Quoting: coesetaThe system requirements state clearly:

Quoting: http://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/NOTICE: Intel Integrated video chipsets and ATI chipsets are currently unsupported for Borderlands 2 Linux.

So I don't see your point. I can imagine that Aspyr also don't have full source code access to the game and they are also not responsible to fix drivers.

Just imagine a company releases a game for windows stating: "BTW, intel and AMD not supported!"

Do you realize we're still some kind of second-class customers?

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I don't care what game it is.

As long as they're not fixing that bloody BL2 port to run on a Phenom II + HD 7950 (and similar configs),
I won't buy any other game from them. At least give feedback on the matter. What's stopping you from fixing it? Maybe there is a good reason. But just assuming it's AMD's fault would be cheap.

I'm playing the original windows version which runs fantastic on the same system!

These companies make it difficult to completely switch to Linux.

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Or just a Red Herring...

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Quoting: jotomo

Quoting: subOk, which difficulty to choose..?

Last time I played BG more than a decade ago and wasn't a master either.
According to the hints, I should take the 'easy' route.
What's your experience in a similar situation and what did you take?

Thanks!

I'd say just go with easy and if it's not challenging enough just change the difficulty. Fortunately the difficulty can be changed at any time (I really hate it when the difficulty can only be set at the beginning, when I know little about which level is right for me. A frustratingly hard level is as annoying as a non-challenging expererience). HTH.

Quoting: maodzedunFrom what I understand even easy is not quite easy. I chose Normal because I read the game is fairly challenging as it is and it's true. Normal is probably what would constitute as hard is most modern games but still not unfair like Dark Souls for example. The game is hard in the sense you have to figure out the right way to approach a battle and not how many times you replay an encounter till you manage to make it through. In the 10 hours I've played so far, the game managed to throw a new challenge at me every time I was starting to feel a bit too comfortable with the enemies, without me feeling overwhelmed.

PS A free tip - when you first meet Shadows - leave at least a mediocre fighter near your wizard or you're in for an unpleasant surprise :)

Thank you, guys!

I realized only later that you can change the difficulty on the fly.

Now with easy difficulty it feels easy enough but, indeed, not really easy.
Funny that you mention the Shadows. The first encounter with three of them -
I had only one other group member at that time - required me to earn enough money to
get a second group member. I was lost otherwise.

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Quoting: chris200x9Just a heads up getting it to work on archlinux is a little tricky, steam tries to show you as a 32-bit OS when you need to be 64-bit for this game. I have gotten PoE to work by installing steam-native from the aur and running LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib" STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

Huh? Worked flawless without any manual intervention here.

After some hours played, I've to say this might be the best game (for me) since several years.
Honestly, it's extremely entertaining and worth every cent (if you at least liked the Baldurs Gate series).

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Ok, which difficulty to choose..?

Last time I played BG more than a decade ago and wasn't a master either.
According to the hints, I should take the 'easy' route.
What's your experience in a similar situation and what did you take?

Thanks!

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: subI love BGx: Is PoE worth the full price?

As far as I can say (16 hours played), if you like old school CRPGs, go for it. I am eagerly waiting to go home from work to play again .. and ye, I didn't sleep much tonight :).

Just bought it.

All I hear is that it is fantastic. :)
Let's see. Hope I can do a first session tomorrow.

When it comes to Linux, it seems delaying Divinity: Original Sin
was not a good idea now that PoE is available. :P

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I love BGx: Is PoE worth the full price?

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I really like Kyle's stuff.

And indeed, that (fake) CRT simulation is superb.
IMHO far better than any of those CRT modes
trying to attempt a physical correct model.

I want that for MAME and other emulators!

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I want that game! :)

What's a bit disappointing to me is that they don't even give a rough idea how long it may take. So obviously it's not around the corner. And probably they don't event try hard anymore to make that Linux port happen asap, but target the SteamOS/Machines launch later this year.

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