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I have it in my playonlinux list but I want it native because switching between windows steam client and linux steam client sucks

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well there's also "Borderlands pre-sequel" being launched soon.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/09/borderlands-the-pre-sequel-qa-randy-pitchford-on-why-this-isnt-borderlands-3-and-how-he-loves-to-play-on-pc/2/


View video on youtube.com

So hopefully we can get linux support for that one and also BL2.

and since these games support MAC from the start, why not linux too.

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Quoting: SirKnightThis e been looks very good! I have been looking for a game like fallout/avernum that runs nativly on linux for years! (oh btw FutureSuture great picture, the os i use).

Thank you very much! I deem it the best distro to use for gaming considering how easy Manjaro makes it for one to install/update/switch graphics drivers and kernels. Good stuff, although for Balrum you really do not need anything that fancy.

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nice!

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"dead years" is kinda like I am legend movie, cool.

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Graywalkers, Lumo and Popup Dungeons all look pretty intriguing.

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I grabbed it back when it was an Alpha 4 & it was pretty damn good back then, now it's much better.

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For interested parties, you can see a list of all the games Icculus has ported, or is still currently working on here - https://bugzilla.icculus.org/describecomponents.cgi.

I'm delighted by this news. I sank 70 hours in Borderlands 2 in late 2012 and early 2013, before ditching my Windows partition. That's about the same amount of time I spent on Skyrim during 2011 onwards - one of my biggest time sinks on Steam, apart from my frankly embarrassing 230 hours on Killing Floor.

There's an absolute heap of high quality DLC I could sink my time into if this makes the jump. Great news!

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Quoting: lordfragger

Quoting: AnonymousYou are awesome with your wine lol xD You seem to manage to make everything works so well xD How do you do it lol

I've gotten a LOT more games to run with less issues when I started using playonlinux. It makes it easy to manage a wine prefix per game, so you don't accidentally break something when trying to get something new to work.

I just create a clean prefix, install the game and try to run it. When it doesn't work, check the wine output and generally you will see what's wrong quite clearly (mainly missing DLL's). When you use steam the prerequisites for the game are automatically installed most of the time.

Also check the wine appdb, the good test results often have a list of prerequisites you need to install or tweaks to improve performance.

Thanks yeah Playonlinx is very useful :)

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Quoting: mrdeathjr

Quoting: AnonymousYou are awesome with your wine lol xD You seem to manage to make everything works so well xD How do you do it lol

Its really simple but some things are needed:

-I recommend INTEL cpu because IPC per cycle is much better than IPC per cycle on AMD and performance per core its much higher on INTEL than AMD (this is important if you use games with use 3 cores or less, CSMT is not highly multithreading normally use 2 cores, and more cores using if game become for use it), this is not mandatory but on INTEL i see better results

-I highly recommends Nvidia video card with lastest propietary drivers if you use wine, this give you more performance and compatibility on wine than AMD video cards (VLIW4-VLIW5-GCN) with/without propietary drivers (AMD opensource recently improve some compatibility but performance is lower than NVidia with propietary drivers and AMD with propietary drivers give more performance but have bugs than Nvidia with propietary drivers), INTEL video card is worst than AMD

-you must be know how to install propietary drivers


And could appear other issues but on middle of this situation many titles stay working

^_^

Ah I see thank you :)

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Quoting: BillNyeTheBlackGuyEven though they never fully work, they do have some effect. A Petition is how Namco ended up getting Dark Souls on a the PC, and now Dark Souls is one of the highest selling games on the PC. They're not all together useless.

I think, that it's more likely, that a petition will bring Dark Souls 2 to linux than Borderlands.

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Quoting: biffI don't mind some forms of DRM, like steam. If it was a choice between steam as it is and downloading each title from the publishers with no DRM, I would take the former, just for the convenience of having all my titles in one place.

It is important to remember that Steam itself is not DRM and a lot of the features people like from it do not necessarily need to tie the game itself to Steam. Steamworks is the component which ties a game to Steam, not the Steam client software itself, and even most of Steamworks could be kept separate from the binary in a perfect world.

I must admit I too have gotten lazy and unwilling to buy a game that is not on some storefront that can manage my purchases - meaning that I only buy games on Humble, Desura, and soon GoG. That does not necessarily mean I need to embrace DRM for that convenience, however.

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Would really like to play it on Linux for sooo long ! If it comes on Linux, I will buy all their DLCs and an other copy :)

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I would really like to see Borderlands 2 on Linux. If it happens then I will definitely buy it.

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Quoting: liamdawePetitions are utterly useless unless you gave a team of people behind them with a lot of time to spare to manage it. It requires constantly reaching out to people, constantly trying to get a dialog with the developer doing etc etc.

People seem to think petitions will accomplish anything, they have obviously never done a successful one before.

You are better of tweet to Randy and posting here, I've sent him the link to this.

Even though they never fully work, they do have some effect. A Petition is how Namco ended up getting Dark Souls on a the PC, and now Dark Souls is one of the highest selling games on the PC. They're not all together useless.

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OMG i hope they do the ports. It would be most fantastic.

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I'm playing Teslagrad :)

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I have Borderlands 2 in Windows and It´s an awesome AAA game. I would like to replay in Linux soon

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Quoting: liamdawePetitions are utterly useless unless you gave a team of people behind them with a lot of time to spare to manage it. It requires constantly reaching out to people, constantly trying to get a dialog with the developer doing etc etc.

People seem to think petitions will accomplish anything, they have obviously never done a successful one before.

You are better of tweet to Randy and posting here, I've sent him the link to this.

This has nothing to do with Linux, but Dark Souls did come to Windows after being exclusive to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 due to a petition. Stuff can be accomplished with petitions, it's just rare that the parties they are intended for react to them.

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@DrMcCoy: yes, P&P with the right people is the true role-playing experience :) Sacred Fire makes actually another step bringing cRPG closer to that experience as the personality system tracks who you are and rewards you for playing 'in character'.

@Apopas: Hi, I am the guy behind Sacred Fire. Thank you for your kind words, yes gameplay and story is Sacred's Fire 100% focus.

The goal is rethinking the choice & consequence mechanic in RPGs, make it more subtle, nuanced and meaningful. Adding emotions alone means nothing, maybe a slight complication getting in the way of the 'standard' experience. What makes them important is they make all the choices matter, as suddenly story choices change your personality and mess up your emotion control and thus impact combat performance.

We are currently preparing a Kickstarter campaign and every fan can make a difference. If you would like to get involved, or notified once the Kickstarter starts please leave your e-mail at our page: http://sacredfirerpg.com

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Quoting: InokiWith GNU/Linux being the most stable platform on Earth, most reliable and robust, is there a reason not to make a native client?

Way to make a subjective and unvalidated statement.

If games developers and/or publishers believe it makes financial sense to make native Linux clients then there will be native Linux clients.

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They will come...they will all come

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Quoting: Anonymous

Quoting: InokiWith GNU/Linux being the most stable platform on Earth, most reliable and robust, is there a reason not to make a native client?

I'm sure they have their reasons, probably the same reason Vita users had to ask as well

Reasons = $$$$$ lol...not anymore as its changing now!

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Quoting: InokiWith GNU/Linux being the most stable platform on Earth, most reliable and robust, is there a reason not to make a native client?

I'm sure they have their reasons, probably the same reason Vita users had to ask as well

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Quoting: hardpenguinOften fixing a Wine bug for one game fixes same or similar one for another one.

This. If you know a bug exists, you fix it or it WILL cause issues futher down the line for other games.

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansWitcher 2? :'(

In time, young one.

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Witcher 2? :'(

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Quoting: XodetaetlEr... there's a truckload of bugs fixed for Team Fortress 2 and other Valve games... ??? Those games have been ported to Linux, why did someone loose so much time making them work through Wine ?

We can only guess the reasoning behind that...

Often fixing a Wine bug for one game fixes same or similar one for another one. Also, Wine works for some platforms Steam isn't available for (unpopular Linux distribution families, FreeBSD and such).

Wish they would work more on games that are not available for Linux, though.

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Quoting: AnonymousSanctum 2 is in open beta now on steam for linux, Goat Simulator is coming after it. Both ported by icculus for coffestain studio's

Deadfall Adventures is on linux from same dev as Painkiller H&D

Really cool. Hurray for Coffee Stain Studios and The Farm 51 then.

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