Quoting: edomakes sense, they have to focus first on the quality

First of all they shouldn't have sold the IPs for very good games as FarCry which they could have made a sequel of. Don't even want to know what FarCry by now has played into the cash boxes of Ubisoft.

Secondly, the full bet on free-to-play titles was a unnecessary high risk they took in combination with the fast expansion of the company. If they don't shut down, they'll have to resize considerably and sell some studios.

700 people with the last "okay" title released being Ryse in 2013 which was paid by Microsoft and Crysis 3 paid by EA is nothing a company can take on the long run.

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Quoting: ShmerlNow this: http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/source-crytek-is-sinking-wages-are-unpaid-talent-leaving-on-a-daily-basis/ [External Link]

Holy, this won't help. And it explains a lot, especially for people moving from CryTek to Star Citizen - who have a full license and have their own version of the CryEngine (and are based in Frankfurt with one of their offices).

It won't really help us for quite some games if the linux talent leaves CryTek - which is very likely), and if the company goes bankrupt.

That said. All the best to the developers / staff / talent of CryTek. I can understand that people are leaving when being unpaid, especially when there are other jobs to get in the industry.

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Quoting: meggermanI ended up using fglrx to stop this bug previously but the flip side of that was tearing and stuttering performance :'(

Ridiculous bug imo, probably made a lot of people mad and switch to Nvidia. Another game affected by this was Brutal Legends. This bug was imo a big contributing factor in the "AMD drivers suck on Linux" effect.

9 years.

Actually, I had this kind of lock up with nouveau in KDE/KWin. Gotta' try again if this still happens after the patch.

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I actually love to read commit logs...

radeonsi uploaded garbage sampler states and the hardware
went bananas.

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This was one of the last games I funded with Kickstarter. I won't go for a refund though yet. They still try. If they're going bankrupt on that title, well, my fault. If they don't and give a definitive statement on not at all releasing on Linux I'll go for the refund.

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Ahm, that m ust be some huge mistake on one of the two sides. That's very basic stuff. But if rendering flat or transitioned on two frameworks with the same settings, it's very likely on the epic side to solve.

But that's such basic stuff you will be using not just once in a game that makes me wonder why it wasn't recognized before. Or I'm misinformed about targets, but there are a few developers using it for 1y+.

Still good it gets recognized. And seems like they're really working on a port / trying one, otherwhise they wouldn't see those issues.

Good to make them public too. I can perfectly well live with the developer having issues with an engine - at least I know where the issues are. That kind of communication actually makes me very happy.

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Yeah, have that one on my watchlist. Will check it out this weekend, hopefully it's really inspired by Myst, I loved it.

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I love this game, though, it's probably the game which has the longest development history ever still being in Alpha stage ;D.
But to be fair, I never ever have seen a game in alpha stage which was as polished as 0AD.

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My guess is that they think everyone will be just happy hearing the port will come as a Vulkan port.

Fact is, it's a reason just to have an excuse to delay the ports. But I understand that nobody would polish towards OpenGL now and go for Vulkan later.

For me, it would have been more straight if they said that. "We're not going to do an OpenGL port because we want to do a Vulkan and Metal port at a later time". That's straight forward and nobody would get the pitchforks for that. Rather the opposite.

But we have to say that Unity (especially in earlier versions) and in general OpenGL has performance issues when it comes to a lot of draw calls. Pushing forward three features as reasons which are definitely there is a bit ... strange.

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Atmosphere freaks me out. Very well done. A lot of glitches still (animations, the rocks falling and simply disappearing), but hey, it's pre-alpha..

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