Hmm, makes me think of Powerslide. That was rather unique with decent physics like this (decent for the time at least).

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Oh shit I remember reading about the details they were putting in to the models years ago. Right down to the individual welds between metal parts. Bloody madness!

I'm buying on release just because it's a work of art. And they sure as hell deserve the cash.

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While we're going down memory lane. I played Carmageddon 1 on my 486SX50... In a slightly bigger than postage stamp sized window.

*sighs*

Also played Quake at something like 12fps on that machine. Quake actually ran better than Carmageddon.

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Quoting: TheRiddickGame ran decent last time I tried it (at 4k) and their using Unity3D so there shouldn't be too many barriers to get it on Linux really.

No, they use their own engine called Beelzebub. And from memory, they wrote the main renderer using DirectX (apparently the back-end is generic so it's easy to plug a new renderer in place - from an old tweet to my old account).

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It's like Duke Nukem Forever... But for Linux.

I'll believe they're working on it when I see actual proof of it.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemI'm so sick of seeing "if it's on sale"... These people, especially the smaller devs, need $ to survive, and they work damned hard. Buy saying you'll only buy their game if it goes on sale you just devalue their work.

How likely do you think it is that some are now inflating their prices so that a sale is affordable to them?

Lol.

Thank you for your valuable insight.

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Quoting: GuestNice. I’ll get it if it the DRM-free version ever goes on sale.

I'm so sick of seeing "if it's on sale"... These people, especially the smaller devs, need $ to survive, and they work damned hard. Buy saying you'll only buy their game if it goes on sale you just devalue their work.

How likely do you think it is that some are now inflating their prices so that a sale is affordable to them?

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Sounds like a scope vs cost issue. The game looks bloody amazing, and they likely have a lot to do before release hence trimming back features.

Once they release and start getting a steady stream of income from it I'll bet they implement the original goals.

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I've been wanting to get my hands on a decent XCOM-like game for a while. This looks high on the priority list.

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Quoting: GuestYeah, them rewriting the directx backend and now saying that it's too complicated/expensive to use a 3rd party to do an OpenGL version basically means they never had any intention of porting it to GNU/Linux, or any other platform for that matter.

That's pretty much the impression I got too. You have to have your head in the sand not to realise the consequences of using a vendor locked API, and think it will be cheap to write yet another rendering back-end.

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