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QuoteTwo Worlds II to be released on Linux in May

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Quoting: Shinikio

Quoting: Mountain Man"Yes, we will release on Linux as well as Steam OS."

So... they'll release on Linux.

Yeah that's a pleonasm. SteamOS is Linux lol

What would really suck is if there were a way to force you to use SteamOS instead of whatever flavor of Linux you prefer.

Then again, I'm sure whatever possible thing they could to try to enforce that, someone would find a way around it. Fortunately Valve is smart enough to to bother trying.

On another note; There was the comment about needing more 'Good Open world RPGs', when I played Two Worlds (may have just been the first one) it was pretty terrible. Not sure if I even tried the second. But this is just an enhancement, right? How many damned editions do they need? I apparently have Two Worlds II in my library on Steam, but don't have the Epic Edition there; but on GoG, I have Two Worlds II: Epic Edition (Linux support), and Two Worlds II: Velvet Edition (Windows only).

Is this going to be the "Epically Velvety Velour Edition?

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Quoting: Mountain Man"Yes, we will release on Linux as well as Steam OS."

So... they'll release on Linux.

Yeah, it's quite annoying when they say such stuff. Sounds like on PC and on Linux.

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Will they release it on GOG as well? Two Worlds II is already sold there.

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Raven's Cry is buggy. True. But Vendetta Curse of Raven's Cry is much better now. Do you know why? So Reality Pump worked on the original, promising - Sacrilegium game. However, the publisher TopWare decided that the Octan Games studio (finland) was not working well with the production of Raven's Cry - ordered by TopWare. So TopWare moved the project to the part made to Reality Pump, which caused them to abandon their existing projects such as Sacrilegium and focus on Raven's Cry.
In spite of all, they had very little time to repair the game, the publisher was still on the move, and they had to finish "not their game" - note that it was not an easy task, especially when the majority of the crew left the newly created CD Projekt RED division. In spite of all, they had to release the game as it was because the contracts they had committed were almost bankrupt. Hence such quality. Vendetta, on the other hand, works pretty well.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"Yes, we will release on Linux as well as Steam OS."

So... they'll release on Linux.

Yeah that's a pleonasm. SteamOS is Linux lol

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: Shinikio"it said "PC" and we all know how confusing that term is for Linux gamers."

"PC" is clear for me, it means "Personal Computer" not Windows or any system but more like hardware :P
Unfortunately, that often means "Windows" for most of people, but this is wrong and it should change. That's like say "console" and think it's only Sony, that's just nonsense

Yeah but it has worked when a game is announced they say PC and thus have managed to get into the heads of the majority PC = Windows.

Yeah I know, but should be "PC Windows" not only "PC" :)

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"Yes, we will release on Linux as well as Steam OS."

So... they'll release on Linux.

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Here it comes, finally ! ^_^

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Samsai beating the Clustertruck boss:

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Are there info about pricing for the Linux or the Enhanced version only for owners of the original game? We should buy it again buying the add-on?

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To your last point, Liam, I think we're going to hit critical mass soon. We're going to see people start to adopt Linux as their desktop operating system at an exponential rate. I predict we'll hit 6% in two years and it will grow from there. I imagine we might get to 18% on the Steam HW survey before we see a slowdown in growth, but it will continue to grow.

Especially considering that, when people realize many EFIs actually prevent them from putting Linux on their PC, there will be some outrage and people will buy their laptops from System76. I don't know how much of this is wishful thinking, but I've never been accused of being a pessimist.

Also, I finally stopped lurking and decided to post. :P

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Thanks for the info about the game being free to grab, as I've went ahead and got it on my Steam Library now! Also, even though it sounds like there are some glitches with the Linux port, I do appreciate that a Linux version exists at all!

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YES

Finally

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Try different radio stations - I found that some of them played nothing but the interludes between tracks in the official Linux release (could try running it through the Steam Runtime if you're not already?). Never had any sound issues in Wine here though, differences could be due to system configuration.

(also it looks like AO was responsible for some of the graphical glitches I was encountering in the official release)

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: F.UltraLooks like most negative reviews comes from fiddly controls. Hopefully that is something that they can and/or will improve.

Fiddly controls, camera issues, bad interface, unpolished, multiple bugs... To quote Destructoid:
"I can't remember the last time I had to go to a game's forum to get a bug resolved just so I could advance. It's a lesson in wonderful concept and poor execution."

https://www.destructoid.com/review-diluvion-422788.phtml

I ignored the comments about bugs due to the "to get a bug resolved", too me that sounds like the devs are active and are fixing the bugs as soon as they are found.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThey are practically equal in performance, I'd wish to see it working "much better" with Wine.
To be exact, I have right now both versions installed on my drive and I can see the graphical artifacts less present on Wine (those black textures I mentioned before) but also no AO present on Wine (yes, sorry I'm repeating myself).
The most annoying thing, stutter, is also the same unfortunately.

Performance wise both will be about the same, owing to the poor state of the Windows version of the game (the game has a lot of graphical glitches even on Windows BTW - I compared with running the game on a Windows install). Still, I found that in Wine it stuttered a bit less (and wasn't stuttering like crazy during cutscenes), has fewer graphical glitches, stuff like radio music playback actually works etc.

I did found the black textures less obvious with Wine, but honestly, I can go back and forth with both versions and the stutter is the same (maybe a bit pronounced on Wine, but I can't be really sure). As for the radio music I see no issues on the native version so far.
I would be inclined to play it with Wine though (despite the missing Ambient Occlusion), since those black textures present on VP version are terribly annoying to my eyes, but the sound is a bit botched with Wine, I have missing voices/dialogs at times during cutscenes mostly and sometimes audio dropping completely (recovering after restart).
I think that both Wine and VP tech in this case are equally able (or rather unable) to deal with this game at this point, and the differences are minimal.

The single one thing that did made a difference for me with this game was running it from RAM, which did alleviate the stutter to a point where I could somewhat ignore it:

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: dubigrasuThey are practically equal in performance, I'd wish to see it working "much better" with Wine.
To be exact, I have right now both versions installed on my drive and I can see the graphical artifacts less present on Wine (those black textures I mentioned before) but also no AO present on Wine (yes, sorry I'm repeating myself).
The most annoying thing, stutter, is also the same unfortunately.

Performance wise both will be about the same, owing to the poor state of the Windows version of the game (the game has a lot of graphical glitches even on Windows BTW - I compared with running the game on a Windows install). Still, I found that in Wine it stuttered a bit less (and wasn't stuttering like crazy during cutscenes), has fewer graphical glitches, stuff like radio music playback actually works etc.

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Based on these comments, it sounds like "free" is a fair asking price for the Linux port.

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Quoting: ShmerlAs others pointed out, the game works much better in Wine, than in the "native" version which is actually a wrapper anyway.

They are practically equal in performance, I'd wish to see it working "much better" with Wine.
To be exact, I have right now both versions installed on my drive and I can see the graphical artifacts less present on Wine (those black textures I mentioned before) but also no AO present on Wine (yes, sorry I'm repeating myself).
The most annoying thing, stutter, is also the same unfortunately.

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Quoting: ryad

Quoting: GuestWe need more performance, i'm not playing the game because of this.

Really..? I can't see, why you actually need to have high fps in a board game like Civilization. Certainly, on low-end hardware, the game is stuttering. However, you don't need a high-end rig to play it properly. I do my "good-night Civ 6 sessions" with playable performance on a i5-4200U + 730M notebook (with integrated GPU it's pretty unplayable though).

It's not unplayable, and it's still a fantastic game (I rate it as one of the best Civ games ever made). It's just that it would be nice to see it running at 60FPS rather than 20FPS late-game. Even though it's turn-based, nice, smooth graphics would enhance the feel.

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As others pointed out, the game works much better in Wine, than in the "native" version which is actually a wrapper anyway.

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Quoting: adamhmI found that running SR2 in Wine works better than the official Linux release: https://www.gog.com/forum/saints_row_series/saints_row_2_for_linux

I just tried it, I can barely see any difference other than the Ambient Occlusion totally missing on Wine.

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The trouble with the market-share on linux is a round-robin process due in part for the fact that game-sellers don't distinguish between linux and windows. The round-robin problem relies on the fact that there is few games on linux (port or directly dev) because people are on windows. But most people are on windows because games are developed for.

for example, I (and many of people around me) would only play on linux OS (Lubuntu or Mint-cinnamon in my family+friends:~20 computers) ... But I (we) have to boot on windows to play some games because we are passionate gamers. I mean that if linux and windows were separated in the game market, I would have to choose an OS for buying my games. And I (and we) would buy games for linux.
But the resellers force me to buy them on windows because Gog and Steam provide them with no distinction to both OS. Pavlov training makes me booting on windows if I want to play (and Office as Libreoffice is still not fully functional for my usage), boot on linux for video watching, internet, mailing, code, markdown and latex.

For me, linux would increase quickly if 1-we have to buy game for one OS becasue we would choose linux OS if available and it will be market-shared, 2-Office softwares on linux would be as functional as Office (ie graph and formula on calc not good enough, writer compatibility with *.docx coming from mac and windows).

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Quoting: CybolicI'm not trying to be harsh here, but I do believe that the perceived relevance of the "Steam Hardware Survey" as any sort of metric for the number of Linux users is largely useless and ultimately harmful for our community.

Not to mention it seems to me that Linux users tend to be more likely to buy DRM free games than those on Win or macOS, meaning they don't go to Steam at all, which would further skew the numbers.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: BdMdesigNOn GOG its free, too.

As clearly stated in the article, GOG do not have Linux versions.

Grabbing (GOG connect) anyways just in case the sloths at GOG eventually decide to add the Linux builds.

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I found that running SR2 in Wine works better than the official Linux release: https://www.gog.com/forum/saints_row_series/saints_row_2_for_linux

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: MasterSleortJoking aside (for some other joking...) Now we have to come up with excuses as to why they haven't leaked it yet. It could be that they want to be sure that Feral can actually deliver. Imagine they went out and announced The Witcher 3 for Linux again and then failed to deliver once again. Better to keep it a UFO at Feral and let it disappear in the hopefully very unlikable event that it (whatever it is) could not be ported to Linux.

That gave me an idea: Feral is giving hints so widely interpretable in their radar so that they can relate them to another game if the current port doesn't work out. :D

They don't give widely interpretable hints. It's obviously Nier: Automata.

1) It would be the first Japanese Square Enix game to be on Linux. This explains the Japanese symbol.

2) The letter 茶 is the title from a Nier: Automata subquest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KoM4C8jAfQ

3) Feral Interactive loved working with Square Enix at a recent time (Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, Life Is Strange, Hitman, Thief,..)

4) Nier: Automata is the best game ever made for many people.

"I don't do reviews; probably going to be my only steam review ever. I estimate exactly 4 people will ever read this. But just putting it out there; this is one of the most beautiful experiences in life I've had so far. Literally nothing I've read, watched or played has actually made me cry, truly; but after finshing ending E, I cried, simply for how beautiful this work of art was."

"Quite possibly one of the best games I've played ever. Definitely sitting comfortably at my GOTY spot until MAYBE something comes along that might dethrone it. But after looking through the rest of the titles that come out this year, highly unlikely that's happening."

"Rare are the moments when I am compelled to take time out to leave a review for a game. In fact, I think I've written only one or two reviews in the 8 or 9 years I've been on Steam. And yet, NieR: Automata has compelled me to leave one. "

I must admint that I wasn't serious with The Witcher 3. Just found the "coincidence" amusing.

This said, I don't know what is Nier:Automata but if Feral could team up with Square Enix to port all of their games over to Linux, that would be awesome! Square Enix has many awesome games.

Looking at all their latest collaborations, it's heading in the right direction, at least. :)

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SR 2 is awesome, and the fun part, while being the port of the windows port, it behaves a lot better than the windows version assuming any windows version < 10.
You do need to install the audio pack (see github), as some of the audio cannot be played.
VP got a black box to "port", the original sources are *lost*, even the studio that owns the game does not have the sources anymore.
So yes, all the windows bugs are expected, but they are exhibited less than on windows.
I was sad when I finished the story :-(.
SR4 worked on fglrx, so I assume SR2 works on that too, although I replaced my intel/ati steam desktop with a dedicated steam machine (nvidia), and that seems to work even better. (wine doesn't really work on steamos :-( )
SR2 works fine with a steam controller.

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I played all other SR titles with Linux support, but this was neglected for too long. Currently I'm on Black Mesa but this one will be scheduled!

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