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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While talking to Liam about this particular thing behind the scenes I got inspired to do a bit of a tutorial series on recording, video editing, streaming etc. If anyone has any interest in seeing something like that and possibly ideas for topics to cover I'd appreciate feedback on that sort of an idea.

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Quoting: tmtvl4GB RAM with a 4GB swap partition will get you a long way, especially if you using something a bit more lightweight like Xfce, MATE, or (heavenly glory) LXQt.

It's not like everyone plays Xonotic at Ultra quality.

You might be able to do basic stuff with 4GB but if you have a browser running while you are gaming and maybe if you add just a couple more random background processes like VOIP you'll start to get starved for memory. It's also worth keeping in mind that the iGPU will share main system memory, so that gaming load will also eat your RAM in a way that a dGPU might not. And I don't think it will make any sense to go for the dGPU and not upgrade the RAM at the same time. :P

Basically, 4GB will be enough for light workloads but if you are only going to do that you are probably better served by a cheaper laptop. I suppose you could buy this with 4GB of RAM and upgrade it yourself but I'm not sure if you'd get any real benefit from that.

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