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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Parsec is another game streaming service, now with Linux support and it's blown me away
24 May 2017 at 10:17 am UTC Likes: 2

The way I worked it out, with my average game time over say 30 hours a month. A cloud provider would cost around $17 a month for one that handles the games properly from one of the services. It's not massive, but you get stung if you forget to turn your cloud server off.

Geneshift, the brutal top-down shooter with vehicles has released into Early Access
24 May 2017 at 9:24 am UTC Likes: 3

Update: After speaking to the developer, they identified the issue. If you have the same problem, set lighting to 0 and restart the game.

Quoting: Alm888"…released into Early Access…" :) How low have we fallen…

IMO, the game is either gets a "release", or "paid alpha-test" (AKA "Early Access").
We've been over this before, a release is a release. An Early Access version is still a release, not a full/gold release, but still a release itself.

Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of the Samurai released for Linux, port review and thoughts
23 May 2017 at 2:09 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: ArcanoxerLiam, please use your "old" i7/nvidia System for later reviews.
Mesa is still under heavy development and the Benchmarks are not meaningful for the majority of Linuxgamer.

Keep up the good work.
This review, as clearly noted, is not done by me.

Mesa is very relevant to Linux gaming, especially considering even Valve themselves now use it in SteamOS in place of AMDGPU-PRO.

Mesa is also officially supported for this title.

Even I will likely be switching to AMD for my next GPU upgrade thanks to Mesa, so it's even more interesting to me personally.

Ravenfield, the single-player FPS that's a little like Battlefield enters Early Access
22 May 2017 at 2:03 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: HoriWasn't it free tho? I remember trying it on Itch.io (that was also the only reason I tryied Itch)...

Why would they ask for 15€ if all they offer is a single-player FPS game... I mean seriously, an FPS game is not an FPS game until it has either single-player or a solid campaign. This has neither...

For me this is kind of a dick move and just another failed early access game to join the endless see of others like it.
No offence, but you're clueless. Sorry to be blunt here, but I've seen people say such things often.

Early Access is designed exactly for games in development. It's the entire point, and as usual: don't buy it if you don't want it.

Early Access is for games to continue to evolve, with player feedback. The campaign mode for example, is a feature to come that will be developed over time with feedback.

Calling it a dick move makes you sound like you really don't understand any of this.

Faeria is another Unity game that is partially broken on Linux due to an engine update, here's a quick fix
22 May 2017 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: istispThat bug is not new, but it usually hits games in windowed mode. A lot of Unity games crash my Cinnamon desktop when I try to drag the window around. I guess it only hits rescalable windows though. Games that are affected include Kerbal Space Program, Infinifactory and SlimeRancher.
That's an entirely different issue by the sounds of it. This is something new with Unity 5.6 and full-screen games.

Lightspeed Frontier, another ship-building sandbox experience, impressive
22 May 2017 at 11:44 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: AlveKattDoes it have a creative mode? I need creative mode!
Yep!

Small site update in regards to the moderation queue, which is now live on article comments
22 May 2017 at 7:57 am UTC

There's a link to the rules above the comment box ;)

Oh and as for trolls, I have no issues removing them. Anyone dancing around rules being an idiot deserves to be removed.

Small site update in regards to the moderation queue, which is now live on article comments
21 May 2017 at 7:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTHi Liam,

I totally got your point! Still I do hope controversial issues may still be possible to discuss.
Discussion of course is always welcome, it's more how people conduct themselves. Opposing opinions to mine are perfectly fine and I don't want to hide them, since I've often had my mind completely changed by comments. That's entirely different to toxic attitudes :)

Feral have released the Linux requirements to run Shogun 2 with NVIDIA, AMD & Intel supported
21 May 2017 at 4:43 pm UTC

Quoting: ShmerlExplained, but not satisfactory IMHO. Feral are probably reading this thread, and if it's something as simple as provided guesses, they can confirm or correct them.
They are a company, they aren't about to give details on all aspects of their business. There's plenty of reasons why companies don't like telling people everything about their decision making. For one, someone will always make a big fuss of it.

Anyway, i think this has been debated enough for me :)

Small site update in regards to the moderation queue, which is now live on article comments
21 May 2017 at 4:40 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Hugormlevel of toxic posts... I hate censer. mebi look to slashdot. I really like there system for not blocking but intend there lvl system so man don't see bad posts if man not won to.
We will never do a level/points system, ever. We had discussions about it before and I personally really hate them. Toxic posts often end up being voted up constantly (a major issue I have with reddit). I really don't think it's a system that works. What we have now does generally work very well.