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Article updated, it's native.

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They have android version, and its pretty good one at that. It's on quite a few platforms actually so my guess is that it's native. Witcher 2 was a windows/xbox only title witch no OpenGl capabilities.

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Can't compare because I am not a big fan of MMORPG by myself, I get bored easily. It is nice that Runes of Magic and World of Warcraft run great with Wine, but yes, an official realease would be neat.

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Well I have emailed them and twittered them asking about it, so stay tuned.

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Quoting: liamdaweWell they aren't using VP like The Witcher 2, so far as I can tell.

Hopefully they didnt use cider for the mac ports :)

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Well they aren't using VP like The Witcher 2, so far as I can tell.

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Exciting stuff! Did they announce a date?

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I doubt that it would be native port. But I could care less as long I can play it without problems.

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Hopefully this will be better then the Witcher 2 port. ;)

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Are they actually anygood? I've heard Regnum is completely pay 2 win which puts me off it a bit :(

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QuoteDecent MMORPG games are something Linux still lacks

Champion of Regnum and Ryzom, dude!

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Quoting: AnonymousIt's not quite the same as a LAN party when the people in question practice insane hours per day for years to get there. :P

I love watching pro Starcraft, but have had a really hard time getting anything out of watching MOBAs for whatever reason... I'll probably check TI4 out a little bit though, it's just big enough to generate interest even in people not interested in the game.

I'm the same, I enjoy SC2 replays (go Husky!) but when I try watching a DOTA 2 match commentated in the same way I'm lost. But I have found that watching Heroes of the Storm vids that I like watching when it's a player 'casting their own play as an individual player rather than a sports-type commentary treating it as a team since I don't know the game well enough to know who everyone is, what their abilities are, etc. That's especially true of DOTA 2, where there are so many different characters.

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Quoting: Brandon

Quoting: SilviuThese guys have no clue. I've already had my meltdown when TET was spewing the same BS over here so I'm not going to start again...

Good thing is that they did not outright say "no". At least they gave a reason, even if it's a dumb one.

Pretty sure they have more of a clue than you, there the one developing award winning games on multiple platforms after all.

Took you that long to finally come up with the above comment eh? My post was written in Feb, it's probably less valid now since GoG have officially announced support for Linux or it may still be... The recent Linux launch of The Witcher 2 was a fiasco...

Drop me a note again in 4 months... take your time to write something just as insightful.

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Actually, they're only developing it on one platfarm. Which is kinda the issues people are talking about.

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Quoting: SilviuThese guys have no clue. I've already had my meltdown when TET was spewing the same BS over here so I'm not going to start again...

Good thing is that they did not outright say "no". At least they gave a reason, even if it's a dumb one.

Pretty sure they have more of a clue than you, there the one developing award winning games on multiple platforms after all.

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Quoting: AnonymousIve already bought it, but ive never played the first game. can you play the second game, without having problems with the story?

You don't need to play the first game to enjoy the second, but I recommend to play it anyway, since the story line is in sequence and strongly connected. Same way you don't need to read all the Witcher books to play the first game (since games are essentially sequels to the books), but if you red the books it enhances the experience quite a lot.

That's besides the fact that Witcher 1 is a masterpiece of an adventure/RPG in its own right so you don't want to miss it.

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Ive already bought it, but ive never played the first game. can you play the second game, without having problems with the story?

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I "accepted" the port. I think that this is about as major a game as has yet been released that wasn't a Valve product. On my desktop box (Kubuntu 14.04, AMD 965, GeForce 650ti, 16GB RAM)https://www.google.com/, the port runs like a champ (mostly; a couple of crashes at starting the game's tutorial), and I've played through most of the Prologue.

I understand the indignation (and am SO glad I don't have an ATI card), but I can play a ***** game using my GNU/Linux platform, and the port will only improve (oe hopes). Performance appears to be comparable to the Windows version running under wine to my eyes.

Yes, of course, I want more native Linux games, but with a game this farking good, I'll accept the port, you bet.

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Quoting: HelloLibraries

Just FYI.

You are right, surprised no one picked up on that, appreciated.

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Libraries

Just FYI.

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The only thing 'difficult' about it is that it's buggy. Most of the time I fail is because suddenly my character inexplicably decides he doesn't want to jump high enough.

Other than that, it looks like someone's first attempt at a game. Horrible, unnecessary backgrounds. Music that's looped poorly. Lack of shading (would make a difference, as it can be hard to tell how big a platform is, since the top blends in with the sides).

It's just a mess.

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We are already accepting bad console ports to (Windows)PC. Skyrim comes to my mind, with that terrible UI and Dark Souls too... and the list keeps expanding every year and people/magazines giving them excelent reviews is the most anoying disease for me. "Shut up and take my money"

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansSteam being a Console, will reduce all major problems for devs(random OSs, big variety of hardwares...) so in a few years we will play in well otimized games for PC on SteamOS

Look at nowadays consoles, if framerate is at 30, it's considered "great", even for exclusive titles.

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Quoting: JestI think that bigger problem is bad PC ports of console games.
If game is bad port from console, it will run badly on all platforms.
I think this is problem that should be dealt with first.
Didn't dudes on Windows also cry about bad Witcher 2 performance?
Or is it even worse on Linux?

Thing is, that Steam is going to be a "console for PC", so we'll probably even see worse ports to linux ;-).

Quiet contrary sir. Steam being a Console, will reduce all major problems for devs(random OSs, big variety of hardwares...) so in a few years we will play in well otimized games for PC on SteamOS.

New users will come, because "build ur PC" will not be a problem to noobs. and so on

Except the variety of hardwares is still going to be present; since there will be multiple Steam machines (multiple manufacturers), and not just one.

Not that great variety, as majority will sell only last released products from Nvidia/AMD & Intel.

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Quoting: SamI bought tbe Redux Bundle, as I really liked both Metro games. And personally I have no problem with the paying for it, especially as they offered 50% upgrade discount. And I got the original dirt cheap on a sale.

Furthermore, I want to support developers that port to Linux. The more we support them, the better the ports will get.

i do the exact same.

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My wife and I have over 1,000 hours logged playing DOTA 2 on Elementary. It kicks ass.

Their Compendium Prize Pool has achievement marks for about every $500,000 dollars where players get in game additions like Rain weather Effects, Customization of Dire / Radiant buildings.

Also, until the championship is done you get points for each game you play that count toward being awarded Immortal Items that will never be made again, so their value in the Steam Marketplace will go up as the supply is extremely limited. The highest a item has sold for is several thousand dollars.

We used to be bummed out League of Legends didn't run on Linux, but DOTA 2 kicks LOL's ass as the game engine mechanics are much more responsive and better made - LOL still runs on the trash that is Adobe AIR and Riot Games are lazy hack frauds that refuse to support Linux or do anything that would require "work".

LOL's prize pool last year was 2 Million, but this year DOTA 2's prize pool started at 1.6 Million and including community contributions from ticket purchases has risen to $7 Million dollars and is going up until the championship happens in July. Tickets have only been on sale for about 2 weeks so far.

Valve sits on a throne of gold over a river of steam. DOTA 2 FTW.

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Quoting: JestI think that bigger problem is bad PC ports of console games.
If game is bad port from console, it will run badly on all platforms.
I think this is problem that should be dealt with first.
Didn't dudes on Windows also cry about bad Witcher 2 performance?
Or is it even worse on Linux?

Thing is, that Steam is going to be a "console for PC", so we'll probably even see worse ports to linux ;-).

Quite contrary sir. Steam being a Console, will reduce all major problems for devs(random OSs, big variety of hardwares...) so in a few years we will play in well otimized games for PC on SteamOS.

New users will come, because "build ur PC" will not be a issue to noobs.

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I don't believe the issue lies solely with eON. If it did, everyone would have terrible performance. Despite the noise of those who are having problems, I think the majority are not.

The problem is likely a lack of testing on the more obscure Linux breeds like Mint and Manjaro, etc. How many people are having problems with their NVIDIA cards on Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04? Or, more importantly... SteamOS?

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Quoting: JestI think that bigger problem is bad PC ports of console games.
If game is bad port from console, it will run badly on all platforms.
I think this is problem that should be dealt with first.
Didn't dudes on Windows also cry about bad Witcher 2 performance?
Or is it even worse on Linux?

bad performance on windows? I running witcher 2 on windows max-settings at 55FPS, and my GPU isnt a 780ti!

They better buy a good high-end PC. Linux will not always be a Indie nest.

Barbie PC will not do anymore!

As for Consoles, apart exclusive games(yet some of theirs) and so far GTAV, every damn game of their are bad otimized too!

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Having played for a while now i think that maybe the problem it's not GPU performance but CPU.
There is a huge different in frame rate in some areas, and according to this test:



The MT performance of the engine it's very important. In linux the game use only 1 core, if the developer could share the calculation in more cores maybe the game will run more fluent.

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