Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: scaineAll it needs is a GamingOnLinux.com guild. :D

We just made one today called "Linux" ;)

Superb! Time for a guild change...

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I've been playing this (nearly) every day since about a fortnight ago. Only Tier-4 stuff for me, but that's because I'm a fire mage, holy healer, nature/druid, ranger, fighter. Not to mention Tier-3 crafting of all tools and weapons, nearly Tier-4... and a gatherer, lumberjack, stonemason guy. Oh, and I just bought my own island and I'm a level 10 farmer now, and have my own Adept repair station.

So much variety! Obviously, this isn't how you should play the game... but you can if you want to! I'm just trying everything out that I can so that I can focus when the big reset takes place in July.

Next time around, I'll focus on nature and ranger. I'll probably do the gathering stuff - hide, lumberjacking and stonemasonry, then focus on building bows. I'll definitely do the island thing. It's like a farmville mini-game...

Phenomenal stuff. Yes, it's a bit grindy if you want to be insane like me and try a bit of everything, and yes, I agree with Liam - the PvE is a bit sparse, and the single-player PvE is utter pants, very boring. But still, cracking game overall.

All it needs is a GamingOnLinux.com guild. :D

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Whitewolfe80we can argue the technical terms but in laymen terms it emulates it

Thats exactly the problem, people think its an emulator because of all the confusion from people such as yourself, who say "it emulates" when in fact it doesn't.

In laymans terms, emulation and virtual enviroments are 2 completely different things.
Shall we call Windows, PC?

What's the problem, exactly? Wine isn't emulating windows directly, but it's emulating its system calls. It's such a irrelevant distinction, I can't see why people get upset over this. What does it actually matter?

Re-reading that paragraph I just wrote, I'm now worried that someone will smugly complain that it's not "emulating its system calls"... since technically it's replacing and redirecting those calls. And that's fine if it make any material difference to how you think about wine. I don't think it will.

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Quoting: no_information_hereThe game is a mix of modern design with a few things that give old-school difficulty. I don't want to say the game is too hard, since most of it is completely fair. However, a few scattered optional areas are brutal (I can't finish the last 1% after 40+ hours). These things do not affect the main story ending(s), so don't worry that the devs are being unfair. They are completely optional. As with many metroidvanias, you can learn the enemy actions and adapt so battles that seemed hard at first get much easier with practice.

I still get occasional flashbacks to the Mantis Lords fight. And yet... despite taking about 10 attempts, the feeling when you finally do it - that's why you play these games, I think. Just epic.

Quoting: no_information_hereThe other difficulty is mapping. You have to explore new areas without a map until you find the map-maker in the section. At first I was annoyed, but then I came to appreciate having to really pay attention to where I was going.

Not a fan of this decision. It's just tedious exploring areas without the map - while each area is beautiful and unique, large sections within each area are incredibly same-y, which makes finding your around a complete chore.

That said, it's about the only thing I have an issue with in the game. Absolutely superb.

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Yeah, this is a great constructor game, but I agree - it's a hard game to "get into", because of weird menu options and lacklustre plot.

Even stranger - I prefer Reassembly, which has no plot to speak of at all, but focuses purely on the creation of bigger and more aggressive ships and fleet.

I still spent a fair bit of time playing this though. It's really good and great to see free content for it.

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Plays beautifully with a controller.

As for the developers, I had a great experience trying to get my Steam controller working -turned out to be my controller, not their game, but that didn't stop one of the Devs pm'ng me on Discord to talk me through the log upload procedure and then help troubleshoot the issue. Great service!

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!

Best part is,it is limited 2 per customer:D

Well goddam! They've lost my business then! :D

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I don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!

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Quoting: HyperdriveDumb question: How do I make my Ubuntu 16.04 run with Vulkan instead of OpenGL and is there a negative impact to this?

For Nvidia cards, you just add this PPA [External Link] to your system, then make sure that you're using the 375 driver or above (378?). Then each game itself has to support Vulkan - that list is pretty small right now!

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That page was actually made partially due to Patron cancellations due to the website "being built on the content/contributions of many"

Liam, it's really pretty bizarre to hear that anyone would cancel their patreon because they thought you were somehow "stealing" or failing to acknowledge others' work. This site would be a ghost-ship without you, as proven by the two times you've stepped down for holidays/personal reasons.

It's even more meaningless when you realise that many of the other contributors to this site are also your patrons, myself included.

Weird stance to take!

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