Man, I went to buy this, but I already own it. But weirdly (since I tend to enjoy this genre) I haven't played it. Looking forward to giving it a shot, and I'll be happy to wait for SM2.

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Easy choice for the developer to make, I suppose, but since that means no support, it's an easy choice for me as a consumer. No sale, and their decision swerves me away from the native product too, cos I'm petty that way. A little bit petty anyway. I might still buy the native game, it does look good.

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Quoting: x_wingI'm not sure how well this new service will handle with single pĺayer games

Off topic, but how the hell did you manage to get a accent on your lower-case L character in "player"?? I thought it was a dead pixel on my monitor and only realised it was a unicode character when I scrolled up and noticed it was moving! :D

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I have just absolutely no interest in this, other than boosting vulkan for a wider adoption of a) native Linux games and b) better/seamless experience on Steam Play.

Sure, for music, I do now mostly use Spotify. But that hasn't happened with Netflix, where I still buy movies to own. And it sure won't happen for games unless we all suddenly get fibre in all our households. Cheaply. Immediately. And even then, the centralised model with millions of fibre-based customers would cripple even Google's datacentres.

Just not interested. At all. Other than, you know, to moan about it on this thread.

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Incredible depth in this review. I'm afraid that while Doom was the masterpiece that made me consider a PC for a gaming machine all those years ago, I moved on after Heretic and Hexen and nostalgia isn't quite enough to make me go back much. I still tinker with Hexen on GZDoom occasionally, but some of its levels are just so complex by modern standards that I lose patience with how similar it all looks, even with an accelerated renderer.

I love how passionate this community is about the core material though, and that's reflected here. Well done!

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Gutted to say that this doesn't launch on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. I've refunded for now, and I'll have to consider the jump to Ubuntu Mate 18.04 soon, I think. This is the second game that fails to launch on the older LTS (Chronicon also fails to launch).

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Very tempted to make my second ever Steam Play purchase with A Plague Tale: Innocence. Still really uncertain about spending any money on a windows title though. Will probably hold off - still have plenty of native games to try out.

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For me, this it comes down to whether I get a like for like experience. That's true of Proton, and it's true of any port I buy. I remember being furious that Pay Day 2 released without support for voice chat. When I was being kicked from stealth missions because I didn't have voice, that really grates. The same is true of Deep Rock Galactic right now actually, but luckily no-one uses voice in that game.

So it's not really about support, or native as such, for me. It's just a simple question - will this run equally well by any measure (installation, features, performance, support) as it would if I was running it in Windows.

(Obviously performance always takes a hit, and I'm lucky that my monster graphics card will mask that for me, mostly)

If that's a "yes", I'll buy. So far, (outside of Humble Monthly) I've only bought one game - Deep Rock Galactic, and I don't regret that despite the lack of voice chat. But I've enjoyed using Steam Play on free-weekend games, or free-to-play games. Those might lead to a sale in future perhaps. But Steam Play still has a long way to go before it's performing the way it should.

It'll come, I'm pretty sure of that.

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Quoting: monnefAm I seeing it right, classes are gender-locked and there are no men? That doesn't look very diverse... :huh:

Yeah. There was some infuriating entitled whining about this on the Steam forums a while back. I'm not aiming this at you, btw - the faux-outrage on the forums was truly over the top "look at me being outraged" pathetic. Of course, as you say it's not diverse, but it's just so intensely hypocritical given that the reverse is normally the norm and you don't hear girl gamers getting their whine on.

It's not even a goddam RPG and the man-babies still had a go. I guess that's the Steam forums for you.

edit: Just to (unsurprisingly) note, [Tangledeep had the same reaction on the Steam forums [External Link]. I love that one commenter described the thread as a dumpster fire. Sums it up pretty well!]

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Quoting: NanobangMy favorite changes to 7d2d have been less about graphics and more about game options and play.

I love that I can now make it harder for the Zs to damage materials ... they're rotting flesh, after all ;). It doesn't even have to be 7d2d; it can be 14d2d or even 30d2d, allowing the game to go from a primarily-horde-survival-with-a-little-bit-of-exploration game to a primarily-horde-survival-with-a-little-bit-of-exploration game. Oh, and I can slow the Zs down to be walking dead, individually not too dangerous to the wary, but it's easy to get swarmed.

The progressive skill system is welcome too. I haven't played since, like, alpha 10 I think, so it's a waaayyy different and waaayyyyy better experience now.

And vehicles. Vrrrrooooommmm!

I think you misquoted your little-bit thing there... aren't they both the same? Either way, since almost every house will try to kill you with Zeds exploding from cupboards, false floors and collapsing stairs, exploration takes absolute balls of steel.

Great game though. Loving the look and feel of A17 and with A18 adding in so much content, I'm excited to see what the finished game will look like.

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