Quoting: edddeduckferal

Quoting: dubigrasuI wonder why initially Feral avoided answering if Vulkan is used or not for this title.
Was it a Vulkan version in the works and it didn't pan out?

We never discuss technical details before release. It's the same for every title we aren't hiding anything we just never comment until we're ready.

Well, I'm not quite convinced, but since my knowledge is null about game development I'll go with that. Thank you (and thanks for all your ports btw).

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I wonder why initially Feral avoided answering if Vulkan is used or not for this title.
Was it a Vulkan version in the works and it didn't pan out?

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It used to be rather interesting in early stages, it had a very cool plasma/whatever sword that made the combat challenging enough to keep you motivated (if the rest of the game didn't). Later on it was replaced with some boring gun (and the sword itself totally removed from the game).
I doubt that the sword would've saved the game, but that damn sword was the only reason I bought the game while in EA. Without it (at least for me) the game feels useless.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe right & left pads should have been unscrewable to replace with joysticks.

Look, replacing the pads will results in ending up with something similar with a PS3/4/XBox/etc controller, and we already have that.
Why would I buy a Steam Controller in the first place only to transform it in a Xbox controller?

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And the price went down to 7,99€, go get it :)

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Few minutes of gameplay:

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: liamdawe....Both of which are a bit iffy under Linux with hardware support.

I guess it depends on what card you're thinking about. My only experience with such cards is with a Blackmagic card that can be used both internally or externally without any performance penalties, and its software/hardware support is excellent.

Heh, I've heard the opposite, seen a fair amount of complaints about not just the experience with them on Linux, but the build quality of their cards is apparently bad.

Yeah, I've heard that too initially. There were some reports about them overheating and being too noisy, but is not true (or it was with initial models?). Is an excellent card, I am using it extensively for a while now and never had any problem with it. As for the image quality that it can provide there's nothing coming close to it in its category.
You can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
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View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: liamdawe....Both of which are a bit iffy under Linux with hardware support.

I guess it depends on what card you're thinking about. My only experience with such cards is with a Blackmagic card that can be used both internally or externally without any performance penalties, and its software/hardware support is excellent.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: dubigrasuYou can make the game to look the same, but not from presets.

The videos do not look identical to me, but I don't know if the minor lighting or detail related differences affect performance. I don't mean the randomized stuff you mentioned. I guess some of it might be due to video compression.

Feral could probably give further details on what exactly is missing or different in the Linux implementation, if it even matters. No real effect on the quality of our game experience, I'm sure.

Do later driver versions affect performance at all? Might not be easy to test on SteamOS.

EDIT: One very visible difference is the protagonist's hair after 1:50. Also sunlight seems a bit warmer in tone in the Windows version at times. You wouldn't even notice things like these if they weren't running side-by-side.

They do look the same if you do enough runs. The hair, the dog's fur, general color tones, lights etc, all get to look the same eventually, but is a bit time consuming to keep recording until you get both version to match.
I recorded a SteamOS version that was identical with the Windows one (Max had red hair, the dog was gray, the psycho dudes had the same outfits, and so on) but the sound sync was botched so I just used this one.

Edit: Ah, the driver version makes little difference, at least for the ones I tried (367.57, 375.10 and 370.28)

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Quoting: Comandante oardo

Quoting: dubigrasuThe results I had with Windows and SteamOS versions (at the end of the video):

Interesting, but anyway, I will do my own humble comparison using the same game settings.

But I don't get the presets used. Do the windows version in Normal looks like the linux version in very high?

The Linux presets don't exactly match the Windows ones.
What is "High" for Linux is only "Normal" for Windows.
What is "Very High" for Linux is only "High" for Windows, etc

You can make the game to look the same, but not from presets.

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