Quoting: manero666Sorry if I'm being rude here, but I can't really stand when Wine usage is bashed when it applies to incompatible games that will never be ported, but the same usage get praised when it applies to "ports" like this one.

The game is potentially native, there is no need for a compatibility layer because the game is compatible (unless middleware).
Personally, I would rather get a native port this time then 200+MB more for the ability to launch the game from the Linux Steam client..

Don't be too quick to judge or condemn. The game might use some middleware, as you said, might rely on case-insensitive filesystems, registry, hardcoded windows behavior, complicated toolchain or whatever...
This list might get big enough that fixing everything could take a huge amount of time. As opposed to wraping it up, fixing minor bugs, and publishing.

Plus, you get all the benefits wine offers: proper controller, sound, alt-tabbing support, and I might forget some.

But the posts about the Topware situation are right. I didn't know that (nor I did now the game, tbh). I think I will wait for the situation to be clarified before buying it. The Transcripted developers have my sympathy, meanwhile, and I might buy the game to do them a favor, even though there is no Linux support.

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Well, at least it runs.

And it doesn't seem to be a bad game per se, maybe just by today's standards, and the fact that the "developer" apparently didn't put a lot of time into it.

I think I remember Gabe Newell stating something such as wanting to make Steam an "open platform" where people could sell whatever game they wanted (think google play or apple store), with minimal moderation. While this is debatable, there is an upside, which is lowering the entry barrier for newcomers, and have more good games as a result.

Quoting: meggermanRight now as i type this i have a steam client menu popping through my Firefox window and the video doesn't work fullscreen from the client playing trailers, i have to use the web browser or BP mode.

Yep, those issues have been around for a while. I agree with every point you made in your post, but I just wanted to share a "Workaround" for this: It seems to me that this issue comes from some kind of uninitialized buffer, and I found that trying to play another video in fullscreen generally fixes it. I also recall having this kind of problems with chrome or Firefox in the early html5 days, so maybe they should update their embedded chrome plugin?

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I am just a bit afraid of how it might perform on r600/6870. I will at the very least try to grab some family sharing access from a friend, an try it out before buying it.

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I really like the game, but I still have some graphical or corruption problems with it. Sound problems too, occasionally.
some screenshots

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: EhvisIt's difficult what to make of the reviews. This game has a pretty low rating, but most of the reviews on the front page are positive. Which contrasts quite a lot with "Valley", which has a very high rating but quite a few bad reviews on the front page.

Word of advice: Ignore amateur "reviews", read real reviews to make up your mind. You'll find them on the metascore sites, for example here:

http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/643672-homefront-the-revolution/articles.html

Weeeell... "No Man's Sky" got pretty good to average reviews by the pros, but "overwhelmingly negative" ones by amateurs. What am I supposed to make of that?

Because NMS isn't a very bad game if considered objectively? It may have been overpromoted and overpriced, however.

Just trying to find an explanation...

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Got the survey on Windows when I tried to retrieve my old DOW II save from the steam cloud (which worked, btw). Rebooted on Linux and didn't get it :/

Oh, and steam seemed to be broken on win 10 when I tried it. Would crash and not boot again; I was lucky to retrieve my save at all.

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Quoting: neowiz73nothing like accidentally ejecting from an aircraft as the pilot while you leave your friend in passenger seat, flying at supersonic speeds.

This gave me a good chuckle at work, I almost laughed out loud. Are you happy?

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: manero666

Quoting: ysblokjeTry removing libasound.so(.2) from the 64 bit libraries in your steamruntime. I got it down to libasound on arch.

Works :)

if you want to be safe you can edit ferals game launch script with:

if [ -n "${HAS_LSB_RELEASE}" ] && [ "$(lsb_release -c | cut -f2)" = "trusty" ]; 
then 
LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2:${LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS}"
else
LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS="/usr/lib/libasound.so.2:${LD_PRELOAD_ADDITIONS}"
fi

so it loads the libasound from the correct location

why on earth ubuntu(debian?) has those weird locations for libraries?

Thanks a lot, it worked for me.
Should be the default, IMO.

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Quoting: Mountain ManHow the heck have people managed to break the wireless dongle?

I think this is more a question of losing it, isn't it?

I mean, I have two controllers, and one of my dongles is collecting dust somewhere at the moment...

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: pete910Can someone explain why cross platform seems to cause problems? Is it engine specific ?

Could be the engine - but usually engines supporting multiple platforms or being ported to another platform you'd port the network code as well.

More likely is that they used a network middleware in Windows for the network code which does not exist for Linux, and which they didn't get the right and code to port. Due to legal issues, you can't just reverse engineer and implement it either without explicit permission of the company which owns the rights, leaving it on the spot we are now - a different protocol for Linux.

Maybe one day a port of that network layer will find it's way to a Windows version (or a compatibility layer), but I doubt that.

More probably due to synchronisation issues between different platform, probably due to some libraries (math Is the likely culprit).
In fact, the steam forum states just that. A valid suggestion was raised, too, and has been underlooked in my opinion: someone suggested to try to use the wine libraries (which are designed to be compiled against by Windows applications) to try to get around it. I am not an expert, though, so it might not work with math libraries.

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