaults when playing the game with Mesa. I am trying to fix it.

Seems like they are respecting the XDG specification. Yay! Tired of all those ".minecraft"-ish popping in my ~ folder.

A future game? Batman, Bioshock (unfortunately, I already own these in my steam Library, but I never played Batman. I couldn't finish Bioshock 1 due to a broken savegame, I hope a port would be sufficient for be to get back into it). Borderlands - 1&2&Pre-Sequel. Deus Ex. Of course, Deus Ex! The Total war series are great too.
I have never played Tomb Raider, due in part to the lack of Linux Support. A port would change that.
Why not Mafia II, too? I didn't finish it, but I was close to.
Fable? Hitman?

Wow, that makes a big wishlist! Hopefully more of these ports are coming. I will have to upgrade my hardware, too, but I think I will wait until I'm done with my engineering school.

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Wow, that was clever. Noted =D

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Yes please! This one seems really good! I have seen many of my friends playing a lot to this game, but I couldn't even think about it, without Linux support. Now, steam sales will be harder to resist :)

Quoting: Half-ShotGame maker has certainly changed a lot since when I used it back on version 6.

Yeah. Certainly. I tried it too, I even certainly have an old version somewhere in one of my harddisks :D
This game, and Stealth B@stard (Stupid censor :D) are both made with game maker. I hope this software has evolved, otherwise it's an amazing accomplishment (not saying it's not one, of course:))

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Thank you very much for doing this port, Gran PC. I have been looking for this game since I first heard about it. Since it was based on the same source version as Portal 2, I remember you told the community that you were waiting for valve to release their porting work first. Then you announced you were doing it. I must say that, when I saw this new, I was frightened I couldn't play your game. But if you're doing it anyway, even if not as fast as before, I am reassured, I have waited this time, I can wait longer :)

Looking forward to play your game on Linux one day, then, and maybe its sequels. And, again, thanks for doing this port. A lot of developers just don't care.

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Does anyone knows if it will support joysticks? I have saitek X52 with rudder pedals, but I am not aware of many Linux titles supporting them (actually, I don't even know if X-Plane supports them under Linux).
AFAIK, KSP doesn't support joysticks on Linux yet.

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Quoting: BeamboomCan someone in a calm and rational tone explain to me why DRM is such a bad thing, seemingly by default?

If you browse trough the comment pages on this topic, you will see that many people had some problems with Ubisoft's DRM.
The major problem with DRM is that they restrict the way you can play your games. That sounds good for anti-piracy reasons, but it often annoys more the person who purchased these games legally, than the ones who just downloaded a pirated copy.

Some example of intrusive DRMs :

• Those which require the game CD to be in the CD tray. While less and less present these days with digital distribution, these protections are still annoying on aging CDs, which are more and more difficult to read. Moreover, if you loose your CD-Rom, you're screwed. It did happen to me.


• Those which require a constant online connection. This is a way Ubisoft has taken way too much. If Internet is down, you can't play. If you're behind a firewall, you can't play. If you're traveling, you can't play. If the servers are down, you can't play. If the society disappears, you won't be able to play again. If it shuts down the (old) game servers, the same.


• Those which require an online activation. Pretty much the same as above. This is annoying if you buy a CD, go in a place without Internet (yes, it still exists), or behind a firewall, only to discover you won't be able to play.


• Those which restrict the number of installations. Often paired with those above. You can't install the game on, let's say, more than 3 computers. If you reinstall the OS on one of those computers, you have to reuse one install credit. If you have no one left, you are forced to either buy a new copy, or run trough lengthly customer support discussions. You also require a connection to the company's game servers.


• Those which detect you have a pirated copy while you don't. Don't laugh, this really happens. And you don't know what the software is going to do to your computer after that...

Globally, the main problem with DRMs is they are not future-proof, and are really annoying for the legitimate user.
On the other hand, I am perfectly fine with "light" DRM providers like Steam, which adds a huge value to the game (achievements, community, workshop, sales, API for developers), while not making their DRM mandatory. Moreover, it is stated in the steam EULA (or it was. I do read EULAs, but not every update) that if ever the steam platform was being closed, they would do all their possible to allow the users to still use their games.

I may have omitted some DRM scemes, feel free to complete my post with those.

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I don't really like new Ubisoft games, and I really dislike Uplay.
The only recent Ubisoft game that was really good in my opinion was R.U.S.E.
Anno 2070 and it's perpetual connection required to play... I had to wait 6 month to activate it, since I was behind a restrictive firewall, and unable (I was trying to play on windows) to redirect everything trough a VPN. The support said they couldn't do anything.
Splinter Cell : conviction was a ok-ish game, not really a stealth and infiltration game.
I never tried assassin's creed, but I really dislike this entirely scripted combat system (and the whole mechanics of this game), where you are not really in control of the game. Sure, this makes really smooth movements, but if you want beautifully executed actions from someone you don't control, just watch a movie.
Settlers online. I won't comment on this.
There may be some other games I can't remember right now, but since I can't remember those, I certainly disliked them.

But, what I dislike most about Ubisoft games, is their character animations : those must be right into the uncanny valley for me, but I can't stand the way people move around in ubisoft games. Either in Anno 2070, settlers online, or what I have observed in assassin's creed (some of my friends are really hardcore fans of it), this is always, more or less, the same body animations for the peasants, that I find simply revulsing. And I am not really exigent in terms of animations : I have no problems with those of Deus Ex, or Half-life 1. This is specific to Ubisoft games.
I was wondering... Is there anyone else annoyed by this, or am I the only one?

To temperate a bit : I liked Trackmania, HAWX, Just dance (Wii), and some others.
Yes, I would like to see Ubisoft games on Linux, even if I disliked some. NO, I DON'T WANT to see those Ubisoft "services" on Linux. Just make GOOD games, please. That will be enough for you to be paid, and you have great room for improvements, just see Watchdogs.

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Quoting: abelthorneUsing Mesa 10.1.3, though; It might work better with 10.2 or 10.3 but I don't know how to upgrade (I tried the Oibaf PPA a few days ago but I couldn't start OpenGL games anymore, as if direct rendering was disabled).

Common issue for me on Arch, after display drivers updates : those are compiled against a newer version of glibc than the one that comes with the games, and steam.
Just delete every .so in the steam directories and games directories related to glibc and libstd.
Just put those into the trash if you are unsure, then restart steam : it should work as expected, provided steam doesn't download these libs again.

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I'm downloading right now, but it's 2 a.m and I'm getting tired.
Someone did on the steam forums, at least [External Link]

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