Quoting: iiariTried recently to get into HL2 (missed the entire HL series when they came out, as that was a personally and educationally intense period of my life when I had zero time to game). I can't say I've loved it. Narrative development is slow, and I'm tiring of the formula where each "level" is basically a series of escape rooms of puzzles connected by in-game cut scenes. I imagine the first HL plays out very similarly?

You have no idea how blown away we all were by that formula in 1998. It was brand new, never been done before. Every other game before that boiled down to "kill everything, find key, repeat".

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Is there something that you have to do special to get the Linux performance boost? Because I just fired it up and it's choking just as badly as the last time I ran it last year. At 1080p. With some settings turned down to medium.

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Have the finally figured out that AMD has the correct approach to open source drivers? I doubt it.

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I NEVER sign on to Early Access. As cool as this looks, if you want me to buy a copy of your game, finish it first.

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Quoting: jarhead_h3900X/X570/5700XT

The GPU will be the major decider on framerate, Getting a 3700 + B450 board would free up some cash to get a even faster GPU and cost nothing substantial in framerate.

I don't understand why so many people think getting more cores and a faster CPU is going to magically give them the best framerates. The 5700XT is really a 100fps at 1440p type of GPU, AT BEST. (games like KCD will give you less however).

*snip* - don't be rude - Liam

I'm a new content creator. I need the video editing horsepower because as shocking as it sounds my current PhenomII 960T/AM3 mobo/GTX1060-6GB just isn't the greatest for that sort of thing. Gaming is the least of my concerns these days, and that $2500 is for a system based around 1440P. 4K would be another $1000 for the monitor alone and honestly I don't view either NVIDIA or AMD as having a real 4K GPU yet, although NVIDIA is almost there. Ram ain't cheap. Large amounts of storage ain't cheap. A decent overclocking mobo that will end up with two or three different CPUs in it's life span ain't cheap. The previously mentioned 960T is the third CPU in my 9 year old mobo which is also on it's second set of DDR3 and like fifth boot drive because I clonezillaed my 250GB 840EVO over to my new 500GB 860EVO and then grew the XFS filesystem via LVM because it's Linux so we get to do that.

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I'm sorry, but I'm probably going to already be spending somewhere around $2500 for a Ryzen 3900X/X570/5700XT based system so that I can actually get decent framerates on heavier games released within the last five years. I'm sorry Valve, but I'm afraid your shiny new $1000 dollar headset will have to wait.

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe graphics looks awesome!!!... I wonder if they are real ingame graphics or faked CGI...

By the way.. VR? No, thanks. I can't afford that. I want traditional monitor/TV support, Valve.

Uh, that just looks like a slight overhaul of Source in 4K. Actually a pretty good sign because it's very likely to be a less demanding game engine with a lot of support behind it and already setup for Vulkan. If that's the case then smaller teams/indies might look to Valve&Source2 instead of EPIC&Unreal which barely functions on Linux right now unlike SOurce2 which should function well on EVERYTHING.

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Quoting: grigiSo... this is Epic using their money to, er, skew the market? In essence, equivalent to Intels contra-revenue plans, which was deemed anti-competitive.

I mean it is the "We want to lock you in to use ONLY our products", or make it too expensive to switch away, kind of thing.

Not exactly. Close. What this will do is provide AAA's with both an engine and readily existing assets with which to fart out "product." This is the first step towards game development as an assembly line. It should lower development costs for the whole industry with the catch being that you have to go to EPIC to reap the benefit. It's potentially very disruptive, but does not appear to lock anyone into anything.

Any game dev could do the exact same thing within the Blender community. And that will probably be EPIC's response.

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I can already write a review of the game that should be valid for at least two years. Maybe three. :

After everything that Valve has done for Linux gamers with Steamplay, I wish I could review this Half Life game, but after spending $2500 on a PC capable of playing it I was kinda tapped for cash and couldn't hope to afford the extra $1000 for the VR headset required. Is it good or bad? I have no idea. Hey, Steam itself was TERRIBLE when it launched. I was one of the people that couldn't even log-in in 2004 when it launched. I actually used a pirate copy of HL2 for literally years until I got the Black Box with my ATI 2900XT and was genuinely surprised to be able to log in years later and have my account still be valid. Now Steam is my primary game platform, has been for quite a while, and looks to continue being so into the future.

Maybe this game launch will have a similar outcome - EPIC disaster followed by slowly but surely taking over the entire market. We'll see.

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Makes me nostalgic for Simpson's Hit&Run which is no longer available to purchase legally.

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Quoting: TazzaYay. So a proprietary company is running Linux on their back end with the condition of always being online and with no access to any binaries running on that back end.

What's next? Celebrating all the banks for running Linux servers on their backends? Thought not.

None of this will do *anything* for Linux gaming.

Exactly. This is Linux gaming in the same way Android is Linux phoning. Exactly what was expected and will not help bring more games to our platform.

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