I like mech games a lot, and there are not enough of these on Linux, to my liking.

I would have prefered a realtime one (FPS or TPS), but that's better than nothing :)

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Quoting: kurrosWe know that most of its benefits can also be achieved with Vulkan, but that is going to be even less common than OpenGL engines as long as OS X has no intention of supporting it in favor of Metal.

We know all of it's benefits can be achieved with Vulkan. There's no technical reason to prefer DX12. And I don't see how Apple's support of neither of these APIs if somehow a point in Microsoft's favour.

Yeah, moreover, it looks like nitendo (and possibly sony?) might support the vulkan api on their consoles.
One more thing : since vulkan and dx12 seem so closely related, wouldn't it be relatively easy to implement the dx12 API on the top of an open source vulkan driver ?

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I personally purchased an arctic freezer extreme rev. 2. Not quite the same category, though. I have been really happy with it so far, and it's really silent :)

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If they intend to do so, they should be careful not to use too much middleware, or at least ensure that those are cross platform before using them. As far as I know, this is often the most difficult part when porting a game to a new platform after the release.

Other than that, glad to see they're still coming :)

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I am wondering... Is the quicksave shortcut a bug or a feature? I made some extensive use of this in my first playtrough.

It works wonderfully on R600g here. Thanks, GranPC

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Glad they clarified their post :)

A bit off-topic : do you think the vulkan specs will be released simultaneously as the steam machines?

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Quoting: SamsaiThe game requires GL4.1 minimum so I was not able to run tests on Mesa.

Mesa 11 + latest llvm (maybe even 3.7) should give you opengl 4.1, IIRC.
I'm quite sure there's a ppa or something like that (I am not using ubuntu, so I can't really tell you, sorry).
Since it's not gpu-bound in most cases, there's hope it could perform well on RadeonSI.

Anyway, glad to hear it performs well. However, I'd be interested in knowing what they meant by a beta "just to test how it performs" (or so, I can't remember the phrasing). Would they have considered a native port, or would they simply have abandoned the idea ?

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Will probably try it one day; I am still firing up SC2000 from time to time :)

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There's some local co-op in risk of rain, too :)

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@dorsker : will UT be published on steam one day? If so, there should be some integration with their network service, which may explain why this hasn't really been worked on already.

I would be interested in a word from an AMD card owner on its performance, since I haven't been able to launch an UE4 demo without GPU hang (which shouldn't be happening at all, in any circumstance, by the way). For this very reason, I haven't tried UT yet, expecting the same.

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