It's generally unsafe to hand money to a development team with no proven track record. People doing that need to acknowledge that there is a very strong chance that such a project will fail. There might still be grounds for doing it anyway if people -really- want that project to happen, but they should treat it like the subprime investment it is.

Personally I have backed quite a number of projects, but my personal rule is never to give money to a team unless they have a proven track record as game developers in general AND can show me convincing evidence that they are able to deploy on Linux.

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I am totally not sure if this is good news. Actually more the opposite. Square Enix is quite Linux friendly. Until proven otherwise, we have not the slightest reason to believe that IO will be the same. They are a Windows-only studio having made nothing but Windows games so far (if I am not totally mistaken), and it was -Square Enix- that hired Feral to do the port.

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I like them giving the smaller nations some love. Playing WW2 games as Germany, USA or Russia has gotten old a little, so giving it a go as a smaller nation is fun!

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I dunno. What's the point of getting nice stuff if you can't dare to take it out of town? That...doesn't make any sense. I realize that this game deliberately wanted to be "old school", but sometimes old school things have died for a reason. *shrug*

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Quoting: razing32

As always, I still think they need a ton more PvE content to keep people interested.

Yup, as a non PvP interested player , that's what I want :)

I guess even if they'd add more PvE content, most non-hardcore PvP players are probably not very likely to touch a game having open world ganking and player-looting with the proverbial 10-foot pole. I am longing for a great Linux suppported MMORPG as much as anyone, but this game is simply not it. It will be a very small game appealing to a very small group of players. They might have some fun with it. But a big thing it will not become.

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On par with DX11? Hm, since DX12 is much faster than DX11, doesn't that then mean that Vulkan is probably lagging behind DX12? Not a big problem now, as no serious developer I am aware of is considering offering DX12 exclusive games anytime soon, but if we hope to eat into Windows market share, we ideally want Vulkan to be -better- than DX12, no? Otherwise what's the incentive for AAA developers to use it over the current industry standard DirectX (mind you that portability won't matter to them as long as Windows has a 95% market share).

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WINE sure seems to pick up some steam these days. oO

I have no clue how far they are in terms of actually completing DX11 support, but they sure release a lot of patches now. :)

For me, it's Skyrim, Fallout 4 and ESO I am looking forward no longer to have to boot into Windows for. No clue how far WINE is away from being able to run these, though.

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Quoting: skinnyrafReading through spoilers here, I have just realised that the sequel might mean that DONTNOD will have to spoil it, which ending is "canonical".

Unless they sidestep it completely by telling an unrelated story of someone else who can rewind time...

I think they indicated back then that a potential follow-up would involve new characters.

Spoiler, click me

I am not even sure if they can reuse the rewind time theme, as the first game established the flow of time as impossible to change in the long run. Which means we'd -again- end up with a game where nothing you do matters in the end.

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Quoting: numasan

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I dunno about in the game, but in real life they can be handy in very hilly areas where roads have to meander and grades are too steep for rail.

No doubt, I meant in the game :) Building on top of a steep hill or mountain still requires roads for services, but sure cable cars might be faster as in the real world. My initial feeling of them is just that it is rather niche and more for spicing up the look of the city.

Most of the time I've seen them in real life, they were used as a shortcut from the hilltop to downtown, in cases where the hill's steep side was facing downtown, so road access had to circle around the hill.

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I guess it's more up to Square Enix than DONTNOD if the game gets ported, but I might be mistaken. SE seemed to be very Linux friendly as of late, so that's grounds for hope. The one thing that made me pause is them not porting Rise of the Tomb Raider, despite they brought the first one to Linux. I wonder why they didn't.

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