Quoting: Alphasynforce-feedback works fine for me.

Hiyo, I haven't had much luck with force-feedback and I'd be interested to hear all about your experiences, I made a forum post about it, maybe you could expand upon it with your experiences? https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2548

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionCrowd funding is no place for consumers. Consumers will have to wait until after the product comes to market.

Sorry, but that's complete rubbish. Crowd-funding was invented -specifically- as an alternative to venture capital or similar means of funding.

I dunno, it kind of sounds to me like your example proves his point, a venture capitalist, even if he is a regular joe on kickstarter is someone who is proactively investing in something, whereas a consumer is just waiting passively.

Maybe just a misunderstanding of terminology?

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I see a lot of bluetooth being mentioned, but I was under the impression that the steam controller used plain wifi instead of bluetooth, am I mistaken? Or is this new change changing over to bluetooth? Please enlighten my ignorance.

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Why not AppImage?

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Quoting: Crystal DaggerI'm a huge UO fan, but then when I saw it I was kind of disappointed ... too many dissapointments from that *coughs* Shroud Of The Avatar *coughs*

I too have great fondness for old UO, in my case freeshards though, I couldn't stand OSI. I'm looking forward to trying this one because there's definitely similarities, however it's not a drop-in replacement for UO, for that you might want to check out 'Shards Online' ( http://shardsonline.com/video/ [External Link] ), this is designed as a type of modern day freeshard uo, you could run your own rp-heavy shard, or a pure pvp shard, or, well, imagination's the limit I suppose. It's looking closer to pure UO than Shroud (though I'm hoping Shroud will eventually take its place as a fun game as well).

That said, Albion's looking like the first one out the door, so that's what I'll go with first =)

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Quoting: GuestSo how annoying is the login prompt really? And are there local high scores when you play without an account, so you can compete with friends and familly?

From what I can remember I don't think I cared much about it, but I did make an account pretty early on, and since then it's been out of sight out of mind. Local high scores work as you'd expect in a pinball on the matrix backboard, similarly it has an admin menu that works just like a proper physical machine.

I hadn't played (actual) pinball in aaaaaages, and there hasn't been any computer pinball for Linux, so when this came out I jumped at it, but again it's brutally hard, and having had a long pinball hiatus it feels like they really drop you into the deep end. It makes me long for easier pinballs ;) That said, it's thoroughly enjoyable. Especially when you feel the rumble in your controller =)

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Quoting: reaVerand we still can't render a pinball table is what you're saying?

Is that what I said? I don't think that's what I said. I think you might have an erroneous inference.

Yes it works flipped, some of the views are also meant for a physical pinball cabinet should you wish to construct one.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkdoes it overwrite the current data

No. The table is pre-rendered, and you have like 6 different views, you pick the view you want to use and it will download the table assets for your resolution. If you were to change resolution it would download the table for the new resolution but you'd still keep the old stuff downloaded, though you can manually just rm -r a dir.

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Quoting: Guestsign-in requirement

It's not a requirement, you only make an account/sign in if you want to be on the online leaderboards.

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When you start it up there's a tiny "i" button in the bottom right corner, it has the backstory and instructions on how to play. I use a ps3 controller over bluetooth with this game, and this is the first game I've ever experienced rumble in the controller, which is a super nice addition, it really enhances this game.

It is a brutally hard pinball game though. Since it is so hard I recommend going into the settings once you're in the game (the admin menu), and maxing out stuff to help you out, like amount of balls, how long the ball-save lasts etc, that will help out a lot if you're trying to beat the storymode game.

It's really enjoyable though, and not to mention easy to bring up and run some ramp practice while queueing for a strife game.

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