I rarely look at performance numbers and benchmarks, as I am happy when game runs with enough FPS for me to be able to play it. I would however be curious if there are OTHER components holding back Linux performance other than OpenGL. In other words, if a game uses Vulkan on both Windows and Linux, would it perform exactly the same on both Linux and Windows? Or would Linux still be worse?

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Personally I am getting a tad jaded of the WWII setting (how often did we kick Hitler's behind in video games again?), but it -does- look like it's going to be a good game.

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That's fantastic news! \o/

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Yay! THAT's the sort of stuff I am looking for in a CS DLC!

Only downside is that they will break a random number of my asset mods again, so I get to spend half day of trial and error finding the broken ones. They seem to love to do that with each and every new DLC.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhere did you hear that Aspyr is moving away from Linux?

I thought them barely doing any Linux ports anymore would be a hint?

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Aspyr is gradually moving away from Linux and has been for a while now. That doesn't mean it's all doom and gloom. Firaxis seems to be fairly committed to Linux (they had all their recent games ported to it, IIRC). If Aspyr doesn't want to port for Linux anymore, they will find someone else to do it for them. Or -gosh- really do it in-house. The next Civ title is probably 3-4 years away, maybe by then multi-platform publishing is the new normal, who knows!

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Quoting: liamdaweI don't get the issue.

To me, the issue is that such temporary content does nothing for the long-term growth of the game. The event comes, and goes, and then the game is at the exact state it was before. These things do consume developer resources that otherwise could have been used to make the game -permanently- larger and add to its replayability.

A much better solution would have been to leave in these targets permanently, but make it so that dying would put you on a long cooldown (e.g. a week) before you can try again.

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Quoting: GuestDownloading now, I'll just have to pay an extra charge for going over my data limit. Must play.

Not sure if they offer it in your area, but I got an unlimited data upgrade a while ago for $15. These monthly caps are a joke. Without the unlimited upgrade, my limit would be 500GB. Hitman has almost 70GB... Their data caps are really just a hidden fee hike. I was close to the cap in pretty much every month before, and I don't use Netflix or any filesharing apps.

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Bought! I normally don't get games that force me to play a male character, but since Square Enix also publishes Tomb Raider, I consider them an equal opportunity employer. :D

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Quoting: OrkultusSo what happens when Mac developers start going full Metal API? This means that these mac ports that are Opengl, wont be available for a easy transfer to Linux anymore.

Depending on Vulkan's success, it might rather be Mac that's going to be left out in the cold.

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