Thanks for the kind words everyone :)

It's a pleasure to have such a great community.

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Quoting: Guest@Liam: if you had to pick maybe the top 5 moments in GOL's history so far, which would they be?

Hmm. That's seriously tough because there's been so many and I would say a few of them are listed in the ups and downs in the article. My number 1 though, is of course Steam coming to Linux back on 2013 because it changed everything.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyIt would be helpful to say which native language it was originally in. :P

They've not actually stated that clearly, I assume German since it's where the studio is from and the only other mentioned language in the Steam sidebar info. Will update when they reply.

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Quoting: NezchanSo I get to put characters in a Legacy pool and recruit them for Legacy campaigns. That's all well and good, but I still don't know what a Legacy campaign even is, and how it's different from a regular campaign. Could you illuminate?

Have expanded on that a little. In short: pick from old characters that lived and got sent to Legacy, new stories with them and difficulty changed based on who you pick and stuff like that. Very cool idea.

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Quoting: PatolaWill we ever have RTX Voice [External Link] working on Linux? This recent trend of hardware manufacturers offering some features only for Windows worries me. Same thing with DLSS, and I am afraid might be the case with the recent AMD GPU scheduling [External Link].

No idea about RTX Voice, but DLSS was recently added to the Linux NVIDIA driver in 450.51.

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Quoting: Liam DaweAs for Vulkan, I assume that's because Unity's Vulkan renderer in the Unity version used by 7 Days to Die was still rough.

In my experience it already became quite a bit more solid with the update to 2019.2 in A19.

Ohhhhh! Didn't see that Unity update noted in the changelog, could well be a lot more solid then!

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Quoting: AllocSeriously Liam? The Food and Health bars made it into your top 5 of changes? ;D

Never said it was my top, was just listing stuff changed ;)

Hopefully the dynamic music can be added in too. As for Vulkan, I assume that's because Unity's Vulkan renderer in the Unity version used by 7 Days to Die was still rough.

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Quoting: PatolaI hope you desk is still usable after the spanking...

A few dents after the test but it's old, wobbly and probably should be replaced anyway.

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Winner has been sent their key, thanks everyone.

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Quoting: GuestFrankly my dream is that ultimately one day the OS you run will become irrelevant and then the "native gaming" nonsense goes away for good.

That's realistically not something we're going to see in any of our lifetimes.

Really? I think proton is quite the demonstration of the opposite?

Also, as the platforms grow closer and closer together (Apple changing to x86 architecture, Windows implementing Ubuntu in their environment, cross platform tools emerging, implementation and a better attitude towards open standards, etc), I'd argue that all pointers indicate that indeed LibertyPaulM's dream is pretty damn well on the way!

Except that Apple is going to an arm based architecture, Ubuntu does do things different to other distros (I've come across some library naming fun with that already), and wine (or if you'd prefer, "Proton") is always a catch-up to a single platform, yet is also trying to implement multiple versions of that platform.

So it's still very much relevant which platform is underneath.

Exactly. Like what mirv said, Wine/Proton is a translation layer that will forever be playing cat and mouse catch-up. You can't realistically see Wine/Proton as a direct target for game developers, the actual target is still Windows and DirectX in that case and they remain closed source. Having a translation layer doesn't change that because it's completely unofficial. Add to that, the translation that goes on absolutely is a platform-specific thing for Linux and all the issues that constantly come with it. Some of these issues may reduce over time but there's tons of them right now.

Vulkan progressing would be a vital step towards taking away platform-specific stuff, sure enough but we're still years away from that because of how long the ecosystem around a newer API takes to build up and that's without taking into account how MSFT continues to aggressively push DirectX - just look at what happened recently with DirectX 12 Ultimate.

Frankly, game streaming through a browser is more what takes away the specific-platform stuff when it comes to the consumer side (depending on how it's all done exactly).

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