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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: g000hShadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan

Do you mean FWH are using Vulkan in their engine now?

Hi. I'm not sure about the Vulkan bit. Best to ignore it until someone confirms that it is true.

If it isn't true, sorry for spreading false info.

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Well, this news was unexpected.

I wasn't a huge fun of Unity, but it had some nifty features, like HUD or Global Menus - maybe they'll find a way to make them work in GNOME 3 now.

I'm really disappointed that they dropped the whole convergence idea. Unfortunately, I can't say that it was unexpected as Canonical has a long history of picking up and dropping projects frivolously, and I had a bad feeling they'd drop phones as well...

I was really looking forward to owning an Ubuntu phone as well - Android really needs a strong competitor, preferably a Free (as in freedom) contender (personally I hope Replicant OS picks up some steam one day).

It's really odd to me that they're dropping it now, when Google already started implementing this concept in practice (eg the new multitasking capabilities in nougat) and most likely will be moving towards convergence.

Can't they rebase the whole Ubuntu phone on top of GNOME 3 and Wayland ? That'd be awesome, but unlikely to happen.

QuoteQuestion: Is there any interest in me doing a separate site to cover general Linux news?

Personally, I'm really interested in a good site like this. Gamingonlinux is a real quality blog, so a great general Linux news blog would be welcome.

As long as it doesn't interfrere with running gamingonlinux, I'm all for it.

Just be sure to post an article about it, once it comes out, so we can check it out.

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Quoting: g000hShadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan

Do you mean FWH are using Vulkan in their engine now?

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Quoting: Tchey- map is cut is several little pieces with loading screen and no real sense of openworld

There are many much larger scenes these days, these are mostly not suitable for a low level adventurer however. They are trying to address this by putting 'outskirts' scenes between the current starting scenes and the first town on your quest path to minimize the number of loading screens in the first few hours of play. However yes, there are still many loading screens.

Quoting: Tchey- you have to pay for the game, and the cash shop is a huge trap with ingame house costing 200+€ up to 1000+€, rent, deed, and many other things that you "must have" to have a real MMOG experience

If you feel that you "must have" a house then there are several options: you can buy a deed in the add-on store; you can win a deed in the monthly in-game lottery; you can buy a deed from another player outside the game with real money; you can buy a deed with in-game gold from a player vendor. There are also a number of people with player owned towns (POTs) who are willing to loan out their surplus housing to new players.

You can buy a house if you want, but you don't need one for a row lot. Plenty of players in game have extra houses from their pledges which are for sale on vendors, there are also seven craftable houses.

Quoting: Tchey- whatever more than a basic gameplay experience, you have to pay with real money

Notwithstanding the free trial, you have to buy the game to play it all. Once you have purchased 'game access' however you can go wherever you want and play how you want without buyiing anything else with real money. The add-on store stuff is mostly cosmetic and/or has in-game craftable equivalents.

Quoting: Tchey- even for being part of the forum, you need to pay 5€

Yes. Though some sub-forums have been opened up for the free trial weekend.

Quoting: Tchey- Little activity around the game beside the official voices

Most of the activity around the game is the players I would say - SotaMap, the various crafting websites, the story writing competition and most of the other events are player driven.

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I don't know, but, I want NieR: Automata!!!

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I have been playing this title off and on for a year now. It has come a long way since the early alpha days. Nice article Liam, was a good read. Cheers.

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Hello Kitty Online? :D
J/K I'm also thinking it's probably Shadow Warrior 2.

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Rise of Tomb Raider






Case closed

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Based on the comments so far, and my own personal bias, my feeling is that it will be Shadow Warrior 2 - which is one of my top games, that I want to see on Linux.

Suffice to say, if it is Shadow Warrior 2, then I will be buying it immediately from Feral's own store.

Shadow Warrior 2 is one of the few modern games to use Vulkan, and noting Feral's recent use of Vulkan to upgrade Mad Max (Linux version only, sorry Windows).

Also, I'd be very happy to see Rise of the Tomb Raider as well, which is one of the titles I think Feral might be porting at some point in the future.

Repeating an earlier comment I made about Shadow Warrior - I played the SW 2013 game only a couple of months ago, to improve Linux stats and encourage (Linux porting) action from SW developers Flying Wild Hog.

EDIT:

I might be wrong about the Vulkan bit (sorry if I am). Haven't been able to validate it.

Maybe I got confused with this: Shadow Warrior 2 does support HDR graphics

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Good to see Unity go. Why they thought Unity was a good UI is beyond me. I always thought it made things more complicated instead of easier (Hint: If you display a window menu on top of the screen instead on top of the window, the mouse pointer will usually have to move -longer- to get there).

Even better to see Mir go. I have still no idea why Canonical thought dumping resources into Mir would be a good idea when they could just have worked with Wayland instead. This move now brings Ubuntu back closer to other mainstream Linux distros and this is good for everyone.

I like Ubuntu because it's a solid Linux distro, but I don't necessarily want them to do things dramatically different for no good reason. Like...arranging the window controls on the left hand side of the window, when really everyone expects them to be on the right hand side.

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Unfortunately it looks like the porting companies have chosen not to add Linux depots on steam too early anymore.
Before we could make good guesses from steamdb's information, but now... too bad ;)

If it would be Nier:Automata... I guess I would instantly buy it. I've heard so many good stories about this game, like its high replay value with different endings and already different starts. I was already guessing that it might come to Linux, as Square Enix started to be quite Linux friendly.

Also Feral started to increase the difficulty to solve their radar riddles pretty much, probably as the community was too quick in resolving them :D
I hope a release it not too far in the future.

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@liamdawe My honest opinion is, to focus on GOL, make it even better than it is now and make it all in one place, community and much more (who knows what can be done) for linux gaming... It already has an awesome community and if you don't lose much time doing a whole another website you can spend and put so much more effort into GOL and make it even more awesome than it is :P

at least that's how I would do it...

About the Ubuntu killing Unity... who knows, will probably have both positive and negative consequences, hopefully the bilance will be in favour of positive ones :P

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Maybe it's just Senran Kagura Estival Versus :D

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeThey pay, then port, then sell.

They pay? That's the reverse of what I'd expect. But I guess it's up to how they agree to share the profit.

It waa the same for me when I read it first. AFAIK, afterwards the whole money goes to Feral. But this way, they get the whole risk as well...

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NieR Automata?????

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Quoting: EikeThat's why it's even more important to get the sales numbers for the right system - it's what directly pays their dinner.

And sales per system is not something sensible in cross platform sales cases. Unless they only count their own store as a system specific sale. Not sure what they'll count in GOG version for example. Number of downloads? Sale itself is generic for all versions.

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QuotePart of this is the map items you get have markers on them, are written in Runic text.

There is an option to show English names on the overworld map, you have to turn it on yourself though. For the in game map: Windows and Mac users got SotaMap integrated in this release, Linux users should be getting it next month.

QuoteCombat feels very much like you find in World of Warcraft. You have a hotbar of abilities, with it all played out in real time.

It's actually (and somewhat controversially) a bit different, but as part of the improved new user experience it's now all locked down to start with. Talk to a skills trainer to unlock the full deck system.

QuoteDeath comes in the form of becoming a ghost, you cannot really do anything but wait around

If you look on your compass when you're dead you will see ankh markers (like a stone cross but with an oval for the top bar), head to one of the ankhs to resurrect.

Also, please post your feedback (or even just a link to this) in the new player experience feedback section of the forum.

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Unless they changed their mind, I asked them about porting Nier: Automata and they said that they did not have any plans.

Source: link

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Quoting: EikeThey pay, then port, then sell.

They pay? That's the reverse of what I'd expect. But I guess it's up to how they agree to share the profit.

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I must be an odd duck, but I actually like the idea of Liam doing a Linux news site.
Yes, there are plenty of them, so here´s my 2 cents on why he should do it :
Over the years I have seen (tech) news sites come and go, rise and fall. If we don´t, on occasion, have some new ones popping up then you run the risk of getting stuck in sites that have dropped their standards so low that they´re no longer relevant - tomshardware springs to mind, used to be great when Tom was still doing the critical reporting, sunk like a brick ever since he left - just an example.
Getting linux news from a guy who already does a proper job on reporting the gaming side would be interesting to see, different angle and frequent nods on how some news would/could affect the gaming side of linux - yes please.
Also, I think it would be good for Liam too. Reporting on games only day in day out, come on - no matter how much you love gaming, it´s going to get stale at some point. Take it from a guy who once made his hobby his job : not a good idea. Diversify and you will be happier, trust me on this :)
Quick suggestion, I know it´s not an easy request, but if you do the news site, maybe pop something in about linux compatible hardware ? Or some way to report on that by users ? Maybe you could make that the little edge that makes the news site stand apart and a reason for people to visit the site specifically.

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Quoting: bubexel381.09 i tested them, and yes it compile on kernel 4.10 but it haven't direct mode. It's useless for VR.

I was using it in Arch Linux last night.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2679

I haven't been able to get 'Direct Mode' to work on Linux at all. It prompts to change to it, I click the button, and SteamVR crashes, and it prompts it's not in direct mode again when I load it up.

But it's still working, as per that forum post.

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Quoting: GrimfistBecause there is one thing that Unity 7 did absolutly right compared to ALL other Linux DE's out there, in times where 16:9 widescreens are the norm, vertical screen space is very precious compared to horizontal screen space. Having a monstrous launcher bar at the bottom is just bad UX design when you can have it at the left side of the screen, preserving precious vertical screen space and using the available but only 80% or so used horizontal screen space. And delivering such a good out of the box experience is what drives Ubuntu.

Actually, this is just sometimes true.

When I use in example QtCreator, I have a project pane left, a debugging pane right and often the documentation frame to the right. I have less space horizontally than vertically....

Most 3d studios, animation software etc. are moving to a horizontal layout...

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: BeamboomBased on what they've ported so far it's also very reasonable to expect a game with a metascore at

Why would that matter? They are paid by the company which owns the game. That company decides.

Sure it's that simple or are you just speculating?
I believe there's also a process on their side involved. Remember they ask for feedback on what to port quite often, with their "requestinator". So yeah, of course they must be approved by the owners, but I don't think they just sit there and wait for someone to knock on their door.

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Just bought a game that looks like it might be pretty cool. Satellite Reign. Gonna give it a try later. Got it from GOG.

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Quoting: ShmerlYou mean right to distribute (in their store)? Either way, my point was, they are paid by those who own the game in some form, either as percentage of sales, or some fixed amount.

But they aren't. They pay, then port, then sell. Not only at their store, all Linux Steam (and other) sales are theirs as well (minus the store's sharr). That's why it's even more important to get the sales numbers for the right system - it's what directly pays their dinner.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ShmerlWhy would that matter? They are paid by the company which owns the game. That company decides.

No. They are paying for the code and the right to port and publish.

You mean right to distribute (in their store)? Either way, my point was, they are paid by those who own the game in some form, either as percentage of sales, or some fixed amount.

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Quoting: ZodiacMentorAs for what this is, I'm pretty sure it's Shadow Warrior (1 or 2),

Erm, isn't the first one already ported and has been part of some Humble Bundle?

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Quoting: ShmerlWhy would that matter? They are paid by the company which owns the game. That company decides.

No. They are paying for the code and the right to port and publish.

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