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Latest Comments by Aryvandaar
Interstellar Marines Tactical FPS Update 18, Lots Of Goodies
28 Apr 2015 at 2:19 pm UTC

I have high hopes for this game. It's something different than all the CoD/Battlefield FPS and CoD/Battlefield copycats.

SpecOps: The Line For Linux Is Official, Being Ported By Virtual Programming
28 Apr 2015 at 2:18 pm UTC

This is great news! Although I've already played the game. Maybe I will play it again. :P

Valve Officially Drop Paid Mods
28 Apr 2015 at 2:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

They should have made a separate community for paid mods. I don't agree with the thought that paid mods is bad, but I think the execution was really poor. And I think that the mod creators deserve a bigger cut of the cake than the meagre 25%.

Steam Officially Starts Allowing Paid Mods In The Workshop, People Are Upset
25 Apr 2015 at 12:55 pm UTC

Seems like a very bad idea to do this out of the blue. They should have kept two modding communities, keeping them separate, one with paid mods, other with free mods. The paid mods not being based on any free mods.

Sales Statistics For Linux Games From Different Developers, Part 4
18 Apr 2015 at 9:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's pretty cool to hear the compliments they have about Linux gamers. Thanks devs.

GOL Survey Results: March
8 Apr 2015 at 7:55 am UTC

I honestly don't know why I keep a Windows 7 system around. I never boot into it any more, and it has been quite some time since I did. Most of my favourite games are in Linux, and those who are not runs very well in Wine.

Pillars Of Eternity RPG Released For Linux, Early Port Report Included
30 Mar 2015 at 6:49 am UTC

Works out of the box running from Steam with Manjaro and Funtoo. Performance wise, It's one of the best Linux games I've experienced in quite some time.

Borderlands 2 Released For Linux With A Sale
22 Mar 2015 at 9:59 am UTC

Quoting: drmothI get a black screen on startup unfortunately.
Nvidia gtx 460, intel i7

Running from SteamApps command-line gives me:
./Borderlands2: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have this file installed. Not sure what's going on.
A bit late reply, but install / reinstall openal. :)

Larian Studios Detail Why The Linux Port Of Divinity Is Taking So Damn Long
16 Mar 2015 at 7:27 am UTC

I appreciate it when developers take their time to make good ports or natives. Bonus points to Larian.