Steam works fine here on Kubuntu 15.10. never had a problem when upgrading from 15.04.

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Was hoping for a Pyrotechnica ( https://youtu.be/9YlCw7hRNI4 [External Link] ) inspired 6DOF game with awesome chip-tune music that doesn't tax my *not top of the line* system (mobile 2011 i5 with a Geforce 550m) too much.

Initial impression is good, but at least on my system it is currently unplayable as the sound stutters a lot and the frame-rates (even on lowest settings) are not really good either (15-30fps I would guess).

So it seems like this was not optimized at all and I wonder if the Unity Personal Edition is somewhat crippled under Linux?

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As a single player game the regular game is way to short, and I don't really see the assumed fun in replaying the campaign several times (same story, slightly different levels). Seems like another case of a DLC adding core game functionality :( Ah well at least it's not as expensive as the Civ:BE DLCs...

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Civilization Beyond Earth: because it is a re-skin of Civ5 cut down on features so that they can sell more DLCs :(

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Quoting: HoriThere are sooo many Quake clones out there... they are all almost identical.... out of all, I only liked and kept playing OpenArena.

Oh the irony... complains about quake clones but the only one he/she likes is the one that is truly a quake clone while the others differ a lot from the quake series :p

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That fundraiser page is outdated, see: http://redeclipse.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=476 [External Link]
Sadly the only one right now who could do the port relatively easily is the Tesseract creator (and Red Eclipse supporter) and he seems unavailable for the time being. Really a pity, but maybe someone else will give it a try in the future... after all the game is fully FOSS and the Tesseract engine is really awesome :)

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Glad they seem to have gotten a license agreement, IMHO the original Battletech lore is one of the best developed SciFi settings one can have for such a game. Really looking forward to it, I just wish their release target wouldn't be mid 2017 :(

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Performance is pretty much the same as on Windows with an Nvidia card. It is a relatively heavy game though, but not unusually so.

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Quoting: omer666Strange, I don't feel like this at all. In fact I played a lot more Heroes 3 than Civ V so I can't really express myself on this point. But many features remind me of Heroes, including the various buildings/mines/lumber mills you can find in the map, the way quests are handled on the map, etc. Just my opinion.

Sure, there are some similarities but while those are a mayor part of the game in the HoMM series (aka: exploring a map with your hero+group of units while gathering resources from such points on the map and following a story line), in AoW3 they are only relevant in the early game (kind of like ruins in Civ) and it quickly becomes a game of managing your cities and building up armies.
Some of the maps in the AoW3 campaign do play much like HoMM, but they are pretty much just quick fillers to advance the story, while the majority of play-time will be on large area domination maps that play very much like a round of Civ5. Edit: I realized this when I started to build roads and was magically terraforming the areas around my cities... something hard to imagine in a HoMM like game ;)

If you want to play a HoMM like game, Disciples III runs great via WINE.

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Yeah, not Heroes like at all. More like Civ5 with turn based tactics mode bolted on top.

It's a great game, but a civ5 like game maybe doesn't lend it self so well to a story based strategy game, which I assume most people will have bought AoW3 for.

In addition: maybe its just nostalgia, but the previous 3 parts seemed a bit more fun back then.

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