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I will wait until it will be officially released on Linux. I hate to play unfinished games :P

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yea great stuff; was a nice read.

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Thanks for the review! The game has been sitting on my Steam account since the Humble Double Fine Bundle and I couldn't get around to play it thus far. It's time to change it. :-)

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Quoting: SpeedsterExcellent review, Hamish. Can't really find a single bit to quibble over ;)

Ah, I'm disappointed. :P

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Excellent review, Hamish. Can't really find a single bit to quibble over ;)

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The players who have bought the DLC(which is just new characters and a new map), can use them while playing with everyone else who have not bought it so the latter can partake in the joys being ganked by the op nauts from said DLC.

As for the main game, it is highly addicting(I have lost about 500 hours myself, despite everything).

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Wouldn't mind giving it a go and help with testing on Linux! :)

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I would like a key please! Using freshly installed Ubuntu

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The desire to use FOSS drivers goes beyond political/philosophical, try to report a kernel bug in a tainted kernel, you can't and the reasons are technical. In fact, I don't think open source is more political/philosophical than closed source, that way of thinking is a manipulation to make the former look worse in today's unprincipled society.

I think the AMD CPUs have good value for the money, compared to Intel they are slow for single-threaded loads, fast for multi-threaded. I have an FX8350 CPU, cheaper than Intel, good enough for games and better multi-threaded performance. For most current games, multi-threaded performance isn't important but that may be changing soon with the new engines versions optimized for the new game consoles.

Quoting: sherlockHowever, it seems rather unprofessional for the author of this article to express his personal opinion and satisfaction or lack thereof with a particular brand, which serves no objective purpose other than reinforcing his own buying decisions.

Read everything here as if it was editorials and you'll be fine. I understand you since I find these articles poorly reasoned for editorials, and too subjective (distracting from the main point) for news.

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oh... Liam personal opinion, I thought the article on arstechnica! I expect to read Liam's opinion on GoL so I didn't even thought that it could have been a problem, I guess I agree with mirv and I see this more like an "opinion column" than "news".

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Quoting: AnonymousThe 3D in this video irritates me.

It appears the game has _zero_ 3D during gameplay, why would the developer see the need to include bad 3D in their game trailer if its not in gameplay? It's not money is it?

Probably left over concept art or something. I guess its the same with quite a few game trailers where they will show cinematics that never appear ingame.

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The 3D in this video irritates me.

It appears the game has _zero_ 3D during gameplay, why would the developer see the need to include bad 3D in their game trailer if its not in gameplay? It's not money is it?

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Yeah sure it's unprofessional to have my opinion and thoughts in an editorial, good one.

Of course it is going to have it otherwise it would be a copy and paste of an ars article telling you to go there and how pointless that would be.

And of bloody course i'm going to back up my own buying decision, when the opposite is what happens with this bit of hardware - the poor support. My opinion and thoughts where entirely relevant to the matter at hand.

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I actually found the article quite objective and putting Linux under a good light. But I read only the section about Linux so maybe I missed his personal opinion.

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Interesting and good to see that Linux is taken into consideration when reviewing hardware.

However, it seems rather unprofessional for the author of this article to express his personal opinion and satisfaction or lack thereof with a particular brand, which serves no objective purpose other than reinforcing his own buying decisions.

There are many users out there and some are rather happy with the drivers. I've used both brands and was satisfied with both to varying degree but I'd never state my personal and completely subjective opinion in an article that supposedly reports about something. I'd write an article about my opinion to avoid facts (from what is reported on) being mixed with me subjective opinion which I might see reinforced by what is reported on.

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Quoting: WorMzyIsn't the Arse Technica article just another poorly veiled attempt to scare as many people away from Linux as possible? In their opinion, gaming on Linux is a stupid idea and will never take off, so nobody should even consider it and should just use Windows instead. :|

I wouldn't assume that... they've got a bunch of writers, and no reason to think their biases are all uniform. It looks like this one is open to Linux gaming gaining momentum, at least in the form of SteamBox, and that's why he bothered to try installing SteamOS for the review and bothered to mention poor Linux compatibility as a weakness!

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I am happy to put it through it's paces before release.

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I would like to have a key to test this game

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Wow with as much as I read this blog I have never registered to comment. Well great blog, thank you for all you do. and I will take a key please

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I'd like a key. Ubuntu 14.04 :D

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I would like a key if they are still available.

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Isn't the Arse Technica article just another poorly veiled attempt to scare as many people away from Linux as possible? In their opinion, gaming on Linux is a stupid idea and will never take off, so nobody should even consider it and should just use Windows instead. :|

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I would like a key!

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I'll have one if possible :)

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I will be happy to get a key. I'm running Linux Mint here

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As a lifelong strategy fan, I'd be more than happy to test it and send feedback.

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Would be proud to test it on my Debian Jessie.

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would love a key :)

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If it's possible to get a key i will try the game and give some feedback

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Yes please, if there are still keys available!

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