I'm just trying to figure out where the "About the game" story--a botanist managing oxygen production for people in stasis--turns into a vehicle combat game.
The actual trailer seems less like a game and more like one of those vaguely hypnotic pieces of video that are supposed to somehow make sense if you're high.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhatever happened to that mech game that was like turn-based with small squads of mechs, that there was an article about in GoL some time back? Unfortunately I can't remember the name . . .
Like, I think it maybe was still in beta or something at the time, and I don't remember hearing of it being released . . . but maybe it was actually out and I just forgot to put it in my wishlist . . . urgh, my memory. It's annoying because I can remember it seemed pretty cool and now I don't know how to find it; it's been niggling at me every time a mech game comes up.

Battletech [External Link], maybe?

Kickstarter says May 2017... GIMME! Been wanting a hard core battletech video game for a VERY long time. This one looks like it's the first proper one ever (based fully on the board game).

It's been pushed [External Link]:

Regarding the final release date for BATTLETECH: As noted during our livestreamed dev Q&As and on our forums, once we unlocked all of our Kickstarter stretch goals, our estimated release date of May was no longer valid. Way back then we said things like "Summer 2017.” Now that we're further along, we're targeting a Late Summer / Fall release of the game - but we won't be announcing a more exact release date until we're much closer in!

Thank you everyone. Yes, looking at a bit of trailer stuff I think that was it. And I guess it not being out yet is why I hadn't heard more. Definitely looking forward to, uh, "Late Summer/Fall". Especially since I'm quite fond of Harebrained Schemes, being a big Shadowrun fan. Their Shadowrun games are both a lot of fun and a better representation of the paper-and-pencil RPG than one would have a right to expect.
. . . Say, the kickstarter video says they're using Unity 5. Zat mean it would use Vulkan?

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Whatever happened to that mech game that was like turn-based with small squads of mechs, that there was an article about in GoL some time back? Unfortunately I can't remember the name . . .
Like, I think it maybe was still in beta or something at the time, and I don't remember hearing of it being released . . . but maybe it was actually out and I just forgot to put it in my wishlist . . . urgh, my memory. It's annoying because I can remember it seemed pretty cool and now I don't know how to find it; it's been niggling at me every time a mech game comes up.

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Quoting: KelsGood heavens, there are still people obsessing over her and how terrible she is and how she wants to ban all our gaaaaaaaaaaames!!!!!!!!! That's kinda creepy.

Anita Sarkeesian should be removed from the planet.

And apparently this objective justifies making false claims about her based on cleverly-cut-to-be-misleading video clips. Well then, pat yourself on the back.
Personally, I tend to think if you can't make your argument about a person without lying, the person you're lying about is probably closer to correct than you.

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So now if they ask me if there are games on Linux I can say "Are you kidding? Everything's on Linux!"

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Quoting: meggermanI kind of like the idea of the two sites merging and when you click on technical news it sort of swipes to LOL and Gaming news swipes to GOL ( but im being overly optimistic here and probably just day dreaming )

I had not actually assumed Life on Linux was supposed to be a technically-oriented site. One reason I don't bother looking at Linuxtoday much any more is that it's practically all about business-technical stuff which is of no interest to a desktop user. I was kind of hoping that, since it's split off from a gaming site, and Linux gamers are mostly Linux desktop users, Life on Linux would be a bit more people-oriented and desktop-oriented than some of what's out there.
If anything, I would think the technical underpinnings of graphics-related stuff would be more appropriate to a gaming site than a general-interest Linux site.

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Not a game really in my strike zone, but I got a snicker out of the bit at the end of the trailer where it first says "The fate of humanity is in your hands!" and then "No pressure."

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When it comes right down to it, all currently available methods of finding out overall game sales market share of Linux are pretty crappy.
But, this won't matter nearly as much if Linux desktop market share grows to a size where we don't have to obsess over tenths of a percent.

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Quoting: SamsaiThose flowers sure look amazing! Who did the wonderful art for this game?

:P

It's a Mr. Clip. He does tons of good stuff.

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Quoting: pixeltuxTo your last point, Liam, I think we're going to hit critical mass soon. We're going to see people start to adopt Linux as their desktop operating system at an exponential rate. I predict we'll hit 6% in two years and it will grow from there. I imagine we might get to 18% on the Steam HW survey before we see a slowdown in growth, but it will continue to grow.

Especially considering that, when people realize many EFIs actually prevent them from putting Linux on their PC, there will be some outrage and people will buy their laptops from System76. I don't know how much of this is wishful thinking, but I've never been accused of being a pessimist.

Also, I finally stopped lurking and decided to post. :P

I think quite a lot of that is in fact wishful thinking. But what the heck, go for it.

I do think it's not unrealistic to figure Linux for continued slow rise in use. There are just so many barriers to Linux use that have been reduced or even eliminated over time, and we can see continued progress on most of those that remain. And we also have inroads from Chromebooks, which are sorta-maybe Linux but are at least, importantly, clearly not Windows and so continue to pick away at Microsoft's control over the desktop.

Unfortunately the biggest barrier to increased Linux market share is also the one falling about the slowest: Lack of machines in stores and on the big websites selling desktop computers with Linux preinstalled.

A potential wild card: If Trump gets pissy enough with China and there's some kind of trade war, after many years of bureaucratic initiatives with no follow-through the Chinese might get serious about defenestration. That would in one fell swoop shove Linux into the double digits. Of course we might be too busy dealing with the world economy crashing to care.

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