Quoting: GuestAndroid Assault Cactus is indeed awesome and once they finally release controller support for Linux it will be a great "console" experience as wel

The controller support is working. I just played it with the Xbox 360 controller. The Unity 5 upgrade got some controllers not working but you can play it with a joypad right now.

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I bought it and here are my thoughts:

- The controller work if you use a XB360 controller. In the Unity article i already said something about the problematic backend responsible for input. My A4Tech mouse get recognized as a joypad (/dev/input/js0) in the position 1. This is a problem as this game don't allow you to change player 1 and 2 controllers.

- The game looks incomplete to me. You can't drift, and you can't defend yourself against enemy's missiles. That's standard features in big kart games, like Mario or Sonic titles. Also, the characters don't appear to have any different characteristics between them apart from looks. Where is the faster ones, the heavies, etc?

I think this maybe is the first game in Steam that I will ask for a refund.

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I think the performance depends too much in the developer fine tuning the game in Linux. For example, Android Assault Cactus (the standard in how a Early Access should be in Steam) is a Unity game and the performance is very good.

But another big problem in Unity is the control backend, witch is very bad and relies too much in the developer doing hacks to get things done. AAC for example, got issues with controls when they upgraded to Unity 5 some time ago. To me, a good engine should handle the very basic thing as controls in a way that the developers shouldn't have to worry about it.

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I got it for free when I bought my R9 290. If this turn out to be a good port, I will buy the season pass to support the people porting it.

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I don't have faith in it. As someone who already plays in a low powered device, I can say for sure that even for indie games it is too low powered, even if it was using Windows with the Catalyst driver in DirectX games.

For indie games like Geometry Wars and Outland, my notebook is already struggling to maintain 60fps in low settings at 720p. Only really simple games like Bleed can be played at 60fps all the time.

For for more sophisticated games like L4D2 or Borderlands, forget it.

If their explicit intent is to use it as a device for streaming from a real game computer, it will work. But the battery still will be a concern, since even cheap tablets with ARM CPUs can't pass a few hours without recharge.

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I'm playing it at 1080p (in low quality) in a weak 17W A4 trinity APU in a notebook, so if anyone have a notebook with a i3 or i5, they should play it well too.

But it not working with mine xb1 joypad, only with the 360 joypad. Anyone has it working with a different controller?

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Now finally I can play at 1080p. Worlds of difference.

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Hi Valcan, thanks for your reply. What is the hardware target you have in mind? Is a beef desktop or something like a laptop with integrated graphics?

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The YouTube compression turn the graphics messy, here is a .png



But yes, is still confusing. I think this is a tech demo of what they engine cold do, not the final game.

Let's hope that all that little details don't ask for a high end machine to play a 2D game.

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I wonder if this joypad will have good support from the current Linux games. A good bunch of the ones I have only work with the Xbox 360 controller.

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