Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: HamishI for one am definitely game for another 2.5D sprite based shooter. They look and play fundamentally differently to true 3D FPS games

What makes the gameplay different for 2D-Raycasters (Doom/DN3D) in comparison to polygon based shooters (Quake/Doom 3/etc...)? You have some restrictions while designing levels for Raycasters, but apart from that, I don't see why the render technique would interfere with the game design.

You are forgetting input methods for one thing; I notice in one of the Steam reviews it mentions that you can play the game entirely with the keyboard if you wish, which is something I might actually opt for seeing that is how I play most of the classic Build engine games. You could arbitrarily add this limit to a polygon shooter I suppose, but it actually makes more sense with a raycaster. And as you said, you have to build your levels around the restrictions of the engine, but this also seeps into every other aspect of the game's design. It is a small but in the end non-trivial difference.

Quoting: MblackwellI'm sorry you think that. Myself and the rest of the developers are huge classic FPS fans and long time members of the BUILD/Duke and Doom modding communities and have put in years of effort toward this release. I hope that you will give it a chance, even with your reservations.

Always nice to have developers giving us their perspective on here.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloApart from the name "3D Realms" there is nothing interesting here. Sounds like a cash grab with weird definitions what Early Access means.

I for one am definitely game for another 2.5D sprite based shooter. They look and play fundamentally differently to true 3D FPS games and in 2018 I think we can be mature enough to realize that one does not have to supersede the other.

Certainly a desire to cash in on nostalgia is a big factor here, but this could also serve as the springboard needed to bring back some properly retro FPS titles again, rather than the mass of swarm shooters or procedurally generated roguelite FPS games we have been getting. I welcome that with open arms.

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Quoting: MblackwellThe Preview Campaign is a complete multi-hour, replayable campaign and even has an extra goodie when you complete it. Buying now gets you access to it plus the much larger Single Player Campaign.

So essentially this is just Shareware rebadged as Early Access then. Cool.

I had heard that 3D Realm's new Danish overlords were looking for Build engine mod talent to make a free tie-in game for Bombshell. Looks like it has snowballed quite a bit since then. ^_^

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Quoting: CheesenessHamish, this series of articles is fantastic. Great work <3

Cheers Cheese. Which reminds me, I should really play one of your ports sometime. :)

Quoting: idledkKnow its not related, but every time I hear the game title "Prey" it makes me think back to playing "Prey: An Alien Encounter" on my old Amiga CDTV. A game which actually dates back to 1993, so that must be the original?

That's the thing - if the new game just happened to be called Prey, even without a subtitle, I would not have minded nearly as much. It is the fact that Zenimax went out of their way to purchase the IP just to dump the name on an entirely unrelated title, while the original languishes in distribution limbo, that bothers me.

Of course I suppose the original incarnation from 1998 was "Prey - A Talon Brave Game" instead:

View video on youtube.com

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As always thanks for the feedback everyone. :)

Quoting: Patolathe thing about X2 for Linux is that it's difficult to make it work with current libraries and it is one of those 'rare' games that's difficult to buy.

Wherein lies the problem, as without owning a copy of the game I can not make an article for it. I have a huge amount of respect for Egosoft sticking to Linux even after LGP essentially abandoned them. In the end things were worse with LGP than even with Loki because at least Loki never implemented a DRM service.

Quoting: Jewgeni Filippowitsch IwanowskiI have bought a used retail copy of Prey some weeks ago after discovering its Linux port by chance. It runs exceptionally well. Since it has no built-in support for FullHD resolution I changed the following lines in ~/.prey/base/preyconfig.cfg

seta r_customHeight "1080"
seta r_customWidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"

It worked fine for me with 1680x1050 resolution at 4:10 but I have seen reports of other people having similar issues at 1920x1080 as you apparently did. My suggestion would just be tacking on those lines at the end of the autoexec.cfg file as explained in the article.

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Quoting: syxbitI thought the new Prey was going to be a sequel that was then made into a origin story. I had no idea they just stole the name.

In fairness Bethesda did at one point have a Prey 2 in development, but things got messy fairly quickly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_2 [External Link]

The whole situation seems murky at best.

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Quoting: GuestBy the way, are you the Hamish who calls in to Talk Heathen show on youtube?

Nah, I am just one of many Hamishes. ;)

Quoting: GuestFTL forums on Steam are full of people complaining that the game doesn't work for them any more after the patch. It's funny how those things work.

The updated version from GOG.com works brilliantly for me at least. Are these Linux users having issues or just FTL players in general?

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Well, what do you know, first time playing the game in months and I win easily on my first attempt. ^_^

Treasure your Pike Beams folks.

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I will just regurgitate something I posted in another thread, since it is relevant here: It is my love of old games that makes me still lean heavily on WINE these days. I do not buy modern titles that often anymore, and when I do buy them they are always Linux native, but I have been purchasing old titles on GOG.com or from thrift stores to play through WINE. There was a time I would not have done this, at least not through something like GOG.com where sales are still being tracked, but over the past few years the fight against DRM has become more important to me than even something being Linux native, and GOG.com has been doing a great job at pushing the tide back and freeing titles that never were DRM Free in the first place. At this point I would rather play a DRM Free game through WINE than use a native Linux binary tied to Steamworks, such as those from Feral.

I understand perfectly your desire to take a stand Scoopta, but to a certain extent we all must pick our battles. We just drew different lines in the sand for ourselves.

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I voted WINE simply because of the amount old Windows games I have been playing through it, and the fact that since the WINE 2.0 release it really has picked up some momentum in terms of offering a stable product. So much so in fact I have seen Windows users looking at us enviously as they struggle to get their older games working on Windows 10.

Second choice would have been MESA.

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