This puts Feral and AMD more on the map for me as a Linux Gamer. Great News!

Hopefully Next Upgrade Cycle AMD GPUs will be a worthy contender for my cash.

(I would totally grab a AMD Kaveri HSA but that's another story)

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Quoting: liamdaweYou can see some gameplay I streamed here: http://www.twitch.tv/linuxwithliam/v/11845395 [External Link]

Thanks mate. It's funny - I like the design and look of the units but as a noob the globe mechanic feels that detracts from the beauty of the game coupled with the unlimited zoom in and zoom out.

I would have been perfectly happy with a square map with maybe 50% of the zoom capabilities - maybe someone will make a mod doing just that who knows eh.

I feel that the farther out the camera is the more disconnected I am from the RTS micro interactions.

Those minor cliffs look nice, the UI looks great, the units look great, etc... etc... Anyone know if any mods out there do what I just wrote?

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I enjoyed the review part of your article Liam which covered mechanics and elemental changes to the game with this successor.

Can you post a link to your stream hilights of PAT? I want to know more about the actual gameplay and since they divided this new "version" with the one I currently own I have no way of knowing first hand if I still hate this game or not.

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Dota is love. DOTA is life.

(Lol I just launched DOTA and the loading screen gets 2099 FPS)

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I was wondering how this compares against RoboCraft as that game looks similar & is super addictive.

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Quoting: liamdawePA and what it is inspired from was nothing like Starcraft 1/2. I've played both SC games, and PA + TITANS now too, and I like them all.

Yes, I know that now after buying and playing PA earlier this year.

Quoting: liamdaweI got my copy for free, so would anyone from KS. They said that in the Kickstarter update, anyone who didn't gets a discount if they already own PA.

There is nothing to get annoyed about.

As you can see from the Community going wild - their "Free for Kickstarter backers" or "Early Access" has been an afterthought considering there was no pinned thread titled "Regarding Early Access & Kickstarter Backers" - also Locking users threads instead of putting out the fire by saying "We're sorry for the miscommunication, go to X Link to see we are giving free copies to those who already Paid for them".

If you disagree with my reasoning, then lets agree to disagree - regardless the PA Community is certainly ablaze over what just happened.

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Users are going wild over at the PA Steam Forum because DLC was promised free to EA backers @ $90 a pop. This DLC/Mod/Expansion whatever you wanna call it has made people livid - go grab your pitchforks and popcorn folks looks like we got a mutiny on our hands [External Link] .

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So the original gameplay of Planetary Annihilation was terrible from a StarCraft BroodWar addict's point of view. Now they made a newer version of Planetary Annihilation for $40.

Well, I guess someone will probably like it, but It's a sad day for me knowing that that person isn't going to be me.

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Phoenix put out a article on this too
nVidia vs AMD Linux Gaming DIRT [External Link]

Thanks for sharing the data :)

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: aristoriasit is really sad to see the linux world completely focus on nvidia/intel.
We already have an intel monopoly and the same will happen with nvidia.
Everybody has some kind of responsibility, especially reporters - free or not.
Why? Free enterprise! Just saying ...

AMD brought this on themselves. I used to be an AMD user, both CPU and GPU. But with every release fglrx driver was getting worse and worse. Crashing, not being able to change screen brightness. Then they dropped the card from the driver altogether while the open source driver had no 3D support yet. That was the last straw -- my next machine was Intel / NVIDIA.

He speaks the truth. We built only AMD ATI for many years until their product become inferior and their drivers mere duck-tape and barely functional. I would rather shell out the extra $300 on CPU+GPU than waste weeks rooting for the underdog products of a dysfunctional corporation and only receive subpar performance.

My suggestion to you - go sell your AMD on ebay or local and buy a nVidia card if you want the "best" linux gaming experience. It's sad, and it's not the way it should be - but it's the way it is right now. Maybe the future will be different - that's up to AMD, in the meantime I won't suffer from their bad choices.

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This video looks great! I can't wait to buy this and hopefully it's "most excellent", party on linux dudes.

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