Fingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

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This don't surprise me. Even on Windows the game is broken, with reports of multiple bugs, bad performance and incomplete feature list.

One more case of buy on release day, regrets immediately.

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AFAIK Apple started the Metal API more or less the same time AMD released their Mantle API. When Vulkan appeared, they had already invested a lot in Metal, so they made the call to continue that path.

Now, was it the right move? If you look at their revenue from Apple store, looks like they did. But I had the feeling that is iPhone related. My impression is that their desktop stuff don't look any better than before, although they continue to get some support from a couple big names.

The recent release of a Apple's "Proton" indicates that things are not rosy, meaning Metal adoption is not in the levels they wanted it to be.

I had the feeling that while Tim Cook is in charge, things will remain the same. But I wouldn't be surprised if the next CEO, in a effort to boost profits, starts to drop anything that is proprietary in exchange for industry standards, like Chromium and Vulkan, to cut costs and make shareholders happy.

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I heard Lumberyard had you stuck with Amazon cloud stuff. Does this engine still have that? Can a game be completely off-line? Also, can a game using this drop the Amazon crap and utilize Steam cloud?

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Having been burned for buying games on day one (Rage, Batman:AC, IL-2 Cliffs of Dover), or in early access (Megasphere and others), so I promised myself to not do that anymore.

But as any shameless promise-breaker, I confess to had broken that promise a couple times, when I had a good feeling the devs can deliver the goods. So I will make a exception for this game too.

Your enemy IA better kick my ass in the game, like in F.E.A.R, or you guys will never hear the end of it :tongue:

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Since Sweeney is my sworn enemy, you can guess my deep insatisfaction to discover they had bought the Brazilian developer of Horizon Chase Turbo, Aquiris. A little earlier, they both dropped any plans for Linux and a Steam Launch of Horizon 2. Then, to put salt in the injury, they canceled the online leaderboards of the first game, citing some ridiculous "cost to maintain it", like a indie dev have any problem with that on Steam.

And now, Sweney is firing people left and right. To the ex-CEO of Aquiris, good job selling your company to Epic.

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Nice. Loved the first game. Finished it about 3 times. It scratched my itch for a new puzzle game after Portal 2.

But without Linux native support, I would only take it on a Steam sale when it will be heavily discounted, a couple years from launch.

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Wow, talk about putting their wallet were their mouth is. Just bought Terraria to show my support for this kind of attitude.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksThat cinematic trailer was good. Maybe I'm bias cause I like Idris Elba, but I got sucked right in.

He's such a good actor and seems like a cool guy. I wish he'd reconsider being James Bond. He's literally perfect for the role. I can totally picture him in an homage scene to Dr. No, playing baccarat with a cigarette in his mouth saying "Bond, James Bond."

Agreed. He has the charisma and womanizer qualities you expect from a good Bond actor. But, that should had happened about 10 years ago. He is 51 now, so only would had time for 1, maybe 2 films before being too old, IMHO.

Sure, you had a couple guys like Tom Cruise stretching the age limit for a action actor, but I personally find it very unconvincing and distracting, after all, being in my forties, I know age let you at a huge physical disadvantage against younger guys. No amount of makeup or special effects will make me forget that.

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I bought Truxton off the Volume 1 collection, and I can vouch for the quality of the emulation. Way more convenient than efforts from Capcom and Sega.

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