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I disliked the game because the gameplay was boring, too much driven and the setting too much cliché to my taste (they sitted in the comfort zone of the uncomfortably). You saw those things in a billion other TV shows or books, nothing was really "new". In my opinion they watched too many "average american teenager" TV shows. But maybe my opinion was influenced only by a cultural problem (I'm Italian, so things here are different, sensibility too).

Lets hope they sort out all the flaws and make a great game, I bet the team has all potential to succeed.

That said, I suggest to whom which liked the game to read the book "Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray

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I have no regrets about buying the bundle. I already owned Steamworld Heist and thought it was brilliant. I was mainly interested in getting Owlboy.

Quoting: GuestOwlboy has a story for 5 year olds and annoyingly slow text and cutscenes

Sadly, after about 6 hours I have to kind of agree with you. The art is brilliant but the gameplay is getting increasingly annoying. It takes all the things I don't like about old games and doesn't improve them.

Compared to a game like Hollow Knight, it really doesn't measure up. I am sad to say it, because the art style is really good and the devs obviously put a lot of heart into the game. It is not often I publicly grumble about a game, but I think this one may be rated too highly on the steam store.

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Quoting: GuestI bought and tried playing that game but found it so boring. What am I missing here?

I had the same after half an hour or an hour.
Tried it again later - prepared that it's slow-paced, especially in the beginning - and I'm very happy I did.

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Quoting: Nor MantisAt this point I will buy anything this game puts out. Love it.

Me too, love this game, except I skipped Natural Disasters. This expansion is awesome though, really happy with the new possibilities and updates. I'm curious about what the next DLC Colossal Order makes will be!

Quoting: KimyrielleDoes the DLC also enhance existing mass transit options? Like the subway, which is pretty lackluster in vanilla?

I agree, it is disappointing that they didn't add a simple multiplatform subway station! Almost half of my stops are two stations across each other... The new train station is nice though, and there are general improvements, such as the awesome "Line details" view. Spacing of the vehicles on the line also seems much better now.
Edit: I forgot to mention a huge feature: the ability to change the number of vehicles per line!

As for the new transport options I've only added blimps to my current city, and I think they are a cool option for some specific locations - and they look fun and adds great visual scale to the city, but I'd be careful not to flood the sky with them... I really look forward to plan out and add monorail lines to my city, and maybe a couple of ferry lines. Cable cars I'm not sure how practical they are.

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Quoting: KimyrielleMassive spoilers in there. I mean it.

Spoiler, click me

- Because the ending invalidated every single choice you made in the game. No matter what you did, it's in the end all pointless. Nothing you ever did in the game mattered.

Spoiler, click me

Chloe says it did.

Dubigrasu, the game is slow to come into (took me a second try), but I too found the ending very good.

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YES!
Please!
We must have it on Linux!
Feral, I know you are reading this.
Approach them!

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Yep , as i said "i told you , no Linux version " , and no Nvidia won't fix bug , they not fix for whole year... All developers have a problems on Linux , but they just bypass them.
Cossacks 3 had a huge problems , but no one complained for problems with drives or engine , just work and bypass.

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Not to spoil it, but Vampyr from DONTNOD is just around the corner and I haven't read anything about Linux version or port.

So don't expect this LiS sequel to be available on Linux either.

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I quite enjoyed it so I look forward to a sequel. ^_^

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My money is already gone.........

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Good to see my friends from down under getting some love in Day of Infamy! Cheers!

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: STiATJust 16? Ohh :-(. I have 4, the upgrade is almost not worth it XD.

Don't worry, it makes for 32 threads with SMT. Oh, well, you can still wait for the Epyc server chip, which has 32 cores, which makes 64 threads, if that's not enough.

One thing to note is that it is quite close to NUMA architecture (multi-socket), powered by AMD's "Infinity Fabric" (some sort of memory exchange bus similar to PCI). Non-NUMA aware workloads might perform less well on such architectures, but it was already the same on the Ryzen 7, that had two "core complexes". Hopefully, the scheduler will help with that, if the workloads don't do anything stupid like start a thread on each core when memory locality is critical.

Look at those server chips, man... *goes back counting his (few) banknotes*

I'm very suspicious that's why they launched the R7 and R5 chips first to get them out there so developers could get cracking on those optimizations with this 6 month lead time. I think a lot of these "Ryzen" optimizations that were pumped out so quickly are in this arena. By the time people get their hands on Threadripper those optimizations will already be in software for the bulk of applications and already ready to go.

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Quoting: dubigrasuChrist people, would you just stop giving away that the ending is bad?
While not entirely a spoiler, every-time I think about starting the game I know is gonna end bad like a weight standing above my head...enough already.

The ending is actually quite good. No idea why some people don't like it. And the game itself is a great experience. I played through the entire game even after watching the ending on YouTube. Just start playing already!

Massive spoilers in there. I mean it.

Spoiler, click me

- Because you know at least after the beginning of chapter 3 how it's going to end. It's glaringly obvious after "fate" prevents you from saving the dad.
- Because "trying to change the flow of time is futile" is the exact same theme we have seen in at least 10,000 other time travel stories already. It's used so often in this kind of stories that even the word "trope" doesn't do it justice anymore.
- Because the ending invalidated every single choice you made in the game. No matter what you did, it's in the end all pointless. Nothing you ever did in the game mattered. It gets all rolled back and you are -literally- left off where you started. If Max would have just squashed the butterfly in the bathroom, the situation would have been -exactly- the same. Even the psycho guy is getting arrested without her interference.
- And don't get me started about the "evil" alternative, which is so laughably out of character for Max that's not even funny.

As I said, I loved the game. But the ending was just horrible, unoriginal writing.

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So many great things on Linux these days. My wallet is going to take a pounding. At this point I will buy anything this game puts out. Love it.

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Does the DLC also enhance existing mass transit options? Like the subway, which is pretty lackluster in vanilla?

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Hmmm, are they another developer that ONLY tests against NVIDIA's 'standards' under Linux OpenGL? I hope they test and compare with the latest MESA options for AMD users. I mean if they get it out the door working on AMD hardware fine then chances are the NV side of things will just fall into place once they patch the driver!

WHY? Because AMD stuff actually has conformity to standards, meaning other hardware vendors can benefit from games being tested under it.... ;)

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Don't expect something epic. The original Postal was quite special for its time but it didn't aged well at all. Comparing to Postal 2, it is plain and pointless. I got it couple years ago thanks to Linux support. However, the gameplay was so weak for my taste that I uninstalled it without planning a revisit. I don't expect anything special from redux release. If you really want to support the dev, just get Postal 2 and its DLC.

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Feral must work with DONTNOD from the development stage and not after the Windows release.

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Quoting: GuestWindward drops you in the game with zero explanation about who you are and what the goal is, it’s almost the same for Steamworld Heist (they tried to explain things in long cutscenes but I can’t say it helped much)

I've been having a fabulous time with SteamWorld Heist, actually - I can't believe it took me this long to stumble across it. I agree that the plot is pretty bare bones, but I think all the dialogue and stuff between missions provides enough context to serve as the glue between the actual missions. And the atmosphere is quite pleasant, at least if you're not tired of steampunk stuff. Anyway, I'd personally give it a pretty glowing recommendation. Scratches my X-COM itch better than X-COM does, actually.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: STiATFor Croteam not publishing on GoG anymore - would be an interesting question to forward to them.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/626329186809171707/

QuoteGOG doesn't support the infrastructure that game developers need to ship more advanced games (i.e. if you have achievements, leaderboards, multiplayer (that's not an issue for Talos, but is for Serious Sam), ship updates frequently...).
:)

QuoteBut as the situation is now, even if they had the API comparable to Steam, it wouldn't be worth the development time, since their market share is much lower.

Thanks for the info, appreciated!

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The update crashes on Linux with segmentation fault, the devs are on it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/447820/discussions/0/1290690669220852003/?ctp=3#c1290690669221687234

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Looks great, like some of the old games on the ST/Amiga.

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Looks awesome, wish we could get another Myth style game though. I mean how many standard RTS games can one want?

For those that never played Myth, it plays much like an RTS, but you have a limited number of units per level, you can't just crank out new ones. All of the terrain (like it says in cossacks 3) is useful for determining tactics (place your archers up on a hill so they have further range, while your melee fighters run up to protect them), also your surviving soldiers gain ranks and skills, so you try harder to keep them alive.

I've found that most standard RTS games are just a matter of who can click faster, and knows the tech tree the best.

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I've messaged them a few times. They said wait for the new NVidia driver. Which is out of course :(

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I wonder if this is the same / similar bug to what causes Ark to freak out when there are too many shiny things, making more shiny things.

This game looks impressive... BUT, it also says it supports VR, yet says best played with keyboard/mouse. Nothing in VR is best played with keyboard/mouse, fumbling around with a headset on your head until you can touch the nobs that are hopefully on your index fingers for the keys... then reaching over to the mouse, then back...

Hopefully they implement Flight sticks, and walking around the cockpit for VR, and most importantly get Vulkan in there so we can get Linux VR support!

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Is it really a driver bug? Or is it an Unreal Engine bug?

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The problem seems to exist quite some time now. Rather disappointing NVidia didn't tackle that than them not releasing. I understand they do want to release on Linux in full glory too instead of reducing graphics quality because NVidia didn't care.

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Quoting: iplaygameswearingatux

Quoting: dubigrasuChrist people, would you just stop giving away that the ending is bad?
While not entirely a spoiler, every-time I think about starting the game I know is gonna end bad like a weight standing above my head...enough already.

The ending is actually quite good. No idea why some people don't like it. And the game itself is a great experience. I played through the entire game even after watching the ending on YouTube. Just start playing already!

That was helpful, thanks :)

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I'm glad they are still working on it.

They could have said "linux too hard; give up" like so many others.

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Liam , can you ask them about ; did they test it with open source AMD drivers?

That is a problem ; right now most powerful cards are on Nvidia side and Nouveau open source drivers are bad so they're using proprietary Nvidia drivers. So this ports are just being blob driver certified ones and running some silly and simple problems on Mesa.

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