Quoting: Eike(*) Sorry for calling people "resources" here, it's for the sake of the argument.

Considering that most companies have a human resources department, you're not alone. :D

Only played a couple of campaign missions so far. Not entirely happy with all the changes they made (like going into white mode for elevation lines), but maybe I just need to get used to them. The only thing that really triggered me was not being able to create a new line directly from the vehicle manager.

Overall it's looking good though. Everything feels more refined. Better customisation of mouse and keys. And so far no performance issues for me, but the campaign doesn't really push the limits.

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Quoting: PatolaAnd why would it be different with any other game they port?

The techniques used which inhibit cross-platform play might or might not be used in this other game.

In fact, I can't think of any dev apart from Creative Assembly that does it like that. From a historic perspective you could understand that limiting the bandwidth of multiplayer communication would be helpful, but that doesn't really apply today. And Feral changed the system themselves to make it run perfectly between mac and Linux, but CA won't incorporate it themselves. But who knows, maybe in the future they will get bitten by cpu changes that break it as well.

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Quoting: appetrosyanHonestly, any game that’s not in my steam/gog library. I’d buy it out of principle, comment that the reason why I bought the game was that it had native support. That being said, a game with prohibitive multiplayer software aka anti cheat would be a great option, mainly because these are the only ones you can’t play via proton.

I thought that about multiplayer too, but remember that Feral does NOT support crossplay with Windows on their Total War ports. So would it really be worth it if we got e.g. PUBG but could only play with other linux gamers?

Because the reason for TW games not supporting it does not lie with Feral.

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I would like to be surprised!

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Quoting: DrMcCoyYes, you are ignorant.

So what genre is simpler? Text based adventures?

Quite a number of things I imagine. Visual Novels are most interesting with good writing of complex branching storylines. Getting suitable artwork also requires some talent. I imagine the famous game of Tetris was much easier to write.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy...Not really? Interactive Fiction is usually a fancy way to say Text Adventure, but has been applied to things like Twines and Visual Novels as well.

In my humble opinion, text adventure is the opposite of Visual Novel.
After having played a text adventure, it was hard to go back to something less open and interactive.

For me text adventures are the games like they were before graphics became a thing. Where actions and moving through the world was all based on reading and inputting text. This evolved into text with pictures representing the location. I suppose the next step was Sierra On-line which made the navigation visual but kept the text interface. Funny enough, Visual Novels seems to have more in common with old style RPGs which often had a NPC interaction screens that were quite similar. Of course, doing away with most game mechanics, VNs focus on story and character development (if done right).

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Quoting: trawzSo G-Sync can now work with Vulkan on Linux? That's great, gonna test it later today!

G-SYNC has worked with Vulkan for years. This is about the issue with VR headsets not v-syncing properly when your main display had G-SYNC. Which was a big nuisance and I'm happy it's finally fixed!

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Quoting: bacattasteam keys ?

Shadow of the Tomb Raider as a Linux version or is it only the "definitive edition" ?

Linux support for the others ?

The DE is just a bundle with the normal game and the extras, so the key will have the Linux version.

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Probably a decent month if you don't have SottTR already, but nothing much if you do.

However, the "Classic plan" faq says that you can pause without risk of losing classic, so that's very nice!

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: fagnerlnJust a question, how good is EAC? I know that VAC has a lot of vulnerabilities, and there's cheaters in all valve's games.

It's curious how fast EAC conquested the market, and most of the newer games have it.

It's really "cheater-free"?

I think it's more like a virus scanner. It weeds out the easy to catch stuff. I've heard plenty of reports from cheaters in games that have anti-cheat (any kind). While some reports might be sore losers, I have no doubt there are people with enough time on their hands to beat it. Just like any other cracking, it becomes a sport in itself.

If it's that weak then why can't we just convince the dang thing it's talking to the kernel even though it isn't? Sure, that might not be an ideal solution from the game developers' point of view, but hey, if they don't like it they can make Linux versions of their games.

Probably. But that would be an exploitable flaw which will then be fixed and the cycle has to start all over again. Nice for those enjoying that challenge, but not really practical for Linux gamers.

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Quoting: fagnerlnJust a question, how good is EAC? I know that VAC has a lot of vulnerabilities, and there's cheaters in all valve's games.

It's curious how fast EAC conquested the market, and most of the newer games have it.

It's really "cheater-free"?

I think it's more like a virus scanner. It weeds out the easy to catch stuff. I've heard plenty of reports from cheaters in games that have anti-cheat (any kind). While some reports might be sore losers, I have no doubt there are people with enough time on their hands to beat it. Just like any other cracking, it becomes a sport in itself.

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