Mostly CGA palettes. Brings me back to how I played the first Larry and Space Quest games.

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Quoting: LeopardIf anyone wants to try how bad is their VLK renderer , there is a demo of game Supraland on Steam. Simply run it natively first ( it is using VLK on Linux) and then go with Proton.

Supraland has issues that go way beyond Vulkan, so I wouldn't use that as the best example for Vulkan performance. Even on DXVK it should be performing much better than it does. However, I don't expect Vulkan performance to be great unless some magic happens in the coming year. Makes me remember the promise of ARK of getting performance increase with D3D12 that they never managed to get. Looks like UE4 was so hopelessly written towards D3D11 and it's biting them now.

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To be released on my birthday. That's probably a sign I need this!

I did quite enjoy the base game. The only problem is a balance issue. At some point you've finished all the story bits, but you need to unlock quite a bit of stuff for the endgame. IIRC, it was mostly a grind for blue experience points. Took me 55 hours to complete and realistically it should have been 10 hours less. Or alternatively it should have had some more interesting things to do in the late game. Have a shorter prequel sounds nice though.

Never heard of Swag and Sorcery since it was windows only. Apparently a good thing this time.

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Quoting: Commander StraxNo bullet physics.

What's interesting is that this is a game without an artificial crosshair, which would make it a prime candidate for having some form of bullet physics.

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Quoting: chancho_zombiejust some rough numbers...if the game is 29.99 they made about 70 million usd. Not bad for a small studio. (Probably is less because I'm not a considering the purchases made on sale and regional prices)

And with regional pricing and sales it will probably be less than half. Also interesting, if you assume that they had an average of 20 people working for 5 years, then the development would have cost somewhere around $10M. Well beyond any indie dev and their kickstarter funds were just a drop. Makes you wonder what the game would have been like if it hadn't taken off immediately.

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Went to try it for five or ten minutes before bed last night. It's a good thing I looked at the clock an hour later. :D

Quoting: DMGWhat is main goal in this game? Survive, launch yourself back to space or what?

I assume that something like that is the end game. But I never got close.

Also, for those waiting to get it on a sale, don't get your hopes up. It has never been discounted and it doesn't look like they're planning to.

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Quoting: BeamboomOh well. At least I now know what isometric is :D

Well, technically isometric also means that you view the coordinate system at an angle of 45 degrees to the side and 45 degrees down. Or in other words, looking at the origin from coordinate 1,1,1. This is how it applies to technical drawings. But since the coordinate system is not showing in games, it tends to be a bit more flexible on viewing direction. Always viewing down though! It would look majorly weird if you could see far away without a perspective projection.

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Did you just put an infographic in an article? :P

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There are several Proton "broken" reports there mentioning black screens. I also see others that went from black screen to working with the Media Framework fix. If that helps for the other broken ones as well, then the only true broken ones are the EAC games.

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Quoting: BeamboomHuh? What was it before, if not isometric? How is this different?

Isometric view has no perspective. The normal view does.

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