This game has been one of my favorites for a while. Maybe we can arrange a time when those of us who like can play online.

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Quoting: Xpanderit feels more like a mobile phone game not a PC game. all the tracks are pretty much the same, textures are terrible, music is terrible, translation errors.

It feels like a mobile phone game because it is a mobile phone game. That seems to be the new trend: port mobile games to PC on the cheap with little or no improvements.

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Quoting: Stupendous ManYou and me both! I'm really missing a pause button in these games so that I can think and give orders at my leisure.

Haha, then it would be a turn-based strategy game and not a real-time strategy game :D

RTS = Real-time Stress

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Quoting: subAnd some of us were hoping for Half Life 3... :D

Rocket League? What a bummer.

LOL You would've had better luck hoping for a yeti.

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Quoting: GuestStill kinda sad that it's dota 2... not exactly a showcase kind of game. Maybe we'll get portal 3 or somethin to make up for it.

Personally, I agree with you since I don't like MOBAs, but from Valve's perspective, the game has millions of players (sometimes over a million logged in at one time). PC gamers are crazy about their MOBAs. I just read an article about a kid who won their championship now being a millionaire [External Link]. So, yes, it's a showcase kind of game and makes Valve a lot of money.

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Quoting: TealI don't mean to oppose you or anything but could you provide any examples of game ports where the Linux port performs significantly (not few percent points that are well within margin of influence of different background system load) better than on Windows?

As far as I know, lower Linux performance is to some degree inherent to the lower quality drivers (including the Nvidia binary ones) as well as to quirks of OpenGL itself. This all will hopefully be remedied by VULKAN but for now I feel like it's a tad unfair to blame game porters for Linux performance being somewhat worse (of course, significant performance drop or any instability shouldn't be excused).

Ask and ye shall receive. Valve's Linux port of Left 4 Dead 2 significantly outperformed [External Link] the Windows version. The key here, of course, is that it was not a third-party port. Companies like Feral aren't working with their own code. So, I don't know if it's an inherent problem with OpenGL or the drivers considering games that are day-one releases on Linux (like Victor Vran) seem to perform flawlessly. Perhaps it's more the inherent nature of porting.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleShadow of Mordor runs very well for me, for example - the benchmark never dips below 60fps.

I'd definitely like to see proof of that, along with your specs, posted on the forum.

Regarding Feral's status as a good/bad porter, as you said, it's all relative. Some people are satisfied with performance lower than they'd get on Windows. Others aren't. And obviously, Nvidia users will be happier with them than AMD. It's all about your perspective and your expectations.

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Quoting: mmstickIf we wanted to play non-native ports then we'd just use Wine with Gallium Nine, without all these silly bugs. Even that dreaded Witcher 2 port runs better in Wine that it does the 'non-native Linux port' from this developer.

So, just to be clear, you'd rather pay for the Windows version of a game and play it in a non-native wrapper (Wine) and have to fiddle around with it until you get it working right than pay for a version labeled as a Linux port that is also non-native but that is officially supported so that someone else has to fiddle around with it to get it to work and that can play through the Linux version of Steam?

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If you have medium or low end hardware, make sure to disable global illumination and advanced lighting. They reduce FPS when enabled, but I can't even tell the visual difference (It's the same on Windows). On higher-end hardware, it still costs, but maybe not enough to bother you.

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For me, this is easily one of the best games I've played on Linux. Any expansions or additions to it are just icing on the cake at this point.

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