I backed this in March 2013 for $20 (let's be generous and say £15). It was expected delivery for Dec 2014. So, already a year beyond their earliest estimation, it's entering early access for £31.

As Keyrock notes then, as long as it launches for Linux on day 1, I'm not fussed about this move. I didn't pay for beta access, so I shouldn't be hollering for it now. But as always, the lack of Linux support in their Early-Access period leads me to believe that Linux could be lumbered with bugs already squashed on the EA platform of choice, Windows.

Time will tell, I suppose.

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I think in XCom it was called Iron Man mode or something like that. I had a friend who played the whole game in this mode, losing only one character from his squad throughout, until he got to the final battle and lost the whole squad. He was slightly traumatised!

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Quoting: GuestWhat do you mean by "with permadeath"? If I die in game, I have to buy game again to play it? :D

Was that a genuine question? It means you have to start all over again.

What do you mean "genuine question"? If you start all over again, it is not permadeath :D IMO you should not be able to play after you fail. Now that would be a permadeath... This I would call "lack of save function"

You must just be new to Rogue-like games, maybe? Permadeath is a well established term [External Link]. In permadeath games, your character only has one life and while you can save your progress in the game from session to session, you can't create "backup" saves. If you die, you start again with a new character.

Popular permadeath games - FTL, Tales of Maj'Eyal (although it supports a non-permadeath mode too), Teleglitch, Don't Starve, Binding of Isaac. And some games offer permadeath modes too, such as XCom.

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I have somewhat relaxed about my stance on Wine in recent years, and I think it's a really useful bit of software. There are plenty of games that will probably never, ever come to Linux and it's useful to not have to give up things you love.

I'm the same. I originally "objected" to it because of the worry that developers would just continue to target Windows and expect the Linux gamers to muck around in Wine until we got a stable'sh experience. That's clearly not been the case though and Wine plays an important role in crossing the bridge to older software (and of course, allowing non-game Windows-only software to run as close to natively as possible in Linux).

I bought Crossover a couple of years ago to play Planescape Torment, but the fact that it's an annual subscription put me off renewing.

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Looks amazing. Insta-buy for me. Putting this on my calendar right now.

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Quoting: EikeBut we're talking about turn "timers", not, ermm... real-time timers, right?

From another play-through I saw (Total Biscuit), the timers are turn-based. Very like the "defuse the bomb" missions from the first game.

Can't wait for this, but been stung too often to pre-order. It's a day-one purchase for me and I'll put up with the lengthy download times happily.

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I really tried to get into this about a year or so ago, but gave up in the end. Loading was too slow and if you don't get a decent commander, it's just a bunch of soldiers running around being mowed down relentlessly. The aliens left me a bit cold too.

Insurgency is where it's at for me at the moment.

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Quoting: GuestUnfortunately this isn't something which can be fixed by BI or TFAR/ACRE teams. This has to be addressed by TeamSpeak. And this isn't likely to happen.

When I played Planetside 2, we used TeamSpeak radio in a configuration that allowed commander->squadleaders and also squadleader->squad chat just by pressing a different button to speak. What does TFAR/ACRE2 do above this?

Also, why do you say that TeamSpeak need to fix this, if it's TFAR/ACRE2 that are using DLL plugins? Is it that plugins only work on Windows? Because I'm not sure that's the case - I have (or had, stopped playing after a re-install last year) a plug-in to display an overlay of the name of the person speaking in-game. So some plugins certainly seem to be supported.

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As usual, I went to buy this based on the glowing review, only to discover that I'd already bought it. I'll have to get around to installing it and playing it now... although I'll have to tear myself away from Insurgency and D:OS first!

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Quoting: LukeNukemBundle Stars bundles...?
Yeah I just recently removed *all* of previous BS games from my Steam account. Most (not all), are fucking horrible, unfortunately.
And that sucks for the devs...

I bought a couple - some are decent. How do you "remove" games from your steam account? Do you mean you deleted them?

Just checked again. You're crazy dude. I got Secrets of Raetikon, PixelJunk Shooter, Knights of Pen & Paper, Ibb & Obb double pack, and a heap of others I've yet to try (or are admittedly not very good) in just two purchases - for pennies. I paid £2.50 for one bundle and £2 for the other. Just over a pint of beer then.

Most bundles have a star or two - which I reckon is where they came up with the name...

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