Quoting: morbiusWe'll see if joining Steam will help with player count, right now it's the biggest problem the game has. That and Russians, of course.

I've been a fan of S2 games, Savage 2 was great and HoN kept me playing for years as well. Strife is a nice game and although I don't really like the changes they made recently, I'd say it's worth playing if you're a MOBA fan. I've mostly lost interest in Strife when number of players has dwindled so low that you could hardly find a fair game any more. S2 is also still resisting IP locking Russian players to Russian servers, so over half the players on EU servers are Russian, those who play MOBAs know what that means.

One worries about the player base and asks for region locking?

I'm Brazilian and S2 block my region 2 years ago. HoN was still available back then provided by a S2 partner "axeso5".
It was a chaos. Patches comming like months later than the NA servers. Pricing completely arbitrary on axeso5's store.
NO LOCAL SERVERS (yes region locking but still using NA server how cool is that). It was a bloody mess.

And S2 did nothing to it's brazilian players. Unlike most of latin americans brazilians on average know more english (enough to play a MOBA at least). Region locking left us with Spanish which nobody knows in Brazil.

The outcome was obvious: everybody left HoN to DOTA2 or LoL. Axeso5 failed and so did S2.

Region locking is a bad idea per se. It's unpopular and it doesn't solve the problem.
In DOTA2 even if I'm able to communicate with English I'll rather play in brazilian servers with ppl speaking portuguese, that's natural.

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Strife is going down since it had it's beta released.

S2 did it. It was one of the first companies which had its games worling on linux (HoN and Tortured Soul 2), but I don't like them at all.
They way they treat their community is unacceptable IMO. Region banning/locking communities never carying about the quality of the service other partners delivered to these locked/banned ppl.

And there's much much more.

I hope they change their policies, otherwise Strife will fail just like HoN did (Yeh, I consider that a game that once competed with DOTA and LOL in the early days has failed badly if you see how everything worked out in the end). And Strife had a much worse start tbh, much worse.

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As somebody brightly said before we are not the aim for the steam machines.
The real aim are those in the console market.

Most PC gamers already have a decent machine to play with, and Steam Link seems to be more than enough to bring us to the living room.

So, I really doubt we'll see massive Steam Machine adoption amid PC gamers.

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This isn't great news true, but it's good to see the DEV actually talking and reasoning to our community.
It shows that besides the lack of resources and other shortcomings they are trying.

Let's not say DX is dead yet, let's wait and see how Windows 10 goes.

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Quoting: SXX

Quoting: badberWhat's the issue with PA and big unit numbers?

Interesting what he meant too because main bottleneck is simulation and not GAPI.

In PA like in any RTS simulation going to lag after some point as physics for units and projectile simulation are costly. Also guys with slow internet may have "lags" because it's client-server so it's using abysmal about of bandwidth and server start throttling as some point.

I don't have any TEC background so it was a wrong simplification, yes.
Not the units per se, but the physics "attached" to it. Thanks for the explanation.

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Quoting: PangachatI saw this game in an AMD promo video and it's gorgeous, if it gets a decent single player campaign, and come to Linux, i'm on the boat (it also reminds me Total Annihillation which is one of my favourite rts title back i time).

Same here man.

It seems that they're more successful dealing with huge amounts of units. Maybe PA was too ahead of its time.

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It was annoying but the main problem atm is PA can't handle late game.
There were tournament match ups they had to agree to tie, because the game was unplayable at ~20min.

I have this game, but man I regret it.

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Well done Segata sama!
You did a great job addressing this issue.

IMO I guess the mechanics behind this phenomena is very simple:

IF
gaming > Linux (more important)
AND
You don't have the games you want
THEN
You still use windows/wine.

IF
Linux>gaming
OR
The games you want already are on Linux
THEN
You can abandon Windows/wine.

In addition I think we can't discard the possibility of ppl who never thought about this implications, although I guess those would be a really small portion of the Dual booters/ "winers"

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Can't wait to see the first "nextgen" engine releases. Let's see how the improvement on Linux support. will help us in that matter

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One thing all linux gamers have to be aware of:

Companies doesn't give a sh#$ if you want to abandon Windows for linux.
If you are still using Windows and Buying their games that's enough for them.
The same to those who use wine.

WE ALL should use linux only (if possible) and buy linux only games. Cause again, companies just doesn't care if you want to change to linux...
If with the current policy they ALREADY GOT YOUR MONEY what's the point really?

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