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A Linux beta of X4: Foundations is due in 'the next few days' (update: it's up)
26 Feb 2019 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 2
For a company that's proven to be committed to supporting Linux, I say full price is the best price.
The open source Morrowind game engine 'OpenMW' is going to officially bring in multiplayer
11 Feb 2019 at 3:43 pm UTC
Subjective means it differs from person to person. I don't want other players to play immersive RPGs with me, because it would ruin the experience for me. You seem to be ok with it, so fine - you do you.
The open source Morrowind game engine 'OpenMW' is going to officially bring in multiplayer
11 Feb 2019 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: SamsaiA singleplayer game that can optionally also be played in multiplayer is objectively a better game than one that cannot
Wrong. A game designed as a single player experience doesn't automatically become better when you cram multiplayer in. Sometimes it also just doesn't work. Narratives flow with one person, but soon as a second is added you have to do weird things like partial instancing. In the case of Morrowind, I'd say the only way to make this not terrible is if one player still remains the primary one, with any additional ones being only hired help that are not allowed to talk to NPCs. Morrowind also has a finite amount of bad guys - it's not a dungeon crawler.

There's the matter of immersion too. The quickest way to destroy one's immersion in an RPG world is to add other players.

Also, don't say "objectively" - it's very much subjective.
Unique steampunk survival game Volcanoids has erupted into Early Access
29 Jan 2019 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 9
Looks... boring

(hur hur, geddit? fine, I'm leaving)
Epic Games have confirmed a Linux version of their store is not on the roadmap
30 Dec 2018 at 11:05 pm UTC
Quoting: Leerdeck
Quoting: Whitewolfe80Valve really does have Linux on lockdown doesnt it, look Lutris adding support for gog means i am more likely to pickup more games from gog. It would appear nobody is willing to bet on linux with the exception of Valve who are only investing in linux as a long term stratergy in case MS tries to lock down the next version of windows (well even more then now). I appear to be that guy that is actually concerned everyone else seem to be on the valve are the saviours of linux gaming. My biggest concern is valve looks at its balance sheet and goes well our investment is linux isnt panning out and gabe just going okay kill it.
Let's be real here. Valve doesn't support Linux because they believe that the year of the Linux desktop is coming. Nobody does that. Valve does this because of cloud-streaming gaming that someday in the far future will be a available alternative. Because if you run a big server farm you don't want use Windows licenses. Every major publisher will someday port their games to Linux but only for their own server farms. Valve will not stop supporting Linux infrastructure because they don't really care about Linux desktop end users. That we profit from it is just a really nice side effect and we provide test results + bug reports.
Yep! I was just busy drafting an on spec article that more or less concludes the same thing.
X4: Foundations for Linux will not see a beta at release today, still coming though
30 Nov 2018 at 6:54 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: linuxjacquesThey need time to start thinking about when they are going to start working on the Linux beta?

Doesn't sound like it's coming any time soon. :-|
Well, if their Linux dev is still the same guy they hired prior to Albion Prelude, you don't have to worry, he's really good.
inXile Entertainment say they are still working on the Linux version of The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
26 Nov 2018 at 12:58 pm UTC Likes: 3
In all likelihood, not only will future games not support Linux, they'll be Windows store only.
DXVK 0.93 is out, helping out Dark Souls III, Overwatch and a new config option for shader compiling
24 Nov 2018 at 5:21 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesDoes anybody know when Valve will release a new Proton version?

Also, what happen with the guy who got job to work on the audio? After he got employed, we never heard about him again..
Ethan Lee still posts on Twitter quite a bit [External Link]. He hasn't really said much about his new job though.
If you check various GitHub stuff, he has been busy working on it :)
I've been running Warframe using an FAudio patched version of dxvk... WF needs 64 bit for the new content, and without FAudio it's a bit crashy.
Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port, time to start guessing
15 Nov 2018 at 4:35 pm UTC Likes: 6
If it is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, they better reveal it soon because they are losing sales in droves to Steam Play.
Valve has expanded the Steam Play whitelist to include DARK SOULS III and plenty more
14 Nov 2018 at 10:04 am UTC
Jamestown is such an odd one on this list. I just tried the native version I have on my system and it still seems to run just fine. I guess it's a case where the native port happened for a bundle, but the dev has no interest in supporting the port.