Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: F.UltraExactly how did you work in Monsanto here?

Probably their Mafia-style business practices, but I agree, let's keep this on topic.

What Mafia-style business practises? If you are talking about them suing innocent farmers or suicides in India then you have been told lies and myths.

Quoting: ripperPublic domain is open source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license#Public_domain_as_open_source_license

Public Domain is not recognised by all countries, especially here in Europe.

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Quoting: orochi_kyoThese extreme hipsters are annoying, I support open software and indie gaming, but if big companies opens a door to developers for publish their games, why not taking the chance?
Steam contrary to console platforms are not signing exclusive deals, you can release your game everywhere, GOG, your site, Itch, Steam, etc.
Its Steam, not stupid Monsanto or Bayer.

Exactly how did you work in Monsanto here? Let's not go down the rabbit hole of those pro pseudoscience anti-GMO folks.

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I think that this dev makes an excellent point of why you should not release exclusively on one platform (Steam) but I don't really get the "I will therefore not release it at all on i.e Steam", but perhaps the work involved will not match the outcome (I don't know as I don't develop and publish games).

For me as a end user however I'm now reached that point in life where I'm just to old and tired to purchase a game unless it's on Steam. Far gone are the days where I scheduled "let's scan every site I bought a game on to see if there have been any updates".

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Quoting: lucinosI don't get it, why do they need name/company/etc just to download a report?

Among other things: to measure their "reach".

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Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: johndoeThe patch is now in mesa master.
This means that the next oibaf ppa mesa release should pick it up for ubuntu users.

I hope it also lands in 17.3.0 which is to be released this weekend.

Just tested Observer today with mesa 17.3.1 and still experience the black screen at that door. Do one have to remove some cache files for this to work or did the patch not land yet?

Sadly the patch landed only in master (mesa 17.4.0-devel) for now.
You need to install mesa master from Oibaf or Padoka PPA.

In the meantime I've found that "Steamroll" needs this patch too and reported this also to mesa devs asking them to backport the patch to mesa stable 17.3.x.
Look here ...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104288

Tapani (from Intel) also found another game called "Refunct" and answered that he will attempt to push the patch to stable 17.3 too.

I used to use the unstable branch from Padoka but since his automatic build system pushes out DEBs even when the build fails for some of the packages it was always a "ok will my computer work now or will I have terminal only for a week until the next release" so I switched over to the stable branch.

Anyways, good to know that it's coming and that I was simply too eager :)

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Quoting: johndoeThe patch is now in mesa master.
This means that the next oibaf ppa mesa release should pick it up for ubuntu users.

I hope it also lands in 17.3.0 which is to be released this weekend.

Just tested Observer today with mesa 17.3.1 and still experience the black screen at that door. Do one have to remove some cache files for this to work or did the patch not land yet?

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Reminds me a bit about the second era Alien Breed and the two Shadowgrounds (which have Linux versions) games. Will instabuy once they release!

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At least with "safe mode" there is now an actual chance to take a closer look at the enemy designs. Frictional must be the game devs that spends the most amount of design into creatures that will never be displayed (either due to the character getting instakill or the environment being pitch black).

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Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: F.UltraIf only they could fix it so that we AMD users can open doors without experiencing black outs.

If you would have read the bug report you would know that the patch fixes exactly "this" problem.

facepalm :), however the Mesa patch is only a workaround, if you look at the bug report the version of Unity used makes some wrong calls.

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If only they could fix it so that we AMD users can open doors without experiencing black outs.

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