This is good news. The porters have done a good job with the first game and it runs with no issues on my system. Hopefully there will be even more Japanese games ported to Linux in the future.

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I also think it's Tomb Raider. The game is all about discovering the mysteries of ancient ruins and the civilization of that island. Though I'd be happy if it was something completely out of the blue too.

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For those of you wondering, works somewhat well on Mesa-git on my old 7870. I have a mix of low settings with medium quality textures @1080p and performance in missions is most often above 30 fps. Haven't seen graphical glitches but then again I have all the fancy stuff turned down. There are stutters and performance issues like others have mentioned (especially when loading assets for the first time eg shooting first time) but that's not necessarily Linux-specific, just UE being UE. Performance does dip when there's fancy effects like fire, rain and particles but even in the 20s it's highly playable because it's a strategy game. Yeah, I know a lot of you expect higher FPS but my card is rather old so I have to be realistic. The only really annoying thing is how long the game takes to load missions and sometimes random pauses between turns as the AI decides what to do.

Good on Feral for giving mesa some love! I look forward to seeing if there'll be further improvements with regards to stuttering and a few frame drops.

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Tripwire rivals Valve in slowness. The upside is that they support their games for a very long time but the downside is that it takes forever to get their games at their most polished. I say this as a RO and RO2 vet and occasional KF player. It's not too surprising though when you consider that they're ex modders working with a very small development team. I wouldn't buy this in early access even if it was on Linux. As fun as their games are, I just want the finished product and for it to work well.

Edit: As for microtransactions: I trust them not to be stupid about it. KF1 had them too - in the form of skins. From what I read their plans were basically the same, just cosmetic stuff.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroLOL the patch has made the game pretty unplayable. Everyone in the kingdom hates me and without the DLC it seems there's no easy way to get them to like me. Gifts and honorary titles only give half the points as they used to...

So Paradox gimps the game to force you to buy the DLCs, or is it an honest bug?

No idea. It might be different if you start a fresh game, but this is for one I started a while back.

EDIT: OK, so even the "hold a grand tournament" decision is missing for me... Essentially all of the mechanics for getting people to like you are either missing or severely reduced.

You should start a fresh game since things like crown laws were reworked and thus will be reset/messed up in an old save game. If you need to finish your game, try rolling back to the previous patch in the 'betas' tab on Steam.

I know that opinion modifiers have been generally nerfed but in return your heir gets 50% of the positives you had upon succession. I'm not sure how everything else works because I haven't played a proper game yet.

Oh and feasts and tournaments definitely still show up for me and I haven't bought the expansion yet. They've been reworked somehow but I'm not sure of the details.

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Yeah, I never finished this when I played it on consoles because reasons too. I look forward to finishing it on Linux.

As for the porter: first guess would be Feral, since they also did the OSX port. But given their current workload, that's not really a guarantee. Hope it's either them or Aspyr regardless.

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Can't say I'm too surprised. I've never regarded Ars a good source for tech news. Sadly, the tech news world is in a very sorry state.

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While I wasn't much of a fan of Medieval II by itself, there were a few really great mods for the game that I look forward to revisiting. This is good news and I hope that feral keeps porting the backlog of Total War games. I'd love it if Shogun 2 were ported, since that's the best entry in the series.

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Thanks Samsai for your hard work benchmarking. Unfortunately I can't send you $70 for your work as I can't even afford Grid right now ;) . I'll pick it up come this winter sale for sure now that I know it'll work alright on radeonsi.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroHow would you say the transition is from something like EU4 or Civ to the total war series?

I can't say much about Attila in particular, since I've only briefly played at a friend's house but I have probably accumulated at least several hundred hours in the Total War series over the years. Basically put: it's much, much simpler than Civ or a Paradox game. With each passing game they flesh out the strategy map portion of the game more, adding internal politics, characters and stuff but it's still incredibly rudimentary in comparison to those other series. But that's not a bad thing necessarily! It's easy to pick up and still offers quite a bit of challenge and stuff like managing taxes or choosing what to build (both can be automated) and using agents to do covert stuff or spread influence works well enough.

The meat of the game is in the real time battles and everything that leads up to them such as training units and positioning armies. This is where the game really does its own thing and where most of the challenge comes from. Battles can be autoresolved if you're ever bored and in the newer games you can delegate units to AI control too so it scales to your level of interest in microing things. I'd recommend the series in general to anyone who has a passing interest in strategy. I've been playing them since the first shogun 15 years ago and generally they've gotten better with each release.

There's usually a lot of problems around launch so I wouldn't recommend anyone ever preorder a Total War game. Luckily for us Linux gamers we're getting the more polished versions with the last two ports so it stuff like big AI stupidity ought to have been fixed. Not to mention all the great mods that come out and really make the games great. As a history nerd I like to have my more realistic unit types :P

Quoting: ajgpIm hoping on Shogun2 coming across to Linux as that is my favourite of the series so far, but then again I also looking forward to the warhammer version

Shogun 2 would be great! It was tons of fun and was probably their best release overall to date. Just the right mix of silly stuff, historical stuff and solid gameplay.

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionRelease calendar still shows Attila for the 17th. Who's in charge of that thing?

I'll fix it now. I'm guessing that was a "best guess" instead of a hard date since this was sort of a surprise release.

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