Quoting: slaapliedjeWhile I have beaten the main game, I had lost my save for when the expansions came out. From what a friend had told me, even though at the end of Morrowind, you can pretty much slaughter any enemy, in the expansioins you get your butt handed to you. This is a good thing.

The Bloodmoon expansion had a funny (though frustrating) game-breaking bug in the very first mission. Basically, you were tasked with killing one of two people (I don't remember the specifics), and if you completed the task, the other would permanently aggro you even though you needed to talk to them to continue with the game. The really funny part is that they would charge you and start flailing their weapon while quoting their "friendly" dialog -- "Hello, friend!" "Can I help you?" "I think I saw a mudcrab near the river." etc.

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Doesn't matter to me... I got it as a freebie with my Steam Controller purchase.

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Quoting: gojulCurrently I prefer to wait'n'see... After all the port for Project CARS was announced a while ago, and we're still waiting for it. :'(

As far as I know, the Project Cars announcement was much more ambivalent than this announcement.

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Awesome! \o/

And native Steam Controller support?

Even more awesome! \o/

And glad to see Valve taking a part here. It proves their commitment to the platform, which is... what's the word? Oh yeah, awesome!

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I've wanted to play this game ever since I saw the adorable white fox, so I'm happy it's coming to Linux.

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It looks... interesting, though I can't really get a handle on exactly how the game will play. Is it an actual role playing with character progression and meaningful choices and consequences, or is it a "roll" playing game, where character progression is automatic and dialog options are basically:

"Hey! Let's go rescue Uncle Bob!"

>Yes
>No

[Player selects "no"]

"Don't be silly. Of course you want to rescue Uncle Bob! Let's go!"

Well, let's hope they make good on their promise of a Linux version, because we've been burned too many times before.

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"...hopefully more big developers will use it instead of Nvidia's GameWorks."

Hopefully more big developers will move away from proprietary solutions and stick with open standards.

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I wish them all the luck and will seriously consider buying one if the project is successful (and the price is reasonable), but I'm extremely skeptical at the moment.

And they also need to come up with a better name, because Smach Z is terrible.

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Quoting: lvlarkApparently it doesn't perform much better under Windows, so it's probably going to get performance patches. How much those will affect the Linux version remains to be seen.

The Total War games have always been performance pigs going all the way back to the original. This is not surprising.

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Quoting: BTREBattles can be autoresolved if you're ever bored...

I refer to this as the "auto-lose" feature. I've had instances in Empire where the odds were clearly stacked in my favor, but the computer still managed to hand me a loss when I auto-resolved the battle. Do that once or twice and you quickly learn your lesson: never auto-resolve battles.

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