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Latest Comments by ljrk
Looks like The Ship: Remasted, a remake of The Ship: Murder Party is heading to Linux
3 May 2016 at 10:58 am UTC Likes: 1

The original is hilariously great, too bad it's not on Linux and sadly doesn't have the most active community either. I really look forward to Remasted!

Tomb Raider released for Linux, thoughts & port report included, the first Linux game to use TressFX
27 Apr 2016 at 5:21 pm UTC

Although the voice acting in is really good in the original, I like the German one (by Nora Tschirner) better. It sounds more young, less stout and more uncertain. Thus it's one of the few games I've played in German :)

Show us your gaming desk setup, here's ours
15 Apr 2016 at 8:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Machine neatly hidden under the desk and monitors on the wall -- just the way I like it.
Could be more monitors though.
And more RAM.
And while we are on it, I'd like to upgrade my whole system please :D

Survival game Rust adds female player models, assigns gender to Steam accounts at random
11 Apr 2016 at 8:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

I think this is a radical but quite funny change. The devs certainly have balls doing such a change.

Possibly a healthy diversion from the "be someone you imagine to be" (the big strong tough guy ...). Could certainly be interesting.

EVERSPACE, a fantastic looking 3D space shooter with roguelike elements coming to Linux
30 Mar 2016 at 9:44 pm UTC

NICE!
Looks a bit like warframe in space from the mechanics. Just not F2P and with UE4 :-)

I hope Linux comes soon!

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days
24 Mar 2016 at 3:38 pm UTC

Quoting: GBeePlayed about an hour, uninstalled ... waste of £4.59 - didn't realise the game was a wave shooter and it's nearly impossible to complete missions cleanly in single player. The AI is useless, they don't do anything - they won't break safes, loot, restart drills, cable tie hostages etc. So missions requiring you to carry three bags of loot requires making three long trips to the getaway vehicle, usually straight through a mass of police.
[meme]YOU DO NOT SIMPLY PLAY PAYDAY IN SINGLEPLAYER[/meme]

That sums's it about up. But depending on the mission it's definitely possible to do things cleanly.

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days
21 Mar 2016 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheBossI really don't get DLC hate. It's how developers are able to keep games going for so long. Most games have DLC now and the GOTY edition is cheap.

Will livestream when i have eaten and got to grips with it.
I dont hate DLC. I own Civ V which is ~30€ with all DLC and I don't dislike it at all.

But Payday 2? That's too much. The GOTY doesn't include all DLCs -- that's why it's that cheap.

And then micro-transactions too!
They *do* make faar enough money eith Payday, it's not as they're poor guys. But instead of making a *sane* amount of monetization they turned it into a cash-cow.

They always pose as a "small-scale" "indie" studio while they're not. They have grown and are definitely earning enough to work w/o that much paid content.

I have quite some DLCs for Payday but at some point I stopped and considered the huge mass of DLC to be too much.

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days
21 Mar 2016 at 6:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

I liked the game but stopped when they did micro-transactions. They have lessened it a bit but still, I don't like them selling *that* many DLCs + micro-transactions. I do doubt that they need the money so bad that they really have to go that far tbh.
I have nothing against a few DLC but this is too much.

See this impressive Unreal Engine 4 video showcasing 2016 features, official Vulkan support
18 Mar 2016 at 10:21 am UTC

UE4 is the best free (beer!) engine available for *big* action games on Linux, I'd say. It's complex though, but that's also one of its strength.

On Linux, the editor works... -- no virtual monitor suppprt sadly though and it sometimes can be glitchy or even crash. On Windows it doesn't have glitches but it sometimes crashes there too ^^

Unity Editor has been more stable here though -- Props for that!

CryEngine V released, Crytek now offer CryEngine as "pay what you want", source code access too
16 Mar 2016 at 11:22 pm UTC

Unity for many is appealing because:
- C#
- Assets
- You don't really have to care about the build-system etc. Everything's GUI
- "For all platforms" promise. Actually this is promised even more than by other engines but sadly delivered worse in my experience. But the promise is what they believe as they first do windows and try the Linux-Porting later Hmph.

Unity isn't bad though. Especially the I2CPP stufd looks promising and Linux has improved much. Still I'd like to see Sourceaccess.