I was surprised by the split-screen message when selecting a single player game. Turns out that starting the game with a controller, with a 2nd controller plugged in allows you to play local coop. The game switches between a single screen but when the two players walk away from each other it switches to a vertical split screen.

Not only I hadn't seen this functionality for local coop before, but it's also the first crpg with local coop I've known, amazing!

I hope it becomes a standard.

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I've been looking forward to Vulkan since it was first announced, but I find it sad that so few people are informed about it considering the positive change it can bring to the industry.

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Got Aquaria on a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 on AMD with 15.7 propietary drivers and I'm getting a libGL error like this:

 libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast 

I'm totally lost on how to fix it because it seems I need to link some library to another but can't understand which, threads indicate how to do it with Nvidia cards but I haven't found anything concrete on AMD cards. I'm sure the answer is out there but I'm at work now so I can't try anything.

The game is playable but it has stutters and looks like the CPU is doing all the job :( I also cannot play on fullscreen.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: bladerunnerWell, my PC is "Desktop" years old ;).

:P Haha.... I just remembered. Basically, one of the changes was adding two completely new questions. One on what device, and another on how old the device is, but then decided to remove the second question because it was too ambiguous (i.e. if it's a desktop then it's difficult to quantify how "new" it is because of upgrades).

I think the best solution to that question would be "when was the last time you upgraded or changed that device" or something along those lines. If anyone has any suggestions for that one, I can re-add it into this survey ASAP. Those two "test" questions weren't going to make it into the final results next month anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's added late this month.

How about asking how much time since one last built or upgraded his/her PC? Only counting some components, like:

Q: When did you last built or upgraded your PC?

A:

☐ 6 months
☑ 6+ months - 2 years
☐ 3 - 4 years
☐ 5 + years

I'm not sure what the best date options would be though :P

Additionally a question of the parts that were upgraded/added within a timeframe. The only problem with that is that let's say someone purchased 1 part each year in lets say the last 4 years would fill in all the part checkboxes on the 2nd question and would still count as a new computer, so the question would need a timeframe for upgrades (let's say 6 months or a year back before the last upgrade).

So it'd be like

Q: "Which of the following components have you upgraded/added within a year since your last PC upgrade? (e.g. last replaced RAM in april 2015 and GPU in september 2014 would count, but anything before april 2014 would not count)

A:
☐ Motherboard
☑ GPU
☑ RAM
☐ CPU

I'd also suggest to count components that could dramatically alter gaming performance, as a lot of stuff is arbitraty when it comes to gaming like, let's say HDD's and SDD's that would improve load times and space but right now they're more of a choice than something required to run games, the mobo is also arbitrary, but it dictates which type of RAM / CPU / GPU it could have, but I'd agree with some counter arguments on this.

Basically in the end those who would select all parts within the last upgrade timeframe would count as a completely new computer(even if they didn't upgrade PSU or HDD but did so with everything else) while the ones who upgraded some parts and not all of them within the timeframe would not count as new computers but could interestingly make another list that would tell us the average upgrade/time ratio.

That's what comes to mind ^^

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Quoting: muntdefems

Quoting: LinasOh come on, if they want to say PC, let them have it. It is just as meaningless as the whole Linux vs GNU/Linux debate. Sometimes the distinction is important, but most of the time it is not.

In my regular skimmings through Kickstarter when updating the crowdfunding wiki I come by a lot of campaigns with ambiguous platform support statements like "this game will be available for PC". You'd be really surprised how many times the devs really mean "Personal Computer" (i.e. Windows+Mac+Linux) and not only "Windows".

So no, even if Steam does it, "PC" does not always equate to "Windows" and it can lead to confusion.

From the guys who brought you "I'm american" and "Let's play some football".... comes.... "this game will be available for PC"

They just love to do this, I hate specifying that I'm american but not from the US, that's so annoying! Europeans and Asians don't have to do this. And don't even get me started with football, the original football you know? you know which one it is right?

What's with people and taking names for something that's more general and just shove it to something specific, that's what the people who say PC when they intend to say Windows are doing. And I rightfully hate that practice.

Sorry for my rant.

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The Unity increase could be to the greater number of responses submitted.

But in my case, after 3 years of using Unity I switched to KDE Plasma 5 as my main desktop environment. I consider it to be the most efficient and good looking desktop I've used so far, and having been using it since the beta I've noticed how the bugs are already going away with each update. It also seems they plan on switching from X to Wayland this year.

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Why are they using this method? Wouldn't it be better to add some type of "donate to this mod's creator" and a"request update" button? That way good and wanted mods would be supported and unwanted ones wouldn't, it would kind of meet both sides at the middle wouldn't it? Dev gets paid, user gets free mod (and can send money if they like or want it to stay alive)

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Quoting: coryrj19951Wow, they're busy, four ports right now? That is great! So far both of their ports were pretty much flawless. Can't wait for Mordor and maybe try out a Batman game, heard a lot about them being good, so this would be a great time to try one out!

The Batman games are great, I'm not interested in getting platinum trophies with PS games, but I did with Batman Arkham Asylum, it was that good

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I still dual boot, but Windows days are counted in my PC. I decided to completely move to ubuntu and discard Windows about 4 months ago and I'm saving all the games that I can play on linux for that time.

Since I don't want to leave windows games unfinished or unplayed, I'm using Windows non-stop to complete those games. My game beating ratio is at an all time high, partly this is helping me control the games that I buy and I'm actually completing more than I'm buying so it's working for me.

When I finish with those games I'll move to linux only.

I'm also very optimistic about the future of linux gaming.

With Vulkan, Unity, Unreal Engine 4, Source 2 and SteamOS I believe developers will change the way games are made so that they're developed with cross-platform compatibility in mind, so porting for linux will be almost cost free compared to porting as we currently know it. Also, Blizzard is participating Vulkan, so maybe we can't expect a current game to be released on linux, but it may happen for a new game they release in the future.

Furthermore, it's worth to mention what happened with DX11 not being supported in Windows XP, now I'm no programmer and this is just my speculation but to me it sounds like they wanted to have people move to Vista, rather than XP not being able to support the API. History may repeat itself with that same scenario happening with Windows 7 not supporting DX12, which would mark the strongest push towards other OS for gamers, hopefully and since there are no restrictions with open source, those who decide to stay in Windows 7 will be able to enjoy Vulkan as an alternative.

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Quoting: jamesc359You didn't go investigate?! :O

Hell no. That scream didn't sound like a scared girl, it sounded like anguish-y and angry and violent, and it sounded way too near to feel safe. I didn't even want to get near the window and close the curtains even though I was on a second floor lol.

A friend from a nearby neighborhood and my mom have heard it too, and it was about 2004-2005 when I did, but whatever it was I don't think it's there anymore. Anyway, no one knew what it was, but everyone was afraid of it. It was just the one scream and nothing else after.

Since then I've been waiting for a movie about banshees, that'd be awesome if they can reproduce that horrible scream. If you played Disciples: Sacred Lands, the banshee scream in that game sounds kind of like it, as the banshee is the first thing that came to my mind when I heard it. There are banshees in Disiciples II, but they didn't get the scream right hehe

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