What are you playing this weekend?

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast




Last edited by rea987 on 19 Jun 2016 at 12:01 pm UTC

@mcphail Try playing The Longest Journey with the latest build of ResidualVM instead. Works much better.

Thanks for the tip! Seems to work well.

Sadly, currently I mostly play on PS4 because of poor rig I have and technical problems with my Linux rig.
During last month I had plenty of time because I change the job starting from next month and I have a lot of holiday left and my girlfriend does not. So I play a lot, unfortunately mostly on other platform.
So lately I've finished:
- The Last of Us Remastered
- Nathan's Drake collection (So Uncharted 1,2,3)
- Tomb Raider (2013) (Which I've bought a moment before it was announced to be released on Linux...)

During this weekend I'll play:
- The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
- Sleeping Dogs

The only games I play on Linux:
- Pillars of Eternity
- Don't Starve Together

Some time ago (on Easter sale?) I've bought Sleeping Dogs for 42 pln (less than 9 euro). I just started it and I can tell that game is decent, and it's really a shame that Feral ported it to Mac but did not port it to Linux. Hope it will be similar story as the one with Tomb Raider (2013).

Regarding technical issues on Linux I currently have:
1) I've finally made my dualshock 4 controller to work with Don't Starve Together in wireless mode. The problem is that it does not work correctly with Steam in big picture (from time to time overlay kicks in, in big picture sometimes controller starts to behave like y-axis is moved down, and in general it starts to be unusable)
2) I've received Magicka 2 copy from "Free Steam keys" forum topic and wanted to give it a try. It turns out that for some reason it does not launch with proprietary drivers I use (361.42), on nouveau driver I got less than 10 fps.

Last 3 months I've spent a lot of cash because we moved into a new flat with my girlfriend, so I cannot afford new powerful rig yet. And I don't own enough decent titles on Steam to force myself to invest in it.

I wait for Steam Sale to see if I can get something I am interested in. If I won't find it I will be focusing on PS4 for next month or 2.
I am eager to buy and play:
- XCOM2
- Hard West
- Divinity Original Sin
- SuperHot
- Pillars of Eternity: White March both parts (which was on GOG sale for really reasonable price, but I have PoE on Steam)

I am afraid that I will end up buying XCOM2 on PS4, which would be worst case scenario, because I want to give my money to Feral, but as long as I don't own the good rig, I cannot play it on Linux anyway. And I don't want to loose the mods support.

Let's see how it goes, at some point I need to switch to B2B anyway, so that would be great moment to buy new rig and finally enjoy good looking titles on our beloved platform.

1) I've finally made my dualshock 4 controller to work with Don't Starve Together in wireless mode. The problem is that it does not work correctly with Steam in big picture (from time to time overlay kicks in, in big picture sometimes controller starts to behave like y-axis is moved down, and in general it starts to be unusable)

By any chance, are you having issues with your keyboard or mouse being wrongly detected as a controller? I had this issue, and Steam Big Picture mode would behave as if my XB360 controller was always pressing "up". I fixed it by using a udev blacklist for my wireless keyboard/mouse.

I'm playing Factorio, it's the only game I'm playing since I bought it !

Factorio. I'm determined to clean up the alien infestation near my gas installation.

I did not think I would need xorg in 32-bit as well - that sound quite troubesome.

You don't actually run Xorg in a chroot though. It's only installed there for the libraries and headers, and the chroot is only used for compiling. It'll probably automatically pull most (all?) of the required Xorg bits in when running $ sudo apt-get build-dep wine
If you need something else for the optional libdrm or the AMDGPU DDX steps, most probably you'll get everything you need with: $ sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg Not a problem at all. :)

Of course, you could instead setup your schroot config file to include the lines:
personality=linux32
preserve-environment=true
Then you could compile and run Wine there, forget all the 64-bit stuff, and not have to worry about installing :i386 packages on your amd64 host. There are plenty of options.

Some Insurgency and Anno 1404 for some relaxation.

Finished Bioschock Infinite and started Deadfall Adventures

1) I've finally made my dualshock 4 controller to work with Don't Starve Together in wireless mode. The problem is that it does not work correctly with Steam in big picture (from time to time overlay kicks in, in big picture sometimes controller starts to behave like y-axis is moved down, and in general it starts to be unusable)

By any chance, are you having issues with your keyboard or mouse being wrongly detected as a controller? I had this issue, and Steam Big Picture mode would behave as if my XB360 controller was always pressing "up". I fixed it by using a udev blacklist for my wireless keyboard/mouse.

Hmm honestly I don't know. I've applied both fixes from your link and none of them worked. I don't see a way to determine if that's the problem I'm having.

What I also see is that whenever I press the "X" button on the controller, Steam behaves like it would be permanently pressed and launches a first game in the list of recently played. After I close the game it seems to work fine for a while.

@mcphail any ideas from your side?

I bought too much in the GOG summer sale and also had to renew my CrossOver subscription.. my SO isn't happy about that ;)

Right now I play Prince of Persia (2008) and Stellaris. I also installed Jade Empire.. because of nostalgic reasons..

Prince of Persia is, to my surprise, really good. I hadn't high expectations for a game where you can't die.. but it's perfect after a stressful day and I love the graphic style. The story couldn't be more stereotype and full of troops but I don't play the game for the story at all. ;)

Stellaris... is a drug and I can't escape it. I also created my first mod for the game... I changed the main theme with the German intro song of the old cartoon show "Captain Future" View video on youtube.com


Well Jade Empire was one of my most beloved Bioware games. I loved the Chinese/Asia setting and to my surprise the game has aged well.

Insurgency, FTL and this Transmission 120 game ^_^

@boltronics: Thank you very much for the manual and the script.

Syberia via wine and some Din's Curse

Took a little while to get Syberia running. but I have it at full screen in all its glory

Much like every weekend, I play Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition with my brother via local co-op/split screen. I use the Steam Controller and he uses the xbox 360 one (he finds the steam controller too big and weird with it's touchpad, I love it enough I bought a second one). Otherwise this weekend, I've been 'playing' rebuild the OS on my Commodore Amiga 4000D, getting the transferring of software over to my Atari Mega STe, and now I'll be playing 'getting my laundry done.'

Somewhere in between that, I'll probably squeeze in some Vive game play. I was going to play through Pillars of Eternity, but since I'm currently working on DOSEE, I didn't want to get story lines mixed up. It's already quite similar to the story line from Ultima 7. Start out with a murder, some weird cult, etc. Then again, why not copy some ideas from what many consider as the best RPG of all time?

Playing it with local co-op is awesome, Crazy hard sometimes though when you accidentally fry your own team with a firefly spell... quick save often...

I'm gonna be honest... I bought Overwatch, and I can't stop playing it! So this pretty much breaks my 3+ year streak of only buying games that support Linux :-(. I just couldn't help it... It's soooo good.

Saints Row 2 & Moebius: Empire Rising. A strange combination :P

1) I've finally made my dualshock 4 controller to work with Don't Starve Together in wireless mode. The problem is that it does not work correctly with Steam in big picture (from time to time overlay kicks in, in big picture sometimes controller starts to behave like y-axis is moved down, and in general it starts to be unusable)

By any chance, are you having issues with your keyboard or mouse being wrongly detected as a controller? I had this issue, and Steam Big Picture mode would behave as if my XB360 controller was always pressing "up". I fixed it by using a udev blacklist for my wireless keyboard/mouse.

Just so you know, I bought Divinity original sin on gog with a 50% reduction on Friday during their summer sale. don't know if it's still there though.

Hmm honestly I don't know. I've applied both fixes from your link and none of them worked. I don't see a way to determine if that's the problem I'm having.

What I also see is that whenever I press the "X" button on the controller, Steam behaves like it would be permanently pressed and launches a first game in the list of recently played. After I close the game it seems to work fine for a while.

@mcphail any ideas from your side?

Sorry. No further ideas, I'd had similar issues with the XB360 controller with the xpad driver, but we've tracked those down and it is fixed in the most recent version. I assume the PS4 controller driver doesn't share any code with xpad?

Teeworlds for sure