Quoting: Caldazar

Quoting: Mountain ManAnybody who is serious about Linux gaming needs to get an Nvidia card.

I don't think that's true. First of all, with your consumer logic we'd all be on Windows (and probably still using IE 7).

"Consumer logic"? I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's just a fact that Nvidia's Linux drivers are better than AMD's and have been for a long time now. For that matter, Nvidia's Windows drivers are better than AMD's. It has nothing to do with "consumerism" or brand loyalty. I go with what works.

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Quoting: BTRE

Quoting: Mountain ManThere's some nuance here.

Indeed there is - and if you can't see how me calling something that expands available content an "expansion" and not even following it up with the word "pack" is a distinction nor how the terminology used in marketing for games is wholly artificial - I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.

Paradox doesn't even refer to it as an expansion.

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They are not words without distinction. "Downloadable content" traditionally refers to minor things like skins, sprites, and maps. "Expansion pack" traditionally refers to substantial content, such as an entirely new story quest in an RPG, or significant additions or changes to the gameplay.

Yes, all of these are technically "downloadable content" since in this day and age it's content that you download, but language isn't always literal. There's some nuance here.

At any rate, Paradox looks to be taking the route of beefing the game up with free patches before releasing any expansions.

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Quoting: dmantione

This is good news, as I’ve been pretty happy with Feral’s porting work

You are? Performance issues and AMD incompatibilities are the rule rather than these exception with these guys.

Talk to AMD about their shitty drivers. That's not Feral's fault. Anybody who is serious about Linux gaming needs to get an Nvidia card. As for performance, some games run better than others (XCOM 2, for example, actually runs slightly better on Linux than it does on Windows; Tomb Raider runs slightly worse), but I've never seen any reason to complain since all of Feral's ports have been solid and stable with steady, playable framerates.

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"...would have preferred something a little more, err, meaty – something that affected gameplay – for a first expansion."

To be fair, this isn't an expansion. It's cosmetic DLC. They're sure to release meatier content in the future.

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"...we have a few keys to give away."

Darn, and I just bought this last night.

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Everything I read about Train Fever suggested that it was broken and buggy even years after release. Hopefully they have a better QA pipeline for this game as it looks rather neat, but this is a developer who has yet to prove themselves.

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Quoting: oldrocker99I was booting into a 14.04 virtual machine to play OOTP Baseball, which does not run on 16.04 :><:

Is this an older version of OOTP? Because OOTP 17 works just fine in 16.04.

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I still say Steam is doing a disservice to Linux with this survey. They should release comprehensive numbers some time.

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It looks nice, but I'm honestly not seeing anything we haven't already seen in Portal 2.

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