Quoting: HadBabitsI was considering picking this up on sale, but after seeing some of the single player I think I'll sit tight; the AI certainly needs some work. How's the multiplayer?

I bought the game a few weeks back. I couldn't use my mouse without a few hacks, then. Now this works like a charm. Couldn't play much MP so far, because their are not many people playing in my timezone, but the atmosphere in this game is great. The change of lighting and stuff makes the maps and the game itself really unique (and I've played quite a lot of shooters ;)).

I didn't try out the bots. Well, I did. On the first evening, when the mouse input didn't work, there were some bots, but I couldn't fight, so no review here. Later I couldn't find the mode for AI/bot fights, so I just played a few rounds online.

The game is really good, I think. It has much potential and I hope they use it. Could be my new "Natural Selection 2"... without aliens of course :D

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I find it interesting how many people have problems with AMD graphicscards.
When I built my current desktop machine, back in 2011, I had to decide whether to go with nvidia or amd. As I've had no problems with neither (had been using both in the past), and wanted to create a very balanced machine (energy saving and stuff ;)) I went with an AMD 6950.

Back then I didn't think I could really play anything on Linux, so I didn't care for this and used a certain OS by a company from Redmond for this sole purpose.
Over a year ago I've (nearly) completely switched every single pc here to Archlinux and guess what. I'm gaming on the 6950 with the Open Source drivers with no big problem!

I'm not interested in using any proprietary software if I can avoid it and nvidia's open source drivers suck hard (At least on my laptop) and I'm still playing all my games, either natively (prefered) or in Wine (if doable). I've had no real problem so far. In fact the open source drivers gave me way better performance than the closed ones AND in some games far better performance than in windows.

But then again, those are the open source drivers. the proprietary ones gave me headaches. For some few games I got better performance but using a rolling release distro and the fact that the closed source ones are not really up to date with the latest x-server, apart from flickering and other glitches made me switch back.

So I'm really sorry for all the guys that have problems with AMD and I'm not saying there are none. I'm just grateful that I didn't face any. Every single person I know has asked me: "You're running Linux and actually enjoy your games with an AMD-graphics card? How are you doing this man?" Well, I'm not doing anything special at all.

Of course I don't have the performance I'd have in Windows for some games that I run in Wine. But those that run natively, run good. One game I couldn't enjoy at all, was Guild Wars 2, but well... I prefer to enjoy my freetime running the same OS that I work with every day, so no big loss here.

When I upgrade my rig I'll definitely reevaluate my options. As I'm not a fanboy I'm not biased or anything. But currently I'd go with AMD again, all the way! :)

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