I hope this comes to fruition. I've had fun using mechs within games (Fear 2, Red Faction: Guerilla, etc.) but I've never seen a mech game that I felt I wanted to play, so I'm excited to see a promising one not only coming into existence, but coming to Linux as well!

My mental Committee of Hope have called for an official Crossing of Fingers.

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Quoting: dubigrasuHey, thanks for the confirmation. I took the liberty to mention your post in that bug report, hope you don't mind.

I don't mind at all! In fact, I'm delighted you did, as I had meant to, then quite simply forgot in the hustle and bustle of the day. :)

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This is huge affirmation of Mesa and AMDs open-source efforts! It excites me and I'm currently an Nvidia user! XD

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Quoting: dubigrasuI use SteamOS and since I'm still continuously use it since it was released, you can imagine that it does the job and my thoughts about it are pretty positive.
Except for this: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/1291816880499593115/ [External Link]

This has made me crazy for a few months now, ever since I discovered it was happening with the Steam client. I could make it happen by starting BPM, and then starting a game in BPM. BAM! CPU would skyrocket and stay high until I left BPM and returned to the Desktop client.

I avoid BPM now. I've reconfigured my Steam Controller configs so they don't use any of the on-screen, BPM reliant menus, and I design my new configs without menus too, which is a shame since these are powerful tools.

Thanks for the link to your Steam post, it was very informative. And thanks, too, for all your testing and troubleshooting. If Valve were to put forth half the effort you have, it would be fixed soon.

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This is exciting news! I feel inexplicably confident that Planet Nomads will see its way to a final release, and I'm going to wait for that release before I buy for the usual I-don't-want-to-tire-of-it-before-the-final-release reasons.

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Nice write up Scaine, and I appreciated the videos. I've had S&S wishlisted from way back, but it hasn't yet hit the price point I need to gamble that it won't be too difficult for my feeble gaming skills. I know I could refund it, but two hours might not be enough time for me to realize how awful I may be at it. Lol. Eventually it'll go on sale when the stars of discount and personal finances align, and I will buy it and settle this uncertainty once and for all. :)

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Just gimme a chance to download it, that's all I ask, and MS can piss off! It will be mine bwahahahaha!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: bubexelResume: you rent a computer with windows to play with latency....
So stupid...

I bet people said similair stuff about music/tv/movie streaming, now they're massively popular.

While I wouldn't go so far as bubexel and say Parsec or the user is "stupid," I can't see it as a very worthwhile option, not over time at any rate.

Please, correct me if I misunderstand how Parsec works; I'm trying to suss out the "wow" factor here. So, it sounds like Parsec is simply a streaming service from one machine (virtual in the cloud, or physical) to another. Like the Steam Link, but over the internet, right? Also, unlike Netflix et al., Parsec isn't a simple, easy-to-use, point-choose-click-play sort of service.

Quoting: liamdawe... 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.

$17 per month for 30+ hours of gaming seems like a reasonable price, but there's simply not much of a service there. I would save that payment, plus the money on what ever Windows games I'd been wanting to play, and build a reasonably priced Windows machine ... I can't imagine the quality would be worse than playing over the internet. And I could upgrade a Windows machine over time, whereas I'm already paying for my area's fastest (yet still crappy) dsl service, which isn't going to get better any time soon.

All that said, It's an interesting idea. We are still in the infancy age of the Internet, and things like this are going to become ever more common and accessible over time, I'm sure.

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Quoting: MaCrox95It is strange how they rolled Steam OS update soon after MS has announced Win 10S and even more changes coming to Win10 that will further lock it down.

If it takes Microsoft being, well, Microsoft to get Valve off the pot and back to work on SteamOS in earnest, then hooray Microsoft! Thanks for being the predictably greedy monstrosity we all know and loathe.

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Yay! Sounds like a perfect little game to me! Pleasing graphics, novel character interactions, casual puzzles. A lot of games set out to fill a sort of "pleasant to play" niche, but so few manage to pull it off with any sophistication and elan.

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