Sounds like gameplay is on par with gfx then? Oh yeah.. it's Indie, Linux and alpha so I just have to like it.

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Hinterhalt is the german term for Ambush.

Does it feature any stealth by chance?

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I'd be so hyped.. in 2007 :(

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More bugs??

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Quoting: GBeeI played games in the 80s and early 90s when games looked like this because that was the cutting edge of technology at the time, but we were happy when graphics evolved and improved. This fetish for revisiting the look of games from 30 years ago has gone from retro to kitsch to bizarre. From a good number of interviews with Indie devs, I know that this actually takes much more effort to achieve ...

I'd like this twice if I could. So take another lame comment instead :)

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I remember this from Amiga too xD

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Ah, got it.

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@hummer010: So I've to quote myself now?

Quoting: beko

The new Deadfire Pack DLC will also be made available for free to all existing (and future) owners of Pillars of Eternity on Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs to thank them for their ongoing support of what has become one of the world’s most beloved RPGs.

Says the website.

If it doesn't show up on release you may drop them a mail. I'll do it too in that case :)

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I know this is old but I started to play around with this benchmark today.

Run some tests today. Looks nice. My benchmark results are lower bottom compared with the leaderboard though. I can hardly find tests with my GPU type and OpenGL (and especially not with my CPU). Sidenote: It has zero impact whether I overclock my CPU hard for this test or not. Guess my bottleneck is PCIe 2.0.. well anyway..

Unsatisfied with the provided filters on the leaderboard I fired up my developer console and watched the traffic. Oh.. this is an React app with json communication. Interesting. Looking closer at the json data I find undisplayed information like

* user.avatarUrlx4
* vulkanVersion
* sliMode
* crossfireMode
* otherGPUs
* graphicsApi

The query itself looks ugly af since it's basically GET parameters with values that are JSON but urlencoded from a String with many spaces resulting in plents of pointless garbage (like %20 for the empty char). Why someone would do this is beyond me. Stripping any useless %20 gives us a way better overview. urldecoding the whole thing now gives a clear picture.

Example of an original urldecoded and cleaned request:

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https://api-benchmark.unigine.com/v1/benchmark/results?select={"result":["id","user","cpus","activeGpus","activeGpusCount","score","motherboard","os","graphicsApi","memoryTotalAmount","fpsMin","fpsMax","fpsAvg","leaderboardPosition","added","preset"],"cpus":["vendor","name","baseClock","maxClock","physicalCoresCount","logicalCoresCount"],"activeGpus":["chipVendor","chipName","chipCodename","deviceVendor","deviceName","driver","driverVersion","baseGpuClock","baseMemoryClock","vram","temperatureMin","temperatureMax","gpuClockMin","gpuClockMax","memoryClockMin","memoryClockMax","utilizationMin","utilizationMax"]}&where={"result":[["isGpusCountBestScore","eq",true],["preset","eq",2],["activeGpusCount","eq",1]]}&sort={"result":{"fpsAvg":-1}}&limit=50&skip=0

Hm.. looks like the server side filter works with some sort of typical REST pattern. I feel reminded to SequelizeJS and Loopback. Let's inject to the results the 'chipVendorId' that the onpage search filter suggests when I type "NVIDIA". For this I converted the where parameter to a json (for comfort), added my String chipVendorId to it's Array and urlencoded the whole thing again. Bingo. The API returns my request _including_ the otherwhise ommited chipVendorId so I guess we're free to manipulate the query as it pleases us.

Let's see what the id for OpenGL is. There are some entries for Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Wild guess at this point: graphicsApi changes between 1 (DirectX) to 2 (OpenGL). Mayhap Vulkan will be 3 (atm it gives internal server error).

Onwards to the search query. It's url parameter is where and the important object is result. First I tried appending graphicsApi but the server doesn't seem to like more than _3_ options for result. Since graphicsApi is a child of result judging by the examined reply JSONs I need it exactly here so I sacrificed the option activeGpusCount and replaced it with graphicsApi. The object for where looks now like this:

"result":[["isGpusCountBestScore","eq",true],["preset","eq",2],["graphicsApi","eq",2]]

"preset" is btw just "PreSet", one of the options in the performance type dropdown. It looks like this:

<select class="filter-preset" name="preset">
  <option value="1">720p Low</option>
  <option value="2">1080p Medium</option>
  <option value="3">1080p High</option>
  <option value="4">1080p Extreme</option>
  <option value="5">4K Optimized</option>
  <option value="6">8K Optimized</option>
</select>

More fun: When "preset" is removed completly from the query I get _all_ results (with default limit 50 - please be nice and request in batches of said 50 using skip and limit parameters or the server may outright ban your IP *cough*)

So forging my query gave me a total of 42 results with OpenGL. For those who care (the reply should be JSON - simply do the following curl request (fiddle with the parameter at will) and view the result opengl-users.json in some JSON parser/viewer (there are some online) to get a better overview:

curl 'https://api-benchmark.unigine.com/v1/benchmark/results?select=%0A%7B%0A%22result%22%3A%5B%22id%22%2C%22user%22%2C%22cpus%22%2C%22activeGpus%22%2C%22activeGpusCount%22%2C%22score%22%2C%22motherboard%22%2C%22os%22%2C%22graphicsApi%22%2C%22memoryTotalAmount%22%2C%22fpsMin%22%2C%22fpsMax%22%2C%22fpsAvg%22%2C%22leaderboardPosition%22%2C%22added%22%2C%22preset%22%5D%2C%22cpus%22%3A%5B%22vendor%22%2C%22name%22%2C%22baseClock%22%2C%22maxClock%22%2C%22physicalCoresCount%22%2C%22logicalCoresCount%22%5D%2C%22activeGpus%22%3A%5B%22chipVendorId%22%2C+%22chipVendor%22%2C%22chipName%22%2C%22chipCodename%22%2C%22deviceVendor%22%2C%22deviceName%22%2C%22driver%22%2C%22driverVersion%22%2C%22baseGpuClock%22%2C%22baseMemoryClock%22%2C%22vram%22%2C%22temperatureMin%22%2C%22temperatureMax%22%2C%22gpuClockMin%22%2C%22gpuClockMax%22%2C%22memoryClockMin%22%2C%22memoryClockMax%22%2C%22utilizationMin%22%2C%22utilizationMax%22%5D%0D%0A%7D&where=%7B%0A%22result%22%3A%5B%5B%22isGpusCountBestScore%22%2C%22eq%22%2Ctrue%5D%2C%5B%22graphicsApi%22%2C%22eq%22%2C2%5D%5D%7D&sort=%7B%0A%22result%22%3A%7B%22fpsAvg%22%3A-1%7D%0A%7D&limit=50,&skip=0' -H 'Pragma: no-cache' -H 'Origin: https://benchmark.unigine.com' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch, br' -H 'Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*' -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'DNT: 1' --compressed > opengl-users.json

The parameters look decoded like this (and have to be urlencoded again before requesting them as application/json!):

?select={"result":["id","user","cpus","activeGpus","activeGpusCount","score","motherboard","os","graphicsApi","memoryTotalAmount","fpsMin","fpsMax","fpsAvg","leaderboardPosition","added","preset"],"cpus":["vendor","name","baseClock","maxClock","physicalCoresCount","logicalCoresCount"],"activeGpus":["chipVendorId", "chipVendor","chipName","chipCodename","deviceVendor","deviceName","driver","driverVersion","baseGpuClock","baseMemoryClock","vram","temperatureMin","temperatureMax","gpuClockMin","gpuClockMax","memoryClockMin","memoryClockMax","utilizationMin","utilizationMax"]}&where={"result":[["isGpusCountBestScore","eq",true],["graphicsApi","eq",2]]}&sort={"result":{"fpsAvg":-1}}&limit=50,&skip=0

The interesting thing: Not all of these are Linux. In fact some report Windows. Mayhap some Wine users? Some quick and dirty stats using sort and uniq in the following spoiler. Yes, there are more GPUs then users. I removed that GPU count filter above and some have SLI or whatever:

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• 26 "distributionName": "Unknown distribution or Windows"


• 1 "distributionName": "Debian GNU/Linux"


• 2 "distributionName": "elementary OS"


• 1 "distributionName": "Gentoo"


• 10 "distributionName": "Linux Mint"


• 2 "distributionName": "Ubuntu"


• 1 "name": "Core i3-3220"


• 4 "name": "Core i5-3570"


• 1 "name": "Core i5-4440S"


• 1 "name": "Core i5-4670"


• 1 "name": "Core i5-4690"


• 1 "name": "Core i5-6600"


• 2 "name": "Core i5-7500"


• 1 "name": "Core i7-3770K"


• 2 "name": "Core i7-4770"


• 1 "name": "Core i7-4770K"


• 1 "name": "Core i7-5820K"


• 1 "name": "Core i7-5960X"


• 2 "name": "Core i7-6700K"


• 3 "name": "Core i7-6800K"


• 1 "name": "Core i7-7700"


• 4 "name": "Core i7-7700K"


• 4 "name": "Core i7 X 980"


• 1 "name": "Genuine 0000"


• 1 "name": "FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor"


• 1 "name": "Phenom II X6 1090T Processor"


• 6 "name": "Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Processor"


• 1 "name": "Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor"


• 1 "name": "Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor"


• 8 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 1060 6GB"


• 8 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 1070"


• 6 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 1080"


• 9 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti"


• 1 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 580"


• 1 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 660"


• 2 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 980"


• 5 "chipName": "GeForce GTX 980 Ti"


• 4 "chipName": "GeForce GTX TITAN"


• 1 "chipName": "Radeon R9 Fury Series"


• 1 "driverVersion": "16.50.2011-161223"


• 1 "driverVersion": "373.06"


• 1 "driverVersion": "375.20"


• 1 "driverVersion": "375.39"


• 1 "driverVersion": "375.66"


• 4 "driverVersion": "378.09"


• 2 "driverVersion": "378.13"


• 1 "driverVersion": "381.22"


• 2 "driverVersion": "381.65"


• 2 "driverVersion": "382.05"


• 2 "driverVersion": "382.13"


• 2 "driverVersion": "382.33"


• 3 "driverVersion": "382.53"


• 4 "driverVersion": "384.59"


• 1 "driverVersion": "384.69"


• 1 "driverVersion": "384.76"


• 3 "driverVersion": "385.28"


• 11 "driverVersion": "385.41"


• 1 "driverVersion": "388"


• 1 "driverVersion": "388.13"

This is seriously lacking some AMD CPUs! Anyway. I got some data to compare and I'm happy now :) Feel free to play with this, too. For the lazy.. https://pastebin.com/1zHSJKCR [External Link]

Disclaimer: This is not hacking. It's a public, keyless (but undocumented) API. (I didn't even try the other announced but probably mean Access-Control-Methods: POST, DELETE, PATCH).

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The new Deadfire Pack DLC will also be made available for free to all existing (and future) owners of Pillars of Eternity on Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs to thank them for their ongoing support of what has become one of the world’s most beloved RPGs.

Says the website.

So what :-)

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