YEEEEEEES, I was waiting for this! :D :D :D

My predictions: no more "stuttery feel" to the game and VULKAN! :D

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I have been really looking forward to this game!

I love 3d platformers and considering the lack of native LEGO games on Linux I really love the fact that this game has day 1 Linux support.

This is definitely going to be a buy for me as soon as possible!

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It's great that we, who had trouble with those drops that are not supposed to be there are now able to play the game without the offline mode with all the achievements and steam overlay.

But what I am really even happier to see is that Feral is putting efforts into improving the overall Vulkan performance and I have no doubt that when Feral gets a good grip on Vulkan, we will have the ports of outstanding performance, perhaps even on par or better than Windows which would actually make the users of other operating systems to keep an eye on linux and its' gaming capabilities.

Great job and keep making penguins happy Feral Interactive!

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@liamdawe My honest opinion is, to focus on GOL, make it even better than it is now and make it all in one place, community and much more (who knows what can be done) for linux gaming... It already has an awesome community and if you don't lose much time doing a whole another website you can spend and put so much more effort into GOL and make it even more awesome than it is :P

at least that's how I would do it...

About the Ubuntu killing Unity... who knows, will probably have both positive and negative consequences, hopefully the bilance will be in favour of positive ones :P

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This better be a AAA title that will make a hole in my wallet :P

Shadow Warrior, Total War titles would mean nothing to me to be honest :D except the overall number of availible titles on linux :P

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I'd like to support open-source and MESA but it's just impossible to ignore all these awesome GPUs full of performance that Nvidia is rolling out :P

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Quoting: TuxeeAnd your point is? What do you expect? There is a certain market share of people who (solely) use Linux for whatever reason (attitude, ecosystem, tools, tasks, ...) Quite a few people also like to play games. They are served. Period. I don't expect people to switch to Linux because here "the games run just as fast as on Windows". The vendor lock-in is impossible to break for an open source operating system. (That doesn't mean a desktop OS can not successfully replaced by OSes on other devices - see Android.)

None of the things that you mentioned drives me to use linux... it's just that there is no better alternative on the market, Windows 10 and all its' bad aspects like privacy concerns, closing things up, consolizing PC gaming and service OS is the future of Windows which is incredibly dangerous for users because MS can do anything with it once they get the marketshare... who knows push their Store even further, push proprietary standards and DX12, push their own shitty ecosystem (like Skype, OneDrive, Bing...), mess with your computer settings without your knowledge with ads and similar and users can literally do nothing but watch when it is too late. MS has lately become that one company without which computing would be a better place, instead of making it better they actually started holding things back just to keep their monopoly and expand their ecosystem.

Having that said it is important for Feral, Valve, Aspyr and other companies that develop software to embrace open standards, to prove people that Vulkan can be compared to DX12 and embrace the cross-platform availibility because Windows users do need a backup plan if things get too messy there just like I needed it back when I switched to linux (things were a lot buggier then though, now things are getting pretty serious and stable). And there is no better place where to embrace the open standards than linux, because it is beyond MS's reach.

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I'd like to confirm that on i5 6600 with gtx 970, the performance gain is enormous, from like 55-60 fps on OpenGL (original 1.0) on a very high preset to a constant 90+ fps which almost catches up with the dx11 version performance (approximately 105fps on average)

So in other words, worse the CPU, bigger the gain from vulkan :P

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This is great news!

I've tried it out and I quite like it, it's way handier than having yet another browser tab open! It now features quite a few functions and features.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: HollowSoldierOfficial patch notes:

"Marketing strategy didn't work. F...k."

Hahaha. Their Vulkan renderer is still definitely faster which is great, but it's too bad it's still 40-50% the speed of the DX version, but that's ports for you and any improvement to ports is good. I just hope we start getting pure native Vulkan releases soon especially now that Unity3D 5.6 is out with Vulkan.

40-50% of Dx11 performance? Any proof to back that up? For my GPU gtx970 if I don't count the drops it works on 90% of the DX11 performance which is awesome... On dx11 it was spinning around 105 fps and now with vulkan on Linux it sticks at around 90-95 fps even goes higher into 100s at times... so I don't have such experience, or did you just make a terrible guess?

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