Stop it, already.
My wishlist is blowing up again.

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When I try the installer on Ubuntu 18.04, I get this:
2018/09/12 10:12:51 App name specified at build time: itch
2018/09/12 10:12:51 Locale:  C
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
/builds/itchio/itch-setup/src/github.com/itchio/itch-setup/main.go:129 +0x109d

Doesn't really inspire trust ;)
Wish they just had a .deb package.

On the other hand, my issue [External Link] got acknowledged in minutes. Not bad.

Edit:
And not even two hours later, it is already fixed. Not bad, at all.

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Damn it.
Everytime someone mentions EUIV, I am downloading it...

Might even try the vanilla experience. A few years ago, it was just boring in comparison with mods like VeF or MEIOU&Taxes.
But by now there have been so many DLCs, it might be worth another look.

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I always liked games by phr00t, they are really unique.
Not sure if this one is for me (I prefer RTS games with a more "real" world, while this one seems very much just "many random metal tiles" ), but I'll give it try nonetheless when it is released.

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What the....

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: TheSHEEEPOnce you recognize you have this problem, the solutions really aren't too hard to pull off. So... yeah, I somewhat doubt this is the (only or even main) problem here.

Is it really that easy to translate the game logic from floating point to fixed without changing the behavior of the AI and other things? Even the slightest change that only occurs in extremely rare cases would render it non-compatible.

Not easy, no, but not half-a-year difficult, either.

On the other hand, I've witnessed people take multiple months to implement a prebuilt 3D sound library, so... *shrugs*

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: PatolaIs there any programming literature on this problem or is it always case-by-case?

As far as I remember, floating point operations don't always get 100% exactly the same results on each platform/compiler/processor. Sometimes, they are just a teeny tiny little bit off, which may or may not throw your game logic up. If you have deterministic game logic and never check if the results are the same on each platform, you have a hard time fixing that afterwards when the game is finished.

As far as I understand, Civ 6 is deterministic. In multiplayer rounds, only the player input is synced, and every system calculates the game state for itself. If one system comes to different results, the round is out of sync. That's why there was no cross platform MP until now.

That's pretty much the problem with floating points being transferred in multiplayer cross-platform. And that is actually very much common knowledge for any programmer worth their salt - but since nowadays most coders "learn" their craft in everything-is-done-for-you-boxes like Unity, of course this knowledge has actually gotten rare and whoever implemented MP in Civ6 just naively went with floats because "what could go wrong"...

But when you actually dig around and look for some guidelines about multiplayer programming, this problem is mentioned a lot.

What makes me sceptical about this actually being the problem here is that this would actually be somewhat simple to solve without taking months of time.
Replace all important float usages with fixed-point arithmetics (very slight performance and possibly memory impact), regularly sync the host state with the client states (especially doable in a turn-based game as those are rather slow by nature), ...
Once you recognize you have this problem, the solutions really aren't too hard to pull off. So... yeah, I somewhat doubt this is the (only or even main) problem here.

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I always die a little inside when someone says "PC" to distinguish it from linux and/or mac.
It's just so... wrong. PC describes the hardware, not the software.

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Quoting: BrisseWhat I'm curious to know is if you buy it now and play using Proton, does Feral still get their cut? Someone should ask on their Twitter, but I don't have a Twitter-account :)

In that GIANT Proton news discussion, I read a quote from one of the devs that how you play it within the first two weeks determines what platform it gets counted for. And Proton does count as linux - no idea about non-Proton Wine, though.

Don't ask me to find that quote, though.

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A Battle Royale clone that isn't good.
That's... not exactly something new.

Too bad this one would also support linux. But we don't really need bad games with linux support, so... nothing of value was lost?

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