Nice, I wanted a Switch and a small Tablet to surf on the balcony instead of my phone. I guess I will only get a switch only now ;-).

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Quoting: GuestBeen watching a few of the dev streams for this game i always pick on him about cleaning up his code it's a good time just look up epyoncf on twitch if you want to watch them make jupiter hell

i'm glad he made this decision since i remember him talking about openGL on mac being basically archaic and bad

looking forward to playing this game for sure

Haha, gotta' check those streams. I like when others show their code, and the way they work. I use to be very concerned about cleaning up my mess (because most starts out with can I do it? and ends up being useful requiering refactoring).

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First impact of MoltenVK being free. It made the use of Vulkan more viable due to having all platforms on board. Good stuff, and that one goes to Valve.

Sadly, not my kind of game though. But I hope the best for them, the devs seem pretty open, and I like that.

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Those guys really love us. It's so nice that they bring high quality AAA ports and sort out issues later if they exist - they care.

I don't like Tomb Raider, but I am somehow in love with Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max and other ports by them. Though, I still consider Deus Ex unplayable due to the endless loading and performance issues on my hardware (would have loved that one to get Vulkan, but we know future ports very likely will all be Vulkan). They seem to have invested a lot into the vulkan backend of their porting layer (most likely doing the same as Croteam, interfacing/abstracting other APIs to Vulkan, which is a lot of work to get it right). Though, not possible for Feral, Croteam seems to be on a Vulkan-only path replacing the middle layers, according to their statements at least.

By now I wished there was more push vor Vulkan in the game industry. For now, it seems we are mostly still with dx11 and dx12.

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On the first look really PoE, but the thing with the world reacting more on actions sounds refreshing.

Not kickstarting though, too much bad experience with linux ports. Maybe when some kind of beta comes out and is playable with feature parity (that one i learned from SotA, still no map, still not optimized, and buggy as hell).

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Quoting: razing32Jokes aside the game looks nice , reminds me of Populous from 1999.

I'd like that, I loved Populous...

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uhh... early access. Not fond of early access games, but this one is interesting. 880 AD in England is my favorite historical period too.

Anyone of those who bought it - does it work in Mesa / AMDGPU? I'll make my choice if I buy it early access or not based upon that.

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That will be interesting. Though, due to the reason I had to spread out the domes anyway due to availibility of resources, I pretty much got used to managing individual domes as just that, just shipping resources between the domes.

I often did the mistake of expanding too fast - which is not at all necessary. You need the science to actually be able to expand to further away regions / tiles without killing your resource production on maintenance.

I currently hardly find the time to play (at all) - sadly - but I'm sure I'll pick it up one day again. My super-city is yet to be finished :D.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemHaving Valve step in and up with official support would lend both Linux and SteamOS another level of credibility in gaming.

I suppose so. But Valve (or GOG, or anyone really) can't start doing it without owners of those games giving them permission, because each contract on distribution is usually (quite weirdly) tied to particular OSes, and adding another one requires a new contract. And if those companies didn't care about Linux, something should change for them to care now even about trivial third party wrapping.

Well, ye, they'd need contracts, but valve cuts 33 % anyway, so they would earn money back. The question would be: How would Valve support them? Because for sure, the support threads would be opened in the steam discussion boards, and valve won't be lurking everywhere they did ports. They'd need to restructure the support area for games like that, to split between themselves and the company.

I don't see valve going that direction, I see it moving the direction to make Linux-Ports with Wine+VXDK easier, probably giving developers / publishers a helping hand with it by including proper wine bundles to target for developers in steam directly. That absolutely makes sense for both, Valve and Game Developers.

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I never tried this one. Will certainly get it and donate, because I really like the RTS genre and would enjoy a nice RTS in Linux.

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