So is this a grand strategy game that covers the entire Civil War? Because that would be awesome.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTWhy would anyone want to play a gaming looking like it's been made 10 years ago? I never got why Flight Simulaters are looking that shitty. At least you could make a very nice and detailed looking airport, beautiful airplane models as well as volumetric effects for clouds, nice weather effects in general. Of course you can't make the landscape to detailed - you also don't have to.

Like I said, flight simulators are considerably more demanding than a typical game, so fewer resources are available for the visuals.

Secondly, the visuals are a means to an end. Most people who play fight sims aren't doing it for the eye-candy. They value accurate physics modeling and fight procedures over graphics gimmicks.

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Quoting: NasraHow they could test on 16.04 and 16.10 distributions and recommand only proprietary drivers for AMD cards ?

Because those are probably the drivers they tested.

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Quoting: gojulGraphics do not look sooo beautiful for such a demanding game. I have the system requirements (except for my CPU which may be stronger but unsure as it is an i7-4790) but well, I'll wait a bit before buying it.

Flight simulators are inherently more demanding on system resources than a first-person shooter or real-time strategy game just because of the nature of the software, so the recommended specs don't surprise me. They also tend to be higher than average because of "future proofing". I think we're just now seeing hardware that can run X-Plane 10 at maximum settings, so it will be a few years before anybody will be able to run version 11 in all of its glory.

I'll most likely stick with version 10 for now, but I'll definitely check out the demo for 11.

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Hopefully this will be a "Game of the Year" type of bundle since looking at the Total Warhammer store page on Steam, it looks like the developer carved out a lot of key features to sell as DLC (seriously, there is a DLC to add blood and gore effects back into the game! Can you believe that?).

Otherwise, this is one to add to my wishlist and then wait for a good price on the "complete" edition.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhat? I've never had to "fiddle around" to get games working in Linux. Sure, I have to tune some of the in-game settings to get optimum performance, but you have to do that in Windows, too. Linux "just works" in my experience. If I want to play a game, I click "Install" in Steam. It installs. I click "Play". It plays. You shouldn't have do any "fiddling" beyond that unless there's something wrong on your end.

Seems not everyone is having the same experience. I've ditched Windows about a year ago and probably won't return, however I've never had to put such amount of research on the Web and fiddling to get things going on Windows.

First anytime I install Steam on a fresh Linux install it will not start, there are some libraries to wipe or some driver to switch so that it accepts to launch. Then some games won't launch either, you have to take a file from another working title and paste it in the folder of the said game. Then when the game finally launches Feral says your GPU is not supported, it will work but not flawlessly. All in all it quite runs on my Mint 17 rig but on the kids rig with Mint 18 only a few games are working correctly (like Dirt Showdown), the others won't launch lately (Euro Truck Simulator for example), when launched the desktop display changes to 640x480 and nothing else happens, I'll have to take another 2 or 3 hours to find a solution on the Internet to solve this.

Then I decided to give a try with a DRM free game to see how this would work. I bought Oddworld New'n Tasty from GOG, installed it on the kids rig (by the way there's not such thing as a double click to install the game as in Windows, you have to open a Terminal, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the game and run a .sh command, that's not something my mom can do for example) and.... no luck, it wouldn't launch. Then installed it on my PC, there it launches but so far I've been unable to configure my Xbox One controller to play the game so I've just given up and cross my fingers thinking that maybe the future Mint 18.2 will magically solve things.

All in all I'm still happy with Linux but I must go with compromises, not only on the number of games available but also on the difficulty of getting everything running. And I don't think most of my gaming friends would accept to make such compromises just for the sake of not being spied and locked in the Microsoft environment.

Maybe because I'm using Ubuntu MATE? That's the current target platform for most games.

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Quoting: CorbenBut then there are coming big titles to Linux, thanks to all the hard work of all the porters and porting companies, so I cheer again. Just to realize, how much you have to fiddle around with those games, to make them work. There is always something you have to fiddle around on Linux, and it feels like it's a lot more than on Windows.

What? I've never had to "fiddle around" to get games working in Linux. Sure, I have to tune some of the in-game settings to get optimum performance, but you have to do that in Windows, too. Linux "just works" in my experience. If I want to play a game, I click "Install" in Steam. It installs. I click "Play". It plays. You shouldn't have to do any "fiddling" beyond that unless there's something wrong on your end.

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Is this a real RPG with actual choices and consequences, or is it an action game with stats?

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Quoting: leillo1975.....still waiting for Rome II

Isn't this almost the same? I always felt like all those Total Wars are essentially the same.

All of the historical Total War games are essentially the same, but Total Warhammer features a lot of unique fantasy elements that set it apart.

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I think Civ V plus expansions will keep me happy for a long time yet. Besides, the Civ series just seems a bit shallow to me now that I've gotten hooked on Paradox's grand strategy games. I think if you deleted my entire Steam library except for Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV, and Stellaris, I'd still be happy.

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