Fantastic news! Just bought it, finally. Shame I missed all the sales, but I'm glad I'm going to be helping the hopefully large sales spike from this news! Can't wait to play this, the first one was a near-masterpiece and this follow up gets great reviews from my circle of friends who already own it on Windows.

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As featured as our third Hidden Gem on The Funding Crowd #22! Definitely looks like an intriguing title, a little bit different from just about everything else out there. Mind that your pledge is for the first episode only, but they're not looking for much funding and you can get involved for only $10.

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Sure enough, I see that Oceania [External Link] failed in February this year and has recently relaunched, Crosby. It's already on the Crowdfunding wiki but isn't currently nominated for a write up. If you feel like writing it up, we'd be delighted to have your help - just PM either myself, s_d, speedster, or muntedefems and I'll add it on. If you can't, it'll fall to the current team of writers I just mentioned to find time to do so, but we have a busy list of nominees already. I'm not personally interested in MMO's, but perhaps one of the others is.

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I've been playing through the beta, I'm 11 hours in with not much in the way of an end in site yet. I haven't hit any bugs of any kind so far. All very slick. There is a lot of reading in this game, but that's good for atmosphere. It could use more/better audio generally though. A lot of the scenes do lack a bit of atmosphere, but the fighting mechanic is robust, very XCom-like over all. I've really enjoyed this one and glad I backed it on Kickstarter. It's been a lot of fun so far.

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I played for an hour yesterday and the experience was nearly flawless. Like philip550c, my PC is pretty hefty - a 3rd gen i7, 16Gb RAM, and an Nvidia gtx670, so I put everything on "very high" and played at 1920x1200. Couldn't tell you the framerate, but the gameplay was fluid, in a way that twitch/skill-based shooters need to be in order to work well.

No missing textures, but the initial film-based cut-scene lacked music. The in-game engine cut-scene was perfect though. No other issues that I could tell, but it's early days I suppose.

Really enjoying this so far and can't believe it cost me less than £4.

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Actually, I'm talking spraff. It's out now. It's downloading after I bought it and I didn't opt into any beta. Don't know why this isn't on the front page of Steam (Linux section) to be honest. It all seems a bit under the radar. It's not even listed in the specials??

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It's also 80% off on Steam right now, for two more days: so it's £3.60 (less than a pint of lager) rather than £18. Looks like it's launching officially in a couple of days.

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Not sure how that dropped off the list, Speedster... it's one of my favourite crowd funding projects right now!

You know, in fact it's a little embarrassing how many of these projects I've backed now. Tyrim, Pulsar, Raindrop, Mandate, Skyjacker, Solar Games, Xulima, Long Dark... goddam. That's about $100 right there! And those are just the ones from this issue!

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Quoting: Quote from toorOne single man doing everything on a game that pretend being beautiful, large, and fun to play with lot of features? Let me doubt it. Would take years and years

 
Technically it's a two man team, but everything you see so far has been Cyril's work over the past 12 months after leaving his work (French studio Monte Christo) to set up his own Indie. Yeah, it could be risky endeavour - $40k only stretches so far after all, but look at those videos, showing what he's already achieved ON HIS OWN! I think it's worth a $25 punt if it's your kind of game.

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Input lag on Valve games is often fixed by simply turning off the Steam Overlay. Probably not a great option on a multi-player game like L4D2 though! I'm lucky that I get perfect performance in Ubuntu with that game. Most games in fact. I hope it gets fixed for you. Probably not too late to file a bug on github [External Link].

As for the next game, I'm really, really hoping for Portal 2. CSGO would be nice too, but most of my friends have moved on from that game, so a quality single-player experience in Portal 2 would be superb.

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