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Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support
13 October 2016 at 9:00 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: GuestThe day steam removes a game i own is the last day i ever buy a geme from steam, gog all the way...
It's no longer for sale at any online shop, GOG included. And, as much as I want to like GOG the fact that Galaxy isn't out on Linux yet, their subpar communication generally and a few other things make me think they don't care much about Linux users at all. I'd rather get DRM-free games from the humble store if I had to.
Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition removed from stores in favour of the new Anniversary World Tour, no Linux support
13 October 2016 at 8:09 pm UTC Likes: 4
I own the Megaton edition and luckily it hasn't been removed from my library, but damn if this isn't disappointing. There's no legal way to own this game on Linux now. Gearbox already disappointed me by not releasing Homeworld Remastered on Linux and now this nonsense? Hopefully they'll make a positive statement and eventually make things right since it seems that even Windows users are upset that this new edition has less content than the Megaton edition.
Civilization VI for Linux is no longer certain, only a possibility
4 October 2016 at 10:59 pm UTC Likes: 8
I wonder just what it is they're investigating. With their system requirements needing fairly new and higher end Apple hardware, thus limiting the customer base, you'd think that Linux would be the bigger market in comparison. That said, I saw this coming when OSX depots showed up on steamdb but no Linux ones followed. Still leaves me disappointed, bitter and wishing that companies were more transparent instead of no news for months and then bombshells.
Rocket League released for SteamOS, it's in beta
8 September 2016 at 11:48 pm UTC Likes: 4
I added a few quick thoughts to the article since most of our European friends are probably asleep.
Stellaris: Plantoid Species Pack DLC released, now you can play as spacefaring plants
4 August 2016 at 5:11 pm UTC
Quoting: LeerdeckSorry but.. What a communication cluster fuck. Makes me want to stay away from the forum for a long time...
Hah, that's just the way the internet is :D . People get worked up over everything. Not to mention that Paradox fans are incredibly passionate and often spend hundreds of hours and dollars in the lifetime of a series. The important bit is that they're still working on the game regardless and we'll see a lot more patches and content, free or paid in the coming months. The next of their weekly developer diaries ought to be interesting, at least.
Stellaris: Plantoid Species Pack DLC released, now you can play as spacefaring plants
4 August 2016 at 3:55 pm UTC
Quoting: Leerdeck7,99€? For a cosmetic dlc? I know that the artists put work into this and I don't expect such things for free.. But I must say I will wait for a reduced price. 8€ for offered content is too much in my opinion.

Yeah, it could be a bit lower, I agree. And it'll cost them some goodwill. But it's a lot of work put in when you consider that it's like an extra 6th of the game art content-wise when you factor in all the different ship types, modules and so forth they added. The devs have more nuanced explanation in this thread. Thankfully the nature of the modular DLC model means that you can pick and choose what you feel is worth it and vote with your wallet.

Quoting: Mountain ManThere's some nuance here.
Indeed there is - and if you can't see how me calling something that expands available content an "expansion" and not even following it up with the word "pack" is a distinction nor how the terminology used in marketing for games is wholly artificial - I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Stellaris: Plantoid Species Pack DLC released, now you can play as spacefaring plants
4 August 2016 at 3:03 pm UTC
@Mountain Man - It's definitely an expansion in the sense of more stuff for a base product; anything else is just a distinction made for marketing purposes. Don't get me started on how meaningless terms like "Free DLC" are because technically all patches are exclusively downloadable these days and often bring in free content in the case of PDS :P

I've also added mention of the small patch that came along the DLC since I forgot to mention it as well as mention of an example of what's coming in a future update.
Total War: WARHAMMER is still coming to Linux, being ported by Feral Interactive
4 August 2016 at 11:30 am UTC
Quoting: sevenany news on other warhammer ports in the future? (wharhammer 40k Dawn of war 2 perhaps?)
Last thing we know.
Total War: WARHAMMER is still coming to Linux, being ported by Feral Interactive
4 August 2016 at 10:56 am UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: dmantioneAMD have stopped updating their Catalyst driver (just a few months ago), because they have a new driver, indeed AMD GPU PRO, which doesn't work with Feral games either, and forces them to make disclaimers for SteamOS, because of course, Valve uses the best driver for SteamOS.

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Supporting Catalyst or GPU PRO is probably one and the same thing, because it is the same OpenGL implementation. If Feral would support GPU PRO and not Catalyst, they would have a point regarding "abandoned". But since they don't, they fail to run on one of the major OpenGL implementations in the industry, and that is a quality issue.
I have a card that runs RadeonSI. All their games work for me. I have seen on the GOL IRC people claim that their games also work with R600g and AMDGPU. Life is Strange, their latest port, works with Mesa > 11.2 as per the store page. AMD contributes [directly to Mesa](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/mesa-patches-greatly-improve-bioshock-infinite-performance-for-the-radeonsi-amd-driver.7768) and their strategy going forward for Linux depends on the open stack and contributions in the kernel.

Feral supports what they can and have responded to users here, on Reddit and wherever else about their issues with Mesa so, once again, what else do you want? That is the official support from both them and AMD. I can run everything from Life is Strange, to XCOM 2 to GRID and they have worked to make sure each of those games work well with Mesa. AMDGPU-PRO is very much a work in progress, and still isn't ready for mass adoption: so much so that the recent 4.7 kernel has added support for a lot more cards but many more are still missing. Once AMDGPU-PRO is mature, I'm sure you can expect them to dedicate resources to ensure compatability.
Total War: WARHAMMER is still coming to Linux, being ported by Feral Interactive
4 August 2016 at 10:11 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: dmantione
QuoteThis is good news, as I’ve been pretty happy with Feral’s porting work

You are? Performance issues and AMD incompatibilities are the rule rather than these exception with these guys.

I certainly am. They've been great about supporting AMD through Mesa and have even been active in helping Mesa devs deal with bugs and incompatabilities. All their latest ports have worked just great for me. What else else do you want? AMD has abandoned Catalyst/Crimson in favor of Mesa/AMDGPU and their own added AMDGPUPRO drivers.
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