Quoting: Xzyl

Quoting: BeamboomThere was a time when PC gamers complained about games being console ports. Today we have to live with friggin mobile phone ports.

That's very funny, and sadly incredibly true.

I watched Liam play and my impression was this....

Resource gather because Minecraft that's why. Craft armor and weapons because Minecraft that's why. Listen to horse hoof beat sound over and over fight once in a while to gain proficiency as a fighter.

I so want a good MMO but seriously enough with the crafting it was awful enough when EQ2 and GW2 decided that crafting should be a main focus of character development, not every game needs crafting it's what smiths and armors are for and most towns had one or two not 100% of the populous was a God damn smith. If I wanted to craft I would play a @!#!@# crafting game.

If I ain't out slaying I'm not playing.

Every MMO since Ultima Online have all had crafting as a part of the game, crafting is what helped to set the social/community aspects of the game. It's called a MMO for that reason so crafting started to become much more of a focus. In WoW it was more social in beta and after launch, but now it's just a time sink it seems for players. with all the best gear is now raided for. just like what EQ1 had become. I actually like how GW2 made crafting an integral part of the game.
Shadowbane was an MMO, that was the most unique and didn't require crafting in the traditional sense. it was catered 100% on PvP. more or less what Albion Online seems like. But Albion Online seems to have all the right aspects of being a really good all around MMO.

To each is their own though, I'm sure more types of MMOs will be springing up in the years to come.

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well this looks like they are taking the right direction, it reminds me of how the dynamics of weapons are designed in Guild Wars 2. But this is newer and fresh and I like the overall design. this game looks impressive. hopefully I'll get to set down and play it one day. Would be nice if we could get a guild going for this :)

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thanks for the post on this Liam, I never would have known this was happening otherwise. I really like turn based strategy games, that's like someone giving away free beer to me lol. since I'm on Manjaro right now I have all the standard 32 bit and 64 bit libs installed for games and such. The game fired up right away and has been working fine so far. I'll be sure to add some feedback on their forum post if I run into anything. I hope they make an official Linux release, so far from what I see this looks pretty stable. I've been running it on the 64 bit binary.

Note: don't forget to make the binaries executable, and i have the bug as well when using the keys for navigation it gets stuck moving down.

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since there have been so many games released this year, there could be a preliminary nomination process let everyone pick their top 10 games. then break them down into categories. try to just group 4 to 5 choices per category only allow 1 pick per category. then after the category vote, take the top 5 with the most overall votes into an ultimate vote for overall best game of the year. then break down each winner from each category.
Honestly I wouldn't mind genre but the other categories mentioned like best gameplay, design, story etc seem good as well.
I don't care about a worst game of the year.

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Thanks for the review.
yeah, I'm still thinking their main focus is on the steam link and controller at the moment. it would seem SteamOS and Steam Machines are a side venture until development is aligned on Vulkan as a standard.

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I foresee this happening to just about all the manufacturers unless steam machine sales warrant a continuation of the production.
This will be the time when Valve will have to weigh in on the aspect of having their own paid for branded hardware they produce or have produced. unless this is the case with one brand already that I'm not aware of?

but for now I think Valve is more or less trying to push the Steam Links which are their own branded hardware they produce at the moment.

Once more companies come on board with Vulkan and produce more AAA titles cross platform to Linux then I think Valve will have more fuel to push the market.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: ricki42

Quoting: Mountain ManI know from personal experience that Steam for Linux throws up the survey request far less frequently than it does on Windows. I went nearly two-years without a single survey request in Linux, but I would get one every couple of months in Windows, which was ironic considering that at the time, I booted into Windows only occasionally and used Linux almost every single day. I've heard from a number of other people who have had the exact same experience.

I'm starting to wonder if the bolded is exactly the reason. For a bit over a year, I've been running Steam almost daily on my gaming PC, I got the survey once early on. Today, I started Steam on my laptop, just to check out the sale, I don't use it much to play anymore. And of course, the survey pops up. Both run Linux, Ubuntu on PC, Fedora on laptop. Maybe the hardware survey has a higher chance of coming up when Steam notices some change compared to your usual setup, rather than polling people completely at random. Valve anyway knows what OS you're using to connect, they don't need a survey for that.
Don't know, just a suspicion I have. If anyone here has a second Linux machine that they don't usually use for Steam, maybe even with a different distro, try starting Steam a few times to see if you get the survey, would be interesting if this is reproducible.

This seems to be exactly the reason. I had never got the survey, until I switched daily gaming to Linux and very few times that I went back to windows I got asked to do the survey. Not sure how "time" plays in this, but anyway, last month I changed my graphics card and sure enough, in the beginning of this month I got asked to do the survey on Linux. It does actually make sense for valve to be interested in knowing your "new" hardware, not just random sampling.

I've been distro hopping for the paste month and each time I installed steam on a clean build and had to setup the initial login I would get the steam survey every time. It would seem to me if you choose to except the survey then it automatically does it each month, but on occasion it seems to just popup for it to renew for some reason. I'm not sure if you decline if it still sends system information or not. I've always excepted it.

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well at least we already have the 358 driver series from nvidia that has some Vulkan support, also Intel's vulkan driver has been released. I'm not sure about AMD yet, but this is good to see things are moving along at a steady pace. I'm sure we won't be seeing anything ground breaking for 3 to 6 months at least. I just can't wait to see Wayland and Mir gain Vulkan support, which that will be awesome.

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so far 111 of the 170 games i currently own on steam are available on Linux. although it is a bit biased as I've concentrated mainly on buying Linux ported games over the past 2 years. Some of the non-linux games are from bundles. But nevertheless it has been pretty exciting to see titles like Civilization 5, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Borderlands 2, X-Com and Empire Total War make its way to Linux. I really hope to see Warhammer Total War make it's way to Linux as it has been stated by the developers.

2016 will be one of the best years yet for Linux I believe and I hope to see it all continue into the future. It will be nice to live in a world were you have the freedom of choice when it comes to desktop PC gaming. Not only that I think this will help bring about a whole new level of innovation because of the open platform Linux offers.

Thanks goes to all developers in the Linux community for helping to keep things alive and well, but it really helps when a company like Valve is willing to take Linux under it's wing and try to push it further into the market. This is truly an epic feeling sort of time. Because I've always tinkered around with Linux for the most part from 1998 until 2009 when I was mainly using linux and wine but only booting into windows for certain games. Then in 2013 I finally got tired of playing Guild Wars 2 and ever since Steam got Civilization 5 I've been 100% Linux ever since. It feels good to not have to dual boot anymore.

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you know if Blizzard would get off their lazy butts and port their stuff to Linux I wouldn't have to use wine hardly at all. Mainly I just want Hearthstone, because they do have an Android port, so yeah... there's really no excuse at this point. but maybe Valve or Vulkan will help change their mind in the coming months.

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