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Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm looking for a favorite new RTS, not sure which game will be the funnest.

Anyone got anything to share about linux RTS'

Dawn of War 2.

Company of Heroes 2 is also in the current humble bundle :)

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I am really eager to see what they got. That plus vega, those are going to be interesting times for AMD.

I fear their design might not allow very high clocks, though, which might be very noticeable against Intel. Well, we'll see. I've been waiting for those for almost 5 years (!).

I hope they kept this idea of making their ARM K12 compatible with the same AM4 socket. It could be a great help at streamlining ARM the way x86 was.

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Quoting: ColomboMore like science communicator.

Tat would make a pretty neat name for a railgun in a video game :)

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Quoting: Eric1212Will need some teaser there... I can't figure out very much what to expect. :P

That's the key: don't expect much from those, if you don't want to be disappointed. Or rather, if you want to be pleasantly surprised :D

I've been let down too often by such promising concepts... The only expectation I can reasonably have is this one: The game will never get out (and it would be crap anyway). I think that's called cautious optimism.

See? I don't really know how it could let me down. I was even pleasantly surprised after no man's sky came out :P

Edit: Anyone got the video playing?

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Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

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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 [External Link]

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Quoting: Tuxee

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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 [External Link]

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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