Looking forward to it! Since they sort of botched the weather/seasons DLC, this might indeed be the best DLC for the game to date!

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What I want:
- Fallout 4
- Skyrim
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Elder Scrolls Online

What I will get:
...probably something else. :D

But no matter what, it will probably be a major title. And we need more of these, regardless of whether or not it's one that personally interests me.

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Good to see Unity go. Why they thought Unity was a good UI is beyond me. I always thought it made things more complicated instead of easier (Hint: If you display a window menu on top of the screen instead on top of the window, the mouse pointer will usually have to move -longer- to get there).

Even better to see Mir go. I have still no idea why Canonical thought dumping resources into Mir would be a good idea when they could just have worked with Wayland instead. This move now brings Ubuntu back closer to other mainstream Linux distros and this is good for everyone.

I like Ubuntu because it's a solid Linux distro, but I don't necessarily want them to do things dramatically different for no good reason. Like...arranging the window controls on the left hand side of the window, when really everyone expects them to be on the right hand side.

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Quoting: KetilCiv 5 and civ 6 are games I get bored in too quickly to really play multiplayer. I tried multiplayer in civ 5 once, but got bored like I often do in the mid-game and civ 6 are too similar. I'd say civ 2, civ 1 and freeciv are far more enjoyable mid game and end-game, but that could be nostalgia talking as I haven't really played them for years. Civ 5 and 6 are more compelling early game. Multiplayer in freeciv was of the better I have tried, having the turns at the same time, and only wait if one player need longer than another player.

Well, tbh, Civ has never really solved the endgame. It's dragging on and on, despite it is usually decided around the middle ages who's going to win. This has been this way since Civ 1 and I am not sure if there is a way they can really address it, at least not without cheesy mechanics. In real life, the current success of nations (or lack thereof) has also been determined centuries ago and Civ is just accurately portraying that.

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I am a huge Civ fan, but it's honestly not a game I'd play multiplayer. Turn-based games and multiplayer don't mix very well IMHO. Still good to see this implemented for the people who wanted it. :)

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That was one of the very few Feral ports I did -not- buy. I didn't even know that it was a lackluster game, but I have less than zero interest in the F1, both in real life and in games.

And I suppose even if you liked the genre, would you really buy yearly updates for a sports game, EA-style? I guess sitting out the 2016 version and waiting for the 2017 bringing some more significant improvements would do just nicely. Maybe Vulkan will have gained more momentum by then, so the porting costs will decrease.

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Glad to see a successful Linux release after all the "Sorry, but we decided last night that we don't want to do Linux after all, despite we promised." news we had lately.

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Odd that they depend their porting decision on requests. Even a tiny fraction of a market can generate substantial noise, that makes said fraction look larger than it really is. Like the raiders in MMOs, who usually represent numbers close to the Linux market share on desktops, but make so much noise that you think every MMO player is a raider. So devs continue making that sort of content despite almost nobody plays it... *giggles*

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so it's an especially useful tool if you have great artistic skills, but perhaps not so great programming skills.

Does it work well if your talents are aligned the other way around? I can code reasonably well, but I can't draw stick figures to save my life.

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Quoting: slaapliedje6 that are DX12 exclusive...

Using DX12 exclusively would be financial suicide for a publisher at this point, given that they'd lock themselves out of 75% of the Windows market NOT running Win 10.

Really nice of MS, pushing Vulkan for us like this. :D

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