Quick update on this story, I contacted Mimimi regarding this issue a few weeks ago, got their reply this morning and I quote:

Thanks for your email! We always appreciate feedback from our fans. 😊

We understand your disappointment. However, this is a topic that is handled and coordinated by the publisher THQ Nordic. They are in charge of the publishing topics, which also involves the release strategy for the different platforms. We're focusing on making the best game possible.
It's best if you reach out to them directly on Discord or here: https://www.thqnordic.com/company/contact [External Link]. The more people let them know that they want a Mac / Linux release for GoG the better!

It seems the blocker is THQ indeed here, not the devs themselves.

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And here I thought my game spending was improving, been 17 days last I bought something. The new Amnesia and this will make up for all of that.

I once remember being stuck with a GT1030 playing the first Vaporum, it performed admirably for a Unity+OpenGL game. I'm expecting no less from this one.:grin:

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I think this keeps proving my suspicion that porting games to Linux is not the issue, especially nowadays more than ever. I keep having the impression this is more of a "We don't want to invest in an additional OS support, after all PC=Windows right?".

With Stadia, they know what hardware they have to target for optimal performance and a trouble-free solution, with a normal desktop release they might have to train staff and have additional support tickets to resolve. I think this is more of a realistic reason why.

EDIT: Ironically at the same time, smaller devs have no issue releasing for Linux. So even with all the above said, it's time for large companies to start including Linux as part of their release platforms.

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The closest thing I had to a C64 was an Amiga 600. I can imagine pairing this with a CRT monitor and playing modern games on it. The only thing that holds me back is that 200+ euro price tag.

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Quoting: GrifterDoes this have multiplayer?

Yes you can connect using a direct IP address or hostname.

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It seems most of the work on the original game is done, looking at the github activity looks like Hellfire support is being worked on next.

As for the Widescreen support, no more black bars:

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Honestly I couldn't give a damn about Indivisible, they had the "brilliant" idea of offering exclusive skins depending on where you bought the game > Steam got unique skins / GOG got unique skins. The game also featured pre-order exclusives, not made available post release.

I'm glad I didn't buy the game to support such practices.

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Quoting: Lightkey

Quoting: mos"visual novels" are niche at best and scummvm will be OK without them. whether pr0n or not.

Why, of course they know their priorities, they even go over the game engine author's wish to not include them if they think it's important enough, as happened here with Myst III: Exile and The Longest Journey: Chat log [External Link].

So if I understood that chat correctly, TLJ will not be supported in the merge? It's the only game I'd use ResidualVM for.

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Just to add a bit to what Liam said.

I think people still confuse the Ray Tracing Technology (Hardware) with the DXR API which is the software part that communicates with the hardware. When the AMD RDNA2 cards launch, they'll also be able to use DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing) and the Vulkan implementation when that is ready.

RTX is simply the name Nvidia gave to their cards to distinguish them from the Non-RT models. As far as I'm aware there are currently 2 titles that use Vulkan ray tracing which is Quake 2 RTX and Doom Eternal, as already pointed out though, Nvidia is using their own ray tracing Vulkan extension(s) for the Vulkan side (Extension Details Here). [External Link]

My guess is, if AMD provides DXR support on Windows at the RDNA 2 release, DX12 Titles will be able to use RT feature out of the box.

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These new CPU's would probably be a big upgrade for my 1700X, however my B350 motherboard won't support them so getting a B550 + 5800X would present quite the expense. I'll wait for the new GPU's first though, been waiting for a good AMD alternative to getting rid of my 2060S.

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