Relics of Orr Episode 21, Guild Wars 2 and Unix?
By coehl ~ 20th November 2010
Yes, the title is mostly intended to garner attention from search engines. We don’t actually have the answer to this. But we do talk about it.
Tiger with the Secret Agent Cat blog, 1/2 of Chaz, and Tasha with Split Infinity Radio join me in discussion about the GW2 UI, GuildFans and ZAM, Mac OSX/Linux compatibility, and the Hearts of the North release for GW.
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Sequel Scuttlebutt
Eric Flannum explains what “When it’s done” means.
Eternal September of GW2.
Speculator’s Corner
What do you want to see in the Sylvari Reskin?
Class changing systems and “character remorse”?
Data tracking for GW2.
Togo’s Soapbox
What is “Hearts of the North”?
Recap on changes to WiK and recent changes.
Protips
Tasha’s GvG key tip and how to prevent Danika from being Leeroy Jenkins
Canto6 (Intro)
Mysto & Pizzi (Outro)
Thanks to Remedyman for the intro, Csquirrelrun for the outro mashup, Tiger, Tasha, Chaz, Guild Wars 2 Guru, GuildFans, and Doghouse Systems.
EVE Incursion character creator test build video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5i_mgF7Vas
YOU NEED THIS IN YOUR GAME
I heard you guys talking about a news aggregator, and it just so happens that one was put up about a month ago.
http://www.guildwars2news.com/
The guy has feeds coming in from Massively, WartowerDE, any official GW 2 site and twitter, and you can even propose additional news sources for him to add to the feed. It’s a great site to check first thing in the morning
This is bad ass. Thanks Malchior.
Heyo,
I’m the guy who built the feed.
Let me know if there’s anything you want added.
Cheers
thanks again for the awesome PIG love! I laughed as you called us pro, in PVE we jsut c-space blindly and things go boom! In HA we ride the coattails of lady luck, lol.
thanks again for the <3 and another AWSM episode!
Linux? Probably not. Mac OS_X? Possibly.
Would love to see it, but not if it’s a Cider (e.g. crap) port or something with the performance of the Source engine on OS_X.
However, this game will probably work fine with Wine and I’ll be happy to Bootcamp it.
I dont think this will happen for either OSX or Linux. There have been email correspondence with Arenanet when GW2 was first announced, where they explicitly stated that neither GW or GW2 will be ported to LInux or OSX.
The system they have developed for the games depends highly on DirectX and until Microsoft actually ports Direct X to Linux or OSX, I have doubts that we will see GW2 on Linux, except if someone gets it running through Wine.
While it’s unlikely, I still have a little place in my my hearth that wishes that someday… GW2 will come to Linux, currently the only reason I still have Windows is to play Guild Wars -_-
Has it been confirmed that GW2 is using DirectX? I haven’t seen this.
It was amongst the first info released, before the first trailer:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2#Graphics_and_game_engine
Thanks for that, although, are we taking this statement into account?
“Gaile Gray has indicated the game will support DirectX 10, but not require it to play. Guild Wars 2 will use the Havok physics engine and occlusion culling technology licensed from Umbra Software. [1]”
That sounds more promising to me for other platforms than GW was.
PSO, nice reference, played them all from the Dreamcast up and loved em