I love the game. I dread the UE bugs that are pretty obvious in this game. This game is going hard to bump fortresscraft evolved from my top played throne, and actually only because I can let FCE just grind while I work :-).
The community is pretty toxic though. People in this thread are complaining as loud as all the salty windows users. So I take those complaints like a "people need to have something to complain over".
At that price tag I cannot really recommend it for linux users at this moment.
If the current graphical bugs are fixed, which is an UE thing, it is good enough to recommend at that price. There are other minor bugs that can be worked around.
But the joy I get from having tamed my first therozWhatsthatticklechickencalled...
The amount of joyful play I got from this game is so much more than the amount of money I invested in it. I think the price tag was less than 20 euro at that time... That's about 1 movie ticket, or 1/4th I paid for the Deus Ex port or 1/4th I paid for Planet Nomads, I think 1/3rd of the alien saga. 572h on record, and I play mostly since end 2016, although I have the game since 2015.

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Quoting: silmethI wonder – what Western Europe means there? Is it European Union? Is it geographic Western Europe (west of Germany)? Is it everything west of Russian territories (= European part of Russia?)? Does it include Central European part of the Union, does it include Belarus and Ukraine?

I'm guessing it means the non-russian part of europe.
Now we can debate which parts are russian and which are not :-).

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Quoting: STiATWell, they're right. But it was back the days

Actually back in the days was 2000 or so...
I still have my first $230 quake the offering, official release for linux.
I have my original X3 box with compressed shirt in the shape of an X, signed by the CEO of Linux Game Publishing.
Back to that: I still have 20+ official linux game boxes and elite boxes for anyone caring to come and collect. See: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ArdvanBreemen/posts/Cs9EVrH5MED [External Link]
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Most of them with official licenses.

Anyway: the salt seemed to start when steam came to linux and linux gaming became "mainstream".

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Quoting: liamdaweWe aren't better than others, that's just not looking outside the circle there.

Still, that's my opinion, as your post is yours and opinions are welcome here :)

If I look at the ark bugs, I can confirm we are just as salty as any other community.
We have a lot of self entitled brats that never ever learned the meaning of respect.
I used to think we are better, but no, I had to revise that. I know *we* are better, but the developer won't see the difference between *we* and *them* 8-D.
So yes, we are a self-entitled bunch of salt bags spewing vile threats. I read phoronix yesterday, and I just closed it. The systemd mud slinging pro and contra are pretty bad.
I hope someday we learn to respect the software houses, and be nice to them.
Working with some single person companies, I can confirm these vile threats and salt is just a common human trait. Most humans seem somehow seem to feel entitled for $10k of work after paying $10. They usually also know exactly how you should do your work and never understand why things cost a lot of money and time. That's from a non-computing area.
So yes, this is exactly the same. We are humans, and I am ashamed of that.

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At least 381.22 already fixed vulkan for me on a zotac sn970. Took a while before vulkan really worked.

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I hope my patronage of yaakuro https://www.patreon.com/ue4linux [External Link] has some positive effects. UE looks like a good engine with a nice open developer setup. But when there are no (community) people working on the linux part of the engine, it doesn't really matter.

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Quoting: meggerman

Quoting: liamdaweValve stated they couldn't provide us with one and HTC never replied

That really is piss poor considering GOL's online presence. Not even replying is just rude.

Valve themselves or developers from valve actually do arrange vr headsets for those they deem productive, like those that (help) developing vr (applications) on/for linux and do not have the means themselves.
Valve developers are very helpful and they deserve at least some respect.
I don't know about HTC, but for them it will be request nr. n1000.
At the current state I don't think it is interesting for valve to promote the VR on steamos yet, as they are still developing on RADV and hoping nvidia will follow. Next thing is that every linux user will be buying a htc vive and then the shit hits the fans because they all will demand something and feel betrayed and whatever consumers think these days.
So I can understand valve too.

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Purple line on the left side and otherwise a strange color can be due to outputing HDMI to a DVI panel. I've seen a lot of panels with arm systems that needed a forced DVI output to get correct color and sync.

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Quoting: ZapporI guess SteamOS uses RADV now then? Did SteamOS have Vulkan support before?

Steamos had vulkan support in the previous release: it was nvidia driver release 367 something.
It was incapable of handling vulkan on any steam machine though...
The worst part about this news is that I missed it, and I packaged 381.09 for steamos myself and gave it a higher precedence than valves repo, so I never noticed that steamos *stable* released a newer nvidia driver version: 381.22, which fixes all vulkan problems on steam machines.

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WC has fixed the oslist property on ragnarok, so we can now install and run it:
https://steamdb.info/app/642250/history/ [External Link]
Fixed 11 hours ago.
Now I still need to work before I can test it :-(

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