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What are you playing this weekend?

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It's the weekend already? Oh goodie! Time to dust off that game collection you've been neglecting due to work, school, family or whatever. Tell me what you're playing and what you think to it.

I am going to be playing a mixture of different games, but I am looking forward to properly diving back into XCOM 2 tonight which I have sadly let collect e-dust on Steam while I've been so busy with everything else.

XCOM 2 is just such a cracking time sink and all around great strategy game, love it.

I will also be playing Ballistic Overkill with the IRC crew tonight, so come join the fun. Might even livestream it so keep an eye on our Twitch to watch the silliness. Warning: We use rather colourful language when playing games online together. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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rea987 Jun 19, 2016
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast




Last edited by rea987 on 19 June 2016 at 12:01 pm UTC
mcphail Jun 19, 2016
Quoting: WienerWuerstel@mcphail Try playing The Longest Journey with the latest build of ResidualVM instead. Works much better.

Thanks for the tip! Seems to work well.
wojtek88 Jun 19, 2016
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.
mcphail Jun 19, 2016
Quoting: wojtek881) 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.
Court-Jus Jun 19, 2016
I'm playing Factorio, it's the only game I'm playing since I bought it !
musojon74 Jun 19, 2016
Factorio. I'm determined to clean up the alien infestation near my gas installation.
boltronics Jun 19, 2016
Quoting: KohriasI 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.
Plintslîcho Jun 19, 2016
Some Insurgency and Anno 1404 for some relaxation.
mckFlash Jun 19, 2016
Finished Bioschock Infinite and started Deadfall Adventures
wojtek88 Jun 19, 2016
Quoting: mcphail
Quoting: wojtek881) 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?
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