Quoting: edgleyIt's really not though -- you can easily miss click and move someone (who was sleeping or building or whatever).

There aren't any keyboard shortcuts as far as I can tell; I suppose because this is an Android game.

It is a bit riskier yes, but easy to overcome. It is easier because it gives more precision and control (like speed/direction control) in your movements.
The white text is indeed a pain though.

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The first thing I noticed is that the game badly needs keyboard scrolling with WASD. Having to point my cursor to the edges of the screen constantly to looking around was a fair bit annoying

You can grab the screen with the mouse though and drag it around. Is even easier than with WASD.

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Hey guys, (for those with the white screen issue) check again the game.
There was a small update today and now seems to be working:
View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: kevieThis also shows that Linux gamers are becoming a bit more frugal with their money, back in the days before the Humble Bundles etc most Linux gamers (myself included) would buy a game simply because it had been ported to Linux, regardless of the quality (I think I own the majority of the LGP boxed games.) But now you have to stand out in a marketplace that isn't crowded, but there are certainly more traders selling their wares than there were previously. I'm into retro gaming personally, I saw this title when it was released, but it didn't appeal to me. It is simply that the game has a limited market and a sign of the times: Linux gamers are now becoming more discerning in their purchases.

Indeed, I was more willing to throw money for Linux games just as a sign of appreciation sometimes. I bought games that I never played or tried (and I knew that before buying them).
We were indeed more generous (and still are) but it was a sign of these exciting new times for us after years of "starvation".
But now I have options, lots of them, and I have to pick carefully since I don't have a money tree in my backyard.
(I don't even have a backyard)

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But as (almost) always there is this lack of advertising for Linux people.
Yes, there is an announcement on their store page, but I don't see it anywhere else. ex: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/ [External Link]

If a game has simultaneous Win/Linux release (ex: This War of Mine) that's fine. But if the game was already released for Win a while ago, tough chance.
If you go to Steam and narrow everything down to Linux and new releases you'll find Gettysburg on page 5.

Steam needs a page with "newly released for Linux" games regardless when they were released for other platforms.

(good thing we have this site and Steamdb)

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Big thanks for keep supporting Linux.

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Quoting: FutureSuture

Quoting: leillo1975Are there any new about this game?

I have been wondering about this as well.

I see today a small change in Steamdb:

Changed Depots
50627/encryptedmanifests/linuxtest/encrypted_gid: * hidden *
50627/maxsize: 14578342944 (13.58 GB) › 14577788777 (13.58 GB) (diff = -541.18 KB)
branches/linuxtest/buildid: 376853 › 427536

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Quoting: EKRboiI have rarely found a game that runs better on Linux than it does in windows...

I can only think of one: Doom 3.
I played about third of it in Windows when it was released back in 2004 and just a bit later on it was also available for Linux.
The Linux version was at least as good as the Windows one. It allowed me to raise settings to a point where Windows would choke but it would still working in Linux.

It was probably the same thing with Quake4, but that one I played it only in Linux, so I wouldn't know for sure.
But that was back then when ID loved us.

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Quoting: SamsaiI went through the binary using a hex editor and there aren't any mentions of VP, eON or Wine for that matter. So I believe it's safe to say it's a native port.

The credits file (found in the Data3.pak) mentions three people for Linux support: Tomasz Wachowski, Rafał Wróbel, Wojciech Zeler. Rafał Wróbel's LinkedIn profile says he worked in Techland doing Linux game porting. So I guess Techland made the port after all, even though they told us they weren't working on the game anymore: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-dead-island-linux-port-is-not-being-done-by-the-orginal-developers.4313

I believe the mystery is solved now.

I think Tomasz Wachowski is our guy.
You can see some paths like ...home/tomwa/Downloads/steam-runtime-SDK... in that binary, and he also works for Techland as Junior game programmer.

So Tomasz and others, thank you.

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Talking about editing out some "features"...
Disable that annoying motion blur in "varlist_blur_camera_motion.scr"

VarFloat("f_blur_camera_motion_factor", 0.0)
VarFloat("f_blur_camera_motion_near", 0.0)
VarFloat("f_blur_camera_motion_far", 0.0)
VarFloat("f_blur_camera_motion_max", 0.0)

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