There goes the weeks I spend to find a Mac image of ETQW to manually update it, enhance it and then repackage it for Mac users in order to increase the playerbase of the game even a bit... Great! Seriously though, wouldn't there be a way to run OpenGL games on new releases of macOS, even with third party solutions? How about MoltenGL? It doesn't seem to be open-sourced unlike MoltenVK.

https://moltengl.com/moltengl/

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Quoting: liamdaweMy last experience with it wasn't so bad, could switch quite easily in the NVIDIA control panel, but that was 2+ years ago now. Is it worse now somehow?

For some reason, Nvidia Optimus systems perform poorer than they supposed to. I am not so sure why or how but I theorize that Nvidia Prime cannot fully prevent the interference of Intel GPU which results poor performance. That is why people go for alternatives like Bumblebee and Nvidia-xrun to completely kill Intel GPU to gain maximum performance from Nvidia GPU. As I use Linux for a decade, I don't consider myself a newbie; yet I failed to set Bumblebee correctly that resulted even worse framerate... If System76 offers some sort of a BIOS switch to disable Intel GPU, then it's all fine but if it relies on Nvidia Prime profiles, then it's waste of time and money. Honestly, I am eager to see the price level of recently announced ThinkPad E485 which offers AMD Ryzen CPU and AMD Vega GPU options.

https://www3.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/edge-series/ThinkPad-E485/p/22TP2TEE485

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QuoteGraphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 or 1070 (plus Intel graphics to switch between)

That's sounds like Nvidia Optimus; no thank you. Probably one of the worst investments that I made recent years.

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Odd, judging with Steam Store page, pretty much everything looks identical to Natural Selection 2. It almost smells like a deliberate choice to make it look like Natural Selection 2. Although the game is F2P, NS2 already has an established, active but not so huge playerbase whose daily peak is around 350 players. So the demand wouldn't be overwhelming.

https://steamdb.info/app/4920/graphs/

The developer seems to be small East European team. I hope they consider this a project to improve themselves.

http://www.murnatan.com/team

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Remaster for a 2012 title, is that really necessary? How about much much older titles?

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Quoting: GuestDustin Land has a Twitter account. Perhaps Liam could contact him and ask about Doom 2016 for Linux?

Nope, that won't help. AAA titles are bound with extremely restrictive licenses per platform. Any first party release which isn't stated in the licenses' terms would cause serious trouble. For example, distribution of third party native Linux binaries of Unreal are still restricted, therefore they are distributed within a Windows installer executable.

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Good guy Liam calls the genre with correct term, rogue-lite. Nice.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80There was a sequel even an E3 trailer cant say what the story premise is because there are massive spoilers in the trailer but yeah a true sequel along the games original themes was planned demoed then Zenimax bought the studio and that game disappeared whats left if the jump scare shooter we have now.

ZeniMax's offer to acquire the studio got rejected, that's why the sequel was forced to be cancelled.

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Quoting: liamdaweI get it, people would rather see "x game confirmed" constantly, but I am personally excited by BR games. Apart from that one CSGO mod, no other has even said they're thinking about it. So to me, this is interesting.

Honestly, I don't think Battle Royale genre is sustainable for startup companies, if not all. It is going to be a MOBA-like situation which 2 games (Lol vs Dota 2 / PUBG vs Fortnite) will keep dominating the genre and regardless of the size of new games, they won't be able attract continues attention. That happened with countless MOBAs and will happend with many BR titles. I rather would like to see Epic blesses us with Linux release of Fortnite which is highly unlikely...

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*sigh

might

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