Unlike Wholly Mad Studios, Croteam are actually worth a purchase. So I'm excited for the new stuff as well. Even though SSHD probably doesn't really need Vulkan for performance. And I probably won't have time to play it. :D

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Quoting: m0nt3I checked the website, but did not find mention of SteamOS, just steam.

It's mentioned in the list at the bottom of the"Game vision" column on the WMD page linked in the article. I'm assuming they mistakenly copied it from the previous site and have no intention of delivering.

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So one less broken promise? That's a step up!

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The did get an update with an "offline profile", which suggests that it should be playable offline. But for more first hand answers it's always best to drop into the stream and ask questions directly.

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Quoting: MajGuanoWow, the Linux port chews up about 15x as much disk space as the Windows version.

15x? You sure about that?

It's not 15 times, but the Linux depots are twice the size of Mac/Windows ones. Which is still a big difference.

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Quoting: PixelPiThere seems to be a bottle neck, which limits the fps on the OpenGL ports, no matter which card one uses.

The bottleneck is likely the CPU, more specifically single thread CPU performance. I suspect (didn't actually bother checking) that the added overhead of the OpenGL translation causes a relatively high load in one of the threads and causes latency that limits the fps.

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Quoting: Xpanderif the price is correct i take more cores every time over less cores :) specially considering vulkan that will take care of those and my pc is not only for gaming also :)

We've had multi core CPUs available for about a decade now and for many applications the single core performance is still the deciding factor. I'm not too optimistic about seeing this change completely in the next year. Which probably means that my next build will still be decided on by single core performance.

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I found an opening on Tuesday. Mostly got my ass handed to me by people playing 20 to 30 levels above me. Except for one game where I owned the whole lot. :D

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Quoting: Xpanderpatiently waiting for ryzen also :)

The thing that is worrying about Ryzen is that in comparisons (at this point leaked, so not definitive), 8 core Ryzen CPUs are paired as competitive to 4 core Intel CPUs. If this turns out to be true, then that doesn't bode well for Ryzen single core performance. This may throw a big wrench into the gaming side of things until such a time where everything is properly designed around Vulkan/multi-core.

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Quoting: TcheyAccording to Steam review, it doesn't seem so good. Overall 67% (11k reviews) and Recents 79% (almost 600).

But if you check the actual reviews, it's mostly about DRM/Always online stuff. Which I highly doubt will be relevant to the port and is certainly not relevant to the gameplay.

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