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Where the hell is Return Fire 3!!!?!?!!!! >=(>

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Note, that SW2 for consoles is coming out soon, and they said in the past, Linux release will happen around the same time.

See https://twitter.com/ShadowWarrior/status/852722512341463041

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I fire this game up every once in a while to see how far it's gone. Definitely one of those 'in dev limbo' games. But at least it's not like Godus where it just completely stopped and They decided to support a mobile version and some sort of multiplayer arena thing....

Well, I wouldn't say Shroud of the Avatar is in dev limbo, it's just taking it's sweet time for release.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhatever happened to that mech game that was like turn-based with small squads of mechs, that there was an article about in GoL some time back? Unfortunately I can't remember the name . . .
Like, I think it maybe was still in beta or something at the time, and I don't remember hearing of it being released . . . but maybe it was actually out and I just forgot to put it in my wishlist . . . urgh, my memory. It's annoying because I can remember it seemed pretty cool and now I don't know how to find it; it's been niggling at me every time a mech game comes up.

Battletech, maybe?

Kickstarter says May 2017... GIMME! Been wanting a hard core battletech video game for a VERY long time. This one looks like it's the first proper one ever (based fully on the board game).

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Quoting: meggermanMech games seem like the perfect fodder for VR. Hopefully Linux/SteamOS VR developement can continue to make strides as the next gen of headsets demand even more performance and efficiency at driver / OS level.

It sounds like Mech games are made for VR. Yet, having played some VR games, I think one might need a pretty strong stomach to play such a game. Even plain moving (character walking on its own or a car) is making many people rather sick after a few minutes. If you would add sway and stomping to that, I don't know if many could play it.

Well, if you can handle playing Windlands standing up (I'm okay at it sitting down, it's really odd standing up..) then you probably can handle anything in VR.

But I was going to post the same thing, VR is just crying for a Mech Game. Think about it, a Mech game (or driving games for that matter) are indeed perfect anyhow, because you're not going to be feeling like you're just free walking when you're not. Though maybe the bouncing up and down you'd most likely do in a Mech harness wouldn't translate well, being fully seated and moving around in a swivel chair controlling a Mech makes a lot of sense.

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Quoting: GuestFor anyone interested I suggest waiting for the next free period to try it. The game is far from finished. It is lacking in PvE content and needs serious optimization (both for a better framerate and lower RAM usage – you’ll need at least 16 GB but I read that it can go above that). Also player housing has its downsides as you sometimes wander through ugly and empty player towns.

There was a bug that was causing double loading of assets that's why memory usage was that high, but I believe that it has been fixed. Don't quote me on that though because I haven't played it since the last update.

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: Colombo

Quotealso this is the same person who liked ME : andromeda and no man sky ...and those both where horrible shit..and flopped so badly..oh and he hated starcraft2 also (if I remember correctly)...and he is one of the most Hypocritical & egotistical (Amateur) reviewers.

and saying that he lifted his SEGA boycott just to reviews this game doesn't make the situation any better ...it makes it way worse..why? try to figure out for yourself at times.

Uh, I might not agree with TotalBiscuit, I might not like what he likes, but in his reviews, he always tries to point out all the flaws and all the pros of each game, regardless of him liking it or hating it. He states quite often that whole point of his reviews is not to tell you what you should like because he likes it, but gives you general overview on how the game is played, what problems the game might have and what is nice on that game using constructive arguments.

Also, he does reviewing for living, so technically he is professional.

Don't mind him. He is either obviously trolling or being a kid who has no idea what he is talking about. Claiming that TotalBiscuit hates StarCraft II while he has a dedicated SC2 channel is flat out dumbass. Moreover, again claiming that TotalBiscuit liked No Man's Sky is a shameless lie cause he hated overhype surrounding the game so much that he rejected covering the game itself. Seriously what the hack?

apprently I remember/confused him with someone else as I really haven followed him in years, is also happens that I wrote this 3-5am that didn't help at all either...also human memory is like wikipedia (aka you or anybody can edit your memory)...at least so sorry about that..

but anyway that people think that he or anybody else are professional just show how much we trust these people when you can trust them as much as IGN reviews.

I personally only check random gameplay streams to check the game out and if there is beta or a demo I will try it, and if some of my friends have bought it I will ask their oppinon, I also check pro gamers/streamers that are good on different type of games, so now with DoW3 I look at some "pro" RTS gamers/streamers and see what they think on some stuff...and that could adjust just little bit my opinon ...aka IF I think game is 7 or 8 their opinon can affect what side I lean on (7 or 8)...at least if there is some stuff that I'm not familiar with and I cant really give an opinon ...like some balancing stuff.


the last thing, about why u shouldn't read too much in to the metacritc reviews (at least), as most of the negative comments are 0/10 and when u check those accounts its their only game review ...and unfortunately there is no system to check that you have played the game and you can make how many account as possible, so you can't really trust those reviews...as it can be just one person makeing those reviews. And what about steam reviewes?...its also problematic but not as bad metacritc.
one issue is that there is only "like" or "dislike" option, plus many of the negative reviews have only 1-2h of playtime which does raise questions. One thing I have notice is that the rate of positive reviews is increasing (slowly but it is)...its now ~60% positive, have to see what the record is in 1month or so.

also one of the latest AAA games that Feral ported to linux got also mixed reviews, and it was Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (metacritic review) ...

Spoiler, click me

I liked it, oc it had problems but so did Human Revolution actually in many stuff mankind divided was a nice upgrade from Human Revolution..MD story was maybe the biggest problem but not a huge one...I think it was fine

But I never brought metacritic to this discussion, nor I care about it. That's why I went to someone that actually played the game for a reasonable amount of time, and also has played all the other games people are comparing it to like coh2 and dow2. And that person refers all the criticism around the game, and he refutes some of it, and he backs some of it, and he goes on to point out how the gameplay differs from the previous installment and how limits you from doing stuff you could do before and how it forces you to behave in a determined way instead of teaching you how to deal with what it is trying to prevent, etc.

So based on all that I really don't see a reason to get it as it is right now, unless one of my friends ends up getting it and I will be able to play with them as they are on windows.

About Mankind Divided, I appreciate it's available on linux but I find it insulting it's more expensive then Human Revolution which is not on linux and has twice the content. Heck, that's why it has so many bad reviews in the first place from windows users, so it's trice as bad from a linux user point of view.

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Quoting: meggermanMech games seem like the perfect fodder for VR. Hopefully Linux/SteamOS VR developement can continue to make strides as the next gen of headsets demand even more performance and efficiency at driver / OS level.

It sounds like Mech games are made for VR. Yet, having played some VR games, I think one might need a pretty strong stomach to play such a game. Even plain moving (character walking on its own or a car) is making many people rather sick after a few minutes. If you would add sway and stomping to that, I don't know if many could play it.

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Oh wow, you guys are still going? :D *ducks for cover*

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Quoting: Guestinteresting because next you write the following:[...]

I underminded my previous statement with that.

Quoting: Guestcan you please decide if you want to talk about security or not.

Sigh, though this should be more than clear now: No.
I won't even bother reading the rest of your post, it will only be more unintelligible gibberish again.

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Quoting: meggermanAll sites should use 2FA if resonably possible.

The problem with 2FA is that it's a complete PITA. There are about as many authenticators around as there are applications using 2FA, which is bad to begin with (If you use 30 services protected by 2FA, chances are that you will have to deal with at least 25 different authenticators). But the worst thing about 2FA is that most services want you to use your smartphone as authenticator, which is a really, REALLY stupid idea. Smartphones have a much greater chances to get lost or stolen than (good) passwords have, so doing that is adding a security liability, not an asset.
You also cannot use smartphone based authenticators without exposing your identity, at least to the provider of the authenticator. Which is a significant privacy concern, for using such services anonymously is neigh on infeasible.
And since people tend to replace their smartphone quite often, you will have to reset every single authenticator app when doing that. Fun! Not.

2FA is one of the things that look good on paper, but just don't work in real life. The one possible solution to this dilemma would be a global standard provider of 2FA tokens you could purchase anonymously and that would work with every single service on the planet. But when has standardization ever worked anyway! And even then this would result in a single point of failure you better not ever lose. That's the intrinsic problem with 2FA - it's very point is to make you authenticate with something you HAVE and not just know (unlike passwords). But what you have, you can lose!

In the end, 2FA would be totally unnecessary if people would pick good passwords, not reuse them anywhere, and the service providers would stop being daft and start properly hashing/salting them. 2FA does NOT protect services from getting hacked. All it really does is protecting stolen passwords.

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Another company?

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Mesa turning into the savior for Linux gaming, all we need now is RADV to be updated allot so it actually performs good in Vulkan, or AMD's closed Vulkan code, either all. OH and Freesync, which I guess won't happen until the DC driver release in kernel 4.13 or something.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: KelsGood heavens, there are still people obsessing over her and how terrible she is and how she wants to ban all our gaaaaaaaaaaames!!!!!!!!! That's kinda creepy.

Anita Sarkeesian should be removed from the planet.

And apparently this objective justifies making false claims about her based on cleverly-cut-to-be-misleading video clips. Well then, pat yourself on the back.
Personally, I tend to think if you can't make your argument about a person without lying, the person you're lying about is probably closer to correct than you.

You're right, I should have looked further into it.

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I am excited for a good mech game to come to Linux. MechWarrior Online is one of the few games I have installed in Windows still.

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Whatever happened to that mech game that was like turn-based with small squads of mechs, that there was an article about in GoL some time back? Unfortunately I can't remember the name . . .
Like, I think it maybe was still in beta or something at the time, and I don't remember hearing of it being released . . . but maybe it was actually out and I just forgot to put it in my wishlist . . . urgh, my memory. It's annoying because I can remember it seemed pretty cool and now I don't know how to find it; it's been niggling at me every time a mech game comes up.

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Also, if arguments about this turn to "remove from the plant", something is off.

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Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: KelsGood heavens, there are still people obsessing over her and how terrible she is and how she wants to ban all our gaaaaaaaaaaames!!!!!!!!! That's kinda creepy.

Anita Sarkeesian should be removed from the planet.

And apparently this objective justifies making false claims about her based on cleverly-cut-to-be-misleading video clips. Well then, pat yourself on the back.
Personally, I tend to think if you can't make your argument about a person without lying, the person you're lying about is probably closer to correct than you.

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Let's not drag Anita's off-topic into this thread. Especially stuff like above.

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Quoting: razing32I've been following this for a while but have not seen positive notes on the steam reviews.
Even from people playing quite a bit.

Have you played this Liam ?
Do you plan to do an in-depth review ?

I gave it some recent impressions here. Likely waiting a while before doing so again to see how it changes.

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Apologies, too off topic for the forum.

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I've been following this for a while but have not seen positive notes on the steam reviews.
Even from people playing quite a bit.

Have you played this Liam ?
Do you plan to do an in-depth review ?

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Kinda sucks somebody did that.
Wonder why though ?
Was it just for shits and gigglez or did somebody have a bone to pick with unity devs ?

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You finally got around to it

Also

Spoiler, click me

QuoteNote: My key was provided for free by a friend on Steam some time ago, I forgot who though, apologies.

It was me :)

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Quoting: JudasIscariotYou can actually use winetricks as Austin English implemented the ability to turn CSMT off and on in the registry. Here's the initial commit:

https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/commit/3f50cf9e6b142b1ed31739f7b7f14bfd07ce7ae0

and the follow-up commit to correct a bug within the initial commit:
https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/commit/35eb15ff45656165dff5e9e173ec5d162144ee2c

Here's how the CSMT on/off setting looks in winetricks:

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Thanks to winetricks for make more simple things for regular user, is more important most users can used wine

CSMT register dont affect performance for now, but can usefull for solve flickering problem in some titles

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: Colombo

Quotealso this is the same person who liked ME : andromeda and no man sky ...and those both where horrible shit..and flopped so badly..oh and he hated starcraft2 also (if I remember correctly)...and he is one of the most Hypocritical & egotistical (Amateur) reviewers.

and saying that he lifted his SEGA boycott just to reviews this game doesn't make the situation any better ...it makes it way worse..why? try to figure out for yourself at times.

Uh, I might not agree with TotalBiscuit, I might not like what he likes, but in his reviews, he always tries to point out all the flaws and all the pros of each game, regardless of him liking it or hating it. He states quite often that whole point of his reviews is not to tell you what you should like because he likes it, but gives you general overview on how the game is played, what problems the game might have and what is nice on that game using constructive arguments.

Also, he does reviewing for living, so technically he is professional.

Don't mind him. He is either obviously trolling or being a kid who has no idea what he is talking about. Claiming that TotalBiscuit hates StarCraft II while he has a dedicated SC2 channel is flat out dumbass. Moreover, again claiming that TotalBiscuit liked No Man's Sky is a shameless lie cause he hated overhype surrounding the game so much that he rejected covering the game itself. Seriously what the hack?

apprently I remember/confused him with someone else as I really haven followed him in years, is also happens that I wrote this 3-5am that didn't help at all either...also human memory is like wikipedia (aka you or anybody can edit your memory)...at least so sorry about that..

but anyway that people think that he or anybody else are professional just show how much we trust these people when you can trust them as much as IGN reviews.

I personally only check random gameplay streams to check the game out and if there is beta or a demo I will try it, and if some of my friends have bought it I will ask their oppinon, I also check pro gamers/streamers that are good on different type of games, so now with DoW3 I look at some "pro" RTS gamers/streamers and see what they think on some stuff...and that could adjust just little bit my opinon ...aka IF I think game is 7 or 8 their opinon can affect what side I lean on (7 or 8)...at least if there is some stuff that I'm not familiar with and I cant really give an opinon ...like some balancing stuff.


the last thing, about why u shouldn't read too much in to the metacritc reviews (at least), as most of the negative comments are 0/10 and when u check those accounts its their only game review ...and unfortunately there is no system to check that you have played the game and you can make how many account as possible, so you can't really trust those reviews...as it can be just one person makeing those reviews. And what about steam reviewes?...its also problematic but not as bad metacritc.
one issue is that there is only "like" or "dislike" option, plus many of the negative reviews have only 1-2h of playtime which does raise questions. One thing I have notice is that the rate of positive reviews is increasing (slowly but it is)...its now ~60% positive, have to see what the record is in 1month or so.

also one of the latest AAA games that Feral ported to linux got also mixed reviews, and it was Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (metacritic review) ...

Spoiler, click me

I liked it, oc it had problems but so did Human Revolution actually in many stuff mankind divided was a nice upgrade from Human Revolution..MD story was maybe the biggest problem but not a huge one...I think it was fine

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played it quite some time ago, haven't seen it getting much updates sadly. It's a fun game, but needs a lot more content and players imo.

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Quoting: Beta VersionDoes/will it have a single-player story mode?

Seems so, yes. Currently it has two single player battles to try out.

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Mech games seem like the perfect fodder for VR. Hopefully Linux/SteamOS VR developement can continue to make strides as the next gen of headsets demand even more performance and efficiency at driver / OS level.

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Does/will it have a single-player story mode?

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