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They are apparently doing some sort of cartoon for it.

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oh damn, what a great story. please bring it as a movie.

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I do not think we will se a real rise here before steam os will lunch officially.

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Well I'm not a distro hopper but I'm not a fan of Debian based distros. No point arguing here which distro is better but I'm sure there is at least another half of this percentage undocumented on other Linux distributions.

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I'm glad you guys focused on stability over performance though. It has been utterly crash free for me.

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[/quote]The $10 tier was an "early bird". All sold out now, sadly, so it's a $15 minimum if you want to pledge to this one.
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Fair enough but it's a bit naughty. They could have put something a little extra in for a bit of extra cash, even if it was an audio track or two from the game as a taster.

But still I might invest. I just like to moan.

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Quoting: BestiaThe performance drop for XCOM is big. Several people in linux_gaming subreddit wrote that they get only half of the framerate of Windows version.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/29kyxg/pc_report_xcom_enemy_unknown_on_linux_43_drop_in/

One guy posted screenshots comparing Windows (124 fps) and Linux (43 fps).

http://imgur.com/a/44sRZ

Yes, however the drop could be for many reasons, he could have a strange setup, old drivers, a card with a driver bug on Linux etc etc.

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Quoting: computerhTimespinner looks interesting but the $10/$15 tiers are identical. Why would I pony up more cash for the same reward as the lower tier?

The $10 tier was an "early bird". All sold out now, sadly, so it's a $15 minimum if you want to pledge to this one.

I've gone a bit crazy this issue - one of the hazards of researching/writing this article - and I've pledged to Timespinners, Twin Souls and Catlateral Damage. <sigh>

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Quoting: BestiaThe performance drop for XCOM is big. Several people in linux_gaming subreddit wrote that they get only half of the framerate of Windows version.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/29kyxg/pc_report_xcom_enemy_unknown_on_linux_43_drop_in/

One guy posted screenshots comparing Windows (124 fps) and Linux (43 fps).

http://imgur.com/a/44sRZ

For this sort of statement there needs to be more detail. I did originally get a huge performance drop, but now notsomuch. I swapped out lightdm for kdm, which for some weird reason caused a huge increase.

What GPU, what driver, what compositor, what wm, etc. etc.

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Timespinner looks interesting but the $10/$15 tiers are identical. Why would I pony up more cash for the same reward as the lower tier?

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The performance drop for XCOM is big. Several people in linux_gaming subreddit wrote that they get only half of the framerate of Windows version.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/29kyxg/pc_report_xcom_enemy_unknown_on_linux_43_drop_in/

One guy posted screenshots comparing Windows (124 fps) and Linux (43 fps).

http://imgur.com/a/44sRZ

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I would like to see more games ported by Feral and Aspyr. I'm very impressed with this ports. Now I want to buy DLC's!

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Quoting: KelsAny love for Midora, which is struggling a bit so far? It's got Linux listed right up front.

Midora is definitely not a lost cause yet, could still come through
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1867607597/midora-0/#chart-exp-projection

I'm going to take a closer look at that one this weekend, seems potentially interesting...

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Quoting: KelsMan, Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme goes out of its way to be some offensive trash, doesn't it? I guess deviantART members need games too. That one's on my "Not If You Freakin' Paid Me" list.

I don't see how this is offensive unless you're a religious nutcase or insecure in your own sexuality.

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QuoteXCOM doesn't use DX11 features on Windows, the game uses DX9 on Windows and we match the graphics exactly on our Mac and Linux versions. Mac and Linux don't have hardware support for PhysX (software only) but that does not effect the visuals of the game.

Thank you for the response! I was genuinely curious, and now I know :)

QuoteThat said there is a big difference between the drivers saying something is supported and it being usable and bug free when used in a game. I guess we will find out when we get to the first DX11 based Linux port

I look forward to that! Anything you'll be porting to Linux in the future, I will very likely be buying. No regrets here with XCOM :D

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Personally I couldn't care less about pretty textures in Civ5, as I spend 100% of the game in strategic view, but these are fine articles and I'm looking forward to read more of the series. :-)

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: KelsAny love for Midora, which is struggling a bit so far? It's got Linux listed right up front.

Very zelda-like, or zenonia-like if you want to be a bit more modern. Sadly, with only 12 days to run, this will have completed by our next issue, projected for Monday July 14th...

Yeah, they're up front about the Zelda-ness, claiming that Majora's Mask is a favourite game of most of the dev team and it's definitely a strong influence. I appreciate that they don't try to cover that up, and of course the fact that Linux is treated as a given.

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This is great to hear, can't wait for more games to covered this way!

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Good article. It's easy to forget sources like these. Would be good if we can add driver related performance as up to now I just maintain a spreadsheet on the open driver.

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You can try CardHunter too, which is browser-based, but better than any other card-based game I've ever played. It's free to play, but there is a slight pay-to-win element, which is unfortunate, but doesn't affect the single-player game, so it's still worth checking out.

Sadly, it requires a version of flash greater than the one currently supported on Linux, so you have to use Chrome, or use one of the tutorials out there to extract pepper-flash from Chrome and apply it to Chromium.

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Because this conversation is simply not going anywhere I've decided to shut down the comment section for this article. If you wish to continue this conversation you can always start a forum thread on our forum about it.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalThanks for offering Astro assistance, it's the one thing I have really been impressed by the Linux community is the spirt of trying to help one another. :)

It's lie and everyone perfectly knows that. Linux community is far away from that kind of spirit.

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Quoting: GuestThanks for the round-up. 3 suggestions:

• Sheltered


• Sunset


• We are Dwarves

Thanks for the suggestions, but only "We Are Dwarves" is likely to make the cut there - the first one, Sheltered, finishes in a few days, while Sunset is right on the edge, at 15. Might be able to cover it. I'll stick the last one in the WIKI when I get a moment, if you haven't already done so.

I'll also take this opportunity to point out further controversy regarding Areal. The Verge ran this article yesterday regarding Vostok vs West. Apparently GSC is in on it now and none of these studios are backing down. Interesting times ahead for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans, but probably not in a good way, sadly.

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cute guys!

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I first played this game as a mod for Unreal Tournament... And guess what ? it was on my linux box :). The port of the standalone version is certainly not the perfect one, but they ported it.
Now if the new game will be developped with linux in mind, i think it could be pretty decent and i will certainly buy it.

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Quoting: linuxslackerim running nvidia binary 331.79 on slackware64 14.1 and i have always had it(well i dont remember scrakes having invisibility(they do now for me) but the map and stalker errors have always been there on nvidia cards)

are you sure your running nvidia phillip afaik it doesnt affect other cards

Yeah Im running nvidia, the day that I found out was when I checked this thread, at the time there were a couple bugs still http://steamcommunity.com/app/1250/discussions/0/810939350896199443/. I realize that the people that posted after me still had issues so I wonder if it was just a certain driver.
I havent played recently though so ill download it again tonight and see how it looks.

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Good thing I held off from buying this on Windows. I will be buying this when the Linux version comes out!

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im running nvidia binary 331.79 on slackware64 14.1 and i have always had it(well i dont remember scrakes having invisibility(they do now for me) but the map and stalker errors have always been there on nvidia cards)

are you sure your running nvidia phillip afaik it doesnt affect other cards

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finally registered after reading this site for a very long time

just got mine USB also blank i chucked them an email a few minutes ago(already own EG2 so i too have a spare key for a good home still cool to have a boxed copy and hopefully they will send over the USB image)

sofar the games have been awesome. my cubecraft is different(its just a goat) so looks like theres a few variations in the boxes they are shipping. Rogue legacy i also own(awesome game) but i still cant wait to get a boxed copy of that too

EDIT: very fast support a reply in under an hour and the missing files shortly after! gotta <3 these guys

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Quoting: scaine[Edit: just hit track 5 - this is... excellent! Real earthy, old school metal. Superb!]

Yes, 5 and 6 are my favourite. But really, the whole album is awesome. Since it's a concept album, there's some reprises of earlier themes in the songs at the end as well; I love that.

You should check out their earlier albums as well; I can recommend them. Their later albums aren't that..crunchy in my opinion, but YMMV. They changed their name to just "Slough Feg" (dropping the "The Lord Weird" ) after Traveller too.

Quoting: scaineNever figured you for a metalhead, McCoy.

http://www.last.fm/user/DrMcCoy

The two tag clouds at the right kinda say most of it. A lot of sludge/doom/stoner/psychedelic, but also (atmospheric) black and folk/viking/medieval, with a smattering of heavy/power-ish and progressive. Occassionally I also listen to chiptunes, or go back to the classic rock roots of metal, or throw in some weird jazz (doomish/noirish and/or minimalistic) or other experimental stuff.

And my listening history shows that I don't do shuffle. I prefer to listen to the whole catalog of an artist sequentially. What I listen to depends on my mood, and shuffle doesn't help there. :)

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