Nice to see it outperforming OpenGL (was there any doubt that it would btw.?) But the much more important question is...will it outperform DX12? Because if it doesn't devs will go "Why would we add a Vulkan render path for these 1% that use Linux?" To succeed on the market, being the second fastest API won't be good enough when the fastest one already controls 90% of the market.

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I wouldn't mind Steam tossing out all games that need "3rd party DRM" at all, tbh. If you need DRM on top of DRM you're paranoid and I don't want to do business with you.

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[quote=tuubi]How can you possibly know that any significant number of players actually hates this feature enough to stop playing? /quote]

Did you read the OP? At all?

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Wellm

Quoting: AnjuneI can vaguely see how that'd make sense for a survival game

Well, thing is that according to their own postings they knew that their players would hate it. Why would any business in their right mind do something "unpopular"? This isn't politics, this is a computer game and people want to enjoy it. If they implement features I hate - you know, there are a lot of games on the market I can spend my money on, so from a business perspective it's a really dumb thing to do. With 2,000 games available, even Linux players can easily snub a game that comes with a "We don't care if you hate it!" feature.

And really, so far I haven't heard a reason to implement such a feature that I wouldn't immediately dismiss as completely and utterly stupid. But it seem the devs still think it's the best idea since sliced bread. Amazing how blind people can be.

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Quoting: legluondunetIn a video game we should be able to choose the gender, race, type of creature , hair color ... we want.

Why? Many of the best videogames give you no choice about player character at all. Think about the Half Life, Bioshock or Tomb Raider franchises.

Tbh, unless there are -really- compelling reasons why a character has to be premade, I want to have a character editor for the games I am playing. Most of the time there are no good reasons as the storytelling is nowhere deep enough to warrant it. While Tomb Raider and The Witcher certainly make sense to be told using a premade character. Victor Vran could as well have been a Victoria. Honestly? The majority of games using premade characters were just too lazy to add opposite gender characters so they ship with a fixed one (usually male).

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So that game would force assign me a female character in the game because that's what I am in real life?

Hm...

Thing is that I -do- roll female characters in pretty much all games I play. Ok, scratch the pretty much, I actually never play male characters. I am still not sure how I feel about the game -forcing- me to, instead of giving me a choice. While my in-game gender always matches my real life one, the random strangers I meet in game do not know that. And I actually prefer not revealing any personal information about me unless I do so voluntarily. What's next? Games try to find out my real life skin colour and force that on my characters as well?

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Quoting: Zelox

Quoting: KeyrockMOBAs are games that inherently lead to flaming and toxicity, it's built into the very nature of the game genre. The same things that make MOBAs so exciting and compelling to watch (I find MOBAs, more specifically DotA 2, far and away the most compelling eSports to watch), also make the games extremely stressful and make players prone to fits and outbursts. It's because it's a team game where 4 other players are depending on you to not **** up. The structure of MOBAs is such that no single player can carry a game all on their own (though a stellar individual performance can certainly help a team), but a single player making mistakes can absolutely sink their entire team.

The Leagues comunity are really great now adays. I rarly get in to a game with a flamer, and if I do just ignor it and report it.
And if u find that hard just mute it.

And sometimes there is trash talk just for the lols, you cant take its personaly or seriusly.
I think you should give it a go, mobas are really fun just be humble to other players and you are going to have alot of fun ^^.
Flamers are often kids who have been sipping on to mutch Fanta :P. Its the suger rush u know, and hormones.

Or maybe mobas just dont appeal to you.
I also think you have got the wrong first imperssion on mobas.

Well, I lasted less than an hour in Leagues. I am used to the internet being a rough place but Leagues was extreme even by internet standards. I have never seen such an immature, rude and toxic "community" in my entire life and I have no desire to repeat that experience either. I am not sure what exactly causes MOBAs to attract entire armies of douchebags. The genre otherwise seems to be interesting. But I would really rip out my toe nails than spending one more minute with complete jerks like the ones I met in that game.
And make no mistake - there is no excuse for being a jerk online. "It's just a game" doesn't count and neither does "hormones". No matter what excuses are used, a person trash talking others is a moron, is a moron, is a moron. Period. Even the commonly used "It's the internet!" is just another expression for "I am actually a rude idiot and the Internet's anonymity finally gives me the opportunity to be my true self." It's laughable when these people try to indicate that they are actually nice in real life. The online world is just a part of real life, not a different reality. You can't be an asshole in one part and a nice person in the other. These people need to stop lying to themselves. If you don't want to be a jerk, then don't be a jerk.

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Tbh, in my experience installing Linux on a -new- PC was never as easy as it should be. There is always, -always- at least one component in a brand new PC that's not supported by the newest available distro of your choice (that or it's just my bad luck, but in 17 years of using Linux I never had one single smooth install). So the fumbling and tweaking starts. And yes, it's annoying. It usually works flawlessly with the next distro release, but new PCs need an OS too.

I got a new laptop last summer (IIRC in June) and at least back then the NVidia drivers couldn't handle Optimus. Not sure if anything changed in the meantime. Laptops are an even bigger pain to install Linux on btw. The latest one I got (an Acer) had a firmware obviously written by a complete hack of a noob programmer, that would boot the Windows bootloader as soon as it detected it in UEFI completely ignoring what's configured in GRUB. Took me ages to figure that out.

Heh, he doesn't believe that he will regret directly writing to X, but he absolutely will. :D

And why would one want to use a commercial code editor when we have tons of awesome open source ones? oO

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I have zero problems with "wrapper ports" as long as they feel like a native game. I prefer wrapper ports over no ports.

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Sounds and looks good. Will buy! :)

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