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Am I the only one who is annoyed by and subsequently doesn't give a crap about these "teasers"? If you have something to announce then just announce it.

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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.

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I think once I get some more cash to spend, I'll be giving a bunch of it to Paradox. Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV, and Stellaris all have juicy new content that I want to buy!

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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.

KDE is very configurable. While KDE's default layout isn't too great, everyone can tweak it easily. I reduced the vertical space usage on my desktop running KDE already in 2008 after a conversation with a friend and kind of stuck with that custom design until I switched to i3 last year.

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Based on what they've ported so far it's also very reasonable to expect a game with a metascore at least higher than 70, probably higher than 80. There are exceptions in their catalogue (F1 being an obvious one) but I think it can work as a general probability filter on the guesses.

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

In my case, no. There are already dozens of tech sites out there covering Linux news. Stick with your niche.

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Quoting: ellie_feralThis is fun.

Isn't that why the whole Feral radar exists? :P

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Quoting: ellie_feralThis is fun.

Fiend!

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This better be a AAA title that will make a hole in my wallet :P

Shadow Warrior, Total War titles would mean nothing to me to be honest :D except the overall number of availible titles on linux :P

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Quoting: SkarjakComplaining about fragmentation is completely ridiculous.

No, it's not. Especially when it slows down Linux desktop progress a lot. You just don't pay attention, or aren't aware how complex moving from X11 to Wayland for many projects can be (consider Firefox, Wine, Qt, GTK, SDL and so on). Adding Mir to that mix could slow them down even more. So it's a major win that Mir is now being canned.

And fragmentation in an open environment will happen. Always. The question is where the fragmentation lays. On a layer like the desktop - phew, who cares. Yes, of course if all would pull on the same string a project would have more manpower. And more overhad, different views, and more discussions. I personally do not see the desktop layer as an issue, even if there are dozens of desktops out there. It would be nice if all would come together and work on one thing, if not - ok.

Breaking on a technological level as Mir and Wayland - that's an issue. That's a huge issue and had potential impact on dozens of projects (games, window managers, graphics drivers, toolkits .. just to name a few).

We are mostly focussed in the Linux world. There are not too many technological choices on a real low level (system whise, not talking package managers and stuff like that). Probably because it IS harder to devlop in that space, and there are not too many people with the skillset.

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I tend to think this is Shogun 2 : Total War too as we've seen hints that it might be ported and Feral are behind a lot of the Total War ports for Linux.

Edit: Plus this is my favorite Total War title!

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This is fun.

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Quoting: micha

Quoting: m0nt3Nier: Automata
Nier: Automata (Japanese: ニーア オートマタ Hepburn: Nīa Ōtomata?, stylized as NieR:Automata)
And is a squenix game.

Would love it to be N:A but unlikely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/61xp9x/feral_please_bring_us_nier_automata/dfidgl2/

Still it's Square Enix who developed and published the game. They have a quite good history with Linux and seems to also have a good relationship with Feral Interactive.

edit: Also the repsonse "If we bring NieR: Automata to Linux one day, we'll probably let someone know." is rather ambiguous. It could simply be Feral's way of saying "When it's released you'll know" or the usual teasing on their radar could be their way of letting someone know and lastly "someone" could be someone like Liam and not the rest of us :D

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: liamdaweI've been shown a different log in IRC now https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/04/07/%23snappy.html where Mir will stay for IoT devices.

That's weird. The reason they are dropping Mir is lack of manpower to reinvent the wheel. Why would they keep it now, if Wayland can work on IoT devices all the same?

Wouldn't be the first time they go back on their word using Wayland in the end ;-).
I don't see more security issues with Wayland than I do with Mir.

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I hope it's not a Total War. I hope it's not of the games quoted here, as none get my interest ! Beside this, i have no idea.

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Quoting: m0nt3Nier: Automata
Nier: Automata (Japanese: ニーア オートマタ Hepburn: Nīa Ōtomata?, stylized as NieR:Automata)
And is a squenix game.

Would love it to be N:A but unlikely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/61xp9x/feral_please_bring_us_nier_automata/dfidgl2/

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Hello @liamdawe, when looking at the photo of the desktop I have seen two icons of Steam, runtime and native, what function does each one have? Thank you.

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Quoting: SkarjakComplaining about fragmentation is completely ridiculous.

No, it's not. Especially when it slows down Linux desktop progress a lot. You just don't pay attention, or aren't aware how complex moving from X11 to Wayland for many projects can be (consider Firefox, Wine, Qt, GTK, SDL and so on). Adding Mir to that mix could slow them down even more. So it's a major win that Mir is now being canned.

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I am very certain that this is Total Was: Shogun 2 even though it is already available for Mac. In my opinion the steamdb and the latest history for Total War: Shogun 2 speaks for itself. Most of the changes appears to be Linux related not to mention that Linux was added to the os list two months ago.

https://steamdb.info/app/34330/history/

edit: besides that, if it turns out to be TW:Shogun 2 I will be very pleased. I really like the japanese setting.

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Quoting: NakorOnFlipFlopsHave you played HOI 4 ?
Or do you want something even more micro managed than that?

You obviously haven't played Dominions 4, the king of micromanagement. Holy cow...

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Shadow Warrior 2? I really love this game so hopefully it comes to Linux.

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I've an early access key (I'm backer) and here-and-there play it. I do like what they want to do, but I have a real issue with all the loading screens.

I don't know if they're limited by engine choice, but this does not feel like a "continous" world. It feels like dozens of very-ultra-small areas for certain purposes where you get a 3 minute loading screen between those areas.

I hope for a fantasy / realistic MMORPG for Linux, but that one isn't going to be for me if they're serious about the world map + loading screens to ultra-tiny areas.

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Quoting: khalismur

Quoting: snizzop.s. "I remember that going against your comminuty is seldom a great idea" ... is this even serious? I'm speechless.

Well good thing you won't be able to discuss and I won't lose time. But it is serious.

I won't feed a troll. No luck for you today.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Geppeto35For me, it's Shadow warrior (2 I hope!): Wade Ferris + green tea logo + Shadow warrior team announced that some company will port their game sooner.

It'd be quite a change from the regular publishers/developers that Feral has ported for.

Yeah, and probably their first Linux port to appear on GOG?

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I hope its ROTR,

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Quoting: Geppeto35For me, it's Shadow warrior (2 I hope!): Wade Ferris + green tea logo + Shadow warrior team announced that some company will port their game sooner.

It'd be quite a change from the regular publishers/developers that Feral has ported for.

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I will try it again, but from my reading over the past few years, it seems they wasted potential here.

Are these correct :

- map is cut is several little pieces with loading screen and no real sense of openworld
- 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
- whatever more than a basic gameplay experience, you have to pay with real money
- even for being part of the forum, you need to pay 5€
- Little activity around the game beside the official voices

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Rise of the tomb raider ?
Shadow of War ?

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Quoting: snizzop.s. "I remember that going against your comminuty is seldom a great idea" ... is this even serious? I'm speechless.

Well good thing you won't be able to discuss and I won't lose time. But it is serious.

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QuoteI have been debating writing about this since we are mainly a gaming news site

At first i wondered why you didnt covered at first, but then i thought: oh well it wont affect gaming as much.

It really made my jaw hit the ground, not only as ubuntu and unity fan but as someone who has grown to like the shuttleworth run canonical wants to do. i am positive mir would have ended up being great and might have even swayed people into it, but alas one can dream...

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

yes theres is

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