This reminds me more of Anno than Settlers.

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Quoting: AlzarathIsometric terrain, eh? Sounds like we may be able to get a StarCraft mod out of this someday.

Starcraft 1 actually has fake isometric tiles so they are diamond shaped, but projected onto an orthographic perspective.

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Better contribute to the Open Source http://www.unvanquished.net/ [External Link] if you are a Linux developer. It is also a lot less Hardware hungry.

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Actually I am making my switch to 64-bit now. My Laptop does not have a 64-bit sticker and I always thought that you need some kind of AMD CPU that supports it. Never thought that Intel i5 is also able to understand 64-bit so it probably was quite stupid to install 32-bit OSes on it. Would have been great if Steam/2k Games support could have told me that instead of "have you tried turning it off and on again".

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These rantings are not really helping anyone. I am sick of reading this FUD about OpenGL here (again) so I post some counterings instead http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link] that are still valid and a prominent post at http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/ [External Link] that is also an interesting read.

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I think they should change the way people who port games are paid instead of trying to educate buyers. Just bought Gunpoint although it has just been announced that they recreated the engine which makes porting possible, nothing else.

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Sadly it is 64-bit only on Linux for no real obvious reason. I just found out myself when trying to locate the binary in ~/.steam/SteamApps/ and start it manually. The customer support was completely overstrained. I sent them all the necessary system information, but just got suggestions like restart your computer and reinstall Steam which of course did not help at all.

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How is that newsworthy? Gamers in general are annoying. You know that when you decide to work on games. It does not matter if you are a hobbyist or big business. Everyone gets constant unfair attacks by usually non-technical people who don't understand the limitations and problems. This seems like a poor excuse to cope with critics. Porting games to Linux is not easy and certainly a frustrating work. There are also more valid reasons not to invest unpaid free time in this undertaking. The whole press release is really unprofessional.

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