Quoting: FredOIt's worth noting that your old save games will not be compatible with this new version 2. There's plenty of warnings about it when you start the game after updating. My save from 1.9 still loads, but with some strange statuses due to layout changes.

That's typical for Paradox. Save games are very rarely compatible between major updates, and they always recommend you start a new game.

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These expansions are worth getting for the new music alone. I love Stellaris' soundtrack.

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Is this going to be substantially different from any other Total War game? Seems like if you've played one Total War game, you've pretty much played them all.

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Quoting: AsuI so want the wine project dead. (I respect the devs tho.)
Please don't buy software that has no mac or linux client.

This is assuming that the only reason more developers aren't supporting Linux is because of Wine. I doubt that's the case.

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Quoting: webcreatureDefinitely going to check these scripts out! Very interesting stuff!

It makes me think, if a developer doesn't want to spring for a full, native Linux port, then why can't they at least do something like this?

My entirely uneducated guess is that they wouldn't want to take responsibility (or create the expectation of responsibility) as to what works and what doesn't, etc. Even if they put gigantic disclaimers all over the place, the script they release would be perceived as the 'official script of $DEVELOPER', which would be taken to commit them to *some* degree of support, where they might not want to provide *any* of it.

(--Hey, I spent money on this title, because you offer such and such wine script, but it doesn't work; --Sorry but we've made no promises as to whether it would work; --Bullshit; now I'll go an metabomb your stupid game to hell.)

I'm talking official support and not "We gave you a script, and to hell with you if it doesn't work" treatment. Surely a Wine script would be less work and easier to maintain than a full native port (heck, adamhm is doing it in his spare time without compensation), meaning the developer would need fewer Linux sales to turn a profit. Obviously a native port would be ideal, but a Wine wrapper would be better than nothing. Community support is great, but I'd love to see developers take ownership; for that matter, they could throw a few dollars to someone like adamhm to do the work for them.

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Quoting: webcreatureDefinitely going to check these scripts out! Very interesting stuff!

It makes me think, if a developer doesn't want to spring for a full, native Linux port, then why can't they at least do something like this?

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Quoting: adamhmReposting here as it's still relevant (and I updated all of my wrappers recently):

Older/classic games currently on sale on GOG that I've made Wine wrappers [External Link] for:

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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition [External Link]
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This is very, very tempting. One of the all-time greatest RPGs, and BioWare's last game before selling its soul to EA. I bought it on Windows ages ago but haven't played it since giving up Windows entirely around three-years ago. I own the Steam version, but running Steam games through Wine is a pain in the neck, so having a nice, portable, self-contained install would be great.

Plus it's currently on sale for $4.99 which is a fantastic price for the Ultimate Edition. Very tempting.

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"SteamOS didn't turn out to be what we all hoped."

He speaks for all of us.

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Quoting: wintermute...what did you find "on-the-rails" about it?

Here's the review I posted on Steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Mountain_Man/recommended/203160/ [External Link]

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Glad for people who enjoy this franchise, but I found the first game to be such an on-the-rails slog that I won't be buying this.

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