As a former long-time League of Legends player who quit over lack of Linux support (and rampant sexual objectification and sexism in character design; and toxic community; and addictive tendencies of players I know) this sounds a bit inviting. Making the game slightly more accessible hopefully. As well as creating more of a difference with alternatives (not just LoL with different characters and abilities and metagame to memorize).

If only I had any free disk space and too much time...

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Quoting: BielFPsHow much was the controller with this discount? As they don't ship here I can't even see the price in the store

Somewhere in Europe (idk what zone I qualify as) it was:
54,99€ 5,50€ for the SC
21,99€ 2,20€ for the SC carrying case

I'm pretty sad I missed the SC carrying case. I was waiting for any discount on it for years for my 3 Steam Controllers. I would've paid the full price if I had known they can go out of stock before the collapse of society or the collapse of Valve or the heat death of the Universe (whichever happens first).

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So they now shared the beta key at Steam discussions [External Link] as well. They also mentioned that only Ubuntu 18.04 is officially supported, with Ubuntu 16.04 known to be broken currently.

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Can someone share the instructions on how to access this from Discord? I'd like to avoid closed platforms whenever practical. :D

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNow of course the question is, why doesn't CD Projekt also see that as a possibility, and properly port the GOG stuff to Linux?

I think most companies are extremely short-sighted and worry a lot more about the here and now and can be abused in the longer term. If companies were rational, non-USA companies would definitely avoid MS Windows, since NSA was shown to have performed industrial espionage to the profit of USA companies and detriment of non-USA companies. Avoiding Intel on the other hand is more difficult since they would be left between choosing USA-based espionage or PRC-based espionage. (But some bigger companies could still pour some money into open-source hardware to that end).

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOne could assume they've done the math of 'everyone with VR will want this, and it'll probably drive sales for new VR buyers' I'm sure they understand that it's worth it to just force people into the new age of gaming.

Anyone remember when we thought this could happen with Linux...?

Excellent point of the week (in my life)! Though I still sympathize with slaapliedje's point as well.

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Did anyone try this on Mesa? Or Intel cards specifically? I bought it right now to try (and refund if not working) when I get a new disk that can fit all of these Linux games I have.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887While Stadia requires a Vulkan renderer, I don't think large publishers are going to release for Linux that easily, and part of that reason is the bloody launchers (Origin, Rockstar Launcher, uPlay...etc). Without a native version of their client they'd have no way of distributing the game in the same way as Windows.

Realistically I don't see them putting all those resources into that even if a Linux version can be done easily. They'd rather have you jump through Wine hoops than supporting it officially, gives them a good excuse to avoid extra support costs.

There may however be a shred of hope for DRM Free games or Steam ones without a 3rd party client required.

I think this bleak state is still a win for us, since Vulkan games might work a bit easier via Wine. And more developers working on Vulkan means slightly lower barrier/cost to hypothetically supporting Linux natively.

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Quoting: Beamboom... But will they get Mac support? I thought they did not use vulkan but something else they made themselves? I thought that was the entire problem with Mac and gaming nowadays?

You are right that Apple developed their own graphics API called Metal. But Valve bought and open-sourced a Vulkan-to-Metal translation-layer-sorts-of-thingy. So that developers would be incentivized much more to support Vulkan (and Linux). And it seems this has worked.

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Quoting: Para-Glidingdone with unity, it seems ^^

Information about what engine was used for a game can be added to PCGamingWiki [External Link]. Arguably this is a lot of work when a game hasn't even been added to PCGamingWiki (like in the case of The Fertile Crescent), so I tend to be more likely to add information if I already really like a game. You know, as kind of like community service.
But whenever I'm curious about what engine was used I usually look there first.

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