Quoting: TobiSGD

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: TobiSGDI will believe it when I see it. We had a launch trailer already for the story mode back in 2015: http://hinterlandgames.com/the-long-dark-story-mode-teaser/ [External Link]

You really think they will suddenly pull it a day before release? :huh:

Who knows? They promised a released of Story Mode in early 2014, then it was shifted to end of 2015, then it was shifted to spring of 2016. In spring 2016, they finally were fed up with people asking them for a release date and why once again there was a promise but no release, and they shifted to "when it is 100% done, we won't tell you release dates anymore".

I bought the game for the story mode, yet they failed to release over and over again.

So, yes, I have a perfectly fine reason to say "I will believe it when I see it". I wouldn't even be waiting for this, if Steams refund policy wasn't "oh, you are waiting more than 14 days for the promised story mode, sorry, we won't refund a game you own for such a long time".

There's a lesson to be learned here, I'd say. Don't buy something that isn't out.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ShmerlThe closest to my GPU listed is Radeon RX 480, while really mine is Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480. It uses the same chip, but its clocking is higher than stock Radeon. I guess it's not a major detail though.

It's still the 480, would be a different matter if there were models with different physical features (like VRAM).

It can matter if you compare performance for example. But for current statistical purposes, just the chip model should be OK.

Most GPU vendors do their own little tweaks to their models of the chips, I think it's pretty much just the reference models that actually use the exact clock speeds specified by Nvidia or AMD. At least both my R7 370 and GTX 760 came with factory overclocks. And keeping track of a dozen variants of each GPU model seems quite inconvenient.

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Another patch seems to have been sent out which fixes the crashing issue. I have updated the article accordingly.

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Seems that a new patch completely broke the game for all platforms, so I am updating the article with a warning about that.

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I'm going to try to have some proper thoughts up tomorrow, possibly along with a video of some description, but some quick notes people may find useful. First of all, I am quite surprised by the gameplay, not quite 100% sure what to think about it yet but I think there's potential there. Definitely a lot different from both Transistor and Bastion but it's also nice to see Supergiant trying new things and not falling back to a safe gameplay formula. Also, if you intend to run the game on Mesa at least on Radeon the game might require you to slap "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5COMPAT %command%" into the launch options to get the game working. I will also update the article with this trick to get that piece of info out there. The issue was reported on the Steam forums already and Ethan Lee seems to be looking into it a bit more. For now that workaround seems to suffice.

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Don't think I've ever seen as insane pricing with a video game before.

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Quoting: gojulThis game looks great, but last time I tried I had to launch the 32 bits executable of the game from the command line. The 64 bits flavour does not work at least on Debian Stretch (and it is a known issue, which will be fixed for release I hope).

Tried to put this in the launch options: "LD_PRELOAD=~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 %command% -screen-fullscreen 0"?

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A lot of of good discussion has happened here and lots of very important points have indeed been raised. To me the important things to take away from this is that you should not be thankful for a product that does not work but you should also not go on a personal crusade because of one. If you get a product that has bugs or outright refuses to work correctly you should attempt to get the issues fixed through polite communication on the proper discussion channels, be it a bug tracker, a chat group or a forum of some sort. If that does not work and the issues do not get resolved you should seek a refund. I suppose that's easier to say now that we actually have a solid refund policy on Steam and we most definitely didn't have one a while back, but it's the sane approach and should leave everyone more or less happy.

Now, the personal attacks are indeed inexcusable and they have no place in the community here or on Steam. They do not contribute anything that a polite but firm message wouldn't and often their effect is pretty much opposite to what you might actually desire with such a message. The annoying and frustrating part of this is that there isn't actually that much we can do to prevent those kind of idiotic messages. If you are one of the people that goes out of their way to send threats and vitriol I probably can't convince you to stop doing that. What the rest of us can do is avoid obvious baits and report nasty behaviour when encountered and keep contributing in ways that can actually lead to a positive change. Bad products should naturally be pointed out and their issues highlighted but in a manner that doesn't attack the people making the product.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusTrue, I'd forgotten about that, but I use SimpleScreenRecorder rather than OBS Studio which apparently has a rather more complicated method to record them actually separate from each other (rather than just as separate tracks in the same video). I dunno how many people use SSR as opposed to OBS though; actually, that might make an interesting poll some time. ("What program do you use for recording/streaming?" ) :)

I still swear by SSR+Audacity over OBS. OBS is a good program for streaming and quick desktop captures but SSR allows for a bit more tweaking and recording commentary with Audacity means I don't need to load up a file into Audacity afterwards.

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Quoting: qptain NemoYaaay! :wub:

Also I'm tired so I read "Fall of the Samsai released", had to reread it a few times.

View video on youtube.com

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