Surprisingly modest specs judging by the videos I've seen. My hardware is a few years old, but I could probably push this to high settings, assuming it's well-optimized.

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"id Software found itself in a patent dispute with Creative Labs over the stencil shadowing method in the game known as 'Carmack's Reverse'."

That was a bullshit lawsuit, too. Carmack gave details of his technique at a tech conference with the intent that anybody could freely use the technique in their own software, but then Creative Labs immediately ran out and patented it and then hit id Software with a patent infringement suit. This experience no doubt left a bad taste in Carmack's mouth, and I suspect it's one of the reasons he became less enamored with open source and code sharing. It's crap like this that inspired Austin Meyer, CEO of Laminar Research and creator of the X-Plane flight simulator, to launch a very expensive and wide ranging legal battle and publicity campaign against what he calls "patent trolls".

https://www.thepatentscam.com/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Colombo

I'm sorry, but what? I get patches for each Paradox game I own every couple of months that I can download without paying a cent. That seems like (one of) the definition(s) of "free" to me.

Um... are they not free? Last time I looked, Paradox has never charged us for a patch.

Last time I looked, post-release support was critical to continued success of game. Game that was released broken and not patched up was often heavily criticized. If devs announce that they will stop supporting game (i.e., patching bugfixes) when there is a long list of bugs (especially after newly released DLC/expansion), they would often trash their reputation and sales.

If there is such expectation, and previously, while Paradox was known for releasing games in state that can be described as open beta, it was also known for eventually fixing all the bugs and people bought their knowing and expecting that, then it is not "free". It is part of the price I bought the game for.

I say it again, if on one say you say that these patches are "free", but on other said complain that some other company stopped support and didn't release patches (or that some product is less good because it wasn't patched), than something is wrong with your opinion consistency.

Well, sure, if you assume that continued support in the form of patches is "baked in" to the initial sale price then they're technically not free, but that seems to be a stretch.

Also, how much should go into a patch before you no longer consider it simply part of the purchase price? Bug fixes, sure, but what about new content that was never part of the original product? For instance, several patches for both Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV have substantially altered and expanded the map. It seems rather self-serving (for lack of a better term) to insist that these are nothing more than an expected part of the initial purchase.

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Quoting: ColomboAlso, that nonsense that patches are somehow FREE...

Um... are they not free? Last time I looked, Paradox has never charged us for a patch.

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Quoting: Brisse@ Mountain Man, Rutine and everyone else quoting me with counter arguments:

Don't want to sound harsh or pick a fight, but gullible fans like you...

And that's where I stopped reading. Thanks anyway.

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Quoting: BrisseAs much as I love these games, I despise Paradox for their DLC strategy, which is designed to milk every last penny out of us. The base game currently costs 39.99€ on Steam, but that is just a shell of what the game should be. To get the full experience you have to throw another whopping 279.74€ on DLC. It's the same disgusting thing EA did with The Sims.

Edit: They don't even have the decency to sell a complete expansion. Instead they split every expansion up in two pieces, one with gameplay mechanics, and another with art assets. How disgusting is that!?

I disagree. I think Paradox is one of the few publishers/developers to do DLC the right way.

Here's the thing: First of all, if you bought the vanilla version of, say, Crusader Kings 2, or Europa Universalis IV at launch and never bought a single piece of DLC, the game in and of itself remains a complete experience that you can easily sink dozens and hundreds of hours into. You're not missing essential or necessary content by not having the DLC.

And secondly, with every major expansion, Paradox traditionally releases a substantial patch that expands the game and adds new content for free (in some cases, they give away so much for free that the expansions themselves are almost not worth buying!), so the vanilla game you can buy today is a much larger, fuller experience than the vanilla game that was released on Day 1 -- and you don't have to pay anything extra to get it. In fact, my recommendation to new Paradox gamers is to play the vanilla game first, and once you've gotten a feel for it, only then should you look at the DLC and see which of it appeals to you, because not all of it will, and none of it is essential.

To put it another way, either Paradox charges a reasonable fee for the continued development of their games over a period of years, or they release a couple of patches, maybe an expansion, and then move on to their next project. I don't know about you, but I prefer the former. Not to mention the fact that it is in no way reasonable to expect that Paradox would release years worth of work without charging for it.

As far as splitting the art content from the gameplay features, I don't understand why this upsets people. Sure, Paradox could include everything in one package, but then they would simply charge a higher price for it, or they can split it up and charge a little less for each piece, and in the end, it works out exactly the same. Basically, if you want more then you pay more. I don't see how that's "disgusting".

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I wonder if Valve intentionally "leaks" this information to build up hype.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: AryvandaarIt doesn't support PC if it only supports Windows on the PC HARDWARE PLATFORM. When are these developers going to get it into their head that PC is a hardware platform, not the OS!? It's not that hard. I'd imagine that people who work in these jobs should have the ability to understand this tiny thing.

It's highly related with Apple.

Apple did their own campaign about this ; " We are Mac , they are pc's. "

And when this term came out , they were referring Windows.

And we've been trying to take it back ever since...

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Their loss. Plenty of other AAA engines that support Linux.

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Sounds promising, but it sounds like they have a bit more work to do on it. I've been looking for a good native Linux Diablo-killer for a while. I still play Diablo III using Wine, and while Linux does have some hack-and-slash games like Torchlight II and Victor Vran, they lack that indefinable quality that hooks me the way the Diablo series always has.

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