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Latest Comments by Xpander
I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 2:51 pm UTC

Quoting: lvlarkAlso, just out of curiosity, what's the added value of ATS over ETS? Is it mainly so that Americans can ride in more familiar lands, or do the traffic/roads/trucks differ enough for people to want to have both? Or are there different features? Could be thrilling to be able to drive ice roads..
well, Europeans can also see US landscapes & places :) which is amazing imo. Roads are different yeah, trucks also, turning radius is different but you can get US trucks into ETS2 also via mods. There arent much different features. Parking is a lot Harder in ATS when you choose the hard parking mode, there are cops that drive around and fine you (in ETS2 there are just speedcams afaik), Weigh-In stations. Its not too much different, but the maps alone make it really interesting at least in my opinion.

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 2:44 pm UTC

:)

damage model isnt implemented probably because of the agreements with truck manufactures :(
its pain in the ass.

i myself dont really care about the radiostations much, since i listen my own music anyway and have mouse binds to change tracks in my playlist etc. but would be good to have it..

FFB would be nice and head tracking is also a bit hard to configure perfectly but its doable

great game, multiplayer would be even more amazing, there are some mods but no A.I. traffic and i think only for windows atm.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 Mar 2016 at 5:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ProfessorKaos64The Dirt games are easily one of my favorite racing series!
not mine, but this Dirt is not the same arcade stuff that you get in your regular Dirt Series

Dirt Rally is more into the area of Richard Burns Rally.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 Mar 2016 at 5:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

OMFG

YES!!!!

I want it now!

What game would you most like to see on Linux this year?
29 Feb 2016 at 11:16 am UTC

Dirt Rally, The Culling, Far Cry Primal (though its ubicrap game)

Tomb Raider really does look like it's coming to Linux & SteamOS
11 Feb 2016 at 6:55 pm UTC Likes: 5

Looks like Feral again :D or at least they are helping
i see under branches:

feral_external_test_team External Test Access Group

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 4:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

afaik apple supports 4.1, so i dont really see problem there.

4.3+ would be the best though. compute shaders and stuff.

afaik devs want to switch to Vulkan as fast as possible when the UE4 builds with it will be made public. thats what i gathered from the AMA they did

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 1:29 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: Xpandermissing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options
Gotcha Xpander, good info.
I guess is a good test case for a benchmark. Not sure if ARK has a running demorec feature.
If UE4 has then it might have.. console is available in ARK.. unless they specially disabled that feature ofc

edit: also if you look closely at that video you linked, you see that windows version has lots of clouds compared to linux version as well as ground is cluttered with more stuff, specially noticable near rocks or on the beach.

Tempest, a good looking pirate ship combat game looks like it's coming to Linux
11 Feb 2016 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

looks good. i was so tempted to buy windward but that topdown view really puts me off sometimes :)
Tempest looks great.