Okay... gotta' put that one on my watchlist. This does not just look great, the setting, the mood they deliver... a mix of mass effects and the darkness of the Metro series.

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Not very much a Civ fan myself, though, own it. Never got the grip on round based gaming except for xcom.. don't know why. But I can see those games fitting a large audience.

I hope they can do it. I even would buy it to give round based gaming yet another try...

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Quoting: melkemindLike many of you, I wonder why Vulkan wasn't on the table.

My guess is that Feral bases their ports on a "compatibility" layer they developed wrapping the D3D calls to OpenGL calls. That's why they have a reasonable time to market with their ports, making it worth the effort.

And this layer for DX12 -> Vulkan probably does not exist yet, or not in reasonable quality (drivers/their implementation).

Even engines which are natively supporting it (Croteam/Serious Engine) we see that Vulkan isn't yet that much of a performance boost (considering that The Talos Principle still runs worse on Vulkan than OpenGL for me).

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Expensive month. Now I can just hope that Homefront: Revolution isn't there until December or it will kill my gaming budget :D.

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Interestingly, with latest kernel releases including 4.4.24 my nvidia cards (optimus and 760) stopped freezing with the nvc0 driver... seems as if they finally fixed what ever caused the freezes, so I'm finally able to use the open source drivers (and within that, I can finally test wayland :-)).

I'm very happy about that, since long-term I'd like to go for the nvc0 driver for most of my computers (except for the one running SteamOS, I still don't trust the driver for games).

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Quoting: GoLBuzzkillWhat happened with contracted LunarG/Valve Intel drivers? Where is Valve contracted GFX debbuger? Where is finished SteamOS? Years are passing...
Valve making good presentations with ZERO deliveries. Last 7-8 years Valve only knows how to take 30% from someone elses work.

Uhm...
https://lunarg.com/vulkan-sdk/ [External Link]

That was what they were hired and paid for by Valve, that's what they did.
That's all what was there when Vulkan was released, the tools by LunarG.

The intel driver patches went upstream and are now maintained by Intel.

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That's peanuts (50-60k). Some company will come up with the money sponsoring it, thinking on how much effort and within that cash was spent by AMD/Intel/Valve to get there.

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Buying a steamlink and steam controller instead of a ps/xbox for the living room was actually one of the best choices I made.

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Oh yeah.
From "it was not worth it" about the pillars port to "we don't know if we'll do a linux release on the next game" to "day-1"...

Really looking forward to this one.

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I do. It does not run well on my setup (I7 with 770 GTX and 8 GB RAM, stuttering, frame drops etc.).

And ye, I own it anyway, but I can't enjoy playing it.

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