Looks interesting. I wonder why the demo is windows only :huh:

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Part of the issue is that I don't know about/care about games that don't already have a linux version or some commitment to make one... which means I won't be wishlisting them.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Agreed on the point of slightly larger map. Mostly because of the queue time : play time ratio. Queue's take 2-5 mins to find players and then gives everyone 5mins to load in (while playing glock only deathmatch). that's upwards of 10 minutes of waiting for a match that will take anywhere from 2-10min max to finish.

Disagreed on ammo shortage. Ammo conservation/accuracy is one of the staples of the CS franchise. It would be nice if ammo was divided into types and you could pick it up without a weapon though, it kinda sucks being basically limited to a glock if it was your first weapon and it is now the only one you have ammo for.

Shotguns are way overpowered in this game mode too, with no chances of finding a sniper rifle...

On the other hand, after putting multiple thousands of hours into CS:S I never made the decision to buy CS:GO, so it nice to be able to F2P access to some of the other game modes too now. (Although I'm not able to get onto any community dedicated servers, which kind of sucks since it was the best part of CS:S)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I don't follow consoles so I may be wrong, but isn't the Switch considered "open"?

I've always found it odd that the engine is supposedly good for linux yet their own games support everything but linux...

I'm not really anticipating much coming from them, especially anytime soon.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Gave the game a whirl for a little bit. Definitely an interesting concept, doesn't seem like there are many people playing it atm though.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: SchattenspiegelDevelopers should not be allowed to pull native versions after selling them.
What we need is the ability to choose whether we want to install the native or foreign version in Steam.

If a developer is willing or forced by circumstances to take the reputation hit of recommending the non-native version over the busted native one - so be it, but the choice which version to use needs to stay with the customer.

Quoting: SchattenspiegelDevelopers should not be allowed to pull native versions after selling them.
What we need is the ability to choose whether we want to install the native or foreign version in Steam.

If a developer is willing or forced by circumstances to take the reputation hit of recommending the non-native version over the busted native one - so be it, but the choice which version to use needs to stay with the customer.

I mostly agree with this.

For a couple of years now I've moved to only spending money or time investments in Native Linux games only. The reason for this being that my experience with Wine has shown it to be relatively unstable, especially with online games. If a developer were to implement a feature, such as anti-cheat, that breaks the compatibility, then there is no obligation for them to fix it meaning the game could be left unplayable indefinitely.

Granted, in this case it seems that developer is incapable of finding the issue with the linux version, however I shudder what to think if it becomes the norm for games to get rid of native linux support in favor of emulators, only to later abandon support for the emulator, with the claim that they don't support linux anyways. I think it just looks bad on the company.

I'm curious to see how developers and valve will end up handling games that work on steam play, and then suddenly stop working. It seem likely to me that neither will end up taking the appropriate measure to ensure the level of support that a native client should have (which should be refunded if it stops working imho).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@liam Do you have the latest download? There was some problems with the second iteration of the linux launcher, but they fixed them pretty quickly. It's working for me fine (apart from some artifacting graphics) on Mint right now. Since it's likely just an issue with the launcher and not the game itself, you could ask if they'd be willing to send you a direct download. All else fails their discord has a channel for Linux support and I know at least one of the community members has been working on fixing the launcher for various distros.

For anyone else that's interested in the game I'd recommend checking out the wiki https://lastepoch.gamepedia.com [External Link] , I've been putting in some work on getting that up and updated.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Reminds me of this anime: http://www.crunchyroll.com/to-be-heroine [External Link] . I think it's a eastern cultural/spiritual thing.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Playing/buying the games is good.

Leaving reviews is a step up.

Being an active part of the community is even better.

If 1/100 people playing are on linux it doesn't look too great. If 1/50 reviewers are praising linux it looks a little better. If 1/20 community moderators/active/helpful users indicate that linux support is the reason they are invested in the community, it leaves a much more favourable impression of the OS than just market share numbers could ever do, and does so with less people.

View this comment - View article - View full comments