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Quoting: MeHow do you access the Beta?

If you own the game it will just show up in your Linux games list on Steam.

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How do you access the Beta?

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Wow, this one looks really good. It'll really come down to whether the A.I. is competent or not, for me to decide if it'll be an awesome purchase or just an ok one.

Definitely like the cartoonish bright colors look. No idea why, but my mind finds games that are colorful in nature with good game mechanics to be really fun :)

That huge creature in their video reminds me of Scribblenauts gameplay. It'd be cool if we could summon stuff like that.

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Personally I love the look of the project and it can be a little different if you are writing everything yourself, not different enough to warrant basically $10k each for Mac and Linux (180-200k stretch goal) considering they already said they are shying away from Windows only tech.

Still it's better than no support at all and still lower than a fair few others stretch goals, not to mention they have almost hit it anyway.

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Sexy! Been playing it like mad :D
There is a bit of a mouse issue every once and a while, but enabling/disabling Raw Mouse Input generally fixes it for me. Pretty solid for a Beta thus far. Hope you don't mind me sharing my video Liam :)

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In the video I enable net_graph 1, so you can see the fps I'm getting at all times. It's ok, but does spike a lot depending on the action. Everything running at maxed graphics at 1080, if only my screen recorder would be more dependable. Thanks for the heads up btw, I only discovered I had L4D2 Beta thanks to this article :D

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I guess in a way I am just as bad as the average non-gamer windows user by letting a game stop me from making the change, but I feel I have an excuse, I have money invested but I guess the non-gamer could use that excuse too.

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Well we were having an issue with the dual monitor support, and using SDL2.0. It wouldn't load on my Linux Mint 64bit version unless i disabled SDL video. It has been fixed now. It also worked very well on my Optimus laptop with optirun and primusrun, on Peppermint OS Three 32bit.

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There's a good review of the game here

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I agree until AAA game title are native or playable on linux you will not see many users switching.

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I am a gamer and linux does not play the game (GW2) I playing currently very well so I am stuck with windows, but there is no reason for the non-gamer not to switch, but here is my take on why this is not happening, Windows is used by the users company so the average user uses it at home because they are too lazy to learn something new and the average Linux user turns off the average windows user with what I like to call a holier than thou attitude, in other words you should know that or I am smarter then you, the linux user may not say these things but there attitude may imply it, for example the other day I was reading a thread were basically a windows user is saying they have not switched to linux is because it cannot install were the user would like it to, I know linux is more flexible than windows on the install location, but another user (maybe he is a windows user but the other user identified him as a linux user) was arguing my point but the windows user takes it as an attack, it does not matter what windows has done it just matters what linux can do, unless of course the windows user is really p'ed off about something, another example is I asked my step-dad why he has not switched and he replies he uses outlook which I do not use so I cannot reply use this instead or if the users data can be transferred.

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I think they may have done more to get it working well than they needed to, but the extra work will of course result in a better product. Definitely a title to consider.

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Only ten hours of play for you? Pssht.

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I have been helping one of their devs find bugs and stuff. It's a pretty fun game.

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But up until the THQ Bundle all the others had been DRM free and cross-platform to. I have heard your argument before and it has failed to convince.

I am still happily playing the cross-platform and DRM free Frozenbyte titles I bought, for instance.

But as I said, no point in speculating on this one too much until we get more information.

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The Humble Indie Bundles have always been, without exception, cross-platform and DRM free. The Humble Frozenbyte/Voxatron/Android/THQ bundles are a separate set of releases and have their own rules. I don't see a bending of principles - I just see a range of releases.

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Hadn't heard of this before, looks nice.

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To be fair, I blame HB for bending more than just blaming Steam. At least Steam was not turning on a principle. But we should probably see what is being offered here before drawing conclusions on this bundle (which may not even happen).

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It really isn't a mystery.  In spite of all the hooplah and trumpeting, linux users are still being offered 3rd tier and ancient games.  I installed Steam on three of my computers during beta because I was so excited to be getting a chance to game in linux.  After three months of getting the same crap games I was installing before Steam was available on linux, I just went back to using Steam on my Windows partition.

Until someone offers current gen and top shelf games for linux, it's going to remain something for only the zealots and fanbois to get excited over.

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http://i.imgur.com/QH90ygu.png

Would love to give it a try! I've heard the game advertised all over, yet have never gotten the chance to play it myself. Here's hoping!

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: CheesenessWhat about Valve's offerings? They currently have more titles available on Steam for Linux than any other developer, and with the Team Fortress and Counter Strike franchises still having very healthy player bases, it seems like that's worth noting as appealing (though I can understand if those titles aren't of interest to you personally).

Don't see those as new AAA titles, sorry and yes your right I don't care about them personally as I am not into online shooters :)

Ah, OK. I didn't realise that you were looking for both new *and* AAA.

Out of interest, what non-online (both TF and CS are playable via LAN as well, I believe) new AAA titles would you like to see on Linux?

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DRM-free removed I meant ^^' Sry about that

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Yea… steam left us with the hope that we will see popular and non-indie games on linux, but it seems for now that all we got is to have DRM from indie games removed.

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Quoting: OrkultusAlready installing it on steam right now.

Not me, first doing a bit of work and seeing if I can copy the 18GB's of my brother computer first, big download :p

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Already installing it on steam right now.

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Well it turns out Next Week is Saturday !
See you guys on-line ! :)

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As long as it is not another Steam exclusive or platform locked bundle. Oh, how I pine for the days when I did not have to say such things....

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I enjoyed this game, hope someday the sequel gets ported to Linux as well

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Woot! Portal finally. Thankfully I haven't finished Portal 2 yet, so I can't wait for that to come out. That and CS GO :P For a Beta, Portal works mighty fine on my system. FPS does drop though when I open the portals and look into them.

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I find it hard to believe I'm playing a triple A title on Ubuntu natively. Times sure have changed :)

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Yes, I would enthusiastically support this.  :D

Man, I hope they get their THQ distribution rights out of Nordic Games...

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