Is this the game with the minotaur that wipes the floor with you if you don't take the stairs quickly enough? I'm sure I played this aaaaaages ago and I wasn't even aware it was still in development. It's certainly in my library.

Ah, nevermind - I'm thinking of Barony, which I refunded due to mouse issues. It's also still being developed. Barony has multi-player, which could be quite nice, but the graphics are nowhere near as beautiful as Delver.

Will have to give this another try.

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Quoting: scaineWow, I didn't know about any of this. Insurgency, despite being one of my most-played games, is a game I dip into rarely these days.

Battleye is a ongoing debate with tons of people vehemently attacking anyone who says it's a privacy issue. From what I have read Battleye IS a privacy issue. The documents I could find on how it works basically says it scans all your drives for file and file contents and reports back to home. This also means any NEW drives that might come online after launch. So even if there is nothing found when you launch the game it will keep watching incase you mount a new drive or toss in a flash drive because you know it might have the cheats on it. Scanning scanning scanning.

I think I'll look into firejail myself after reading this! Pretty horrible, if it works the way you're suggesting. There must be a performance hit too!

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Wow, I didn't know about any of this. Insurgency, despite being one of my most-played games, is a game I dip into rarely these days.

Regarding BattleEye, I'm not certain on the privacy implications from a technical perspective, but if you feel strongly about it, you might want to consider firejailing your entire Steam install. That way, you can have confidence that even if an update introduces BattleEye, the only thing it can scan are the game files in your Steam directory, which hopefully you'd feel less strongly about.

Thanks for the update.

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Quoting: GuestI don't trust NWO anymore...period. I'd say it looks good but it looks too good which is why I think it's a super cut of campaign cut scenes that won't have anything to do with the real game. Toss in their douche move with the first game and I won't touch it.

p.s. for the guys saying "No Linux no bucks." Come now that won't fly at a picket line! It's "No TUX, no bucks!"

What "douche move" are you referring to? I've heard about this before, but no-one elaborated. I still love Insurgency, played a few weeks ago, still a great game, so it must be something "behind-the-scenes"?

p.s. I prefer "Tux, then bucks". Much more positive!

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The co-op mode is what makes Insurgency, so I'm hopeful they keep such a mode for this too. But agree with Liam, the AI really needs enhanced - particularly the ridiculous approach the AI takes to smoke (it ignores it completely, turning "smoke grenade" into a game-breaking "cloak of invisibility").

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: TheSHEEEP"Passionate argument about something they hate

You don't like VR, we get it. This isn't something you can actually argue about though, you know? You have your opinion, other people have theirs.

Ahh, the good old "I'm all out of arguments, so let's make all these facts opinions so I don't have to discuss them any more".

Weird - you still think this is an argument. Like you're "right" and we're all "wrong". If I don't like olives, do you really think you can argue my position on them? That you can argue their case and I'll be like "Woah, you're right! I need to eat more of these delicious olives! I've been wasting my life not eating them!".

Move on. I'm excited by the notion that I can play VR on Linux. Really excited, because I've tried it on Windows and it was (for me) an incredible, game-changing (literally) experience. You're not. That's all there is to it. Your "facts" don't matter to me, clearly, since I've tried it and still love it, right? (Sorry - didn't read any of the rest of your post/facts, since... well, why bother?)

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP"Passionate argument about something they hate

You don't like VR, we get it. This isn't something you can actually argue about though, you know? You have your opinion, other people have theirs.

Guess what? We're both right, even though I still think you're wrong (and oh so clearly, vice versa). Cool, eh?

When VR comes, I'll be the happiest little 40-something on the planet. You'll continue to ignore it. Win win. It's a bit like running Linux in that regard - when's the year of the Linux desktop? For me, it was every year since 2013.

Regardless of where you stand on the subject though, there's no need to get personal. Calling people sheep, or narrow-minded/short-sighted for not agreeing with your opinion only undermines your own position.

@beniwtv - Edge of Nowhere looks incredible (with or without VR). Would love to see something like come to Linux.

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If you think VR is "the future", you're probably thinking in the wrong terms. Like theSheep's reply above, thinking that Kinnect would somehow replace controllers. That's not the point of VR at all.

It's more like a steering wheel when you're passionate about driving games. Sure, it's expensive, it's not for everyone and you don't have to have it. But when you drive with a wheel, then go back to a controller, you'll suddenly recognise the latter as the cheap, ineffective let down it is.

Similarly, when you've played certain games/experiences in VR, there's absolutely no way to recapture what made them special WITHOUT the VR element. Longbow without VR is just a low-poly Operation Wolf clone. But in VR, you actually draw the arrows back. You actually lean over the parapet for better angles. The whole thing comes alive.

I don't want this to be the future - I want it to be my present. It's epic.

Also, anyone who naysays against VR should prefix their naysaying with "I've tried it, and I don't think it's the future because...". Because if you haven't tried it, you (literally) don't know what you're talking about.

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Quoting: Corben

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Corben95.5% Windows

I'm confused by your post. Where are you getting "95.5% Windows" from...?

From the picture of their tweet: https://twitter.com/inthekillhouse/status/956537362615537664 [External Link]

I still don't see it. They don't quote operating systems at all in that picture. Maybe they changed it.

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Quoting: Corben95.5% Windows

I'm confused by your post. Where are you getting "95.5% Windows" from...?

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