Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTPlease don't split the gaming community Aspyr! It's already sad Feral couldn't fix their cross-platform multiplayer.

What is the reason to buy a Multiplayer game if you can't find people to play with since the Linux and Mac community is rather small? Also if I can't play with my friends I don't see any reason to buy your game. Sorry.

Honestly, the probably biggest application of Civ multiplayer is LAN, and chances are that computers in the same use the same OS, no?

Actually friends of mine use almost only Windows. We also had a LAN party where I did use Linux and it worked pretty fine. Many games worked well natively with cross platform Multiplayer like Dota, Counter Strike and Insurgency. Still for those games you'd need to play online even while being the same room.

Still its no excuse to say some people may favor playing via lan LAN over playing on the Internet. You still split the community. I'm still unhappy with Warhammer 40k - I'd like to play it but almost no one is playing it on Linux.

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Is there someone from the forum living in England? Please do write me a PM. It's somehow related to the topic. (:

PS: I'm a bit confused that Feral lately only ports titles that are "Mixed" on the review side at best. Might it be "Deus Ex" or "Hitman". I think that might also have an influence on copies sold, probably aiming for some good rated games would be an idea.

Regarding the possibly of Skyrim. Feral says at their website:

We enjoy close relationships with developers and publishers such as 2K, SEGA, Square Enix, TT Games, Codemasters, Creative Assembly, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Io-Interactive.

Source: https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/about/ [External Link]

Most likely it will be a port of any of those games.

By the way, where did you find out anything about a Vulkan Skyrim port? I'd rather say that does not exist. Also Bethesda never did any move towards supporting Linux.

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I'm actually not interested in any of there games but I do respect their work and I'm happy they adopted Vulkan and VR really early on under Linux!

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Actually the blog is just a devlog without any promises. Still you're right from the customer point of view: I'd rather announce a ready game then delaying it all the time.

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If a wider range of games will benefit from it I'm totally fine with a white list. I'd rather like to have the threaded optimization be implemented this way then to have an automatic that doesn't work and produces regressions or isn't activated in some scenarios where it might increase the performance.

By the way, is there anyone on the forum that could test the difference of those optimizations with nVidia and "Cities in Motion 2"? If OpenGL 4.x games might not benefit, I'd like to see if this older game does benefit.

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Please don't split the gaming community Aspyr! It's already sad Feral couldn't fix their cross-platform multiplayer.

What is the reason to buy a Multiplayer game if you can't find people to play with since the Linux and Mac community is rather small? Also if I can't play with my friends I don't see any reason to buy your game. Sorry.

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@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

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From the perspective of a developer I do appreciate his work quite a lot. Just if you have a look on it from the view of a customer things are rather different.

He did very well stating the Linux port will only happen if the Windows sales are good. Finally he kept us updated which is good as well. Only the last few posts raised the impression it couldn't be too long until the game will be released cross-platform.

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Good joke, Liam! I did give up on those one years ago.

I don't like to be fooled by either a publisher or developers - even of it is a single one.

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Guys, you may have answered that question regarding the Ubuntu version yourself just by reading: The game requires Mesa 13.0.2 and the appropriate LLVM package. If you can deliver that + the depended libs you should be alright. Since the Mesa performance heavily relies on the kernel you may have performance regressions by using an older Kernel.

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