Great news... and I've got a new PC arriving in a week. Perfect timing for me to dip back into Mad Max and finish it off! Well done, Feral. Will Deus Ex get the same treatment, I wonder?

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Quoting: Nanobang

We are aiming to release the game for Linux after the PC and Mac versions.

Uh oh.

To be more accurate we're very confident we can build the game for Linux, but we don't have a proper environment yet to see what type of work is required to get it running properly (plus testing).

They sound so gosh darn plucky here. "Linux? Oh pshaw! Speaking purely as a person crassly ignorant of Linux, I'm sure that'll be no problem for us." Yes, of course. The good ol' "We'll-cross-that-bridge-when-we come-to-it approach to project management." Oh the many video-games created thereby, softly landing in Linux like a sky full of butterflies alighting upon an alpine meadow full of edelweiss.

My breath remains un-bated.

Sure, but it's not like they promised something and area only now stumbling about failing to deliver. So nothing wrong with some plucky optimism in my opinion. Fingers crossed.

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I'd buy that in a heartbeat. Hopefully they get that build out.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: robotman5good stuff. though it still shows UTC for me :/

What does?

On posts and and my profile it says UTC.

You must have missed this line in the article:

It currently only affects the livestream calendar

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Quoting: scaineWell, I've played a bit more now and I've discovered one further bug - playing with an Xbox360 controller "works" but with the condition that the analogue thumbsticks don't work in menus. You have to use the D-Pad. Worse, up is down and down is up!

Do you get this with the main branch? IIRC one has the menu inverted and the other doesn't - it's been a while and I don't have it installed at the moment to check.

I'll give the main branch a go when I get a chance. I'm definitely on the LinuxBeta branch though.

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Well, I've played a bit more now and I've discovered one further bug - playing with an Xbox360 controller "works" but with the condition that the analogue thumbsticks don't work in menus. You have to use the D-Pad. Worse, up is down and down is up!

Still, you'll only use the menu, generally, to start/exit the game, so it's not the end of the world. Odd that the Steam Controller is unaffected through, given that I'm using an Xbox360 configuration on it!

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Quoting: NanobangMy Learn-By-Dying-A-Lot (Pat. Pend.) method of gameplay is ill-suited for the Dissolution type game. What's the perma-death in The Swindle like?

Each "100 days" run through the Swindle will feature a truly gigantic number of deaths! All that happens when you die is

a) You get a new, randomly generated crook, who inherits all the unlocks previous crooks enjoyed but...
b) You lose every dollar you'd collected on that "day" and
c) Your "experience" is reset. Experience is solely used as a multiplier on the funds you collect each day. So a crook who has survived two heists will have a 1.2 experience multiplier.
d) That's the end of that day.

So death isn't particularly a huge deal, but enough deaths, particularly early on, might impact your capability later in the game.

That said, the way the game throws money at you towards the end of the game means that you generally won't feel too much burn from lots of deaths. A banking terminal will get you around $800 in the slums, $3000 in the warehous, $10000 in Belgravia... and so on. By the time you're hitting the banks, you're typically collecting around $200k on a successful heist - and you only need $400k each time you want to hit the police.

My mediocre play in my last run still gave me around four shots on the police mission. I didn't succeed... but there's always next time!

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Quoting: ArehandoroBtw, is the beta only available on Steam?

I... actually don't know. That's how I got it certainly - bought the game and switched the "branch" to the Linuxbetatest option. Not sure if there's support elsewhere, sorry!

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Quoting: scaineJust a shame they went for packing in a numeric keypad on that unit. The resultant offset trackpad is infuriating (to me) and makes the whole unit look cramped and cheap.

To each their own.. I won't buy a laptop without a keypad.. I use them way too often

Haha! Brilliant. To each their own, indeed!

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Just a shame they went for packing in a numeric keypad on that unit. The resultant offset trackpad is infuriating (to me) and makes the whole unit look cramped and cheap. The Dell XPS 15 (2013) [External Link]was beautiful to look at in a similarly sized chassis. Although I note that the modern Dell XPS 15 is over the twice the price of this Entroware unit!

Great specs though and it would be nice to see how that 1050 performs, both in terms of gameplay and how much heat it generates on the unit while playing.

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