As before, I'm looking forward to Stadia pushing more developers to work with Vulkan and Linux, and speed up the demise of DirectX, Metal and GNM lock-ins. But I'm not going to use Stadia itself, unless it's for some on-line only games that are such by design, like MMORPGs and etc. Then I might consider it

Strangely, such games which are a more natural fit for Stadia, aren't even represented on the initial launch.

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Quoting: razing32Hmm , didn't a lot of games have this ?
Or am i thinking of games that came later ?

It wasn't that uncommon at that time, but it's rare to see this approach used today.

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Great release! Warlords being from the time before on-line games, has an interesting multiplayer feature, where several players can take turns on the same computer. Or you can play against the computer opponents.

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May be there is a way to release an LD_PRELOAD hook just for the needed functions, to avoid building full blown custom Mesa?

As for Frozenbyte, basically they have no Linux developers left in the studio, according to their own words.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887As for the game itself, I'm more excited for this than Diablo 4. I played the first PoE a lot back in the day, was never a pro but it was fun, I still play it occasionally.

I'm waiting for gfx-rs [External Link] to enable Vulkan to DX12 and Vulkan to GNM translation, as MoltenVK does for Vulkan to Metal. That will speed up demise of the lock-in even more.

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Quoting: subI wish other devs would follow that chain arguments.

The biggest fear for MS and other two remaining lock-in freaks :) And likely many will follow it now. Stadia tipped the scale.

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Quoting: Beamboom... But will they get Mac support? I thought they did not use vulkan but something else they made themselves? I thought that was the entire problem with Mac and gaming nowadays?

They probably mean translation, which is good enough for most developers who aren't interested in wasting resources on Apple lock-in.

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the team noted that Linux support is coming and development builds of Flax are already running great on Ubuntu and cloud-based solutions.

Looks like engine developers got a kick from Stadia marketing. That's good!

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Quoting: wytrabbitI don't understand the reason to automatically assume the worst. There is no definitive evidence supporting either theory, so why not keep an open mind? You don't have to get your hopes up, but you're making assumptions without any support. Microsoft bought them but we're not privy to how much control and influence MS exerts on inXile internally. Being negative at this point benefits nobody.

You can assume knowing who MS are, especially Phil Spencer and their whole gaming division that he commands. Where is their participation in the Vulkan working group? If they can't even do that much, how do you think they view Linux gaming altogether?

See also: https://www.mcvuk.com/aint-no-party-like-an-xbox-party-aaron-greenberg-clarifies-exclusivity-stance-and-explains-why-the-upcoming-x019-is-coming-to-london/ [External Link]

Thinking about the next game from Obsidian, InXile or Ninja Theory, all those studios, just like our existing internal studios, whether it’s 343 or Turn 10, they’re going to be focused on making those games for our platforms. So we have no plans to expand any of those exclusive first-party titles to any other consoles,” Greenberg states categorically to us.

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We’ve been able to work with Steam so that we’re enabling that community to also be able to play across Windows 10 and console.

Note only Windows 10 and console (Xbox). No word on Linux.

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Quoting: wytrabbitTo all the people last year who immediately assumed inXile being acquired by Microsoft meant the end of their Linux ports, you should try to keep an open mind next time.

Wasteland 3 had Linux release commitment from inXile before they were bought by MS. I backed their campaign for it while they were still and independent company. And MS so far didn't interfere with that.

But I wouldn't use it for setting the expectation of what to come. Their future games might as well become all locked into MS only systems.

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