Oh hell yeah! Gimme! But why does this look so familiar...

Aha, this is what I said last time we heard something about the game! (March 2018)

Quoting: dpanterLooks very promising, here's hoping for good control schemes.
Happily reminded me of The Dweller.

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Lack of support? What the flipping hell are you people on about...
Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Are you talking about the same Techland that STILL releases content and patches for Dying Light, almost 4,5 years after release? Still going with the weekly bonus dockets, still having events like the current Double Exp during E3, still active in the Steam forums, the Discord, the subReddit. No?

Every game can have problems, sorry if your experience was bad. I have played with lots of people over the years, both when using the Linux version and later with Proton. It has been nearly flawless. AMD GPU users have had a rough time with DL native and that's due to a bad port. Before I repeat myself too much, I'll link my own comment here.

And yes, I'm hella stoked for Dying Light 2! <3
(Bloody teaser trailer got my blood pumping)

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I have a feeling they are about to spill the beans during E3.

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Quoting: g000hIf I start The Following, does it begin you as a brand new player (with no skills, no equipment) and you play it from scratch, or does it just follow on from your main game with same skills / equipment stocked up?

Your choice. The story is that Crane finds a way out of Harran into 'the countryside' so continuing your previous character is fine, starting a new save is also fine.
A word of caution if you decide to delete your save file: The game uses only one save file and deleting it from The Following will delete it for the main game as well.

Backing up the game save file is strongly recommended! Save file location:
~/.steam/steam/userdata/xxxxxxx/239140/remote/out/save/
(The xxxxxx's are of course your own id number.)

Quoting: g000hI feel that performance is fine on the native Linux without needing to resort to Proton.

No. Just no.
People, really, I'm begging you, everyone. Stop spreading this lie. I don't care that it is your personal opinion. We didn't get a properly functional Linux version with Dying Light. If you are a die hard Linux-native-or-gtfo person, you can still play the native version. But considering the vastly superior experience and performance you geet from simply clicking the 'Force Proton' checkbox, there's just no reason to gimp yourself. The Linux version simply isn't good enough - period.

Cue rant...

The Dying Light Linux native version is a broken, horrible crapfest. The fact that "IT WORKS" is not a good enough reason to use it when the Windows version runs Proton Platinum-level with upwards of 200% performance. It also hasn't worked well on AMD GPU's since forever, and even today it's not a surefire thing that it will run at all.

I too played the native version and as you see in the video in this article, the performance is not even comparable. Double FPS is just the start. It plays so much smoother, you have to experience it to understand. All the issues with stuttering etc. that comes with this tragically horrid port are non-existent on the Windows version.
Plenty of long standing bugs (to name just one, Drop Attacks causing sound system lag/breakage, game freezing or even crashing) are not present in the Windows version.

Then we have the additional graphics options that did not make it into the Linux version.

• NVIDIA HBAO+ (Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion+) - vastly improved ambient occlusion, meaning better shadows, darker darkness and increased immersion, especially at night. Good lord, it makes a notable difference.


• NVIDIA Depth Of Field (NVDOF) - increases the precision and image quality of depth of field blurring, and enables Techland to specify the intensity of blurring on a case by case basis.


• NVIDIA PCSS (Percentage Closer Soft Shadows) - an algorithm that mimics the behavior of shadows in nature, progressively softening shadows as the distance from the casting object increases and reducing aliasing on the edges of the rendered shadow.

Take a look for yourself [External Link] how these make a difference. Do note that there has been plenty of performance patches since this article.

Convinced yet?

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Quoting: ArehandoroVampire: Masquerade Coteries of New York.
Edit: Narrative RPG based on "Vampire: The Masquerade"

I thought these two were the same one... but I guess we'll see. I won't mind another. :)
Kind of irritating that the devs/pubs refuse to share any details as to what kind of games these are. Some sort of interactive novels seems to be the general impression at the moment, a Telltale Games-esque experience perhaps?

It also appears that BigBadWolf/BigBen is working on yet another title set in the World Of Darkness, namely Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood intended for 2020 release. What the frick is going on here! :woot:

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Nothing for years and years, then two at once? Nice! :D

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We also saw patch 1.17 on May 21 this year. Techland <3

General fixes:
Fixed an issue that caused the game to sometimes crash on Windows 10
Fixed Korean and Chinese icons displaying incorrectly on OSX systems

New Features:
LATAM (español-latinoamérica) added as a selectable language in Steam

Additional fixes:
Minor bug fixes
General build stability increased

Catch them showcasing Dying Light 2 on E3 in a few days, I think it will be pretty sweet.
Until then, enjoy these two nice interviews!
Dying Light 2 Interview with the Lead Game Designer on the Modern Dark Ages setting, RPG Elements [External Link]

Techland’s Pawel Rohleder on Experimenting with Ray Tracing and NVIDIA DLSS in Dying Light 2, DX12 Implementation & More [External Link]

Techland also hangs out on Reddit so feel free to pop by /r/dyinglight [External Link]

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Quoting: GrimfistNevermind, was a config mistake on my side. Didn't have the file search path setup properly, so it couldn't find SIGIL.wad.

Glad to hear you fixed it! *fragging intensifies*

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Quoting: GrimfistWell, my GZDoom g4.1.2 won't load SIGIL.wad, no matter which way I try.

That's weird, works for me with the same version. (64 bit) :huh:
Should run if you have the correct files in the proper locations. If nothing else, you could try the COMPAT version.
gzdoom -iwad doom.wad -file SIGIL.wad

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Major sale on all the other SteamWorld games on Steam now btw.
Here's all of them in one nice bundle.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5141/SteamWorld_Complete_Bundle/ [External Link]

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