Planetary Annihilation is the crazy real time strategy game about planetary conquest on a massive scale. The game is thankfully native on Linux and has a new update to show off, it's all very social.
Much like Battle.net for Starcraft 2 the Planetary Annihilation developers have added in friends lists and messaging to help people keep track of things. This is great and will be welcome for when they put out the steam-free launcher.
There are masses of improvements for Linux users, no longer do units orders/movement paths stay on the screen when they shouldn't like in one of my earlier videos. Everything worked as expected, hooray!
The game is looking incredible now too, I love the lights on buildings and units in the dark and when the planet is moving around the sun and all the shadows are moving it just leaves you in total awe at how amazing it all is.
The music is really good too and fits the style of play perfectly as to not distract you from what is going on.
My only gripe right now is the "minimap" which is essentially the game running again in a small window is far too big for my liking. It would be nice to have a sizing option on it.
Latest Game-play video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LVLLWuIAQ&feature=youtu.be
Sorry for how long it is, but PA games aren't short!
New stuff highlights
Grab it from them directly, or on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Much like Battle.net for Starcraft 2 the Planetary Annihilation developers have added in friends lists and messaging to help people keep track of things. This is great and will be welcome for when they put out the steam-free launcher.
There are masses of improvements for Linux users, no longer do units orders/movement paths stay on the screen when they shouldn't like in one of my earlier videos. Everything worked as expected, hooray!
The game is looking incredible now too, I love the lights on buildings and units in the dark and when the planet is moving around the sun and all the shadows are moving it just leaves you in total awe at how amazing it all is.
The music is really good too and fits the style of play perfectly as to not distract you from what is going on.
My only gripe right now is the "minimap" which is essentially the game running again in a small window is far too big for my liking. It would be nice to have a sizing option on it.
Latest Game-play video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LVLLWuIAQ&feature=youtu.be
Sorry for how long it is, but PA games aren't short!
New stuff highlights
- Friends lists
- Instant messaging to people
- Game replays
- Custom unit formations
- Masses of AI improvements
- All particle rendering functionality is now on the GPU.
Grab it from them directly, or on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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if you are using ATI there is a work around - i think hitting one of the F keys to display FPS, forces the image to redraw.
I had that issue
I had that issue
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This game is so ***ing awesome... The game ender is building thrusters on moons and smashing them into the planet your enemy's base is sitting on. Otherwise it's pretty much Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander.
Might have been my imagination, but I actually think this game ran better on my Arch Linux in Enlightenment than it ever did on Windows. I could swear it was less buggy too! But as the other comments suggest, it may be I just got lucky with hardware, since I'm running Nvidia/Intel.
Might have been my imagination, but I actually think this game ran better on my Arch Linux in Enlightenment than it ever did on Windows. I could swear it was less buggy too! But as the other comments suggest, it may be I just got lucky with hardware, since I'm running Nvidia/Intel.
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