This is awesome news, I already have the game and all DLC, just haven't played it because I hate booting into Windows.

I was tempted to buy it for the PS4, and get the Camera, from what I've read it's one of the few games to take advantage of it. You can peer around corners with the head tracking, and apparently if you're talking in the room, the Alien will hear you. Now if you could do something like that and add the VR headset to it....

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Well, considering how game development usually works, what maybe 2-3 years for the big games? And SteamOS itself isn't even 100% released as a final, and Steam for Linux was only released slightly over 2 years ago, and already has a few 'AAA' titles out for it, and over 1000 games... I'd say it's doing pretty well already!

Compare that to the Playstation 4. It's been out since November of 2013 (Steam for Linux Feb 14th 2013) and it has 337 playable games for it. And when people say 'but it has X amount of AAA games!' it really doesn't have a lot of them, since I bought mine I have been trying to find some games that are exclusive to it, or somehow are better on the PS4, only really found Bloodborne and Last of Us remastered (which came with the system) most other exclusive titles have had 'meh' reviews. A lot of those games are the same 'indie' games you can get on Steam.

Guess it has the Call of Duty games, which won't / aren't on SteamOS, and some people are into those. My current library on Steam with Linux support is listed at 401 games already. So yeah, I'd say SteamOS is going to be a pretty huge success. I think the only real downside of it would be controller supported games, I've noticed some games that aren't listed as 100% controller supported generally work 99% of the time with a controller, so there is that. Hopefully (and from all I've seen it does) the Steam Controller can help alleviate the jump from keyboard/mouse to controller for a lot of games.

Plus, who knows what the future will bring with the VR headset and more studios jumping on board (I'd say if someone as hated as EA would jump on board, we'd have it made, I have seen a few Ubisoft games drizzle into the Linux library, so who knows how far they'll take that with/without uplay....)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Challenge accepted! Now I need to see if I can get X2 to work. In the past I haven't had many issues getting older games working under newer distributions.

Edit; managed to get X2 to work just fine, downloaded and applied all the patches located here;

http://files.holarse-linuxgaming.de/native/Spiele/X2:%20The%20Threat/Patches/

Though apparently I have to calibrate my Xbox 360 controller... This was running in Debian 8.1 amd64.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ha, oddly enough I already had it on epic.

The bug I've found that annoys me is that I have three monitors, and it locks solid if I have all of them enabled, so if I want to play it under Linux, I have to turn off the left and right and play on the Ultrawide one in the middle.

I need to check the fps on my rig though, I haven't paid attention to it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

For those saying X Rebirth sucks, I can't really comment on that 'cause I haven't played it yet.

But it's not like Egosoft hasn't ported all of the X 3 games (X3: Reunion, X3: Terran Conflict, X3: Albion Prelude) so you can buy those instead for Linux.

I kind of wish they'd port the older ones as well, (X2: The Threat actually has a port, but it's not on Steam, it was done by Linux Game Publishing. Also just realized I have a hard copy of that and X3: Reunion, I forgot they ported that one as well!)

Kind of brings up the (off topic) question of why there are so many games on Steam that have native ports around, but aren't available on SteamOS... I know publishers and all that, but still it'd be nice to be able to not have to do any trickery to get things like X2: The Threat to run, and many others like Unreal (up to 2004?) and iD games, etc.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Nice, apparently on my system it was causing out of memory issues, but that may have been when I was attempting to run it in 2560x1080 with my other two screens on (it did not like that at all, finally disabled the other two (I wasn't using it stretched) ran fine after). I also run it on epic, I will try it out again with the fps counter on.

I have a 980GTX, with AMD 8120 and 8GB of RAM., so motherboard/cpu is kind of slow, though I do have a fast GPU.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Isn't the 'Jaguar based' system, basically a PS4? I also find it amusing when people throw out the 'if it doesn't play at 60fps, it's slow!' I'd rather have a constant 30fps, than an occasional jump up to 60fps anyhow. It's when it starts to drop down to 5-10fps for long periods of time that the performance is unacceptable.

This is awesome, but I agree with the other poster, nVidia would need to have one, because we all know how crap AMD's drivers still are for Linux. Can't' the nVidia Shield already stream Steam games?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I hadn't seen that option either. But I already have Wasteland (1&2) and did get the one that included Torment.

Personally I would suggest playing the first Wasteland... Fallout 1 is basically a remake of that. I don't recall though if Fallout had the three legged hooker....

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I bought this already when it was on sale awhile back because it looked awesome. I have an SSD and even there it takes forever to load.

Game runs mostly smooth on highest settings at 2560x1080 on my 980GTX with amd 8120 cpu. I think this is the game that gives toy an option of low memory (4GB?). The fact that 4GB of ram is considered low these days scares me...

Really wanted to play this on Linux (I am logged into it 90% of the time). Didn't know it was even being released for it until it was announced here and am really excited to play it more. Until the 30th, I will work on finishing Dying Light. :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

So... Neverwinter Nights 3?

Will this come with tools similar to the them so modules can be created (sounds like it), though the tools were never ported to Linux sadly.

Can I just say IT IS ABOUT TIME!!

View this comment - View article - View full comments