btf stands for Bild und Tonfabrik (Image and sound factory) which is a producer of TV Shows and 2 smaller Point and Click games you probably never heard of. The PnC games they made were in direct connection to one of the TV Shows they produce ("Neo Magazin Royale", a satirical comedy show. The guy in the Video who asks if he is the main character, is the host of that show.).

I haven't played their games, both are not available for Linux, even created with Unity. Who's interested in the games, they are available for smartphones too but in German only, you can download the first one for free: Game Royale 1 [External Link], Game Royale 2 [External Link]. But Keep in mind, if you don't know the TV Show you might not have any connection to the story of the games.

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Those games were added already a week ago when the Halloween sale started. The Halloween sale will end in ~10 hours, those games will probably disappear at the same time from GOG COnnect.

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When Sanctum 2 was released for Linux, it was in beta and a lot maps were completely broken. The most annoying part was, that many fields did not had a hitbox, so you could fall through and it was impossible to build blocks on them as well.

This was fixed several month later (typical icclulus work time :P) and since then it's running pretty great.

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Quoting: TiedemannNice. Played the fist Dungeon Defenders a lot and loved the action/TD combo so I'll def pick this up if when/if we get it.

If you like the Action/TD combo, you should definitely check out Sanctum 2 [External Link].

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When I see the games graphics in the video and then the text which pops in, I have to laugh out loud. The screenshots on the shop site don't look better.

This looks like another Asset flipper to me. Thanks, but NO thanks.

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It's the first build with Vulkan support and they also write that it's still in early shape. Just look how it evolved on Talos Principle. The first builds were slower than OpenGL, later builds were faster than OpenGL but slower than DX11 (on Windows) and again later it was finally faster than DX11.

Those things will take time and a lot of work to improve. I wouldn't judge the implementation before it's in final state.

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Quoting: TheRiddickHas anyone tried this via Wine with the Vulkan renderer? does it work decently I wonder...

I've just tried, you need to install Steam in x64 Virtual Environment (The game won't install in a 32bit Environment) and then switch on the Beta tab to "Opt-in - v2.40 Release"and install it. It starts up fine but currently I'm stuck in the loading screen.

On the Steam forums they write that the first load could take longer, but I doubt it will take longer than 20 minutes. Also tried to kill the game and start it again without any success.

I guess the game starts by default in DX11 mode and I have no idea if or how I can change that to use Vulkan.

*update*
I've just renamed the AshesEscalation_Vulkan.exe to AshesEscalation.exe, which gets started by the launcher, still the game hangs in the loading screen for ever.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWell, given how popular Dota and CCGs are I'm sure this'll make lots of people very happy.

Yes and all of them work at Valve, this will be a cash cow. F2P and with micro transactions, that's the only thing you can count on from valve. I highly doubt we will ever see a solid game from Valve ever again, they make way too much money with F2P games.

And I don't get why people still expect Valve to be able to make a uniqe IP again. The only IP Valve ever created was Half-Life, every other IPs Valve brought up where bought in. Even Portal is a bought IP.

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The Linux version has still the same bugs as 2 years ago. Right, they never fixed any Linux specific bug in 2 fucking years. Not a single one, believe me. Worst developers ever.

Also I got the game for free by the devs, to do a pre-aplha test of the Linux version. Now they gave us the codes, we installed it reported bugs and guess what? Yep, they didn't even fixed one of them but released the Linux build just 12 hours after giving us the keys anyway. They just realised that there are many bugs to fix and probably decided to just ignore it but still put a price tag on it.

They alos claimed several times they would go for a newer Unreal Engine version, to bring OpenGL4 to Linux and with that the same graphics as the Windows version have. Yep, you guess right, still haven't updated the UE Version in 2 years.

Please, don't buy this game, never ever. Even if you can get it for 12€ on a key reseller. Thank me later.

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As long as I have to download 10 GB for every new release, I skip it. Epic get your shit together and make a proper Linux launcher which downloads only the patched files instead of the whole game, sigh.

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