And it's gone. Now we can wait for the actual release.

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I also didn't like that identity politics question because in my opinion it sort of drove the developer into a corner. Seriously, how do you answer that question honestly without causing at least a small PR disaster? If you say you don't have plans then some people will spin a racism story because your game isn't diverse enough. I only see one way to answer the question and that is to say "yes" which in my eyes makes you obliged to then increase the diversity even if it's not part of your original vision. And if a question can only be answered in a certain way, what's the point of asking?

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Absolutely disgusting.

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Quoting: wolfyrionI wonder how long it will take for some distros to implement Vulkan API... :|

They don't need to. They just have to ship drivers with Vulkan support built into them.

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The Vulkan renderer for Talos Principle isn't on Linux yet. Hopefully that will arrive soon.

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Quoting: nocriNice! Now ... where are the drivers ?? :)

Nvidia has some but they are of no use basically as there are no Linux games using Vulkan. The Talos Principle version with the Vulkan driver should hopefully arrive soon. Anyway, here's the Nvidia page for the Vulkan drivers and stuff: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/02/16/vulkan-graphics-api/

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Quoting: jerome36Hello. I've just bought the game on steam and it doesn't work at all. In fact it doesn't launch (neither medieval 2 or kingdoms). I just see the very first screen and so go back to the desktop.
I have linux mint kde 17.1 with an intel i5 3570 (with intel GPU inside) and 8go DDR3 and a SSD 250 go?
Has anyone had the same problem? Is it possible toi fix it? Thanks for your help!

Linux Mint 17 has too Intel drivers to work with this game. Either upgrade to a newer Linux distribution or use a PPA like oibaf to get newer Mesa. The game requires Mesa 11.2 minimum. Also, it might still perform poorly or not at all as the minimum recommended is Intel Iris Pro and your i5 only has Intel HD Graphics 2500.

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Quoting: wleoncioSo, if this comes through, who do we thank (besides Feral, obviously): the developer (Crystal Dynamics) or the publisher (Square Enix)?

Let's thank all of them. (If the port arrives that is.)

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Quoting: linuxgamer"Formula 1", quite easy as a mathematician! But what about the pearl? Indicating a really good game?

Euler's pearl, perhaps?

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Quoting: runeIf the game is rather demanding in the first place, then you will definitely notice a difference (if it's a DirectX game). Rewriting an engine, and optimizing the code takes time, and time is money. I guess that they (Feral, Aspyr, etc.) can not afford to spend that much time optimizing the code.

Unless you have optimized code, you can not compare DirectX to OpenGL. I don't believe that the games we're getting now are 100% optimized, not even close.

In a purely theoretical world (read perfect) OpenGL and DirectX might perform the same but, as we have seen, that is not typically the case in our practical world. Code is never 100% optimized. Currently ports seem to choke especially when it comes to multithreading due to technical differences between OpenGL and DirectX.

Simply put, you cannot write DirectX in OpenGL and expect it to perform well but you also cannot completely rewrite renderers for big game engines because it would take too much time and resources. Vulkan might work better in those types of scenarios which would lead to performance improvements for future games.

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