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Dying Light & Dead Island Definitive Edition might soon work on Mesa
15 May 2017 at 7:54 pm UTC

Good, and note that original developers (porters?) completely ignored this issue. They could clarify all these questions a long time ago.

Wine 2.8 released with asynchronous Direct3D command stream
15 May 2017 at 4:55 pm UTC

From what I understood, problem with Metro games is lack of support. Developers did a mediocre job of porting them to Linux, and now refuse to fix bugs. I think it simply doesn't pass GOG QA requirements.

The Linux port of Xenonauts is not supported and was only made for 'legacy customers'
14 May 2017 at 3:12 am UTC

No support (for Linux, while Windows version is supported) = unprofessional developers.

Wine 2.8 released with asynchronous Direct3D command stream
12 May 2017 at 9:22 pm UTC Likes: 5

Witcher 3 has improved somewhat, in sunlit areas. But it still has missing surfaces, and there are some new distortions now:







FPS is lower than before too, but I'm not using full staging patches.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game
12 May 2017 at 8:42 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleVictor Vran as a character is about as "defined" as a dead insect smear on a car windshield. And how does "story" figure in the multiplayer
That may be, I didn't play the game yet. If the story there doesn't have any meaning, then not providing a selection is indeed more questionable.

Quoting: rustybroomhandleEither way, if someone says they don't like playing a game because of whatever, it's nobody's job to argue with them.
We aren't coming here to "do the job" of arguing. We are discussing the topic, no? I don't see any problem asking to explain someone's position.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game
12 May 2017 at 5:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: KeyrockThis looks good and I like Haemimont's work. I wonder if this will be more serious or follow in the tradition of Tropico's humor?
Judging by the trailer, it looks more satirical than serious.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game
12 May 2017 at 5:05 pm UTC

Quoting: KimyrielleI skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.
As @Xpander was pointing out, how can you apply it to any defined story character? It's one thing if you have a generic character builder in a flexible RPG, but it's another thing if some story aspects are locked. Do you also refuse to play any adventure game, because they don't let you selecting the character? Games can be quite different in this aspect.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game
12 May 2017 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Since it's not their own Paradox Studio who have some serious issues with Steam lock-in in all their recent games, do they plan to release it on GOG? Other games from Haemimont came out there (Victor Vran for example).

Hellpoint, the dark sci fi action RPG now has a demo on Steam with Linux support
5 May 2017 at 2:47 am UTC

I appreciate the Linux demo and the fact that they mention DRM-free release from the start!

AMD Vulkan driver 'radv' is now 'effectively a pass' for conformance
5 May 2017 at 1:42 am UTC Likes: 1

Good to see such fast progress. I hope optimizations will be the next logical step.

Regarding two drivers. Once AMD will open source their Vulkan implementation, there is really no reason for distros not to provide it as an option. Let the user decide what performs better, radv or AMD Vulkan.