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Still says beta when launched

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It is a very funny piece of software. I hope the few bugs will fixed soon and the performance will get better. And it has Steam Workshop Support, so the fun will never stop.
View video on youtube.com

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One seriously twisted game. Bought on sale, and don't headbutt cars!

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Just grabed it.

First time I see the trailer. Awesome. But a little 2Deep4mhe.
#DeadIsland

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I once wrote an e mail to Frozenbyte about the status of the linux versions of Trine and the shadowgrounds games and this was their answer:

Hi Jurek,

Thank you for your support. I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed the games!

We are hoping to eventually bring the games to Steam Linux. Trine first and the Shadowgrounds games possibly later. Unfortunately though, I can't give any estimates - this might take quite a long time, as it is not as simple as it might look like. The original ports of the games were done by a partner company, and we do not own the source codes; we are actually planning our own ports. However, we are also very busy with other projects at the moment.

Let me know if you have any other questions about our games. Cheers!


Best,
Riikka
Frozenbyte team

06/06/2014 23:53, Jurek kirjoitti:
> Dear Frozenbyte guys,
>
> I bought Shadowgrounds, Trine and Shadowgrounds Survivour some time ago
> and I really enjoy your games.
> Since Valve has brought out Steam on Linux, I was wondering if you are
> planning to publish
> the steam versions of the 3 games for Linux since you already ported the
> games to linux.
>
> Thanks in advance: Jurek W.

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Goat/Goat would Goat again.

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Quoting: CheesenessAstro seems completely out of line in this thread, but I'm not sure that that justifies some of the more generalised responses.

And I'm still thinking I'm 100% right in my point of view as 32-bit OS user.

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Nice! PA is easily one of my favourite games on Linux.

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Quoting: esmithferal

Quoting: gabsd84

Quoting: esmithferalThanks for all the feedback everyone, I can't reply to every comment but we are reading the replies, if you have anything you want to tell us directly please send us an email to our Linux support support email. All feedback positive, negative or indifferent is welcome. :-)

Thank you for the awesome port. Honestly I did not even expect the game to run on the RadeonSI driver in Linux Mint 17 but the game launches and works fine. I still get a crash with the driver but I'm sure that will be sorted out in time (bug already reported it seems). My only request is for Feral to work together with the Mesa devs (Intel, AMD and Nouveau) where possible to make sure that future games run fine on Mesa and any bugs in the drivers are fixed well in advance. Keep in mind that all Intel users are on Mesa and many (most?) AMD users are using Mesa as well.

Overall though...good job Feral.

Thanks, If you read the article you would see we already have logged and worked with the Mesa driver team for Intel as Intel only support the open Mesa drivers. :-) For AMD and Nvidia we have worked with the driver teams on the closed source drivers on XCOM, for the open source drivers we highly recommend you log issues the Mesa drivers, if the driver team know the issue exists they are better placed to be able to improve the drivers in future.

Thanks for your feedback and ideas on what we can do even better in future!

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-June/062575.html

I had a really big smile on my face when I saw this. Thanks Edwin. I am one happy Linux gamer. Can't wait for more ports from you guys.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyIt seems like a lot of people still think 64-bit is broken and not necessary anyway.

IMO, this is the root of it. As somebody who very recently installed a 64 bit system, I don't feel like it's really given me any kind of noticeable benefit for every day activities. It feels hard to justify calling it "necessary".

I think it's OK for Feral to decide to not offer 32 bit support, but the amount of derision in Linux communities toward people running older stuff or people who don't care enough to move up to 64 bit is super uncool (Astro seems completely out of line in this thread, but I'm not sure that that justifies some of the more generalised responses).

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THIS looks really good!

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Quoting: vulturedepends on what you want from wine, lol

new games? no way i'm ever running one in wine, either developers port it or they don't see my money. principle here. wine=MEH!!

I completely agree. We need to make the push for more native ports. Publishers and developers need to know that there are no excuses for not having a linux port these days.

Wine is a fantastic piece of software and it's reasonably good at what it does (and it's the fastest way to install and delete "Windows", ha ha). I play a few games using Wine but that's only because I know there won't be a Linux port. I only use it as a last resort (installing Windows isn't even on my list of options)

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Quoting: scaineWhy do you think he's anti-OpenGL?

He is not anti-OpenGL, but he does mention that he thinks the future is in lower level APIs such as a Mantle, Metal, DirectX 12, and interestingly enough OpenGL 5, which he seems to think will go in a similar direction as well.

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Quoting: MilaniumActually I am making my switch to 64-bit now. My Laptop does not have a 64-bit sticker and I always thought that you need some kind of AMD CPU that supports it. Never thought that Intel i5 is also able to understand 64-bit so it probably was quite stupid to install 32-bit OSes on it. Would have been great if Steam/2k Games support could have told me that instead of "have you tried turning it off and on again".

Please note for XCOM Linux support (and Mac) you should contact Feral Interactive linuxsupport [AT] feral interactive [DOT] com. Valve and 2K don't develop or publish the game on Linux so you sometimes get the standard checklist responses. :)

Hope you enjoy XCOM!

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Actually I am making my switch to 64-bit now. My Laptop does not have a 64-bit sticker and I always thought that you need some kind of AMD CPU that supports it. Never thought that Intel i5 is also able to understand 64-bit so it probably was quite stupid to install 32-bit OSes on it. Would have been great if Steam/2k Games support could have told me that instead of "have you tried turning it off and on again".

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3

Quoting: Armand RaynalLast time I tested SteamOS, it was ... At the very first release.
Quickly, I've uninstalled it because of conflict at boot with W8.1.
I didn't installed it since that last time because I couldn't get the sources.list to be editable.

Does anyone can tell me if it's now possible to add sources ?

What conflict at boot? I just have to select which drive I want to boot off of.


Yes you can add sources as long as you set up the sudo password, etc.

Ok, thanks for the answer.

What boot conflict ... Windows, for some reason, wasn't ok to boot after the installation of SteamOS, on a different drive.Not gonna be exhaustive, but W8.1 is kind of virus. That's what I felt ...

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Yes please keep them up -- post when there's interesting news, doesn't have to be weekly

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xbill was one of the most popular games of its day?? It sure didn't hold my interest for long, can't imagine how it could have beaten out original Quake...

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Thanks for these updates, n30p1r4t3. Appreciated.

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Quoting: XylemonMeh.

depends on what you want from wine, lol

new games? no way i'm ever running one in wine, either developers port it or they don't see my money. principle here. wine=MEH!!

old games that will never be ported? i actually got my whole collection of ps3 games running (-3 which are not on pc) and they still work better than they ever did on ps3. i could finally toss that dust collector into trash (sell, off course). i just waited for games to be on sale and i got whole 70+ games i needed for this step at cost of 180eur which is downright cheap, especially since i plan on selling my ps3 with all games for more than that. wine=my best friend

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Quoting: Armand RaynalLast time I tested SteamOS, it was ... At the very first release.
Quickly, I've uninstalled it because of conflict at boot with W8.1.
I didn't installed it since that last time because I couldn't get the sources.list to be editable.

Does anyone can tell me if it's now possible to add sources ?

What conflict at boot? I just have to select which drive I want to boot off of.


Yes you can add sources as long as you set up the sudo password, etc.

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Last time I tested SteamOS, it was ... At the very first release.
Quickly, I've uninstalled it because of conflict at boot with W8.1.
I didn't installed it since that last time because I couldn't get the sources.list to be editable.

Does anyone can tell me if it's now possible to add sources ?

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Quoting: DrMcCoySeriously, you are not helping GNU/Linux adoption here. Quite the contrary.

You like it or not, that's my point of view and I'm only honest in what I'm writing about.

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Hi All,

Just wanted to say I have really enjoyed reading your thoughts and feedback so far. It's clear Linux users can be just as passionate (if not more so) about their platform as I have experienced with Mac users :)

I thought now would be a good time for me to throw some oil on the waters before things get too heated. Everyone on this forum are here because they want Linux gaming to get better, we all might have different views and methods on how to best do this but when it gets down to it we all just want more games on Linux.

The rule I always use when posting on behalf of Feral or posting as myself is to read the post as if it was sent to me not written by me. That way you usually can tell if your personal viewpoint or passion on a subject is effecting how you wanted to make your point :)

I like to end a post on a positive note, so with that in mind lets all think back and realise in the last month we have had some new AAA games on Linux with the promise of more to come in the future. I remember a decade ago I had TuxRacer on my machine and that was pretty much it so things are definitely heading in the right direction :)

Edwin

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My comment was directly related to how long Ryan has been doing it for, not the overall time. If you read that entire paragraph it does make sense...

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As a quick disclaimer: I'm not associated with Feral Interactive at all. So this goes directly on me, not on Feral.

Astro, don't you dare demand respect when you have shown nothing of the sort in this thread. You have been acting belligerent this whole time and you didn't even have a good reason to be cross in the first place. Edwin has been way more patient with you than I would ever have been capable of.

Seriously, you are not helping GNU/Linux adoption here. Quite the contrary.

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I had a chance to play Xbill ten years ago, but I have never liked this game. I know that was one of the most popular games for Linux.

@liamdawe
Really? 15 years? I remember that Doom for Linux was published in 1994, and later other commercial games were published for Linux e.g. Abuse, Doom, Inner Worlds, Quake, SimCity and so on.

I believe that you should write:

"it's taken 20 years for Linux gaming to get where it is now."

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: AstroIt's how you treated customers I didn't like.

Oh, do shut up. "Fremdschämen" is not something I like to experience.

And that's one of examples of disrespect I've been talking about.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalI don't want to turn this comments page into a debate on 32/64 bit OS, the last time I saw this happen on the Steam forums it got out of hand with people taking sides and nothing constructive is gained from it.

Yes, that was an absolute trainwreck of a thread. And I'm embarassed to say I probably didn't help matters either, engaging that ChrisPlaysLinux fellow.

Quoting: CheesenessWindows users (even in the Steam survey which is biased towards gaming oriented users) who're running 32 bit operating systems

IIRC, Microsoft was pretty late on the 64-bit bandwagon, then decided to charge more for it and generally messed it up. It seems like a lot of people still think 64-bit is broken and not necessary anyway.

Quoting: AstroIt's how you treated customers I didn't like.

Oh, do shut up. "Fremdschämen" is not something I like to experience.

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: Astro

Quoting: edddeduckferalI don't want to turn this comments page into a debate on 32/64 bit OS, the last time I saw this happen on the Steam forums it got out of hand with people taking sides and nothing constructive is gained from it.

It's how you treated customers I didn't like. Personaly, I'm not sure if I want to play XCOM even if it will be ported on 32-bit OS. If there was explanation back then instead of almost complete disregard and agreement among the other who said that 32-bit OS users are just a bunch of loosers and it's cool don't pay attention to them, I'd have said nothing.

Where have they ever said that they agree that 32-bit OS users are losers? They were very clear that they only supported 64-bit operating systems and IMO they have treated their customers with proper respect. How can you say they have disregarded you and been silent when one of them has been here chatting with you?

I'd suggest you get that refund and completely ignore the game. This conversation is simply going nowhere.

Astro as you mentioned above some others people in the Linux community were very vocal in support of 64bit and dismissive of 32bit support and the thread on Steam did get heated. However we have always tried to keep above the architecture wars and just explained what level of support we offer for XCOM dispassionately without taking any sides. We have never had anything against 32 bit OS's or people who want to use them however in terms of XCOM the game will not support 32 bit systems.

I hope you get your refund processed by Valve (let us know if you have any issues and we can see if we can help) and I hope you will still consider playing/buying the next Linux game we bring to the platform.

Edwin

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