I've played this from some Alpha on, and it's great to see this finally getting mature.

I actually started about three times, because the early versions lacked story, so you'd be inclined to play 40 hours and then put it away because there was nothing else to do, or you hit a show-stopping bug in the story. And when you wanted to pick it up again, the savegames were incompatible.

The crashes neowiz73 mentions are most probably due to memory leaks. You can avoid them by having a lot of memory...

And yes, the game is great. Recommended if you like these kind of games (open world, survival, some action, building..)

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Perspective of one Linux gamer:

I'm buying a lot of games, and I also did buy Steam Marines 1, I got it on June 20th, 2014, apparently on sales for 5,99€ at that point.

I'm not really into rogue-likes, or strategy, or even most 2D games -- my favourite games are things like Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, Borderlands, 7 Days to Die, Planet Explorers, Skyrim and Fallout 3 (the latter two I played with Wine; I don't have any Windows). I probably bought it because a) it was reasonably cheap, and b) ran on Linux. I did the same for hundreds of other games, most of which I tried out, but never really played. I also sometimes pay full price, but only if the game really interests me and only if it runs on Linux.

I'm only pestering developers if I would like to play the game, or if it's got empty, but existing, depots on steam, or if it actually would already work on Linux, but wasn't released: https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/ [External Link]

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At least it's Dishonored 2, whose predecessor was really good, and ran nicely on wine.

But I actually only need the "Popular new releases" and the "Specials" lists.

I love that I now can exclude everything, everywhere that is tagged with "Soccer". Sadly, hat feature doesn't work yet in real life.

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I got: Risk of Rain, Vangers, The Witcher Adventure Game, Frozen Cortex, Metro 2033 Redux, Frozen Synapse, HuniePop

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C++ ABI troubles: If Vrui or hellovr crash with "symbol _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEC1Ev, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference"

you need to recompile with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0.

Now they run, but I still don't quite get it to display as it should.

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Quoting: dubigrasuYou can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com

Interesting. The hardware seems to be great -- with OBS, because a software such as Media Express which outputs as MJPEG AVI, and has no keyboard-shortcuts is obviously unusable.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMy store page is properly filtering Linux-only titles ever since adding it to preferences. I wonder why it doesn't work for so many other people.

Oh, that's new. Did it, mostly works. I don't mind having a few (like in "minority") Windows-only titles appearing in the "Now Available/Recommended for you"-Box, but if it's all of them -- like this morning, before setting that preference -- it's just a nuisance.

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And, the writer might be professional -- in his native tongue, Russian.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyNot nothing. They build up atmosphere and suspense.

I second you. That goes for other movies (and even games) as well. I mean, I know people who think "Aliens" is slow and boring. It's not, it builds up, then everything goes belly-up, and then again, everything slows down again. It's great.

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Seen http://www.star-made.org/ [External Link] ? The planets there are dodecahedrons. And yes, they do look very funny.
http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/articles/1/172/171885/thumb_620x2000/starmade-screenshot-0003.png [External Link]

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