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Soldat, a rather old side-view multiplayer action game is being ported to Linux
14 Feb 2017 at 1:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

One of the games of my childhood and probably my favorite action game of all time. What a time we live in! Bless you falcon, helloer and all previous Soldat dev team members!

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has a big polishing update, take a look at my video
13 Feb 2017 at 1:09 pm UTC

Quoting: buenaventura
Quoting: hardpenguin
Quoting: buenaventuraI used to love Call of Duty (the first) online, this looks kinda like that! I would love to play this, however I wonder if my laptop can handle it. Minimum says:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card must be 512 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 4 GB available space

I have 8gb RAM so that's fine, and I have a 1gb AMD GPU, but I wonder if it will be playable (reqs for linux should be a bit higher I guess). Wish there was a demo.
These are pretty low requirements, what video card exactly do you have? What graphics intensive games are you able to play with it? I believe you should be fine if you don't mind playing on low details level!
My card defies naming alot, but this is what lscpi says:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

I've understood that it is GCN 1.1 capable. I play TF2 on low settings with good FPS, I also managed Quadrilateral Cowboy on low settings well, and DiRT: Showdown suprisingly well! Mirrors Edge with Gallium3D via Wine also works well with latest git MESA+Wine.

As you say, I have no need for fancy graphics, I will happily turn of everything that can be turned off.
Difficult to tell, as it is probably more graphics intense than TF2. Worst case scenario, you can get a refund if it won't run.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has a big polishing update, take a look at my video
10 Feb 2017 at 4:11 pm UTC

Quoting: buenaventuraI used to love Call of Duty (the first) online, this looks kinda like that! I would love to play this, however I wonder if my laptop can handle it. Minimum says:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Video card must be 512 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 4 GB available space

I have 8gb RAM so that's fine, and I have a 1gb AMD GPU, but I wonder if it will be playable (reqs for linux should be a bit higher I guess). Wish there was a demo.
These are pretty low requirements, what video card exactly do you have? What graphics intensive games are you able to play with it? I believe you should be fine if you don't mind playing on low details level!

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has a big polishing update, take a look at my video
10 Feb 2017 at 2:15 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweA single new map and two new game modes aren't something I would consider to be major by themselves though.
2 new maps, both Foy and Crete are playable now :)

What would you consider a major feature, then?

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has a big polishing update, take a look at my video
10 Feb 2017 at 2:06 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweThis update doesn't have any major new features
Dude, new maps and new gamemodes! :D

HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month
7 Feb 2017 at 8:21 pm UTC

Quoting: ellie_feralTo clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.

If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.
True, true, sorry for mixing it up. I was on the Twitch chat during that stream but I don't remember the exact words.

Here's the GOL source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactives-linux-ports-may-come-with-vulkan-sooner-than-we-thought-updated.8418

P.S.
First half of the year and Spring are kinda the same since the first day of Summer is June 20 :P

HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month
7 Feb 2017 at 5:01 pm UTC

Quoting: lejimster
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)
I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.
They already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

EDIT:
Seems like I was vastly inaccurate about that (sorry!), here's the GOL source on the subject:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactives-linux-ports-may-come-with-vulkan-sooner-than-we-thought-updated.8418

Steam Beta Client updated, finally fixing the notification spam when you login and group notifications
1 Feb 2017 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Valve- Fixed Steam Video Player failing to load correctly when using non-latin characters in your Windows user name
I like how these two things seem unrelated, yet were a cause of a bug :)

Some thoughts on 'imprint-X', the button pushing puzzle game that had day-1 Linux support
29 Jan 2017 at 10:34 pm UTC

A fact: this is a game from Mordondag, the creators of RymdResa, a roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated world:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/269690/ [External Link]

Shadow of Mordor benchmarks old vs new on Linux
27 Jan 2017 at 12:11 pm UTC

So, more stable and more fluent on average. Good job!