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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Join me and Matt from Feral today at 10AM UTC for our last ever Company of Heroes 2 battle
19 Oct 2016 at 9:29 am UTC

Quoting: GBeeWhat's happening to Matt? Was he fired for playing too much CoH2 instead of working? :)
Sounds accurate ;)

Feral have released the minimum and recommend system requirements for Mad Max on Linux
18 Oct 2016 at 8:43 pm UTC

Quoting: finaldestReally looking forward to this game.

My specs are good as I have a 1070, however I may need to apply an overclock to my i7 4770k cpu as I am currently runnning it at stock. I have 16GB of ram but could bump this to 32GB if needed as I aquired a 32GB kit to use in 2 machines.

Cant wait to finally put some stress my pc, lol.
Going by those specs, you will be mostly fine.

Feral have released the minimum and recommend system requirements for Mad Max on Linux
18 Oct 2016 at 5:49 pm UTC

Quoting: HalKadoSpecifying a clock speed is kinda confusing, will be a wait and see for people falling just below the spec. Will be interesting to see if this is actually CPU bound and how it scales with more cores. Also interesting that minimum spec for Mac is 200MHz lower than linux....
Mac's come with specific processors, so they will be different.

Feral have released the minimum and recommend system requirements for Mad Max on Linux
18 Oct 2016 at 2:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: opera
System requirements
... SteamOS 2.0
... Nvidia ... (driver version 367.35)
That doesn't really fit. Unfortunately SteamOS Nvidia drivers are still at version 367.27.
So it would be interesting to know what kind of problems we can expect with the older driver?
As Feral have stated numerous times, those are what it has been mainly tested against, it's not that it wont work with other drivers. Same for minimum specifications.

'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will support Linux as soon as possible
17 Oct 2016 at 8:53 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestI'm not usually one for profanity, but I think it's OK to say FUCKING AWESOME, from time to time, right?
Judge rules: it's perfectly acceptable in this usage ;)

The awesome open source RTS engine 'OpenRA' has a new release, with more original Command & Conquer missions
17 Oct 2016 at 5:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: boltronics
Quoting: liamdaweYes, but those game were officially released for free. It's still legal content.
Legal to own (if that's the way EA provided it). Almost certainly not free to redistribute.

Further, I am 99.9% certain Dune 2000 was never released by EA (or Westwood Studios) as freeware.
Downloading is but one option, this release also added in grabbing content from a proper CD too, so it does accept 100% legal content that way too.

As for Dune 2000 i think you are right, so i'm not sure how they are getting the data, i should ask.

The awesome open source RTS engine 'OpenRA' has a new release, with more original Command & Conquer missions
17 Oct 2016 at 8:06 am UTC

Quoting: boltronics
Quoting: emphyAs far as I am aware, interpreters like openRA, Scummvm, gemrb are always fully legal, independent of where individual users may have gotten the game content.
ScummVM demands you provide the game yourself (from GOG.com, CDs, etc.), but openRA downloads a mirrored copy of the games it supports directly from within the program.
Yes, but those game were officially released for free. It's still legal content.

Killing Room, the rogue-like FPS has been delayed for Linux
16 Oct 2016 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheReaperUKNot the only game to lose Linux support on release, i had "Syndrome" in my wish list for ages only to find on release (6th Oct 2016) that the Linux Icon/System Specs had been removed, No more Linux Support, Never got around to asking why as Linux support is being drop from games a lot of late.

The game was covered here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/new-trailer-for-first-person-horror-game-syndrome-looks-good-linux-supported.7916

And the steam page here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/409320/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_2 [External Link]
About that: http://steamcommunity.com/app/409320/discussions/0/343788552534254406/#c343788552537057639 [External Link]

It will be available soon. We had to update the engine version because of some Linux specific issues, but while it fixed these issues, it also created some others. As soon as go through all of these, we'll launch it.

Join me for a livestream tonight at 19:45 UTC
15 Oct 2016 at 11:16 am UTC

Quoting: scaineLoving the "sexy voice" comments on tonight's stream. Liam has an admirer.. but I think I'll stick to ShadowSigyn's stream myself though! Just as well you two don't clash. Don't make me choose between you!
She's great as well, i've given her a shoutout before :)

Shadow Warrior 2 should still be coming to Linux after all, was a miscommunication
14 Oct 2016 at 10:05 pm UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: minj:rolleyes:

Game level designers are not the sort of people to get platform news from, Liam.

You need engine devs for that. Or porters.
Why is some guy who hauls baggage supposed to know what's going on? ;)
If I was working at a game developer, I would still expect a level designer to at least know the platforms it was being released on, I mean why wouldn't they know unless the company is tight lipped to employees about such things?