Yeah, I started playing this at Alpha 13.8 a couple of weeks ago - loved it. Great performance, great game play, lots of skills to upgrade, loved it. However, it's infuriating when games are released utterly broken. Same thing happened with Soul Axiom, which I recently refunded.

As for EA Hell, there's a few games going through this at the moment. I don't buy EA and haven't done since the early days when I took a chance on Prison Architect and Tabletop Simulator. They weren't terrible experiences, but they were a good couple of years in EA, which gets frustrating. I think the Fun Pimps probably have another year of EA ahead of them before they announce a release date.

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Hmm - never had this before. I'm running stock Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit, Unity desktop. I have Nvidia proprietary drivers on - we have much the same set up. I checked the value using dconf-editor and it was on. I've turned it off to see if I see a difference anywhere.

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Regarding tearing - I take it you've got triple buffering enabled? Doing so completely fixed all screen tear for me.

As per [url=ttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/1166#]Solar's post on the GoL forums[/url] last year:

Navigate to /etc/x11
Open xorg.conf as root
Locate metamodes HDMI-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0 under Section screen which is near the bottom (of course you might not have the same resolution here)
and change it to metamodes HDMI-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }

Then save and reboot.

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Can't wait to buy this. And its sequel. Great news.

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Quoting: wolfyrionI thought that the GOTY Edition would be the whole game but I guess I was wrong...

However dlcs doesn't have the tux icon.

So are all these DLC's required :o?

Yeah, I have the same question - does the Linux version support the GoTY DLC packages, since they don't have the tux icon? I guess we'll find out when TheBoss livestreams later.

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The style looks similar to the Quantisized Bit games that came out yesterday, albeit the gameplay in this looks a bit more laid back. Any idea on price? Looks like my kind of game.

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This would be great news - been tracking this for months and had largely given up hope of buying it. Can't wait!

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After giving the Fun Pimps such a hard time for their awful Linux support, I finally got around to playing the late Alpha 13 version of 7 Days to Die.

I have to say, it's really, really good. It's get absolutely panned in the Steam reviews right now - lots of people preferred Alpha 12, so I'm going to re-voice my hatred of reviews for Early Access games... but since I never played Alpha 12, I'm coming in fresh and it's really superb.

Like Minecraft, only with good graphics. Well, and a lot more detail hunger/thirst, warmth/chill, clothes, infection, and a really, really slick crafting system. And of course, a huge variety of zombies.

So, yeah - definitely worth checking that out if you haven't played it yet.

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Looks great. Like a decent Magic:The Gathering digital version. A quick note though - it's £18 in the UK, but my understanding is that you're paying a slight premium to play the EA version. As noted in the article, it will be Free-to-play (estimated around September this year) but your £18 will buy better gear at that point than the tenner's worth you're getting now.

Not sure how accurate that is, but it seems to be the summary I got from reading the updates and reviews.

[EDIT: forgot to ask - is it Multiplayer only? I'd rather just do single-player campaign play, ala Card Hunter]

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Well, it's possible the dev did pay for them, but the "freelance artists" on upwork stole the work. Original dev should reluctantly, but swiftly comply with the take-down in that case. The art itself looks like it's well documented work by Alex Mosolov on his devblog/website.

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