Quoting: liamdaweIf it only triggered them once you reached a certain tech level, I might have actually enjoyed it.

They only start showing up after you take that mission to go investigate the cave.

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I have seen this criticism on Steam forums.

So far I have been lucky - no boss casualties yet. So far have killed the first two, with the third one at about 30% of his health. It is difficult with their boss reaction thing, but there are strategies for it. Things like Bladestorm help, so do mines, the decoy etc. It definitely helps to not start that chain until you have some decent armour and weapons researched/equipped. The specialists restoration ability is also handy since the boss tends to alternate between soldiers instead of focusing on one at a time.

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Quoting: reaVerEDIT: oh and also, gamergate found something: http://archive.is/tLs2H#selection-2587.0-2627.80 [External Link]
Seems to be a hoax up to some degree.

Gamergate "found" nothing. How the $450k was arrived at is explained by the developer themselves in the Gamasutra article, including that the amount assumes full price, and they have figures for the discounted sales in there too. Get off the GG train - they are anti-games, anti-gamer, anti-developer, anti-progress. There's no hoax or scandal here on the part of the developer.

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Quoting: drmothI think cross-platform development is pretty foreign to a lot of developers, because really they could automate Linux builds if they were smart

In this case though it shouldn't be since lead developer Nicholas Vining used to work for Loki. They've also been getting help from Ryan Gordon.

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Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

I know a Developer creating a game they said Valve will only give them 500 steam keys.

I am a developer with a game on Steam. I have created thousands of keys thus far for various things. Never encountered any limit.

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The publisher is Techland, fyi.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

That's an invitation for abuse. They could create as many non-steam copies of their games as they like anyway (for testing and promotion purpose).

Perhaps. In the developer's stats panel, sales are separated into "Steam purchases" and "retail activations". The latter being any other place where you can get a Steam key - Humble, GoG, bundles, giveaways, store purchases, etc. This is why they are not limited - Valve is just happy to have people on their platform.

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Quoting: linuxgamerIs it worth it? The devs don't get (unlimited?) "free" steam copies or do they?

A dev can request as many keys for their game as desired.

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Yup, definitely pining for more of this sort of thing on Linux.

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Quoting: GuestGreat to have another MMO on Linux, as we need a lot more of those!

This is not an MMO.

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