Yay!!! I've been waiting for what seemed forever for it to drop. Very much enjoyed the first two.

If I have one beef with episodic games, is that I lack the patience and fortitude of character to wait for the next installment. Same reason why I normally binge watch entire seasons of TV shows over a weekend :-)

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@Liam, in light of the very frequent disappointments Linux gamers experience at the hands of dishonest developers who promise Linux support only while the campaign is still ongoing to then callously renege on their contractual obligations (yes, kickstarters are contracts, just no court has so far decided to enforce them), perhaps you should not give any other Kickstarter project the free publicity they haven't earned by mentioning them here. Case in point, the latest one: 2Dark.

How many slaps to the face will it take before we realize some developers will lie through their teeth in order to get funded? Enough! You want my money, you have to earn it.

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Quoting: chepatiFor some reason I get no sound output.

Would you believe it! I found the solution. Feral did not include libpulse-simple.so.0 with their build and even though the library was available, the game did not pick it up.

Here's how I fixed it:

ln -sf /usr/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0.1.0 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Mad\ Max/lib/x86_64

@Feral, if you guys see this, please include libpulse-simple.so.0.

Thanks.

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Quoting: M@yeulCWell, DOTA 2 has a Vulkan renderer as well, and I think that's all for now. (There are some games that use the experimental Unity Vulkan renderer, I think, but I don't know which ones, and that's still experimental).

Ah, forgot about this one. Already downloading and will try it when I get home tonight.

Thanks!

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For some reason I get no sound output. In Settings/Audio I get NOSOUND under Driver (quoting from memory). For the life of me I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Have all the pulseaudio 32bit libraries too.

However, I got a few games where sound doesn't work: Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Don't Starve, etc.

Must be a simple thing I'm overlooking...

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Other than The Talos Principle, is there another game (Steam or GOG hosted) I can try now, not in the future, that has a working Vulkan renderer? I just set up Vulkan on my PC (NVidia card) and want to verify that it works. It's akin to learning to play the piano, without the piano, at the moment :-)

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250 hours in total.

But I gave up on Paradox games for their awful unscalable UI -- try playing CK2 in 4K, you'll go blind reading the tiny fonts. It's fallen on the community to create mods for such a simple thing as UI scaling!!! Paradox doesn't seem to care one whit about this long standing issue, that they know about.

So, I'm not buying anymore their games until they do something about it.

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Liam, shouldn't the title read "The Linux-supporting MMO..." ? :-)

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I've been following Kalypso's growing love for linux and they are seriously becoming one of my favorite publishers. I've gotten 3 or 4 of their titles and will probably get this one too.

In fact I just sent them an email. Allow me to share it with you.

<EMAIL>
Hi, Kalypso :-)

First a few words about me: I'm a 42 year old linux user, have been running almost exclusively linux for 22 years and I can remember back when my favorite OS could not even play music CDs.  I've been watching like a proud parent how linux has grown over the years and how it has captured the interest of commercial entities, be they Fortune 500 banks, hardware makers, or games companies.

As it happens, I am also an avid gamer.  I don't pirate games and when I like a dev studio/publisher I support them as loyally as I can with both my wallet and my word of mouth.

I have no idea how, but somehow or other I ended up on your new games announcement list.  A happier coincidence couldn't have happened.  Initially I would briefly scan your emails and discard them.  But at one point, the word Linux caught my attention.  I believe it was the Grand Ages: Medieval email.  I was intrigued, pleasantly surprised, and curious.  I checked the youtube videos, the Steam page and as soon as the game came out, I bought and played it.  Needless to say, I enjoyed it.  But I never thought it was the beginning of a trend for Kalypso.  Was I ever wrong!  The emails kept coming and I've bought a few of your other games, mostly because I want to show you my support (the games themselves were very good too, that definitely helped :-) ).  And I very much appreciate that you put Linux on an equal footing with the rest of the supported OSes in your announcements.  That shows respect and dedication.  We, Linux gamers, see and appreciate this.  And reward it.

I see you have another game coming out Dungeons 3.  Looks very interesting.  I will seriously consider it.

And I just bought Crookz - The Big Heist :-)

Not sure if you're aware, but there is a site (one of many I suppose) dedicated to all things linux gaming, https://www.gamingonlinux.com [External Link].  I am not in any way, shape, or form associated with this site, I'm just a user who frequents it and has bought around 5-7 games, just because they were mentioned there.  Perhaps it would be a good idea to get in touch with the chap who's running the site and do announcements of your forthcoming linux games?  Just a suggestion.  You'll get good exposure and the readership is your linux target demographic.  This is where I saw that Dungeons 3 was planned for a linux release, by the way.

In closing, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your growing support of linux and your faith in it.  I'll do my best to justify it.

IvanK.
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I am starting to send such thank you emails to all devs/publishers who show love and respect for linux.

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Quoting: chuzzle44

Quoting: grozamoreiUnfortunately, we don't provide demo on PC, but you always can wait a little, download "demo version" from torrents and test that :)

I don't know if I want this game, but I'm going to buy it, thanks to this.

Same reason why I went from a maybe to a hell yeah!

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