Hatred, the controversial shooter now has a Linux beta

Gameplay is pretty boring.. destruction is nice like exactly 10 minutes and then its all boring.

A.I. seems to be bad. they sometimes stand next to you without doing anything. they get stuck in the doors and group up with others getting stuck somewhere in the corners.

black and white look with some colors like police sirens and fire are nice touch though.

driving with a car is utterly sluggish, it turns so fast and due the camera perspective its hard to master.

so what you do in this game? you just kill, kill and kill and then listen to some weird/boring monologue from the antagonist. basically he hates the world and blabla wants to kill everybody.. and you just do it..thats it

so all in all.. i think leaving the controversy aside, its a pretty boring game - i wouldnt recommend it with that price tag.
maybe 75% off is worth.

about performance.. it was 20-40fps only (no matter if medium or ultra settings) . enabled GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS and the perf doubled.. 40-60... pretty good

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Last edited by Xpander on 17 Dec 2015 at 9:20 pm UTC

As this is not available to buy on steam from Germany, see here (shop cooperates with the steam group "for UNCUT!"): https://de.gamesplanet.com/game/hatred-steam-key--2832-1

Although you shouldn't buy it until the Linux version is release officially...

I have it, very nice and relaxing game. I can trully recommend it. Also works fine even on low end AMD GPU with Crimson drivder (Catalyst 15.9 - freeze game).

So if you like game like Postal, you can buy it, worth.

yeah...I want to HATE!


This game is seriously f*cked up.

I notice a huge trend with these XCOM camera style FPS games, is this really a thing people love or is it a fad?

I like my old school FPS made in the image of Golden Eye 64, which reminds me when will Golden Eye Source land? Ha I can't wait but I think they're dead in the water :( Black Mesa Linux version too :(


Last edited by ElectricPrism on 17 Dec 2015 at 11:54 pm UTC

I think the term you're looking for is bird's-eye-view. I don't think anyone necessarily loves or hates it, it is just easier to make a game in that fashion.

They can expect a purchase from me as soon as it is out of beta. I was hoping to get a DRM free version and a Linux version but to their credit they tried. The Desura version is DRM free but with Desura going bankrupt they may not get the proceeds from that. Other DRM free outlets have refused to sell the game. Really sad since Postal is sold on these outlets and is similar.

I notice a huge trend with these XCOM camera style FPS games, is this really a thing people love or is it a fad?

It's not a new trend. Games have had this camera view since the beginning of games, practically. Q*bert, Marble Madness, The Immortal, MechWarrior 3050, Paperboy, just to name a few off the top of my head. Sure, those are different styles of games, not necessarily shooters, but the point is, there's nothing new here. Even the original Postal is pretty old now, and it's the same way. But none of these are FPS games, and neither is Hatred. By definition, an FPS is a shooter with a first-person camera view. If it's not first-person, it's not an FPS.

Can we please not brand this game as controversial? I don't think we should be sending the developers the hint that we're (in any way related) to feminists.

Can we please not brand this game as controversial? I don't think we should be sending the developers the hint that we're (in any way related) to feminists.

WTF? The controversy surrounding this game has very little to do with gender equality. And please don't troll. GOL tends to quickly close any thread that devolves into a flamefest, and you very well know this topic is very efficient at lighting the spark.

Can we please not brand this game as controversial? I don't think we should be sending the developers the hint that we're (in any way related) to feminists.

Kiddings me?

From what I see from the videos I kind of like it. I'll put it in my wishlist.

Can we please not brand this game as controversial? I don't think we should be sending the developers the hint that we're (in any way related) to feminists.

WTF? The controversy surrounding this game has very little to do with gender equality. And please don't troll. GOL tends to quickly close any thread that devolves into a flamefest, and you very well know this topic is very efficient at lighting the spark.

I didn't say it had to do with gender equality. It has to do with the publishers' incentive to release games on our platform. Branding games with titles such as "controversial" that the 'mainstream' media are doing are NOT a welcome invitation.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if, thanks to this beta, the Linux version ended up as less buggy than the Windows one?

black and white look with some colors like police sirens and fire are nice touch though.

From everything I've seen of the game, that's the one thing they really did right.

Can we please not brand this game as controversial? I don't think we should be sending the developers the hint that we're (in any way related) to feminists.

Why shouldn't we call it controversial? Being controversial is the whole point of the game and all its marketing. If it wasn't controversial, nobody would have bought it to start with. As it is, an awful lot of the sales were driven by a desire to "stick it to the SJW's", most of whom had already basically shrugged their shoulders and walked away once it released and turned out to be a hot mess. The suckers still buy it though, thinking it'll piss somebody off.

Seriously, why would someone release this game at all if they were scared of being called "controversial"?

Why shouldn't we call it controversial? Being controversial is the whole point of the game and all its marketing. If it wasn't controversial, nobody would have bought it to start with.

Very true. Which is why my basic reaction to articles about this game has been, "Yawn. Don't care."

Why shouldn't we call it controversial? Being controversial is the whole point of the game and all its marketing. If it wasn't controversial, nobody would have bought it to start with. As it is, an awful lot of the sales were driven by a desire to "stick it to the SJW's", most of whom had already basically shrugged their shoulders and walked away once it released and turned out to be a hot mess. The suckers still buy it though, thinking it'll piss somebody off.

Seriously, why would someone release this game at all if they were scared of being called "controversial"?

Because by doing so you run the risk of sending the wrong signals to game developers. Game developers, especially those from Japan, can get the wrong vibe from these kinds of things. Mika's buttslap has been taken out of her super animation in SF5 and DOAX3 is not being released in US/EU at all because these companies fear a backlash. And there's plenty of other examples where companies AVOID US/EU. The situation in the mainstream is currently this bad, companies check out with "cannot be bothered". But if we keep our best foot forward here, we may still be able to make the case that our platform can still be profitable and not fall within the media's grasp.

We should be displaying that we're using Linux because that is the sensible thing to do. It is cheap, fast, reliable, name it. I mean, you won't find an experienced Linux user complaining about Linux as an OS; that is something. We cannot risk sending the vibe that we're doing this because we're fanatical zealots. And being sensible also means that while games may have controversial storylines, games themselves are just games.

And ignore all the people above playing this game that need to state just how above playing this game they are. God you sanctimonious puritans invade literally everything...

So you're . . . posting just to state how above, being above playing the game, you are? God you sanctimonious "Everyone must be pseudo-edgy" types invade figuratively everything . . .