Quoting: omer666

Quoting: WorMzyAwesome news! I've been replaying the previous game in Crossover (works perfectly, btw) to rekindle my interest in the series. Gonna be looking forward to this!

When I tried to play it on Crossover 15 I got a black screen, how did you proceed?

The wine appdb says that you need to enable a specific setting.


The only slightly worrying thing is that Feral said there was "no news" about Denuvo being enabled. I'd be surprised if that thing was ported to Linux, but if it was it could that would be a problem.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI had read on Phoronix the game started with T.

No idea where that came from though.

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I'm wondering what this from news item on their website means:

QuoteThis morning, the realization set in that today truly marks the end of an era, and that a lot is riding on the success of RIVE.

and

QuoteBye for now!

It sounds like they may consider something more. Maybe not as Two Tribes, but it doesn't sound too final.

Anyway, time to complete my Two Tribes collection.

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Quoting: TcheyNot sure about it. I loved Coh 1, but i think about CoH 2 quite negatively because of all the DLC coming with. Should i change my mind ?

You can now get the whole thing together in the Master Collection for 13,74€. So you won't ever have to see it as a bunch of DLCs.

I'll get it now. Even if I don't really have time to actually play it, it don't mind getting something for the support.

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I recently bought a new joystick for X-Plane and found myself playing X3 again as well. This may fit very nicely too!

This unfortunately confirms what I suspected already. That Linux support for UE4 is not quite as painless as you'd want it to be. A few quirks aside, Unity3D seems to better in that department.

QuoteIn fact, our lead tech has spent quite some time on his past weekends to make progress with the Linux build.

Let me use this random place to put a big "Thank you"! Not all devs would do the extra effort to get Linux working. Of course, I'll have to say the other thank you when it releases. :D

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I need to think whether this is funny or sad. So basically there was a huge problem with Armello with DLC as DRM not being possible. And now they are going to allow microtransactions, which is exactly the same sort of DRM. I think someone higher up must have done some calculations and decided that DRM free was not worth missing the boat on microtransactions entirely.

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So, who do we root for? Will we get more ports if you let Feral win? :D

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Quoting: TuxeeI suppose this was just "Toki":

Wikipedia

Nope. It was called Eggbert. It was a homebrew game for the MSX2 system.

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The original Toki Tori is also very hard.

I remember the actual original Toki Tori. Which wasn't called Toki Tori at the time. :P Probably around 1990. Ugh, that's a loooong time ago.

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QuoteUnity 5 (and UE4 for that matter) are still thoroughly designed around the needs of the DX11 API. I'm not so sure they can simply port that to Vulkan (or DX12) and really have an optimal solution. It may simply be that the entire engine needs to be rebuilt from the ground to really get the most out of the new APIs.

Correct, it's not enough to do a naïve port to get good performance. That's why Unity (and UE4 for that matter) are changing underlying rendering code in a massive way to make it better match modern APIs like PS4/Vulkan/DX12/Metal. At least in Unity, a lot of graphics related code has been rewritten, and continues to be rewritten as we speak. It's a bit of a challenge to do that while "in flight" (i.e. not breaking existing games etc.), but it's what we're trying. My understanding is that other engines are doing the same.

(I work at Unity)

Interesting. But doesn't that have negative a impact on DX11/OpenGL? Or is the new work completely separate?

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