Quoting: drmothYou have to play all the way through BG:EE to get access to it, right? It's pretty amazing that they've made this, this is true dedication.

No...or at least I'm fairly sure that's not the case. Whenever you start up BG, you get the choice to go to the "original campaign" or to the "SoD-expansion", if you choose SoD you can either import a save-game from the original campaign to SoD or you can create an entire new adventure group to play with.

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Cool! This was another one of the titles I bought for windows and never quite got around to playing before "The Switch", and it's great to get the opportunity after all.

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I've played it for 4 hours now on Xubuntu 15.10 and it seems pretty great so far. No problem with importing saves, no bugs and no crashes for me. This really seems like a worthy successor to the original classic and I'm already having plenty fun with it.

From what I've skimmed through, it's gotten some early positive reviews and I'm feeling quite optimistic at this point. Some release highlights:

- New Class: The Shaman
- New Cleric Kit: The Priest of Tyr (from IWD:EE)
- Class Ability Tweak: Poison Weapon now scales with levels
- Item Tweak: Stupefier +1 has been adjusted to be more in line with the game's other equipment
- Spell Tweak: Enchanted Weapon now modifies the target's existing weapons
- Items can now be placed in the Off-Hand slot while ranged and two-handed weapons are equipped
- Steam Cloud Save support has been added (Steam only)
- Achievements have been added (Steam only)
- The User Interface has been overhauled with a new system
- Dozens of modder-friendly enhancements
- Hundreds of bug fixes

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Quoting: chris200x9so regardless of release status if your pulling the linux depot and playing it you'll be counted for linux.

Rog. Can someone confirm? If so, I am buying this game after Liams positive port report.

I'd like a confirmation of that as well. I simply couldn't wait and went ahead and bought it but it still makes me a bit uneasy to buy a game with no kind of linux-logo that also needs to be activated with a "beta branch password". It certainly doesn't feel like any sort of "official" linux purchase.

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Nice! I bought both "deluxe" editions of the 2 "Two Worlds" games years ago. However I never really got around to playing either of them (which is kind of weird since crpgs are my favorite genre)

Still, I certainly hope that the first game gets ported as well. I'm kind of pedantic when it comes to playing games "by the numbers" and when it comes to a series I really want to go through the full series in the proper order (unless it stinks of course) :P

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"It's something we'll be looking at depending on the windows sales."

I've always felt a little confused about statement like this. I mean a great majority of linux games, are games with rather small/modest sales overall and there are plenty of linux titles with relatively tiny sales numbers for windows & linux alike. On the other hand, there's a large number of "Super Sellers" for windows, where a linux version has never been up for consideration at all and any request is met with the "cold shoulder".

So obviously "lots of windows sales" is not an argument for a linux version. Sometimes I almost get the reverse impression, that the more poorly a game sells for windows the greater is the chance for a linux version

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Quoting: soulsourceIsn't Sunless Sea already available? It was part of some Humble Indie Bundle iirc, and it shows in my Steam Library under Linux&Steam OS.

Well, yeah it's available. However : "we still have some work to do to support Steam OS before we can tick the little box that says 'Linux and Steam OS'. From the store page it won't look like we are officially supporting Linux, but the build is in fact official."

The build is "official", or so they say. But I've been hesitant whether Steam considers it so be Officially On Linux/A Linux Sale before they actually do tick that little box with the SteamOS/Linux symbol. So I've held off on buying it until that happens

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Sweet! It's about time and with any luck "Stasis" and the official release of "Sunless Sea" will happen sometime in the same neighborhood.

This trio of games have sounded like the linux release is only hours away, for quite a while now.

(and of course "BG: Siege of Dragonspear" hopefully arrives on the 31:st, next week might be a great one) <3

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"Whatever you think about Wine, you have to admit it's technically quite brilliant, and great for games that will never come to Linux"

Personally, I wish that more games would "come to Linux" because of Wine. There are already a number of titles on steam that have released a linux version that is "running on wine", instead of being a true port. I don't see why all the developers who say things like like: "-Sorry guys, but due to troublesome middleware and yada-yada there will be no Linux-version!" couldn't try a wine-dependent release instead.

It's at least better than no release for linux at all...or?

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I used to play Sim-games back when Maxis was still an independent company, SimFarm/Ant/Isle/Tower/Earth and so on. But then my interest declined for some reason and it might be high time to rekindle it. This title does look rather charming, I'll give it a Day01-chanse. ;-)

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