Whoohoo, BRING...IT...ON!

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Quoting: mcphailThink of it as a combination of chess and poker.

This describes the game well. I've only put about 3 hours into it so far, but I'm enjoying it a lot.

I never played the original Chaos, but I put countless hours into Rebelstar, which was also made by Julian Gollop for the ZX Spectrum. Rebelstar really laid down the basic combat system for XCOM, so it was impressive gameplay for the time.

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Quoting: FredOAfter seeing this, I'm sold on the controller now. It's strange that this feature wasn't advertised more, because it's a killer feature in my book.

I would be interested to know how well it works with Dirt Showdown?

I'll let you know once it's downloaded ;)

Yup, it works, but it's a lot trickier than using the stick! I've uploaded a controller setup that's a bit more nuanced that the one that was there already by "jorge", to allow for finer movements, but it still takes a lot of practice.

Awesome to know, thanks for testing. I guess it would take some practice, but it's the same concept used in Android racing games if you choose that control method. In theory they could port those marble balance games across to Linux using these motion controls for an "authentic" feel.

Actually, no need to port anything - remember Neverball?

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Yeah, just pre-ordered today and I got delivery date of December. Oh well, no rush...

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After seeing this, I'm sold on the controller now. It's strange that this feature wasn't advertised more, because it's a killer feature in my book.

I would be interested to know how well it works with Dirt Showdown?

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Well that's unexpected, and these two will be on my list for sure. It looks like Triumph Studios and Codemasters are taking a real interest in Linux now. Was there any news if Overlord: Fellowship of Evil is coming out for Linux too? It's due to be released on Oct. 20 for Windows at least.

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Well, there goes my all-night session. It looks like I'll be getting some sleep afterall.

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Quoting: GuestFeral were the ones who said to me that they don't care beyond it working with the nvidia blobs. I have it in an email. That was for Shadow of Mordor.

Could you quote their exact words on that? Don't know if you're allowed to...

I think for Feral it's simply a matter of what makes financial sense. If you look at the GOL surveys, more than 70% of folks here use nvidia+prop. drivers. About 17% use AMD GPUs, but that's in turn pretty much evenly split between open-source and prop. driver. So you have <10% on Catalyst. This situation isn't Feral's fault, but they are faced with it and have to make the best of it.
It sucks though, because it's a vicious cycle that leads to a monopoly. It's not just on Linux, nvidia has a similar lead on Windows, and basically for the same reasons: unreliable driver support on AMD.
When the latest nvidia cards came out, new Linux drivers were available day-1, when AMD released Fury, it took several weeks (don't remember exactly, I checked some time after release and couldn't find drivers, checked phoronix, but I don't know how reliable that is).

I'm not happy with this situation either, but Feral's lack of AMD support isn't the cause, it's a symptom. I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

Agreed. Aspyr don't officially support AMD with their Borderlands ports - so is that their lack of skills and effort? VP's ports nearly all run badly on my AMD machine, and sometimes with missing textures too - but do we only blame VP? How can these 3 porting companies all have trouble with AMD, and yet all their games work without problems on my Nvidia machine. AMD is the common factor here, so where does the problem really lie?

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Feral has the production line in full swing now - awesome news once again. I'm still busy being entertained by their last 2 releases. Long live Feral Interactive and Linux gaming!!

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Shadow of Mordor
Total war: Rome II (Been a long time without news here...)
Witcher 3
Chaos Reborn

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