Quoting: lvlark

Quoting: CorbenWarcraft III (wine)

Now there's an idea. I've played all official single player campaigns a handful of times, but haven't touched the game since I switched to Linux a few years ago.

We're playing with the Frozen Throne addon and version 1.26 as most community maps aren't patched for version 1.27. And we mostly play funmaps like various tower defense maps and such.

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Meanwhile I barely start Windows to play my games, as there is either a native version, or it runs perfectly in wine. Even though I haven't played a lot in single player, I played a lot multiplayer. Especially as I've been to some LAN parties recently.
Among those games are: FlatOut 2 (Linux version from gog), Warcraft III (wine), Aliens vs Predator (2010, running perfectly in wine, also its dedicated server), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (wine + special registry entry = perfect), No Man's Sky (also perfect with wine), Rocket League, PayDay 2, Unreal Tournament (Alpha) and DotA 2.

My favorite from that list is AvP atm. This game makes so much fun in multiplayer and its different game modes. There is of course the classic deathmatch and team deathmatch, but already those modes get spiced up by the different species. As you can have species modes, where for example marines fighting aliens fighting predators. Or mixed species team deathmatch, where you can choose your species. There are also modes like domination (capture and hold control points), predator hunt (only the player who is the predator can score) and my favorite mode: infestation.
In this mode you have to survive the alien infestation. Meaning one player is chosen randomly to be the first alien. All other players are marines. Each marine the alien kills is becoming an alien on respawn... "warning: infestation is reaching critical level" :D Until only on marine is left in a last man standing mode. It's so much fun!

I wish I would have more time to play, and when I have time, I wish I would be more in the mood to play ;)
Nevertheless, there are only a very few games for me worth booting into Windows. Which are Elite: Dangerous and Doom. Hope both will be running sooner or later also on Linux.

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Just have fallen in love with wine again.
I'm at a LAN party just now, and don't need to boot into Windows to play the games needed for tournaments or just to play for fun. Among orhers:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (also its dedicated server)
- FlatOut 2
- No Man's Sky
All working really great with wine. So cool!

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They have since changed the github for it from being a place to report bugs, to a place for "open discussion and problem solving". And request people to report issues to them directly. It seems they have now done this for all their github trackers, so they are no longer for public bug reports. This is more in line with what other developers do (private bug reports).

Ah! Good to know, as I have issues with Overlord, which I reported on the corresponding github issue tracker.
A pity they don't use github anymore, as it's a great place for such things.

But another interesting thing...

We are currently extremely busy with project deadlines

Hopefully more high quality Linux ports? :)

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Meh, looks like I can't explain my point properly :( Seems like I'm missing the correct verbal ability to make it clear.
My point isn't about 32 bit at all. It is about that somebody asked a question why not getting support, and then the answer is because (almost) no one isn't using it. Now the asking person (if he even belongs to that fraction) feels like: aww man, just because we are few, we don't get support?
And that is how some Linux users feel, when they get kind of the same answer when asking for a Linux port.

Of course the reason for dropping 32 bit support in particular has technical reasons. 32 bit is dying out. Even I don't have a 32 bit CPU anymore. So everything you say about why 32 bit isn't/shouldn't be supported anymore is correct and I agree with that. But there are still people using it and would like to have support for it. So they ask for it. Just wanted to point out, that giving the technical explanation as answer (which has also been given) in this case would be more plausible for them, than referring to a small share.
At least that's my opinion ;)

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Quoting: cue58Who is fighting for us to switch to 32-bit though? As far as I know everyone still using 32-bit isn't really doing so by choice.

As e.g. debian still will support 32 bit CPUs for another few years, there are people who are fighting for this. Otherwise it would have been already ditched as discussed.

Quoting: cue58Not to mention that if we go by the numbers in that link the percentage of 32-bit Linux users among us is about 1000 times smaller than the percentage of Linux to Windows users.

The statistic page here isn't comparable. Not all visitors created an account, and not everybody who has an account has filled his profile with that info. So you don't know the numbers.
Have a look online, and you see a lot more people than the two here are still using a 32 bit OS.

But my point is not about 32 bit in general. As I said, it just reminds me to that situation. And as we (Linux users) with a small market share want to have more support, we shouldn't tell others who have a small share they shouldn't get support because of their small share.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: rambo1462Why no 32-bit? It seems now that no new Linux games have a 32-bit port, like rocket league for example.

Here's a good example: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics see how many people tell us they use 32bit.

Well, reminds me a bit of the Windows <-> Linux situation ;)
Of course this is a bit different, but nevertheless:
"Why no Linux?"
"Here's a good example: [Link to Linux marketshare]"
Only because a few people are using it, shouldn't be the reason to not support it. We also don't let that argument count, do we? ;)

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Indeed massive!

edit: But I'll wait with a purchase this time... not doing the Batman thing again :-/

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Just a small thing, the version number is 1.12 instead of 1.2 ;)

I'm impressed how much effort Renauld and Ethan still put in this game. It has been around for quite some time, also on Linux. Nice to see their passion about this.

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Also already picked it up. All tux, take my bucks!
I'm wondering about those games which are added later. Will they get their share from my payment, too? As I could already choose where my money went.

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