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Quoting: SamsaiI went through the binary using a hex editor and there aren't any mentions of VP, eON or Wine for that matter. So I believe it's safe to say it's a native port.

Not finding any of those potential strings does not mean anything AFAIK.
They could have just stripped some object files of the build, right?

I don't see them changing the wrapper that much. Previous eON titles were full of eON-specific function calls and they would have had to change all of them to something else in Dead Island. Also there are those vpfs files that are nowhere to be found in DI. And finally one of the three names mentioned in the credits points directly to Techland.

I'm quite certain that this is a native port, if a pretty clumsy one. They still have some Windows stuff in there, like WMVs and DX installers.

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I went through the binary using a hex editor and there aren't any mentions of VP, eON or Wine for that matter. So I believe it's safe to say it's a native port.

The credits file (found in the Data3.pak) mentions three people for Linux support: Tomasz Wachowski, Rafał Wróbel, Wojciech Zeler. Rafał Wróbel's LinkedIn profile says he worked in Techland doing Linux game porting. So I guess Techland made the port after all, even though they told us they weren't working on the game anymore: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-dead-island-linux-port-is-not-being-done-by-the-orginal-developers.4313

I believe the mystery is solved now.

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Quoting: N30NThere are PA tournaments run by exodus esports [External Link].

The issue Samsai had is caused by bug FS#2392 [External Link] (be sure to add a vote). Uber with Coherent's help added a hotfix/workaround in the 1.0 release which has fixed it for the most part, but it does still occur for some people more then others.

Alright, I've sent my vote their way. Hopefully that issue will soon get fixed.

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I'm quite proud of myself at the moment. This was a good confidence building exercise and I might actually try to play RTS games a bit more in the future.

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The comments on this article were closed for some reason. We are going to try to track down the issue and I've re-opened this article's comments.

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I added a summary of the biggest things we discussed in the livestream. I might have missed some smaller things but hopefully the summary gives you an idea of what was talked about and what were our opinions on those things. There's also an embedded VOD, so you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.

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Quoting: ApopasBut is Liam agreed to pass the ownership of the site to the community?

Yes, he has shown green light to the community-focus on Reddit and in a private message to me. And while the change sounds big, all the features and systems to implement it have been in place even before we had to think about things like this. Liam remains as the official owner of GOL but in his absence I am going to assume "control" with the other editors for now.

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Quoting: OrkultusLook at those reviews.....Mostly Negative?? Is the game that bad?

Based on my experiences it isn't too good. I'll be covering it in detail later on.

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Quoting: elkanguroDo you think it's gonna work on i3 with Intel HD3000?

Well, it sort of runs but you'll run into many graphical glitches and for me that made it unplayable. They aren't that interested in fixing the game for that hardware either, so you'd better avoid for now.

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Verify the integrity of the files or restart Steam. That should get you started.

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