As long as I am able to buy Linux games on GOG.com then by definition the company is "supportive of Linux" because it is supporting it as an available platform. It may not be as enthusiastic about it as some would like, but that is not the same thing as offering no Linux support. It does a disservice to everyone involved with the Linux side of things at GOG.com to claim as such.

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So I bought the game on the 3D Realms website but I am only seeing a Windows installer for the preview campaign. No Linux to be found.

Unless I find the the Linux build promised on the Ion Maiden page I am going to have to claim my refund.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI don't think the original owners -- George Broussard and Scott Miller -- are even involved with the company any more.

Scott Miller is definitely still involved with the new 3D Realms:

Founder Scott Miller, Manager Bryan Turner, and Community Manager Joe Siegler are all back. The very first employees of 3D Realms!

George Broussard not so much:

George is a very close friend of ours -- he's a huge part of the heart and soul of 3D Realms. George is still connected to us, but isn't active at this time. The door is always open, of course, and we hope to see George back in action in the future!

Source: https://3drealms.com/faq/ [External Link]

Nice to see Joe Siegler is back as well.

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If you buy from the 3D Realms website, can you redeem the game on GOG.com or Steam later?

It is not clear whether GOG.com is ever going to get the preview campaign. All it says is that owners of Bombshell Digital Deluxe Edition already have it and that "the game will fully launch in Q3 2018".

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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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