How much of a grind is it to play?

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Misleading title.
It's not released. It's early access.
You guys make this error way too often.

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I agree with most of what's been said in the article except for the opengl part.
It contains only rare cases of developers not implementing it correctly. If someone didn't manage to use a technology as it was intended, it doesn't mean the technology is bad.

Don't blame the tool, blame the people that use it.

OpenGL has feature parity with DirectX, and that includes multithreading.
If VP made a shitty port it doesn't mean OpenGL sucks. We get shitty console ports on DirectX all the time. Do people complain that DirectX sucks? No.

How did Valve, and others (like Larian), manage to get such great Linux native OpenGL powered ports? Do they use magic? No. They just do it right.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: devlandI'm still not sure what they mean when they use the term "open world".
The game looks like a space strategy game. Where and how does the "open world" aspect kick in?

You're not forced down a set path, you essentially do what you want.

So the games have persistence? I had the impression you played games like in every other 4x/strategy game. Aren't the games session based? Aren't there maps? Is there a universe in which you can travel?

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I'm still not sure what they mean when they use the term "open world".
The game looks like a space strategy game. Where and how does the "open world" aspect kick in?

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It will most likely work on AMD.

Here [External Link]'s their response on reddit.

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Quoting: TheBardIt's lame. If you don't plan to actively porting something on Linux, just don't tease it! When it's teased, it's to late to shut our mouth. Then you need to communicate and be honest. That's what is called an healthy business relation.

That kind of attitude is what is preventing us from having an honest communication relationship with devs.
Larian were honest about their porting troubles. They had some unforseen middleware issues that took some time to figure out. In the end they delivered a very well optimized rpg for Linux.

Yet people continued to bitch about the delays. That attitude is what is keeping cdpr from disclosing any information.

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It's easy.

They're working on it but are having difficulties. This would be their first Linux game. Witcher 2 was outsourced to VP.
The complete silence in a PR tactic. They essentially don't want to tell us anything because of the usual backlash companies get when postponing Linux releases. They want to avoid the hate that Larian got when they postponed Divinity: Origininal Sin for Linux.
It's all due to the toxic members of the community that are somehow very vocal on Linux and simply cannot tolerate release dates being pushed back.

This is why we can't have nice things and a direct conversation with developers.

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You can use the steam controller outside of steam, right?

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This does not include Android, even though it is Linux,

Android is not Linux. Linux programs don't work on Android and Android apps don't work on Linux.
Android uses a heavily modified version of the Linux kernel. That's it.

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