Love the visuals and the music but the sound effects could really use some work.

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This was so much fun to read and really got me interested in the game. I hope we can see more articles like this on this site.

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Quoting: Colombo

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Colomboits not RTS, its not RTS, its RTT!

Perhaps, but I'm not pedantic enough to truly care all that much. It's still a strategy game, that's played in real time (with optional pause in single-player). We don't know if the online modes will have any base building or resource system, as they haven't said.

Either way, it looks amazing so far.

I must be pedantic, because I can't stand RTT, but I love RTS. I was born as zerg and zerging is the way I live. You can't obviously zerg in RTT:/

I have to agree. Knowing the difference between tactics and strategy can help determine which games you are more likely to enjoy. For instance, Dawn of War II was a bit of a let down for me because I was expecting a strategy game (it's mostly tactics though).

To those who are interested here [External Link] is an article explaining the difference.

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Respect for going opening the source! You continue to do the work of the lawd, Liam. Also it's cool to see some love for GitLab over GitHub.

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It's awesome to see all the noise this article has generated. The Steam thread is on fire!

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I love these open-source re-implementations. Thanks for pointing this one out.

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I thought this bit about performance gains in the Talos Principle on Linux was really interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLkA6-wzj0&t=37m7s [External Link]

I won't pretend I understand the details but I think the gist of it is that they (Croteam) implemented Vulkan support as a kind of wrapper without any real kind of optimisation and still saw big performance gains on Linux, which (correct me if I'm wrong) points to the poor quality of GPU drivers on Linux.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: meggerman

Quoting: hardpenguinLiam's counter is everywhere :D

He cannot hide his obsession with the counter.

Days until I care: [timer=timerlol]2100-10-26 13:00:00[/timer]

This made my day XD

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The Bioshock Infinite Season Pass bundle looks like a great deal...

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Quoting: salamanderrake

Quoting: stickyparadigmI'm kinda torn on this one. On the one hand I would love to support all efforts to improve the engine for GNUX (that is catchy), on the other hand this is a commercial product with a commercial licence so donating feels like throwing money at Epic for nothing. If they released it under a free licence (MIT/GPL/etc., not too picky) I would not hesitate.

You really just said a closed source engine is better then an engine you have code access to?

I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. It is the exact opposite of what I meant.

Quoting: tmtvlMight wanna highlight the part saying this is an independent dev in the article.

As in, this is not Epic Games who are asking for money (unless it's a front, but y'know).

I mean, seriously:

I am one of the community developer that contributed to the Unreal Engine 4

Learn to read, people.

I think most of us here can read just fine. But this is what I (and probably many others) see happening here:

1. Epic sells product
2. Developer spends time improving said product that neither he/she nor the community owns
3. Community spends money supporting dev from 2
4. Product improves
5. Epic can now do any of the following:
- raise prices - product is better now
- start tracking users and selling their data
- sell out to Microsoft, stop supporting GNUX
- make source code unavailable
- discontinue development
- go bankrupt - product is lost
- absolutely anything at all

Now you may not think any of the potential points are very likely (I don't think many of them are likely either) but that's not the point.

The point is: This is a commercial product that belongs to Epic. They have all the power, they make the choices on what happens and they are strengthened through the community's money. All positive side effects for the community depend entirely on the good will of Epic and will only last as long as that lasts.

This is what I meant when I said "throwing money at Epic for nothing".

This seems to be another one of those "free software vs. open source", "DRM-free vs. DRM", "offline vs. always-on" style debates and judging by the responses I've seen so far, it seems to be quite a polarising issue for the community here.

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