Quoting: GuestAccording to comment [External Link] by Solais (one of Croteam devs), OpenGL renderer was removed in the latest update for Fusion. Now SSF is Vulkan-only on Linux, and so it means that likely SS4 will be Vulkan-only too.

That's cool, sounds like the right move. I'd think they'd drop DX rendering for Windows too, and just go with Vulkan, since the big players should all have decent Vulkan performance. Not sure what they'd do for Mac users though.

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So the trick with the audio is to disable 5.1 surround. Yeah it sucks, but fixed all the audio related glitches I found.

Isn't the link open source? Anyhow I ordered a second one, and amazon is still selling them for 120, so I got the Link and a 3rd controller from Steam for 89 for downstairs...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNot sure why you quoted me on this, I certainly would never say any game is AAA anyhow, I don't believe it means anything useful.

Then it's no use to the discussion. You might reject the AAA classification, but most people understand it and use the word to refer to a specific type of game. Granted, there are some grey areas - such that we're discussing if TW: Warhammer 2 is one such game - but I don't think anyone would disagree that Battlefield V is an AAA game and that Undertale is not an AAA game. Grey areas are not necessarily a problem, even science has some very strictly defined concepts which have irreducible grey areas (like the concepts of species in biology).

Yeah, but Science doesn't just label something in an arbitrary way. They don't say that Einstein's theory of relativity is AAA just because it came from Einstein.

Regardless, the AAA should basically mean A for quality, A for popularity and A for Graphics/Sound? Like I say, it's not very well defined. Would you say anything that managed to get Sean Bean to do voice acting for be AAA, or only if they killed him off in it?

Most of the time AAA just means 'big budget' in which case I think Star Citizen can be ranked AAAA. Assuming it ever gets finished.

I'd say based on popularity, quality and graphics and sound Total War (especially the warhammer ones) ARE AAA. Especially in their category of strategy games, which unless they're RTS aren't usually all that popular these days among the younger crowd.

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Quoting: Rutine

Quoting: mylka

Quoting: Thormack

Quoting: mylkai wonder how they have the ressources to support linux
https://steamdb.info/app/464920/graphs/ [External Link]
only a few 100 players

i am not complaining, but every time i see this, i ask myself: why can they do it and big companies dont. or why are games like RUST cancel linux support

Where did you find this 100 players information?
I opened that link and didn't find anything related to the O.S.

i didnt say OS. it is overall and they have to maintain the game for every OS

True, you didn't say OS, but the way it was formulated, one could have thought that you were refering to 100 players on Linux.
But I stick with what I said, their ressources are not tied to how many people play it per week, but to how many people bought the game.

And on this, we have between 200k and 500k owners. That's really not bad I think. Not on par with the biggest, but still.
and the amount of resources you need to have Linux support possibly depends a lot on your approach and your base engine. If they are using a cross-platform engine, then it's possibly simpler.

That being said, it's true that games like RUST (between 5 and 10 million owners, so like 15 times what Surviving Mars has, could possibly support Linux, if they wanted to.

Of course that gets into the whole support vs there's a binary... There is a significant difference. Support means they'll actually respond to bug reports and fix them. Just tossing something out there and ignoring it is far easier.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat depends of your concept about what is an AAA game.
For me, games without Spanish voice overs are not AAA, and it doesn't matter how famous the franchise is.
This is an indie game for me... The same goes for The Witcher franchise.

Anyway! For tastes, the colours.

Really? Total War indie games? It's not about taste, the AAA category it's about how much you invest to make the game. Of course, that doesn't implies that it will be an excellent game, but still on this case means that a game that has a big player base is getting a native version in our system. And that my friend is one of the pillar base in order to make Linux a gaming platform.

Ha, AAA games as a definition has always been a moving target. Is it popularity? Call of Duty is considered very popular and AAA, but it's not something that I obsess with. Quality? Probably not. Large production? Yup, that's usually what it means. The Witcher definitely is.

If TW Warhammer 2 is not a AAA then Fallout 76 is not a AAA, FIFA 19 is not AAA, Hitman 2 is not a AAA and even Shadow of the Tomb Raider should not be considered AAA... I mean, feels like you don't consider a game a large production if it's using the same engine as the previous version.

Either case, Total War franchise is one of the big franchise that are out there, with a big player base and a lot of work in production in the content of each release so it should be something to be proud to be able to have on Linux. Sorry, but no one can argue against this.

Not sure why you quoted me on this, I certainly would never say any game is AAA anyhow, I don't believe it means anything useful.

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Still to this day, I think Serious Sam has the most complete options as far as playing anywhere from Single Player to Coop out of any other game. Croteam are just awesome developers, and some of my favorite for sure.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, so I got an email from them on Thursday saying they'd send me a free key for the DLC because I'd pre-ordered it. Haven't seen any key from them though.

I had the same, but I checked the DLC box and saw it has installed.

Correct, it is installed! Sweet.

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Huh, so I got an email from them on Thursday saying they'd send me a free key for the DLC because I'd pre-ordered it. Haven't seen any key from them though.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat depends of your concept about what is an AAA game.
For me, games without Spanish voice overs are not AAA, and it doesn't matter how famous the franchise is.
This is an indie game for me... The same goes for The Witcher franchise.

Anyway! For tastes, the colours.

Really? Total War indie games? It's not about taste, the AAA category it's about how much you invest to make the game. Of course, that doesn't implies that it will be an excellent game, but still on this case means that a game that has a big player base is getting a native version in our system. And that my friend is one of the pillar base in order to make Linux a gaming platform.

Ha, AAA games as a definition has always been a moving target. Is it popularity? Call of Duty is considered very popular and AAA, but it's not something that I obsess with. Quality? Probably not. Large production? Yup, that's usually what it means. The Witcher definitely is.

But Indie? That's usually when it is a small studio developing and maybe publishing it. That is definitely not Sega/Creative Assembly. I'd even say inXile (before Microsoft bought them) would be considered borderline not-Indie, since I think they have a decent amount of people working for them, though they technically were and independent developer, now sucked into the grasp of MS.

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Initial test; it's buggered! Narfed screen during character creation, then it gets worse from there, graphical corruption pretty much anytime something moves, and when you're finally in the game you get a black screen with a dot and some text / voice. Voice acting with that little bit is good at least, sometimes games have the worse voice actors.

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