Did anyone try Elite: Dangerous yet?

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With today's update it seems the black screen bug is gone.

I hope so much for a Linux VR version!

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Do I get this right? To show my demand, I should set my filter to show Linux only games, and then put games on my wishlist that aren't on Linux yet and I won't see anymore due to the filter?
So I would have to explicitly search for the game in the store and the put it on my wishlist?
Sounds a bit too complicated to me.

I like to have no filter, to see all games available advertised on the store front page. How should I else know about it, if not seen somewhere else.

I think it would be a better idea, to use either the platform you are on, when wishlisting. Or being able to explicitly set it through a checkbox...

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Ouh... nice to see so some progress here.
I didn't expect this game still coming to Linux anymore, as it was pretty quiet about this one. And like many other devs falling into silence, it wouldn't have been so unlikely to happen.
So this is a nice suprise. Putting Tempest back on my wishlist ;)

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Quoting: liamdaweNo, this is mentioned twice in the article.

I read the missing announcements as something like they didn't write a news post on the steam store page or so. And as with the new Firefox Quantum and Enhanced Steam having issues with the platform icons, I just wanted to be sure ;)

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It's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.

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Oh dear, this will play into the hands of developers who look at this statistics and will not port their games to Linux because the fraction of 0.35% isn't worth the effort.
Too bad neither PUBG is available to Linux nor Linux is China's mainly used operating system...

One good thing maybe is, they mainly use Windows 7, so this might boost Vulkan as graphics API, which on the other could be good for Linux gaming.

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From his patreon post [External Link]:

Nightdive did all the porting, and already had a screenshot of a Linux build, they just wanted some confirmation they were building something that was sane and binary compatible, and I'm totally a wizard at that, so I did a build for them to post.

So he "just" helped out building the binary to ship and didn't really spent time on porting, if that's a concern ;)

These interactions are pretty cool! A studio porting the game on their own and already doing it pretty right, just getting confirmation from the guru if it's all okay. Awesome!

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Funny coincidence. I was discussing about early access titles with a friend, and the name of this game as a paragon didn't came up into my mind for a while. When I remembered Stellar Marines, I was looking in the news page if it's completely dead and I was surprised there are still update posts coming.

Nevertheless this game taught me not to buy early access titles anymore, if their state isn't already pretty complete.
I know early access is for devs a good chance to fund their efforts early, and for players who really want to take an active part in the development process.

Early access might be as risky as kickstarter, yet with the difference that you will have already something somewhat playable. Still there is a remaining risk that a game will never come out of early access and remain unfinished. And Stellar Marines is one of those types of games.

I hope they will finish the game, I was impressed by the idea, by the upcoming story, by the coop part. Though I don't have my hopes too high. Especially now as there is only one real dev left. We'll see... it's already in my library, so the money is spent. And it has Linux support.

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This Soundtrack :)

Iirc they said in the Linux thread on the steam discussion page, that they were able to have the ports in sync. So getting the expansion might by easy. If they don't encounter new technical difficulties.

The trailer looks again awesome! Space-flamethrower... nice. Also the new player ship looks quite nice.

Need to play more though, still haven't finished a complete run yet.

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