Quoting: omer666So the rampant negativity won in the end. Well, whatever...

I bought it full price despite the negativity, but I have to admit... I only played 22 hours before just, kind of, moving on. It didn't grab me. I found the low quality of tutorials really frustrating (like the elf-like race creates some kind of portal, but I didn't know why I had to create them - was just told doing so was vital... okay then). Winning a scenario tended to revolved around zerging resource spots early on, consolidating briefly, then zerging the next. So much for tactics.

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I'm looking forward to trying this. Hopefully not another eternally EA title and from the sounds of it, it's not.

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You can't beat anecdotal evidence for this stuff. I gamed on Steam from 2004'sh to 2013 on Windows and it felt like I got the Steam survey every couple of months, certainly in the mid-2000's, when Valve established Steam as more of a gaming platform and less of a "sell Half-Life" vehicle. Then, I moved to Linux on beta Steam in 2013 and since then - two (maybe three?) surveys since. Total. In around four years.

Valve engineers can tell me that this is working "as intended" until they're blue in the face. Doesn't change my experience of the system.

I only care about this because I'm worried about the picture it paints to developers. And I'm optimistic (overly so, I admit) that there's a damn-sight more Linux users out there than this survey suggests, with or without PUBG trends.

So, I love the dev interviews Liam conducts with their sales figures. These often (not always, but often) show a MUCH higher percentage of Linux sales over the established "1%". Hopefully that continues to be the case in the future.

Either way though, I've pitched my tent. No going back for me. It's the been the Year of the Linux Desktop in this household for over four years.

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£4?? Why don't I own this yet? Looks great, will be checking it out soon.

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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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