Quoting: CitirollerIt would be nice to see how it compares to the Windows version of the game as this doesn't have Vulkan or dx12 I think. So this might finally be a(nother) game which performs better on Linux than on Windows?

I was thinking the same--would like to see a comparison on same hardware between Linux with Vulkan and Windows with (whatever the Windows version uses).

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Less bad than me.

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Quoting: BeamboomIt's terminological pedantry, but bear with me: isn't this more a "framework" than a "wrapper"?

Point taken as far as I'm concerned. I mean, my impression of what a "wrapper" is, is that it pretty much obscures what it wraps--you are now working with the "wrapper" at a higher, or translated, level, instead of working with the lower-level wrapped thing. Whereas with this Anvil thingie, it sounds more like it automates certain relatively predictable but onerous tasks one does in Vulkan while allowing you to still do the core Vulkan programming stuff yourself directly with Vulkan--so it's not really an intervening "wrapper" layer for the most part.

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Quoting: tuubiEDIT: I tried to resist fixing that minor typo but I'm weak.

I know how that feels.

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Sounds great, although it's sort of a pity that a game called "The Swindle" apparently does not in fact have any swindling. Presumably "The Heist" and similar are already taken.
I'm not sure just how one would design a game in which you can be a confidence trickster, but it would be a neat idea.

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Quoting: kellerkindtRidiculous shot to the knee by M$ to support DX12 only on Win 10 - but I cannot complain about that :D

Well, that's exactly what they did with DX10 and DX11 (available only for Windows Vista and newer). And as most of you probably noticed, they really want everyone to use the latest version of their system ;)

Yes, the shot in the knee part is when they expected Win 10 to be successful, and people didn't even want it for free, making DX12 stuck with a market share that will force developers to offer DX11 legacy support for years to come... Or just use Vulkan and get rid of the problem entirely. :D

It is a huge advantage for Vulkan, and one which as far as I remember hadn't even come up in previous discussions on the subject around here. We'd been talking about the different platforms Vulkan supports (and contrariwise about DX12 running on Xbox), but it had never occurred to me that Vulkan, unlike DX12, supports Windows(pre 10). That's massive.

It could be good for Linux in another way too. Consider, people resisting the Win10 (or higher) upgrade over the next couple-few years will increasingly find themselves buying Vulkan games. If pre-Win10 Windows gradually becomes less viable and they think about moving, well, Vulkan games will presumably almost all run on Linux, so smooth upgrade path there. OTOH, Vulkan games may not all run on Mac because that would require porting to Metal . . .

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Oh. My. God. I was watching the trailer and in the game, it looked like people with shields were moving like they intended to actually use the shields to block with! No, really, shield forward protecting the body, sword arm back where it isn't vulnerable, generally not looking like Hollywood prats!
I feel like buying the game just for that.

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Quoting: KimyrielleGraphics drivers and related performance issues are probably our biggest sore spots right now, so that's good news. I hope he won't work on -just- VR though, at least not as long as the drivers are lagging behind their Windows equivalents in general. To be honest, VR is very unlikely to become a mainstream thing in this decade, that will be a battle for another day.

Near as I can tell, there is a fair amount of overlap between what what VR needs and general speed improvement, so VR work won't be useless for everything else.

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Quoting: saildata

Quoting: KimyrielleI am utterly not interested in the DLC, but the "free" patch is nice and welcome.

As a side note, I really wonder if really EVERY country on the planet gets added before Canada does. I know, I know. We're America's hat. But still!

Canada is way too nice to be a war monger : ) I went to Victoria recently and would move there today if it wasn't so cold in the winter..

Eh, they could call the DLC pack "Canadian Winter" and make it a "Seasons!!!" pack together with the Australian summer thingie. We got at least as much snow as Australia got sun. Maybe more. And actually...Victoria is pretty warm. By our standards. I live close by. :D

Huh. I'm a Vancouver man myself. And really, Victoria? Cold in winter? Half the US is colder than Victoria in winter; I think half the time they never get a single snowfall. Or, like, maybe one or two, that stick for a day and then there's rain the next day. Even Vancouver doesn't get much, except this year which has been a total Global Weirding bizarrefest.

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Quoting: cprnHonestly, I'm not disappointed at all. Learned that Windows developers are untruthful bitches long time ago. It's not even their fault, really... They just lack knowledge, skill and consistency. Period.

. period. is presumably longhand for an ellipsis?

Not really. If English isn't your first language, then the best explanation I can think of is that the word "Period" as a one-word sentence is to emphasise the utter finality of the previous sentence. It's emphasising that this discussion is over. Nothing more to say.

Like if you do something awesome and exclaim, "Nothing can beat that. Period!"

I was assuming it was a joke. If "period" = ".", then ".period." = "..." = ellipsis.

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