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Latest Comments by STiAT
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
15 Mar 2018 at 11:20 am UTC Likes: 4

I must have missed that life is strange was on linux at all. Looks interesting. Gotta' pick that up.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
12 Mar 2018 at 12:57 pm UTC

I've added it for now in the games broken on mesa list in the wiki. Maybe somebody will look at this.

Interesting, since you too have a AMD. On the forums, people with R7 and RX GPUs seem to suffer this issue. Not sure how to debug this or how to get more output, will have to look at the mesa docs for that.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
11 Mar 2018 at 9:57 pm UTC

Yea, I'm having issues with map generation it seems. The developer just requested our GPU info... seems as amdgpu users are hit by this only. You're using NVidia right?

Maybe yet another mesa hickup... we'll see. The developer is responsive, I will give them that. And ye, it's launch issues, but I had a lot of fun with the campaign and hope they can fix it up for me still.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
11 Mar 2018 at 4:33 pm UTC

Interesting, for me the sp skirmish does not work at all. Always at "spawning unfriendly creatures" it goes back to the beginning of the loading. Endless :D.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
11 Mar 2018 at 11:23 am UTC

Quoting: gojulW/ the fix the campaign prologue does not work anymore, at least for me. Does it for you ?
I'm at chapter 11 now, so I guess I got through.
I got a couple of savegames on each chapter, maybe I can share the one you seem to hang on. I started to play in easy though, going for normal and hard on a 2nd run ;-).

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
10 Mar 2018 at 10:33 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: STiAT
Quoting: GuestI bought it and quickly refunded. To me it's kind of appalling that they would release it when it doesn't even start from steam without workarounds. I'll probably pick it up after they sort the issues though.
They fixed that within a day - that's actually a very good response. We have titles out there which never got patched up at all.
Well, I'm sure I'll pick it up again sometime. I used my refund and got Civ Beyond Earth Collection and Silence, so I'm happy.
If you prefer civ-like games you may be disappointed. It's like a mix of Civ, RTS and a bit of MOBA.

In the end, I hope you give it a try, I found it very entertaining.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
10 Mar 2018 at 8:03 pm UTC

Oh god, I love the raven clan .. slow to build up, but a lot of fun if the game lasts.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
10 Mar 2018 at 6:42 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI bought it and quickly refunded. To me it's kind of appalling that they would release it when it doesn't even start from steam without workarounds. I'll probably pick it up after they sort the issues though.
They fixed that within a day - that's actually a very good response. We have titles out there which never got patched up at all.

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
9 Mar 2018 at 2:15 pm UTC

Ah, so they're fast in patching it up. That's good, shows the developer really cares.

Cool stuff!

Strategy game Northgard is now on Linux, it has a few launch issues but it's engrossing
9 Mar 2018 at 11:39 am UTC

Quoting: TcheyFrom what i've read and seen, it seems cute, but very shallow and quickly boring.

Not deep Civ-4X elements, basic RTS tools, poor buildings choice, unattractive Tech trees. It's doing less than Settlers, Warcraft, Civilization, Rise of Nations, without managing to find the right spot in between.

But, i didn't play it myself, i may be wrong.
It's certainly missing the depth of those others you mentioned, especially AoE, or Settlers (you can't really compare Civ to this). But it's all we got at the moment in that Genre. Some RTS are still in development, maybe we even get Earth Liberation (which itself has very mixed reviews) and Ashes of Singularity, but we'll see.