Raven’s Cry Released On Linux, Still A Bit Buggy

So, the reviews are killing it right now, so glad I only tested the preorder waters with Dying Light and not this as well.

Quoting: maodzedunWith all due respect - this is NOT AAA quality graphics. Not in the last, at least 7 years.

Imo the graphics are comparable to Assassins Creed Black Flag, at least for the details of the character models, the water in sea battles and the vegetation. Vegetation looks even better in RC imo and it still runs smooth on highest settings on my i7 3770k / geforce 670gtx.

Quoting: liamdaweSo, the reviews are killing it right now, so glad I only tested the preorder waters with Dying Light and not this as well.

Dying Light is a really broken game compared to Raven's Cry. Also the devs opened a sticky thread on the Steam community hub page were you can report bugs.

And the reviews just kill the game because it was delayed several times and some people are still butt hurt because of the delay. It had some minor bugs at the time of the release most stuff was already fixed within the hour, which cant be said about Techland. I tested it 4 hours after release, because I was finishing Fahrenheit (great game btw :P) and played it for ~70 mins without any crash, freeze or lag spike. Also the lip sync seems okay to me when you play it with English language. The only stupid thing is that they obviously weren't done yet with voice recording for all the characters, so it is a mix of spoken/text dialogs.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI had an interesting email conversation with Topware about Raven's Cry. I asked them if they were planning on a DRM free release and their response was that the Steam version was DRM free. Even if I don't count Steam as DRM, which I do, it lists on the Steam page that Raven's Cry "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Reality Pump DLM V2". I asked them if their game was DRM free why the Steam page said that and haven't received a response since.

As for the bugginess I have no idea how people are willing to lay down $55-60 on any game on launch day let alone the first few months. Must have more money to burn than me or just more optimism.

if you read forums they explained it few times. god bless people who need to be told explicitly.

game HAS 3rd party DRM, but it is NOT used by default unless user chose so. you don't need registration and activation.

more optimism and we realized that if we did it like people who just wait sales linux will be dismissed as valid target. i, personally don't buy games for games at full price. i buy them at full price to support developer as linux buyer and hope more developers will bring their games

Not sure on the tone you meant, but with DRM, it's quite best to be very explicit about what it does. The steam store page lists that it uses DRM, and I found a steam forum discussion on the matter, but there's still a few things that are unclear. It no longer has an activation limit (great!), but the devs (and it should be the publisher answering really) have not answered if you need the serial number to install and run the game. Steam already "knows" the serial number, so to say, and can handle that in the background.
If It's kind of like with The Witcher 2, where you have a serial key as proof of purchase - and that's as far as it goes - then it's all good. If the game requires that serial key to even start up...then things get a bit more dicey, as there's every likelyhood of 3rd party software being installed.
Now to be fair, it does seem that the DRM mechanisms originally intended have been reduced somewhat, so they are listening to the community, but there are some areas that need to be explained more explicitly to the community. At least in my opinion.

Before the game released the devs asked the community about DRM, most people answered with f*#k activation limits and registration, so they listened to the community and removed the activation limits and made the registration with the serial key optional. The serial key is mainly to verify that you bought the game and to receive special support for the product afaik. So the third party DRM that is listed on the steam page ONLY applies if you register your game with the serial key.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI had an interesting email conversation with Topware about Raven's Cry. I asked them if they were planning on a DRM free release and their response was that the Steam version was DRM free. Even if I don't count Steam as DRM, which I do, it lists on the Steam page that Raven's Cry "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Reality Pump DLM V2". I asked them if their game was DRM free why the Steam page said that and haven't received a response since.

As for the bugginess I have no idea how people are willing to lay down $55-60 on any game on launch day let alone the first few months. Must have more money to burn than me or just more optimism.

if you read forums they explained it few times. god bless people who need to be told explicitly.

game HAS 3rd party DRM, but it is NOT used by default unless user chose so. you don't need registration and activation.

more optimism and we realized that if we did it like people who just wait sales linux will be dismissed as valid target. i, personally don't buy games for games at full price. i buy them at full price to support developer as linux buyer and hope more developers will bring their games

Not sure on the tone you meant, but with DRM, it's quite best to be very explicit about what it does. The steam store page lists that it uses DRM, and I found a steam forum discussion on the matter, but there's still a few things that are unclear. It no longer has an activation limit (great!), but the devs (and it should be the publisher answering really) have not answered if you need the serial number to install and run the game. Steam already "knows" the serial number, so to say, and can handle that in the background.
If It's kind of like with The Witcher 2, where you have a serial key as proof of purchase - and that's as far as it goes - then it's all good. If the game requires that serial key to even start up...then things get a bit more dicey, as there's every likelyhood of 3rd party software being installed.
Now to be fair, it does seem that the DRM mechanisms originally intended have been reduced somewhat, so they are listening to the community, but there are some areas that need to be explained more explicitly to the community. At least in my opinion.

they explained it few times, not only once. it always was just like W2 and i think that only Topware game that was forced to register was TW2 where registration was not any outside software, but ingame. other games i know used launcher where you could choose prestart options and registration was offered there. beside TW2 where i had to, i doubt i ever bothered to register one of their games.

and you somehow know how it was originally intended? that would be a good one. there was little to know about game and yet you somehow know how DRM is supposed to work there?

Yesterday I had my first crash after ~1 hour 30 minutes. But despite the crash and the messy dialogs (switching subtitles and voice) I have to say I really enjoy the game. Upgrading the crew/ship and doing the quests is actually fun :)