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Life Is Strange looks like it's being ported to Linux by Feral Interactive
17 Mar 2016 at 10:19 am UTC Likes: 4

This will be the item on the Radar with the image of an eyeball and the equation (Euler's Identity) - An equation that is well know because it's considered to be mathematically beautiful. However, this is the bit where it becomes relevant - "e^(i π) = -1" is an enigma, it's mathematically possible but strange and inexplicable for most mathematicians. In other words - Life is Strange.

To quote a mathematician:
It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

GOL Asks: What have you been playing recently?
16 Mar 2016 at 9:38 pm UTC

Arma 3, more Arma 3, Papo & Yo, Stanley Parable, Alien Isolation and Arma 3.

Did I mention Arma 3?

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised
12 Mar 2016 at 8:51 am UTC

Berillions - Check that you aren't opted into the beta. The update was to the official build, I don't know if it was also pushed to the development build.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised
10 Mar 2016 at 7:21 am UTC

Ok, played the update a little last night, performance is still excellent although there were just a couple of stalls where fps dropped to ~48fps for a second before returning to normal, averaging 90fps.

Apart from the new stamina bar, I didn't witness any of the improvements but I was only playing one mission and it's a huge game.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised
10 Mar 2016 at 7:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTIf I'm not mistaken it was that game where they did not make any promises regarding linux support in the long run? Why would I buy the game in case it will stay as a beta all it's life?
Because it's the best f'ing game in the world?

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised
9 Mar 2016 at 8:23 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestEveryone has a great framerate, when sticking in Singleplayer. The performance drop comes within multiplayer environments, due the rendering and processing of AI and assets which is done by every client by its own.
That's not entirely what I've been reading on the forums - yes, multiplayer is bad for almost everyone, but a fair number of people are also complaining of bad framerates in singleplayer including a couple I interacted with who have the same setup as me. I have no explanation for it, but it seems the situation is a little more complicated than which hardware you are using.

Arma 3 Linux port updated to 1.54 as promised
9 Mar 2016 at 5:36 pm UTC

Downloading now, but in terms of performance with 1.42 I was getting a minimum framerate of 60, up over 100fps at times, with everything on max except draw distance which was reduced a bit. (GTX 970 4GB + i7-4790K + 16GB RAM).

This seemed to be in stark contrast to many Windows users who were seeing lousy performance with the same hardware.

If performance drops with the latest version I'll be very disappointed.

Arma 3 Linux port to update to 1.54 tomorrow, there's more good news too
9 Mar 2016 at 10:38 am UTC Likes: 1

Fantastic news - Huge Arma fan, HUGE. I bought and have been playing it on Linux and was a little worried that they wouldn't keep the updates coming, especially the new expansion 'Apex' ** which is due out soon.

** I've already pre-ordered it even knowing I might never be able to play it, yes I'm that big of a fan.

I am launching a Patreon campaign to support me and GamingOnLinux
6 Mar 2016 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: wolfyrionIn order to survive these days you need around 200+ Patreons if they donate 5$.
He'll need at least 330 to be making minimum wage (in UK) and I hope he gets a lot more than that :)

Going self-employed can be scary and stressful, I wish you luck Liam.

Looks like Homefront: The Revolution might not have a day-1 Linux release
4 Mar 2016 at 1:27 pm UTC

Homefront: The Revolution was going to be a day-1 release, now they are saying when.
When what?