Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War, a 4x strategy game from Proxy Studios and Slitherine Ltd is officially out.
About the game:
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources.
In the first 4X turn-based strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four factions: Astra Militarum, Space Marines, Orks and Necrons, each with their own unique gameplay, technological tree, units and heroes.
Face a challenging AI or cooperate or compete with friends and strangers across the globe.
Here's the release trailer:
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This is just a short announcement post for now as we didn't have any advanced access on it, so full thoughts on it will have to wait. Thankfully, GOG did provide us with a key which unlocked today. I can at least confirm, that it does seem to run fine on Ubuntu 18.04.
Honestly, from the short time I played so far it already seems quite familiar to Pandora: First Contact, the previous game from Proxy Studios (likely a fair bit re-skinned from it). Not actually a bad thing, just more of an observation. For anyone who has played a game like Civilization, it should all feel pretty familiar except with a Warhammer face.
It does seem like it could be quite good, but I will reserve my proper thoughts once I've had a chance to play more. Just glad to see it run well with Linux support from day 1.
Explore. Expand. Exploit. Exterminate: You can grab it from GOG, Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: kshadeIt runs nicely, played it a bit yesterday, but I had to delete ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_64/libstdc++.so.6 because it's too old for the game to run. Using the current Steam beta client.I played the Steam version whole Beta test and didn't have this issue.
Plays like a combination of the type of old-school tactics game Slytherine makes and Civ.
Quoting: GuestOh my god thank you, have been going "well I want to send them some money for this, but GOG or Steam? I want GOG, but their refund policy is horrible". Is the DRM-free copy provided by GOG or is it straight from their website? If it was straight from them I assume it'd be just like the GOG version except possibly without GOG's installer?
It is downloaded directly from their website.
I have to say so far this game is absolutely fantastic. I don't even know what more to say, that pretty much sums it up. Haven't had a single crash so far, though I have only had time to put in 4 or 5 hours thus far. It runs smooth as silk on the highest 1080p settings and huge maps. I realize this is more hardware dependent and is only to indicate I'm pushing the game engine. Definitely challenging gameplay with lots of customization features down to random seed generation. I have yet to actually fight an A.I. opponent because even on very low wildlife density they're still EVERYWHERE and constantly causing some sort of trouble. Furthermore, I was never really a fan of how diplomacy is generally handled in 4x games so Slitherine's choice to remove that "feature?" was a good one (LEAVE ME ALONE GHANDI!).
Battle on Brothers!
-Gnailz
Quoting: RedfaceBe aware that when you buy it directly from Slitherine that you have to specify somewhere that you want the Linux version, I did buy for PC and that turns out to be the Windows version only. I have contacted their support and hopefully they change it for me.I was wrong, you have to register the game on their site and then get both steam key and the Linux and Windows downloads.
And they even replied on a Sunday:-)
Quoting: GnailzHey, New Bro here o/
I have to say so far this game is absolutely fantastic. I don't even know what more to say, that pretty much sums it up. Haven't had a single crash so far, though I have only had time to put in 4 or 5 hours thus far. It runs smooth as silk on the highest 1080p settings and huge maps. I realize this is more hardware dependent and is only to indicate I'm pushing the game engine. Definitely challenging gameplay with lots of customization features down to random seed generation. I have yet to actually fight an A.I. opponent because even on very low wildlife density they're still EVERYWHERE and constantly causing some sort of trouble. Furthermore, I was never really a fan of how diplomacy is generally handled in 4x games so Slitherine's choice to remove that "feature?" was a good one (LEAVE ME ALONE GHANDI!).
Battle on Brothers!
-Gnailz
I was part of the beta testing and it was really stable even in the beta. I encountered only few crashes through whole beta.
Quoting: RedfaceQuoting: RedfaceBe aware that when you buy it directly from Slitherine that you have to specify somewhere that you want the Linux version, I did buy for PC and that turns out to be the Windows version only. I have contacted their support and hopefully they change it for me.I was wrong, you have to register the game on their site and then get both steam key and the Linux and Windows downloads.
And they even replied on a Sunday:-)
I had the same issue, didn't know I need to register it on their page.
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