Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: EhvisI wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.

Well its not really an issue as the patches proton are sent upstream so no reason why wine wont just run out the box like proton but yeah if you have an issue it wont be supported. Why i guess brings people on to I dont use steam because DRM etc etc personally I admire the mindset it's just not one i share.

I meant that it will be made in such a way that it can't work in a generic Wine. After all, the purpose of the thing is to see everything that happens. That's simply not going to be possible with generic Wine. Well, maybe if they interface with a root level module on the native side.

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I wouldn't be surprised if they *only* support steam games in Proton and not generic wine.

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The gameplay is a bit unclear, but it does look properly silly!

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Tried it for two minutes yesterday. Since I have no history with minecraft at all, I just had an "is this it?" moment.

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Oh, this game! I remember it from the stream when it already looked fun. That shows how bad game breaking bugs can be. Since you couldn't progress at the time, I didn't do anything with it and completely forgot about this game.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThink about it this way: Who is more likely to support Linux in the future, a developer who sees zero sales from Linux users, or one who sees 10% of sales from Linux users using Proton? Now you might argue that the latter will dismiss Linux users because the developer didn't have do any extra work to get those sales, but it could also be argued that they might consider releasing a native Linux version of their next product in order to attract even more Linux customers.

And since it can go either way, it'll remain speculation. I suspect the highest number will go to those that simply ignore it.

For now, I'll stick with a practical approach. I value native much higher than non-native, so it'll take a substantial sale before non-native becomes interesting.

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The original kickstarter for this was based on a builder demo. And in its current state, that still seems to be the only thing that people really do with it. Half the screenshots on the Steam page show pictures from backers that have built the craziest things, but the survival game just never really matured. So the creative mode is probably the only thing that really does something well.

If you can get through the performance issues that is (which are not really Linux specific). Building anything quickly drops fps and will bring the beefiest machines to its knees. The "starting ship tutorial" thing demonstrates how badly the game manages to optimise the custom built structures. From you starting location in a closed room, you can look in one direction and have 60 fps, while looking in the other direction drops it to 10 fps or lower even though the same amount of geometry is visible. Since the whole area is built using the same building blocks, it shows that the game is unable to do proper occlusion culling of custom built structures. Which I imagine is incredibly hard to do, but also quite essential.

Looks like they drowned in the technical details and never got around to really make an interesting game. As Liam said, a lot of wasted potential.

With them just sticking 1.0 onto the game weeks before the planned release, I suspect they're out of money. That probably means a bunch of devs will be out of a job.

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I decided that my own reasoning was actually very convincing. So I reserved myself a full set. I'd actually be fine if the delivery date would be pushed back a little further since I don't think the middle of summer is the best time to spend with such a device on your head. :D

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Must have been Epic money at work.

Because while they can remove it from the store, the still have to maintain the game for current owners. So it just means more work.

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On Steam it says "Requires 3rd-Party Account: Last Epoch". Why does a single player game need a 3rd party account?

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