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Latest Comments by niarbeht
Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
21 Mar 2017 at 12:04 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: nattydreadThey are actually going to finish the game?
They get a bit closer each year, so I'd suppose so.

Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
21 Mar 2017 at 12:00 am UTC

Quoting: Eric1212
Quoting: niarbeht
Quoting: Eric1212Great news, would be really good if the price of StarCitizen is going a litle bit lower...
Lower than $45? Really?

I mean, hell, it used to be just $35, but that was, like, three years ago.
Certainly, 45USD is more than 3/4 of a day of work. It's more than 3 restaurant meal, maybe 4 and if you go cheap, more than 6 meal ! If i eat at home, i could make more than 2 week of foods with this if i wanted...

I would consider a lot more an 20 USD price tag. Specially when we consider i buyed the complete bundle of Civ V on June 2014 for 16.49 USD...
A movie is two hours and costs, what, $10? $3 if you rent?

By that sort of comparison-based logic, as long as you get 4.5-15 hours of enjoyment out of the game, then it's worth it.

Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
19 Mar 2017 at 8:32 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: Eric1212Great news, would be really good if the price of StarCitizen is going a litle bit lower...
Lower than $45? Really?

I mean, hell, it used to be just $35, but that was, like, three years ago.

Crusader Kings 2: Monks and Mystics, now available
7 Mar 2017 at 10:40 pm UTC

Quoting: oldrocker99Looks good, but I have never failed to be overwhelmed by Paradox' grand strategy titles, with the exception of Stellaris.
Stellaris has the benefit of being in, basically, a fictional setting. This allows the developer to set more of the rules and create something more game-y instead of sim-y. This is probably to Paradox's benefit, as they can tailor the systems to fun, instead of to reproducing how things maybe probably worked kindof sortof back in ye olde timese.

Steel Division: Normandy 44 RTS announced by Paradox & Eugen Systems (UPDATED)
4 Mar 2017 at 12:32 am UTC

Quoting: liamdaweUpdate: It turns out, someone at Paradox ticked the Linux box without checking and it is in fact not coming to Linux [External Link]. I was told the system icons were a 'placeholder'. Helpful, really helpful.
WHAT?! Noooooooooooo! I LOVE THE EUGEN RTS GAMES I HAVE THEM AAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
1 Mar 2017 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: niarbeht
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: niarbehtMy God, he's so awful at HL2. It's so horrible to watch. Like... Does Liam even know how 2 games?
Yet you run a games journalism site! And a good one, at that! It's... weird!
Oh wow, you're actually being serious, right...

Running a gaming blog doesn't mean I'm good at every game I play, you do realize that right?
Lies!

Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'
1 Mar 2017 at 2:47 pm UTC

Here's hoping that maybe Kerbal Space Program eventually gets Vulkan support. Probably won't help in any noticeable way on high part-count vehicles, though.

Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
1 Mar 2017 at 2:45 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: niarbehtMy God, he's so awful at HL2. It's so horrible to watch. Like... Does Liam even know how 2 games?
Yet you run a games journalism site! And a good one, at that! It's... weird!

Microsoft announces new DirectX Shader Compiler that's open source
1 Mar 2017 at 2:43 pm UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: niarbehtHonestly, if Microsoft published their own runtime for Linux, giving effectively Wine-style functionality but more... work-y, I'd probably pay $30 or $40 for that.
No way. That could so easily end badly for Linux.
It could. Then again, it could also end really well. It could end in Microsoft just being a vendor of a particular set of proprietary window controls that a few big-name software vendors pay out money for, and everything else using standard Linux stuff (Qt, GTK, etc.). Get people on the platform, and suddenly Microsoft becomes just another vendor, instead of the platform controller.

Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
28 Feb 2017 at 11:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

My God, he's so awful at HL2. It's so horrible to watch. Like... Does Liam even know how 2 games?