Oh well... Will wait for a Steam sale to get a Valve Index kit 90% off... Yeah sure! :D

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Quoting: ElectricPrismFantastic News, I hope they have more plans to asess market interest and offer sales and shipping to more countries aswell, or at the very least target different regions over the world.

I have heard stories about Canadians driving 6+ hours and crossing the border to get their Valve Index due to the limited sales locations.

If you start from scratch... 1 320 CAN$... It's even more than my whole brand new computer. Not ready for mainstream adoption at all. :O

Sad, because de new HL game preview is making me drool! :)

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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesTo someone who uses UE4 every day these comments sound funny at best but completely out of reality. They should do this, should do that...

Please be more specific... Why would a better Vulkan implementation be out of reality? Vulkan is much larger than just Linux. Are you refering to other comments?

Speaking for myself, my main grudge with Epic is that exclusivity deal race that's just a race to the bottom, imo, targeted directly at Valve. They should use that money in better and more productive (positive) ways.

It's not the first time that Epic tries to demonize a competitor:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/epic-and-improbable-are-taking-advantage-of-unity-with-the-spatialos-debacle-seems-a-little-planned.13328

Personnally, I can't stand that kind of attitude. Invest to get better instead of being mean. I stopped using Windows for similar reasons.

As for Quixel, it's a business decision that fits with what they are doing. Sad for those that don't want to be involved with Unreal, but this kind of buyout happens pretty often.

But Epic getting bigger, considering the roadtrack they have, is alarming to me. Nothing good is going to come out of it.

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Quoting: Pangaea

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: BielFPsI think we all hoped for. Bioshock series really neat the whole "dystopian society" theme.

Especially the first game had an amazing atmosphere, man how I loved to explore and unwrap the stories in there.
One of my all time favourites.

Totally agree with this, re: Bioshock. LOVED the first game. Such a marvellous atmosphere, and a good story too. The second game lost a little of the magic, but was still fun. Not played the later games, but that first one was marvellous.

Kinda the same with Mafia. The first game was one of the best games I've ever played. Such a strong story too.

It really seems like something was lost from the games that came out in that era. Late 90 to early 2000s. Thank goodness Kickstarter projects revived my belief in quality games and we got some jewels from it.

Bioshock 2 is not considered Canon. It's just some form of exploitation of the Bioshock "universe". Infinite and the first opus wrap together marvelously in a "complete" story. One being the prequel to the other. Personally I prefered Infinite to the first game, but both are good. It's even more obvious if you play Infinite's DLCs where the last pieces of the puzzle are falling in place.

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Quoting: MohandevirEpic must be thinking that it's a loss of time to implement Vulkan when Proton is doing the job for them...

Vulkan is implemented in Unreal Engine, it's even default API for Linux builds.

Should have put a sarcasm tag because I know that. Fortnite on Android is using it, if I remember well. It's just that Epic are really hard to follow. The smiley meant just that.

Demonstration by the absurd, we call that? :)

... Mixed with my personal disgust for Epic.

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Quoting: ShmerlEpic should get up form the sofa, and implement high performance parallelized Vulkan renderer, instead of "archiving" it:

https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux

Epic must be thinking that it's a loss of time to implement Vulkan when Proton is doing the job for them...

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Quoting: FredOWe are not the happy few...

Tought the same... In those lines: "Us Disappointed Many" :)

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We have yet to hear about the Stadia Games exclusives... This might be an incentive, especially if their games are as huge as they claim them to be (unable to run on any known desktops), but personnally I don't really care. If these games are as big as they pretend, what will be the price tag? I've never paid more than 40$ for a game... Over this price tag, it just doesn't make it vs my priorities.

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Already have the 3 Tomb Raiders and the only other title of interest might be RDR2... Which will be out on Steam and, with a little luck, might even run on Proton... So... I will wait for Steam Cloud Gaming and, who knows, the Steam Controller V2 that will come with it.

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Valve and Nividia partnership for GeForce now? That could be great!

GeForce now beta seems to be based on Windows instances... Always tought it could be a good matchup for both to be competitive in the cloud gaming market and it could permit Nvidia to get rid of it's foreseeable Windows licensing fee problems.

But I'm just an outside observer who's a GeForce now (Nvidia Shield) occasional user so... :)

I really hope that Nvidia will someday add Canadian servers though (Valve already has that)... being forced to connect to US servers is probably a reason why I have performance issues with GeForce Now.

P.S. I don't know what to think of this, but Nvidia is really proactive when it comes to DXVK and Vulkan debuging... Could it be related, somehow? Is there something brewing? :)

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