Liam, have you tried the update yet? I just bought it but it crashes immediately for me on Arch, so I'm curious as to whether you're seeing the same thing.

EDIT: Thread link for those interested: http://steamcommunity.com/app/211820/discussions/3/1353742967810312286/

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It looks and sounds gorgeous but their tiers are a bit hard to decipher. I'm fairly interested in getting the soundtrack but according to the Kickstarter tier list on the right, that's a $65 price tag; according to their own tier overview graphics, it's $45 and yet again, it's listed as a $10 digital add-on with no mention of how to get/add it. This confusion can't be helping them reach their goal :/

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Wow, that looks insanely pretty! Reminds me of Shadow of the Beast mixed with Castlevania (and a bit of Slain) and the fluid movement of Prince of Persia. I may just have to back this one!

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Great news! Now would be a good time to release a new official Steam Machine with a decent GPU, maybe based on the NFC S4 Mini? :D

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While I can understand their reasoning, I'm still not happy about it. Linux support was promised during their initial Kickstarter, so using the post-release-porter-excuse doesn't quite cut it. I get that this is how it ended up, but it never should have in the first place.

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Well, best case scenario, this might open up negotiations with a new publisher for Feral *crosses fingers*.

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No matter what the case ends up being right now, this is not the way to handle it. What should have been done was to make an announcement explaining any cuts in support, what is and isn't considered supported anymore and why. Cutting down on support for one's last game to focus on a new one makes sense, but selling a game and then stating it's not supported (in a different place than the store no less), is absolutely not okay.
If they really want to go down this route, they should at least put a sticker on the Steam / GOG page explaining that they don't have the manpower (or whatever) to support the Linux version at this time and offer it at half price in exchange - for existing Linux users, maybe offer Xenonauts 2 for free or at half price as an apology.

For what it's worth, I backed their original Kickstarter precisely because they promised a Linux version (right after they posted "We’ll also be putting female soldiers into the game, and providing a Mac and Linux version of the game too." )

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Quoting: sigz

Quoting: CybolicThe software support is amazing! It works out of the box, but there's also semi-official software for it (official in that Roccat provided the developer, Stefan Achatz, with access to their hardware and some guidance as well as a license to use their files, but it's not developed by them).

Stefan Achatz has stopped maintaining this project, he will not provide drivers for new hardware.

That is absolutely correct. The support for the existing hardware is superb though :)

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Quoting: Pompesdesky

Quoting: 14Use the right tool for the job. I have the Nyth and it's just about perfect.[...]

]...] I just discovered the Nyth reading your post and I'm really interested in it. How's the software support for it under Linux ? Does Roccat provide something to configure it or is there a non-official Linux tool that does the trick ?

The software support is amazing! It works out of the box, but there's also semi-official software for it (official in that Roccat provided the developer, Stefan Achatz, with access to their hardware and some guidance as well as a license to use their files, but it's not developed by them).
The software lets you bind all buttons (including in ways apparently not possible in Windows), change both lights and their effects, change sensitivity of both axis separately, switch polling rate and CPI and bind up to five profiles with auto-switching based on process name, executable file or window title (with regex support); oh, and it also supports that ridiculous audio announcer functionality for extra 1337ness when switching settings :P
If you're on Arch, it's just a pacman -S roccat-tools-nyth away :)

I also practically wrote a mini-review of it on page 3 of these comments, if you want to know more about its functionality.

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Does it come with friends? ;) In other words, is there any sort of server browser that has a GamingOnLinux name on the list?

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