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If it's not too heavy for my old rig, it will be mine.

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So the tease on the radar was for Shogun 2 and not Shadow Warrior 2?:'(

I'm not complaining, since I never experienced a Total War title and Shogun 2 can be a good start, but I was thinking about SW2 (even if the first one is sitting in my library and I haven't get a chance to play it).

Good Work BTW, keep porting!

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I played this for a couple weeks on a relatively active server... and by active, I mean, there were people in the game, somewhere, even if I rarely saw anyone.

Without wikis or a more experienced player to guide you, this game is nearly impossible to figure out. Best way to start? Forage the grass! Seriously? Better than punching a tree, I suppose.

IF, however, you read the wikis or find that more experienced player, then, WURM can be a relaxing game and you do get a real sense of actually accomplishing something as soon as you start building your first house (which, on the server I was playing on, I was able to start doing within about 4 hours).

My problem with the game (on a server), over all, was two fold...

1) You want much more than a simple house and a little garden, you NEED to play with others in a town. The catch 22 is, you really won't have the skills to help a village until you start building stuff. If you build stuff outside of a village, you will have to give it all up when you join a village, and, therefore, loose all your progress/stuff.

2) Combat is the worst thing I have ever seen! I suck at combat, in most games, so, I expect to loose a lot, but, in WURM, EVERYTHING can kill you out the gate. You start with a sword and shield, but that's meaningless. You're SKILLS for combat just suck. To raise them, you HAVE to fight. You fight, you die. Oh... no healing potions. You get hit, you take wounds which decrease your ability to fight. To heal wounds, you need bandages (at minimum), and they don't instantly heal the wound (beyond the fact you need to tell the system which wound to heal). OH! And when you die, you loose a little of your skills, across all of your skills. Now... you can train with dummys to raise your combat skills... but that uses up a LOT of time and a LOT of resources (the dummies break, you see, and you will either have to constantly repair or replace them).


After two weeks with the game, I loved the crafting! I built a house, a small row boat, had a decent garden, and was feeling rather accomplished... then, I pissed off a crocodile that chased me to my home. It was WAY to strong for me to kill. Worst yet? It doesn't just walk away when aggro is lost. It hangs around. After trying to fight the croc for an hour, I simply logged out for the night, thinking it'd eventually leave. Logged in the next day and IT WAS STILL THERE! When it was still there the second day (with a goblin friend, I might add), I decided that was it for me.

Long story short... LOVE the crafting... LOATH the combat!

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The first few times i played, i actually thougth i was online with other layers... Only at the end of some matches i noticed nobody was talking, haha ! For sure multiplayer would be great. Not sure it can succeed without it. It remembers me of the excellent Running With Rifle, only with less options, and FPS view.

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Hello everyone! :D
So someone PMed me the link leading here and I decided to address couple of things. You like walls of text? W/e - you're getting one anyway! XD

First and foremost - THANK YOU very much for all your kind words but also critique. Its easy to accept only the "nice" things but... well. If you digest only those you will quickly end up in an 'echo chamber' with little to no room to expand and mature.

To cut the chase - Linux port.
I am a honesty-freak so I'll be blunt with you. Yes, if enough people request Linux port - it WILL come true. Short and simple. BUT (because there's always a 'but' ) - you need to understand couple of thing, and please - take them as 'explanation' not 'excuses'.

-Core dev team is exactly THREE people (aka 3 pairs of hands aka work takes some time to be done aka we have to set priorities)
-Beside Dev team - there is also our beloved publisher Fat Dog Games. And when we do all the 'artsy shenanigans' and production - it is the publisher who gives a final green light. (aka A LOT of requests/votes = Fat Dog blessing for Linux port)
-No member of dev team is a dedicated Linux user (aka Linux port would require us to get a bit familiar with the OS)
-Neither Sigma or Fat Dog Games are Electronic Arts(aka we don't dry our tears with $100 bills ;P)

Another thing you guys might not be aware of: we are not corporation. We are human beings. People, persons. We laugh, we cry, we sleep, we die, we eat, we get hungry sometimes. Don't believe me? Ok. Here. Have my face (SFW but still ugly AF ;D ).

Here we see, a cat. And next to the cat - is Marek, the project lead of Inner Voices

There there's Patrick (No, not the starfish from Sponge Bob)

And there's also Jarek (who's face is too ugly to post here D: )

And from 5 days we have a very wicked smile glued to our faces. We devour every comment, every review, every player feedback. We care. Maybe a bit too much. Because, you see - I'll tell you a secret =)
No one makes games for themselves.
Yeah, I know, that's a shocker :D We make them - so you can play them. And once you do - we are the happiest hippos on the planet. And this, the thing I am doing right now - is the main reason why I love making games. Why we all do. Being able to interact with you guys. See you get pissed (when you are stuck at a puzzle in game), see you be moved by our creation, see your devotion (one of you made a GOG wishlist for Inner Voices just a moment ago :O), reading all your suggestions, bug reports - it all means you care. Even the post over here and the comments below.
You care. And when you care - it makes us care even more.
Because you show us that we are doing the right thing - the right way. You are our biggest compass.

This is no PR-sweet talking or marketing (Lol like we could afford that XD ). Its just me. Its just us. And right now, we are very grateful and happy. And we listen.

Thank you again everyone!
Your are the 'feathers' - of our 'wings'. <3

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Quoting: michaI can't keep wondering whether it just was comparably little effort to port or if there's another reason to choose a 6 year old game with plenty of similar ones available.

Probably the first Feral ported game I won't buy. At least not without a massive sale. :-/

I'm guessing because it was highly requested, being among the most highly rated games in the series.

I already own it but it's one of the games I miss most since going Linux-only. And like others have said, I can always buy some DLC.

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Quoting: michaI can't keep wondering whether it just was comparably little effort to port or if there's another reason to choose a 6 year old game with plenty of similar ones available.

I guess it's not too hard to port after some other games with the same engine, and my guess is that Total War sells well on Linux. (Not due to me, though.)

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Yaaay!!

I have the game but as has been said will throw my money on the DLC for Feral :D

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I can't keep wondering whether it just was comparably little effort to port or if there's another reason to choose a 6 year old game with plenty of similar ones available.

Probably the first Feral ported game I won't buy. At least not without a massive sale. :-/

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Not completely my type of game but I am stll gonna buy it from the Feral store. Thanks for the port, Feral!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: GuestAny word on Vulkan?

Nope, all we have is the announcement. Very doubtful for such an old title though, doubt it would be worth it.

You're correct, yep. These games use OpenGL.

Regarding cross-platform multiplayer, we're working on a Linux vs Mac patch for y'all. We'll shout when that's released.

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It seems Total War is selling well for them!

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:(
I'm definitely a Feral supporter so it pains me to say so but this will be the first Feral-release I will skip.

I'll make up for it by buying the next one at full price. :)

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I'm glad I waited until this gets ported before I bought it. i've been wanting to play Shogun 2 for quite awhile now. this is going to be an instant buy for me.

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Ooh, I have this one (though not the expansion so will throw money Feral's way for that). Defginately one of my favourite Total War entries.

Its a shame that cross platform multiplayer will exclude Windows; I feel this is a ongoing problem with ports that has 2 effects.

1. Some people just wont buy the port with this limitation.
2. People who could be swayed over to Linux from windows will see this and view it as areason not too as they would miss playing with their firends on windows.


Not entirely Ferals fault here as it would require change of network/multiplayer code on windows as well, and way beyond my abilities!

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Quoting: GuestAny word on Vulkan?

Nope, all we have is the announcement. Very doubtful for such an old title though, doubt it would be worth it.

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Quoting: tuubiIt's nice that they didn't forget us. I haven't played a decent traditional JRPG in ages.

Haven't played many JRPGs at all actually (unless Septerra Core counts)
May give this one a look.

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You know , even if this isn;t so good I am glad it exists.

Why ?

Too often in our medium , we loose games. Some hardware can be emulated but for online games once the servers go down , that's it goodbye forever. Nobody will buy the IP or continue supporting it.
Even if kept alive for the few fans left or as an example in gaming history , I am glad the game lives on.

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Quoting: EhvisThe highest number of replies I've seen to such threads is about 200. Most are a few dozen. From a business point of view, about as unimpressive as it gets.

Of course, they need to take into account that only a small portion of people who would buy it are actually posting in (or even now of) such a thread.

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Quoting: jasondaigo

Quoting: TiedemannI really like this game. It's a lot of fun.

Don't really care for MP on this as there's lots of other games with that and ppl are usually not playing the objective anyway.

there are not a lot of other games like this with mp

YUP
Fully agree.
If Linux/Windows cross MP works I will buy this for me and my mates. :)

EDIT:
I also stipulate I need to be able to play with my windows firends vs bots.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: KeyrockGreat to see, even if RTS isn't exactly in my wheelhouse.

Yeah. I love the idea of RTS games, but I'm rather terrible at them, so they're not much fun to play. Turn-based strategy is more my thing.

Have you tried any of the Paradox ones ? The allow you to slow down time or pause outright.

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So, which is hardest? Making multiplayer or AI that feels like it's like multiplayer?

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Quoting: lucifertdarkThey're seriously prioritising the WiiU version? Why?

WiiU has a bigger market share then Linux :(

WiiU has sold ~14 Million Units and at the moment we have currently only ~2 Million Linux Players on Steam.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkThey're seriously prioritising the WiiU version? Why?

Probably because they expect their JRPG to sell better on a Japanese console platform, even if it's not the most popular one.

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Looks interesting, definately like this sort of game. Will be interesting to see how it stacks up against Maia as that is a very similar concept.

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Quoting: EikeYou said this like you had some secret source of inormation unavailable to me. Where do you know that from?

The highest number of replies I've seen to such threads is about 200. Most are a few dozen. From a business point of view, about as unimpressive as it gets.

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Appreciate the info Liam. As a Radeon user, Mesa is very important to me.

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They're seriously prioritising the WiiU version? Why?

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: DamonLinuxPLMaybe this developer (one of few) collect Linux request and in next he asking about permission his boss or ask about this game publisher.

But that's the whole trick.

You said this like you had some secret source of inormation unavailable to me. Where do you know that from?

Quoting: EhvisThey won't ever get enough responses in those threads for a "boss" or "publisher" to even consider it.

The maybe, interest is low. And not many copies would be sold.

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I tried this awhile back as well, the whole idea of it seemed fun. the graphics are a bit old, somewhere around the 2001 to 2004 era graphics style. that didn't really bother me though. I liked it for the nostalgia of an older mmo.

but it is very clunky to figure out how to get things to work. a lot of left and right clicking things. It requires an incredible amount of patience to figure out. for anyone that doesn't have a load of time on their hands to simply set around and figure out all the things it can be very annoying.

although I was nicely surprised how most everything ran and It didn't crash at all. I didn't try the multiplayer though.

not a bad game, but not that great either.

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