Quoting: GuestLiam:
"The Ranked mode unlocks once you reach a Rank of 10, but the problem is that this splits the online community in two."

Almost every multiplayer has some sort of gate, so new player can't jump in ranked mode after 5 minutes, and don't make the game worse for players who are already progressed.

I'm aware some games do this, doesn't mean I agree with it. Like I said, if you know for certain the game will be popular sure, but I imagine after a week or two finding a game may be difficult here. The game has turned out to be like Marmite, love it or hate it.

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Also, I would like to point out the Steam reviews claiming you can't unlock skins playing online are false, during the livestream I showed off a lockbox I got from playing online. It clearly gave me a skin option, another one gave me some in-game credits to buy skins with.

There's a lot of silly misinformation about the game from people who have played basically nothing of it.

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FYI: Going to do a little livestream of it now https://www.twitch.tv/gamingonlinux [External Link]

Edit: Stream is now over, all went well! :)

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Quoting: operaAs it's a VP port can I assume it's not a native port? Can someone check please?

People are still hung up on that huh?

Yes, it does use eON, I imagine all VP ports will.

You do a realize all Feral & Aspyr ports also use a form of "wrapper" too right? Very few big games won't have some form of wrapping done. For the tiny market we are, it doesn't pay to completely re-write a renderer for us. People seriously need to accept that.

As noted in the article, the port is fantastic.

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Quoting: Janne

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: JanneIs it worth it if you only play single-player? And how does it compare to that other combat racing game you wrote about (forgot the name?)

Well the AI has given me a good run for my money so still worth it.

Compared with the other game I wrote about recently (the name evades me) the choice is easy: micro machines.

Rocket League is what I was thinking of. Not quite the same kind of game perhaps.

Ah, no, very different games.

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Quoting: JanneIs it worth it if you only play single-player? And how does it compare to that other combat racing game you wrote about (forgot the name?)

Well the AI has given me a good run for my money so still worth it.

Compared with the other game I wrote about recently (the name evades me) the choice is easy: micro machines.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI don't see this as something to be proud of, any refunds at all should be seen as a failure on the developers part. Why are 329,000 people unhappy enough with the game to want a refund? He doesn't care cause he doesn't have to deal with them now they've had a refund.

I disagree.

For one, it shows Valve's system works for a lot of people.

Also, a refund doesn't suddenly mean a developer or a game is a failure. It can be a simple case of people testing it on a lower-end computer but not working enough to their liking. There's many reasons like that you could pull out of a hat to explain it. It doesn't suddenly mean it's failing though, it's not black and white like that.

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Quoting: minidouahem.. XCOM2!

I have to stop a list somewhere ;)

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Quoting: AsciiWolfSmall typo: UE4-Linux-Shipping ./UnrealTournament (should be ./UE4-Linux-Shipping UnrealTournament). :-)

:whistle::whistle::whistle:

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: liamdaweLike before though, my shock here comes in the form in the stupidly low RAM which starts at 4GB. I don't know why lots of laptop vendors keep having such a low starting amount of RAM, but it can be configured up to 32GB DDR4. I really don't think 4GB RAM goes far at all now, so it's a bit crazy.

4GB RAM with a 4GB swap partition will get you a long way, especially if you using something a bit more lightweight like Xfce, MATE, or (heavenly glory) LXQt.

It's not like everyone plays Xonotic at Ultra quality.

I wouldn't risk it myself, even with 2 chat applications open and 8 firefox tabs i'm sat over 4GB RAM already.

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