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Latest Comments by omer666
Feral Interactive Have Put Up Another Port Teaser
17 Jan 2015 at 10:21 am UTC

Quoting: DissCent
Quoting: omer666[Edit] By the way, don't you think the "Always offer a choice" doesn't feel right... to me, it looks like it's been added afterwards.
It looks strange, but it's included in this picture as well: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_-_Eagle_and_Child_Pub_-_0168.jpg (sorry, I couldn't put http:// before that link or the post would get corrupt).
Hmm OK. Well, I don't see any clue in that :p

Feral Interactive Have Put Up Another Port Teaser
17 Jan 2015 at 10:11 am UTC

The double beer handle on the left looks like a Raving Rabbid...

[Edit] By the way, don't you think the "Always offer a choice" doesn't feel right... to me, it looks like it's been added afterwards.

GOL GOTY Awards Are Over, Here's The Top 10 From Each Section
15 Jan 2015 at 5:08 am UTC

Uh, well it's not that bad. I like Borderlands 2 a great deal, even if to me it didn't qualify as a GOTY. Have to accept choices from others I guess ^_^

Egosoft's X Rebirth Actively Being Ported To Linux
13 Jan 2015 at 1:40 pm UTC

Quoting: DrMcCoyWell, there's this review on Rock, Paper, Shotgun [External Link], and that looks like it is quite bad...

About the porting: are they actually porting it themselves now? The earlier X games were ported by outside contractors and Egoraptor let those ports rot afterwards. I always hated them for that.
Weren't the Steam versions ported in-house? I thought I read so somewhere on the internet, but I may be mistaken...
[Edit] Here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=329914 [External Link]

Oh and as far as X:Rebirth is concerned, yes, it is in pretty bad shape, but Egosoft is known for improving their games over time... Hopefully they will correct this.

C4 Engine Drops Linux Support, Developer Says Linux Is Inferior
12 Jan 2015 at 8:54 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: SamsaiYou could say the Linux version of C4 just... blew up.

*Hides from the pun police.*
Wow I'm impressed... I mean, I'm blown away.

More seriously, he should have called it TNT.
View video on youtube.com

Well I'm too destroyed by now, must lay to rest.

Dungeon Defenders II Linux Version Is On The Roadmap
5 Jan 2015 at 5:22 pm UTC

Quoting: c3027367After reporting bugs to icculus zero ducks where given, same happened to Red Orchestra and Killing Floor bugs.
Yes, those developers don't give a damn and Icculus can't work for free, so the games're still not fixed. I bought a lot of useless Killing Floor DLCs at the time and I bitterly regret now, won't be buying Killing Floor 2 until the first one is fixed.

Steam Client Beta Add FPS Counter
5 Jan 2015 at 3:13 pm UTC

Quoting: Skully
Quoting: stssNow we just need something to be able to forcefully limit fps in Linux, like windows users can do with nvidia-inspector
I have actually written a ".so" file that I LD_PRELOAD into any game allow the following.
1/ Force vsync on
2/ Force vsync off
3/ Force a FPS limit of your choice (framecap)
4/ DYNAMIC vsync ( Just like you can in with Nvidia on windows)
Nvidia opened an enhancement request back in 2012 to implement dynamic vsync and we still don't have it.
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/524735/adaptive-vsync-/ [External Link]
This feature and the fact you can't normally FORCE vsync on or off in linux, was the sole reason I wrote this injection lib.

It's been tested with 100's of games on steam both 32bit and 64bit. I have been meaning to clean it up a bit and place on github.
I might try and find the time to do so if people here are keen.
Hey that could be really great!

Linux Game Of The Year Awards Voting Open
4 Jan 2015 at 8:18 pm UTC

Quoting: neffoNo Witcher 2?
On the voting page it's said it's limited to native games... it's up to you if you consider Witcher 2 is native or not... Don't know myself.

[Edit] There is The Witcher 2, in the "T" letters.

Happy New Year From GamingOnLinux
2 Jan 2015 at 10:09 am UTC Likes: 1

I hope developers and publishers will continue supporting Linux as a gaming platform like they do now.