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Quoting: ZlopezI just hope there will be any available with the crypto miners going crazy.

If only AMD could do something to the drivers to make it uninteresting for miners.

(sorry, couldn't resist )

It will be even better if they introduced cards without graphical output that will be specialized for mining and costing less than gaming GPUs.

NVIDIA already started doing this, but the mining cards aren't out yet and have worse performance than GTX 3080. So we will see if they would at least be cheap, so the miners would go for the mining cards instead of gamer cards.

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I just hope there will be any available with the crypto miners going crazy.

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I never had any luck with the Vulkan API, it just crushed for me. I will try it again with the new version and report the bug if the game is still crashing for me. It's the only game with Vulkan that I have issue with, which is strange.

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Quoting: Liam DaweUpdate: Feral Press replied to our question about cross-platform online support, as traditionally their ports are locked for Linux/macOS and Windows by itself. Here's what they said:

QuoteWe do not have anything to announce in regards to the support of the cross-platform multiplayer.

Should the situation change, we will make an announcement on our official site and social media channels.

I would be very surprised if Creative changed anything to allow it. It's almost certainly a choice of their middleware or some compiler option, and they wouldn't be in any hurry to make engine changes if they can avoid it. Shitty situation, but not surprising.

Zilch that Feral can do on the matter unfortunately.

This could be probably easily fixed by creating a option to have dedicated server. This issue is because of different timing of some Windows/Linux kernel commands, which results in lost of synchronization between clients. If you have one server synchronizing the clients you can get rid of this issue. But the dedicated servers are not that common now except for competitive multiplayer games.

But as you saying this is a choice of Creative Assembly not something Feral could do.

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I was glad to see that Steam page already mentions Linux. It's a happy world to live in. :-)

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This is something that just made my day, I spent plenty of hours on both previous games and was eager for the third one. I just hope they will polish all the issues they had in previous two, especially the diplomacy from Three Kingdoms would be nice to see here.

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Quoting: JahimselfAre they buying them to better kill them?

It wouldn't be the first time the company was bought to just kill the competition.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, I separate DLC with full blown expansions. Like Crusader Kings II is a good example, they had shit loads of DLC, with a few expansions. Sure they are called DLC, but they really are expansion packs for the game. Like a new civilizarion or sound tracks are DLC. When you are adding continents and new rules, etc it is an expansion.
The worse offense is when they sell you the data on the physical disk but you have to pay extra to unlock it...

I must say I really like the DLC for Total War: Warhammer, most of them are adding new playable races with new mechanics.

As you said the worst are the ones that are just unlocking the content you already have. EA could be probably a good example of this, you pay full price for the game and most of the things are still behind paywall, when you start playing.

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Quoting: Zlopez

Quoting: MohandevirReally not sure about this one... Nothing forces them to sell on Steam, anyway.

I disagree with this. If you want to hit a bigger audience you need to be on Steam, because it's a #1 platform for most of PC gamers.

Also the EPIC has it's own flaws, like exclusive titles or forcing the devs to drop Linux support for the games if they want to publish on EPIC. (Phoenix Point as an example or their own Unreal Tournament)

I'm using Steam because of what is Valve doing for the Linux community, but there are plenty of things I don't like about the Steam, like vendor lock-in or some of the ethical problems like this one. Next time I will look for something, I will first check the GOG, with minigalaxy it's really easy to manage your games now.

How is this en ethical problem? They don't dictate prices.

They are saying that you can't have different prices on different platforms. So they actually dictate the price you need to have elsewhere. So if you have a game on Steam and GOG and there is GOG sale going on, you need to lower price on Steam too.

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Quoting: MohandevirReally not sure about this one... Nothing forces them to sell on Steam, anyway.

I disagree with this. If you want to hit a bigger audience you need to be on Steam, because it's a #1 platform for most of PC gamers.

Also the EPIC has it's own flaws, like exclusive titles or forcing the devs to drop Linux support for the games if they want to publish on EPIC. (Phoenix Point as an example or their own Unreal Tournament)

I'm using Steam because of what is Valve doing for the Linux community, but there are plenty of things I don't like about the Steam, like vendor lock-in or some of the ethical problems like this one. Next time I will look for something, I will first check the GOG, with minigalaxy it's really easy to manage your games now.

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