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Quoting: nanohazardWill it support Arch Linux tho...

is it that different from the rest of the distros?

It's a rolling release distribution, and those don't make for stable targets.

As an Arch (desktop), NixOS (laptops) and Debian (servers - also using OpenBSD but this is out of topic) user, I don't have that much problems either with Arch or Nix' when it comes to games. Except from the good ol' Unity fullscreen bug, which is solved with a simple line, and some problems on Arch with the desperatly old libgnutls.so library packaged with Steam (which is solved by just deleting it from the games' directory, in order to use the system one). On Nix' it's another matter, as Steam is in a dedicated chroot with "everything it should ever need©". Hated to have had to build the full mono stack from source, tho…

But I do agree on the fact that this kind of distro is more oriented to people who knows (or who want to know and thus pay the price for knowledge) the inners of their operating system and who like tinkering with it ("Oh, a problem? nice! let's solve it!" ). Obviously, people who want an "it just work" solution should head to more user-friendly distros - which is perfectly fine, no elitism intended.

BTW, as a huge fan of Cyanide & Happiness since the beginning… I'll keep an eye on their game. If it comes to Linux, and if it is as cynical and fun than their comics and shows are, they can count me in :)

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Quoting: scaineEvent[0] seems dead in the water for a Linux port.

Noooooooooooooooo :(. Well, Tacoma might be on my wishlist then, since I'll - normally - be on holidays in two f*****g days and thus will have some time to play some games :)

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaOh. My. God. Absolutely can't wait !! :D

You can try it already if you build OpenMW from source ;) - it's not that hard and the build is reasonably fast (~2 minutes here (i7-4790) and ~4/5 minutes on the laptop (thinkpad x260, i5-6200U))

screenshot: link - some mods used [External Link]
How to build OpenMW: openmw wiki [External Link]
How to use distant terrain: openmw post about distant terrain [External Link] - be sure to set the view distance at 66666.0, runs smooth on the x260 (intel GPU), or if you can, 666666.0 (smooth here on the i7 + gtx960)

Enjoy ;) - oh, and almost every quest works, so you can really finish the game, which I did some monthes ago

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Hive minds? Synth ascension? Dyson Spheres? Psionics? Take my money *now*, Paradox.

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One thing before war starts: these famous market share.

Let's do the math, according to (iirc) 2013 stats:

1.2% Linux gamers, ~80 millions Steam accounts, so barely 900.000 linux gamers

2015 stats (iirc, again, but the figures are roughly the sames):

0.92% Linux gamers, ~140 millions Steam accounts, so, barely, roughly 1.5 million linux gamers.

The fact is that if market share seems to drop, due to the fact Steam users growing faster than Steam Linux users, doesn't mean that we're less to play and use Steam. So, in fact, the Steam Linux users number is growing. Not as fast as the "global" Steam users, but growing.

Remember how in the late 90's Linux users were few, really few. Nowadays, it accounts for between 50-75 millions people on the damn planet. And I'm not talking about servers or smartphones using an outdated linux kernel with a proprietary userland, nope, just desktop. We've already won on the other markets.

Mind me, I'm using Linux since 20 years (and, beside the occasionnal Active Directory, never used Windows. never used it on *my* desktop or laptops, in 20 years, because I never needed it), it's even (75% part, I also happen to work with *BSD and proprietary network stuff (Cisco, Juniper)) my job since ten years, I don't care about day-1 AAA games. I've been able to play Mad Max III at a steady 60 fps, 6 monthes later so I grabbed it at a sale, I'd like to play an old school FPS like Strafe one day. Even if it's not day-1. As long as it is available for my operating system. If it's not: "no tux, no bux", period. But being treated as second-class citizen, reading dubious arguing about the virtues of Proprietary Operating System X©, knowing that we rule this world from New-York Stock Exchange to the smartphone in your pocket, no, thanks.

Please excuse the english butchering, as it's not my mother's tongue, and as comments series (especially when it involves "fanatics", "ayatollahs" and other stupidities) like this one really get on my nerves.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI've been watching Stellaris since before it came out, but hadn't been able to afford it yet. However I'm just starting a new job and the 1.5 update and Utopia seem like a really great time to get into it. :)

If you love 4X space games… It's a must have :). I can't wait for Utopia (although I should get the Plantoid DLC, too) either, I managed to befriend a Fallen Empire (which is now Awaken by the way) just to watch their ring worlds.

I've just beaten the Unbidden ("Extradimensionnal beings" ) yesterday evening (tip: make a 75K fleet, take one of their fleets out, send a scientist to research on the debris, then research extradimensionnal weapons and jump drive (better than the distortion drive), while you repair your fleet, then take over another of their fleets, research debris again: huge boost in the weapon research, extradimensionnal weapons in 6 monthes, equip your 75K fleet with it, ho, it's now a 100K+ fleet, then proceed by taking out all their fleets one by one and finish by destroying their portal. Bonus: everybody in the Galaxy now loves my repugnant fanatic collectivists xenophiles esclavagists arthropoïds :])

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Quoting: Nor MantisWOW, was not sure what to expect but first impressions are great, runs well and looks good. Easy to install. I only played this game on xbox when it came out. Look forward to giving it a go on my trusty Linux box! I am officially a fan!

Yes, the OpenMW team did a really great work. The game itself, and its addons Tribunal and Bloodmoon, are fully playable - I've finished all the guilds, Legion, House Hlaalu, and main quests without a single problem or bug, the only bug I encountered was also a Morrowind bug (some loot not spawning on a dead NPC iirc, fixed with the console). Bonus: 38 years old myself did a better run than 22 years old myself did on the xbox, back in the days :p. Level 70 Khaajit Assassin with all the speed/agility/sneak stuff is really, really fun to play :D

Worth noting: although not all community addons/mods are working, addons like Tamriel Rebuilt are, and many eye-candy ones too (Connary's textures for example, better heads/bodies/armors too).

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Have a look at Framasoft's (a french non-profit association promoting Free Software and self-hosting) Framinetest servers, it should download all the needed mods before connecting and it is quite active during evenings: https://framinetest.org/ [External Link]. It's more education-oriented btw, so it should be suitable for a younger audience.

btw, indeed the 2D characters in Angeldust seems a bit weird…

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At 2:37/2:40, seems they are using Linux to do the development (the file manager on the right screen looks like nautilus). At 2:51, seems they are using blender for the 3D models. And their tech support guy is definitely using some kind of tiling window manager (and we can see htop in the lower-right window). Might be interesting to ask them which softwares, languages, and such they use, it should make an interesting article/interview I think.

Day-1 linux release, dev done using free as in freedom software, roguelike, team which already worked on various roguelikes so they have the experience about gameplay balance… I think I'll back them too :)

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The 38 years old me thanks alot the OpenMW devs for making me feels like 22 years old me! Replaying Morrowind (with some better textures mod, quite beautiful) with an open source engine is something I couldn't even dream of back in the days. I plan to finish it again - but in less gameplay hours than back in the days (sunk 700 hours in it during 2001-2002). Welcome back, lid the Khajiit Assassin!

Now, let's grind him to level 36 (level 5 right now, didn't had that much time to play this week-end, can't wait to be sneaky enough so every guard in Balmora is naked :]). More seriously, replaying the Thieve's Guild quests is still really, really fun :)

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