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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It will be interesting to see how they plan to improve exploring, which is arguably one of the most interesting aspects of Minecraft.

Would be great to see some castles with rogue knights to take over in the wild :)

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Well, unfortunately the stream was abruptly cut, but it was a nice show anyway. Thanks feral !

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Those pictures are gorgeous. I hope the game will be at least as beautiful.

That said, I am more into RTS (eagerly waiting DOW II), but I might have misconceptions about Wasteland, I never got around to play it.

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/me wants that plush!

Looks like an interesting game, otherwise. I was expecting early access after the trailer, but I think I will wait a bit before trying it.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: WorMzyBut how do you pronounce it? :O

As an English loanword in Japanese, it would maybe be pronounced "hakumutsu", with the u being rather short and farther back, more like a schwa or even nearly a glottal stop? But that's just me guessing. I don't speak Japanese, I've just seen/heard this happen a few times. I could very well be completely off; do correct me if I'm wrong.

I also have no idea if this works similarily in any of the Chinese or Korean dialects. I would guess so, but, again, just a guess.

ハクムド, I would say ("hakumudo", you can use google translate's tts if you want). Then, I am not an expert, I would need to practice a bit more.

Nice spot, DrMcCoy. I was wondering why the writing.

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