Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: chris200x9I hope it has workshop support, the game looks great but it really would be a shame to limit it to World War two. I'd like to see mods where you could like deploy mechs on new fantasy maps.

Agree. The game is an automatic buy for me, like most Paradox titles, but I have to admit I am growing a -bit- jaded of the standard WW2 theme. I have kicked Hitler's ass countless times in various strategy games, so there is that. And while kicking Hitler's ass is obviously a satisfying thing to do, I also wouldn't mind seeing some mods using the awesome HOI engine for a near-total conversion. HOI Middle Earth, or HOI World War III maybe? :D

I am still totally looking forward to that game!

You could BE hitler!

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I got 4 of these now, best controller ever.

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We don't have many RTSes for linux, so i'm hoping this'll be good!
Also, instabuy of course.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyCurrently, it seems to me that the whole "exclusives" question is rather beside the point. SteamOS is missing so many games that other platforms have . . . it's like everyone else has tons of exclusives over SteamOS. One or two in the other direction, it seems to me, would have a relatively minor impact at this point. Which doesn't mean I don't think it can sell right now, but I don't think it can sell to the sort of people who would care about exclusives unless they have so much money that they can buy every platform without noticing the cost, including however-many-dollars for a Steam machine just to get one game. Mostly, it would just piss people off.

All platforms are missing a ton of games that are available elsewhere.
This isn't unique for steamos, which was missing less games at launch with 1000+ games available than any other console, which started out by missing ALL - ~10-15 games.

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Looks great, will get this.

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Quoting: chrisqAs someone learning the react+redux+webpack+babel/es6 "stack", it so far seems immature and pretty horrible even when using the most praised tools.

Oh really? The trendy, new kid on the block isn't mature? A shocker indeed. ;)

Ignore the hype and keep your feet on the ground. If you actually want to get work done and not hate it, choose something modern enough, but tried and tested, with great and plentiful documentation. Preferably something you can develop in your favourite editor/ide. Personally I quite like Python (with bottle, beaker and friends) on the back-end and boring old jquery on the client side.

PS: Why do I have this weird compulsion to jump in and escalate as soon as a comment thread goes off topic? I think I need help...

Thanks, that's not bad advice. I do use python and bottle or falcon on the backend.

As for the js-stuff being immature i don't think thats exclusive for react and friends (which has been out for close to 3 years). The whole ecosystem seems shaky, and I think the ever changing hot frameworks and other tools are indicative of that.

Sure, I could go with backbone, handlebars and jquery, but it seems like the js-world has moved on.

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I'm more impressed by someone being able to love web programming, than AMDs great open source stance.
As someone learning the react+redux+webpack+babel/es6 "stack", it so far seems immature and pretty horrible even when using the most praised tools.

This could be caused by ignorance, and I certainly hope that is the case.
So if you have any good arguments please tell me what I've missed, so far it has been the worst exerience of the 5+ languages I've learnt the basics of.

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Quoting: 2pack2u2

Quoting: chrisq

Quoting: 2pack2u2Why do they have to put i7-series on recommended. Can't be any more specific?? Come on, there is a HUUUUGE difference in between first i7s and the ones we got nowadays.....

It's not really that huge, which is what has kept me from upgrading my i7-2600.

I7-880: https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+880+%40+3.07GHz&id=833 [External Link]
i7-6700: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700+%40+3.40GHz [External Link]
Not huge difference you say?

Considering that there are no real reason to upgrade even a 6 year old sandy bridge i7, and you had to resort to comparing the very worst to a $2000 cpu, I think it's still OK.

What you seem to not understand is that these requirements are directed at people with zero-to-none interest in cpus, and with that in mind, this is the best metric.

Please do tell what you think would be better and at the same time useful for its purpose.
A list of 80 different models?
iX + year of release?
gflops?
Keep in mind the audience.

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Quoting: 2pack2u2Why do they have to put i7-series on recommended. Can't be any more specific?? Come on, there is a HUUUUGE difference in between first i7s and the ones we got nowadays.....

It's not really that huge, which is what has kept me from upgrading my i7-2600.

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Quoting: subAs AMD user I'll most likely have to play it under Windows.

As a Linux user the OS is more important than GPU-vendor, so I go with what works.

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