Quoting: pete910Can someone explain why cross platform seems to cause problems? Is it engine specific ?

Could be the engine - but usually engines supporting multiple platforms or being ported to another platform you'd port the network code as well.

More likely is that they used a network middleware in Windows for the network code which does not exist for Linux, and which they didn't get the right and code to port. Due to legal issues, you can't just reverse engineer and implement it either without explicit permission of the company which owns the rights, leaving it on the spot we are now - a different protocol for Linux.

Maybe one day a port of that network layer will find it's way to a Windows version (or a compatibility layer), but I doubt that.

For the game - great. But I'm not sure I'll go for the highest option just now before I tried it. While I do love the RTS genre, I hardly found any games I really learned to love over the years (ofc, there was StarCraft, C&C and AoE).

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Ohhh :-( .. twitch is blocked at work.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: lucifertdarkWow it must be really bad for you to say don't buy it, I don't remember the last time you ended a review like that.

It's something I very rarely say, and I don't like saying it. It's just not worth it.

The 22nd of September isn't that long ago... "Waste of time"... ;-).

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dominate-the-world-in-strategy-game-agenda-now-on-linux-heres-my-review.8150

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Most interesting part for me was that middleware companies actually start to adopt. That's real news to me.

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Interesting, never had any issue with the page.

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Quoting: ajgpwe are in a single source market for Linux games and would hate the rug to be pulled now if something were ever to happen to Feral.

I'd consider Tropico, CoH, Dying Light, Talos Principle, Shroud of the Avatar, Mount&Blade Warband, Metro-Series AAA titles as well.

And we got some good other games as well, not necessarily AAA, but very good games with quite a budget... (Cities: Skylines, PoE, ..).

The most important thing is that the developers start building up skills/know-how in Linux, because that's a huge issue for a lot of developers/studios. Even though, there is a lack of experience (even on the engine part) so there are probably a lot of issues to be solved, but we're getting along, taking one step after the other.

And there still are a few in the pipeline I consider AAA titles.
Yes, it's true, a few we'll very likely never see or at least not any time soon (FarCry, Dragon Age [or whatever-by-EA-Games], WoW [or-what-ever-from-Activision/Blizzard] etc. come to my mind).

There are not so many AAA titles every year, and of quite some we got ports now at a later point in time. That may change in future, but I don't see that any time soon :-).

I personally think that every engine vendor will in future release a AAA for their own engine (if they're a game developer as well, so not Unity probably) with each generation. Why? Showcase.

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Two steam controllers are enough :D.

Very nice, that could be a cool couch play if it works well with SteamLink and the controller (often having issues there due to strange controller implementations in games).

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Quoting: STiATI doubt that any game supporting Vulkan will come out any time soon, since drivers of the Ubuntu LTS are not up for it (NVidia 304.131)

The 367 drivers (stable Vulkan support) will make their way into the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos soon and will replace 361 according to this xenial-proposed entry [External Link] on Launchpad.

I'm also guessing they will be available to install either before or when Ubuntu 16.04.2 gets released as an ISO at the end of this year or in February 2017.

That sounds good, and the current 16.04 LTS has 361.42 so its not as old as STiAT wrote who still must be on 14.04

I'm on Manjaro and took the release 16.04, not 16.04.2, but usually Ubuntu does not update the drivers in sub releases.

As developer, I've no use for software stacks as old as Ubuntu usually ships (mostly libraries), because maintaining my own development lib directory isn't what I call fun.

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I doubt that any game supporting Vulkan will come out any time soon, since drivers of the Ubuntu LTS are not up for it (NVidia 304.131)

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Quoting: MGOidLet me put fuel to the fire: Deux Ex: MD was modified in Steamdb 9 hours ago.

I'm rather going for domesticated_submission and domesticated_submission_debug at Mad Max 2 days ago. Very likely last branches for QA.

I'd prefer DX:MD though.

Quoting: IvancilloI think this is the promised Two Worlds II, which is suppoused to be released this month with a new DLC.

Noo, I have that game already and played it when I dual booted... I want something fresh :-).

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