I am a huge Civ fan, but it's honestly not a game I'd play multiplayer. Turn-based games and multiplayer don't mix very well IMHO. Still good to see this implemented for the people who wanted it. :)

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That was one of the very few Feral ports I did -not- buy. I didn't even know that it was a lackluster game, but I have less than zero interest in the F1, both in real life and in games.

And I suppose even if you liked the genre, would you really buy yearly updates for a sports game, EA-style? I guess sitting out the 2016 version and waiting for the 2017 bringing some more significant improvements would do just nicely. Maybe Vulkan will have gained more momentum by then, so the porting costs will decrease.

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Glad to see a successful Linux release after all the "Sorry, but we decided last night that we don't want to do Linux after all, despite we promised." news we had lately.

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Odd that they depend their porting decision on requests. Even a tiny fraction of a market can generate substantial noise, that makes said fraction look larger than it really is. Like the raiders in MMOs, who usually represent numbers close to the Linux market share on desktops, but make so much noise that you think every MMO player is a raider. So devs continue making that sort of content despite almost nobody plays it... *giggles*

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Quoteso it's an especially useful tool if you have great artistic skills, but perhaps not so great programming skills.

Does it work well if your talents are aligned the other way around? I can code reasonably well, but I can't draw stick figures to save my life.

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Quoting: slaapliedje6 that are DX12 exclusive...

Using DX12 exclusively would be financial suicide for a publisher at this point, given that they'd lock themselves out of 75% of the Windows market NOT running Win 10.

Really nice of MS, pushing Vulkan for us like this. :D

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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

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I don't ride the Star Citizen hype train, but the news that major developers are dumping DX12 in favour of Vulkan is nothing short of awesome! :D

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Sounds awesome! They are sooo going to need these parachutes! :D

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Quoting: pbBut the same could happen in real life, right? ;-)

I swear I never died from pressing the wrong button.

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