I was gutted about Bloodstained. I even refused a bundle recently because that shit was part of it. Fingers crossed for a better result here. Looks amazing.

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So, like... each monster is an operator? A... function? And then it's like TIS-100 to solve puzzles?!

These games are quite fun for a while, but I admit that when they show me leaderboards of my friends who have completed the puzzle either quicker, costing less, using less cycles or less "space", it actually demotivates me to keep playing!

That was definitely why I stopped playing Opus Magnum. I actually ended up thinking I'd missed some fundamental piece of logic of the underlying mechanics of the game, because one friend in particular (who I admit, is an actual developer) was solving the puzzles with half as many pieces as I was, even in the earliest stages.

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Quoting: GuestI tried the single dash command for Vulkan and also got the crash. Double dash made no crash

Honestly sounds like you guys are just getting the OpenGL version. Perhaps you could confirm using Liam's suggestion of running the game from a console (or all of Steam) to see which messages you get. I mean, that doesn't explain why Odmelyn is getting better performance, but maybe some kind of cache has been built on that first, janky run?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Odmelyn

Quoting: ripper81358I have tested the game today and i am glad that we have at least one ARPG with great potential as a native linuxversion. However there is a massive graphical glitch. If ambient occlusion is set to anything else than "very low" i get massive textureflickering. The game also produces massive framedrops from time to time that cause stuttering.

Forcing the vulkan api crashes the game on startup at least on my system.

The switch to enable vulkan is wrong in the article, it is actually --force-vulkan (two dashes). I was crashing as well until I figured this out. I was also experiencing frame drops (on a quite beefy system too) until I enabled vulkan and now it's completely smooth.

No, it is correct. It's even clearly listed here [External Link] by Unity themselves along all the others. Single dash. I did test what I wrote and ensured it was correct. You can see what Unity is using by checking your player.log file, it will either show a mass of OpenGL extension info bundled together or a clean line-by-line list of Vulkan stuff.

Gonna get me a tub of popcorn to see how this plays out! You both clearly enabled vulkan... so what gives??

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That looks absolutely insane! I bought the first one about a week back for 89p and haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a go, then probably migrate into this one. So many games. Goddam. I need more time to play them!!

Edit:
I've just played Tallowmere 1 - it's brilliant and very similar. Not quite as hectic as your video shows, but still a lot of fun, loads of customisation and a really satisfying game to "get right". It also has that one-more-shot allure. Great stuff!

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I had a lot of fun with Path of Exile and Grim Dawn... looks like I'm gonna be doing it all over again with Last Epoch too. Looks great. I'll probably wait until it's out of EA for this one though.

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Quoting: KuJoThe setting reminds me of a movie:
"In Time"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5K0s6eveTsI [External Link]

The, uh, movie that's mentioned in the article, you mean?? :huh:

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I can't play the video right now... but did you use your G29 wheel, Liam? I can't wait to play this, and I'm curious if it's good enough that I splash the cash on a G29 myself... I'm not a HUGE racing fan, but honestly... this game. Just wow.

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This looks superb, but I do wish they hadn't called it "Boyfriend Dungeon", which conjures up a pretty dark, unwholesome image (for me)! :grin:

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I'm so excited for this title. It might have been funded in 2018, but you first reported on this, Liam, FOUR years ago: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2016/12/off-grid-is-an-adventure-satire-and-stealth-game-and-its-coming-to-linux

Can't wait to throw some money at it. Wishlisted and instabuy when it's available.

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