Too bad the Attila port was trash - wish CA didn't try to do things in house.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: shawnsterpAre all these Total War games they keep pumping out actually different? I have a couple but I gotta admit I haven't really gotten around to playing them.

That's what I keep wondering. I have Empire: Total War, and Total War: Warhammer, and they are virtually identical in terms of gameplay.

What? They couldn't be more different as games.

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelDid they find a way to enable cross platform mp with this one?

They haven't given out any details like that yet. Doesn't seem to mention it anywhere.

Purely at a guess, knowing the sort of issue that causes incompatibility, I doubt cross platform will be available.

Feral probably know how it could be done, but the problem is getting the original developer to change their code (which is basically not going to happen). Seeing as other Total War titles have the same issue, I see no reason not to think the same here.

Nothing definite of course until Feral give out more info.

Yeah, considering that CA did the port of Attila in house and didn't fix the cross platform multiplayer then, I doubt this will have it. Same with their in house port of Rome 2 on OSX.

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Quoting: LeopardIt won't come. Looks like they just shared content depos between Mac and possible ( abandoned ) Linux version.

No sign of exec depot.

So, the Rome II port was done in house by CA - they released the OSX version but never the Linux version, so I would be surprised if Feral ended up with it. It was also the only/last port CA ever did in house (well, including Attila) with everything before and after it done by Feral. While I am not holding my breath, I do really hope they finally release the Linux port, as Rome II (EE) is pretty awesome, and, for me at least, more enjoyable than Attila.

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I would go Shogun 2 (already on OSX), if only because it currently has private beta repos on SteamDB as of about a week ago. No idea how long Feral usually has their private betas last, but, seems like its getting close. Also seems to be Japanese/Google Images says 'samurai penguin' which I think would further confirm this :)

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If you own the first game and the second, you will get the option to play on a massive combined map. That sounds pretty sweet!

This is a very interesting feature. I wonder if you can play the original game's campaign on the expanded map?

I believe they said that an expanded map will be coming after release that has everything on it.

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I wish they would focus a little more on performance (especially in Linux). Don't newer engine versions bring a lot to the table for OpenGL performance ?

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Quoting: soulsourceAnyhow, if you consider your CPU fan noise disturbing, I'd recommend to buy a better cooler.

The CPU's fan is normally under 20db but if all 4+4 cores are used the noise could be annoying just because the airflow would be quite substantial.
The most annoying fan is the GF970 one. Right now the game is CPU limited and the GPU fan is not even spinning up, but at 60fps I'm sure it would kick in.[/quote]Perhaps buy hardware that isn't as powerful? You can get air cooled GPUs (although they don't game very well). Also, relevant xkcd ;) https://xkcd.com/1172/ [External Link]

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Doesn't do anything for me on Arch.

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Quoting: MyeulCWell, to be fair, we don't even know if it's kubuntu (the tweets aren't from the computer's owner, AFAIK). It could even be that they decided to switch to KDE for their next SteamOS release, who knows?

Kubuntu is one of the few distros that delivers a pure KDE, without any customization, as showed in the images. And as Valve uses Debian as platform for SteamOS and Ubuntu as a target distro, I think is safe to say it is Kubuntu.

Or it could be Neon, Debian, Arch, or a whole host of other distros that have a truly 'pure' KDE desktop. At this point Kubuntu is one of the worst choices for a KDE distro - it is still an entire version behind in Plasma/KDE/QT.

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