Quoting: Mountain ManSounds like Train Fever all over again: a high-concept game full of bugs and poor optimization.

I have just ticked 80 hours in Train Fever and I agree it's poorly optimised. That said, I haven't noticed too many bugs yet. Is it finicky and unpolished at places? Certainly. Buggy? Way less than many AAA titles with huge corporations behind them (Bethesda...).

That said, what was acceptable for Train Fever is hardly acceptable for its successor. Why? Train Fever started as a hobby project of a few students, crowdfunded and with a budget of $300k or something. However, I would expect they learned something, got some additional funding and staff and as a result were able to polish Transport Fever more than they actually did.

There was a whole lengthy post on the Steam Community listing all performance issues with Transport Fever. The biggest issue is no LoD implementation. Some (all?) vehicles have visible interior with passengers and drivers - and this interior is rendered even if the vehicle is a couple miles away (!!!). Tracks and roads are rendered in full detail (no shadows though) while being placed - so any change in shape causes re-rendering. These are just few examples how hobby-level is the design of the engine.

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Train Fever (and by extension Transport Fever though I don't own it yet). 70 hours so far played on a Steam Machine and a 100 inch screen, with a Steam Controller. Impressive experience.

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A game from a historically Linux-friendly developer, using OpenGL and now Vulkan, DRM dropped... and not working on Linux because of the policy of the publisher? No, thank you, not going to spend money on it. Anyway, I haven't completed Bioshock Infinite or Metro games yet.

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For me it's the year when I finally made the switch. Sure, I have a backlog of Windows games plus I bought a few Windows only games for my kids (Lego, hem,hem) but there are more good new games coming to Linux than I have time to play

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Is Oculus involved too or are they keeping their stuff behind closed doors in contrast with Valve?

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The Witcher 3.

I can live without any other specific game.

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I will see... I have completed a few games recently, so it might be time to refill my backlog :)

Total War: Warhammer is number one on the list - though I might want to wait for a sale at Feral store with this one.

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Quoting: Mountain ManHopefully this will be a "Game of the Year" type of bundle since looking at the Total Warhammer store page on Steam, it looks like the developer carved out a lot of key features to sell as DLC (seriously, there is a DLC to add blood and gore effects back into the game! Can you believe that?).

Otherwise, this is one to add to my wishlist and then wait for a good price on the "complete" edition.

Yeah, a Warhammer Fantasy game, of all settings, with Chaos and blood&gore as DLC. WTF?

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We can expect some lull after Total War is released. It's Spacious Skies and the infamous Depth Charge on the radar and then nothing.

So, I might be actually able to complete all recent Feral titles before the next wave comes :)

BTW, Warhammer Fantasy (2nd ed) is the only roleplaying game I still play - I absolutely love the setting. I played Warhammer Online till the day they shut down servers. An awesome and underrated setting.

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Quoting: calvinMicrosoft can't go walled garden; it would enrage enterprise, and that's a primary market for them - much larger than gaming, despite its status as a growth market.

You're gonna have to explain that one to me.

Apple is very walled garden; and for whatever reason enterprise loves Apple. Microsoft's biggest product is Azure (and patents/licensing). Windows doesn't net them nearly as much, or at least so I've been told.

Enterprise has decrepit VB6 apps and Access 97 databases they lost the source to. Windows' bread and butter is backwards compatibility. Connect the dots.

No problem, a walled garden for peons, walls may be removed for a hefty high tier fee :)

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