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PayPalAnother day, another big sale is going on. Today is the turn of Valve as they're doing a big Lunar New Year sale. Valve have also revamped Steam's Wishlist feature.
I decided to pick ten games I think people should pick up for various reasons. It's extremely difficult to condense so many awesome Linux games, but my varied choices here I think are a good set for people to look into (if you still haven't!).
- Tomb Raider - 85% off, Since Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially coming to Linux, getting this played through is a good idea (the price is also ridiculous!).
- Insurgency - 85% off, It's a solid tactical FPS and if plenty of Linux users buy it, hopefully they will continue to stay committed to getting Insurgency: Sandstorm on Linux.
- Victor Vran - 75% off, a pretty damn good action RPG. Tons of content and tons of loot! It's also from the studio developing Surviving Mars, which releases with Linux support next month.
- XCOM 2 - 67% off or XCOM 2 Collection (including the excellent WotC expansion) - 50% off.
- Dying Light - 60% off or Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition - 67% off.
- Stellaris - 60% off, with the huge expansion due soon it's a fab time to grab it.
- Oxygen Not Included - 40% off, probably one of the most engrossing space-colony simulation games I've ever played. Klei have a great history of Linux support too.
- Overfall - 40% off, not one I've mentioned for a while, but it's a solid RPG with turn-based battles where you travel across the sea and visit various islands.
- Rusted Warfare - 40% off, I could write paragraphs about my love for this 2D RTS. It brings back so many good memories of Total Annihilation and the recent Steam Workshop update, plus all the other updates makes it really damn fun.
- Streets of Rogue - 33% off, we had far too much fun during livestreams with this one, absolute madness!
Be sure to share games you feel people absolutely cannot miss in the comments, why don't you pick your top five games that maybe aren't too well known, but you love them? Will be interesting to see what you come up with.
As for the Steam Wishlist, Valve put up a blog post here announcing the changes resulting in a total revamp of the Wishlist system and it's tons better. You can filter per platform, filter out certain titles like Early Access to only see them when they're done and so on. Good stuff from Valve, was long overdue. Now Valve, about the Steam Library and how it's really needing a revamp…
Ps. You can see Linux sales on our Sales Page, which updates constantly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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no_information_here Feb 16, 2018
Quoting: noxIt is the new trend. Make everything look like a blown up smartphone. The wasted space on web pages is just an incurable disease now. I gave up being angry when my bank switched to a completely unusable interface. This new steam thing isn't nearly as terrible.Quoting: EhvisThe new wishlist is functionally good, but I would have preferred the items to be a bit smaller.Holy shit, yes.
Feels like it's not scaled right at all at 1080p :P
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Wishlist is gigantic now, why do they do this, like those places that only put 10 items on a page load. I can only see 4 items one screen at once because they are so damn big. I really wish places would make tight compact lists for wishlists so you can go over them quickly.
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Quoting: sn0rlaxPerhaps someone can enlighten me on why Victor Vran is recommended. I bought it and it's the worst performing game I've ever played. Seems like a garbage port. Are you getting good performance from it?I wouldn't say it's the worst-performing I've ever seen, but there's definitely something not right with it. For the most part it's fairly playable here, but there are some areas - the main castle, for example - where the framerate drops like a stone for no readily apparent reason. On the face of it, it looks like one of the less-demanding areas in the game, yet that's where it seems to struggle.
My main issue with it, though, is that it seems so... soulless. I mean it's enjoyable enough, but it just never seemed to grab me. I've never found myself standing in a queue in the supermarket thinking, “Dammit, I'd really rather be playing Victor Vran right now”.
Maybe I should give it another chance. People obviously see something in it.
Quoting: no_information_hereIt is the new trend. Make everything look like a blown up smartphone. The wasted space on web pages is just an incurable disease now. I gave up being angry when my bank switched to a completely unusable interface. This new steam thing isn't nearly as terrible.Huge text is my personal bugbear. It's 2018. Why are we still using absolute pixel values? I get that people have HDPI displays now, but that shouldn't mean half-inch high letters on my old steam-powered monitor. Scaling, people, scaling.
But yeah, the new wishlist is hardly a thing of eternal beauty, but it's okay. Does the job.
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Yeah, I just took a look at the new wishlist and its horrible. I really don't understand why they felt the need to change it. There was nothing wrong with it to begin with. When you try fixing something that isn't broken, you usually just end up making it worse.
The old layout was much more neat and organized.
The old layout was much more neat and organized.
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so many great bargins! I bought the newly ported Starship Titanic half-price. All the Doublefine games are on sale, mostly seventy-five percent off!
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TheRiddick Feb 16, 2018
The amount of times I've restarted Tomb Raider due to a reinstall or something, I don't think I will ever finish the story.
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Quoting: sn0rlaxPerhaps someone can enlighten me on why Victor Vran is recommended. I bought it and it's the worst performing game I've ever played. Seems like a garbage port. Are you getting good performance from it?
Worked like a charm for me. And yeah, it is a great game ;-)
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Kallestofeles Feb 16, 2018
Oh no, with the wishlist revamp, they also removed old games from it which were no longer available on Steam... used to have Divinity 2: Ego Draconis saga there as a reminder... well, it's all just in my head now. :D
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Well..someone should also point out that there are sales at paradoxplaza, so if you are missing a paradox DLC you want, you can check there first. Old DLCs get a 50% discount as they do on steam, but you also get the 3 for 2 deal so it can get up to 66% discount (not to mention that paradox gets all the money). Personally will try to complete my CK2 collection.
As for steam sales.. I am also getting the old Tomb Raider..yes..I didn't have it..you can shame me if you want..
PS: still a little worried after reading yesterday's news about paradox (yes the publisher not the developer..but still..)
As for steam sales.. I am also getting the old Tomb Raider..yes..I didn't have it..you can shame me if you want..
PS: still a little worried after reading yesterday's news about paradox (yes the publisher not the developer..but still..)
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Quoting: tonRGong Xi Fa Cai for all the Chinese GOL readers! (dunno if y'all exists)
...hongbao na lai? ;-)
新年快乐！
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Quoting: sn0rlaxPerhaps someone can enlighten me on why Victor Vran is recommended. I bought it and it's the worst performing game I've ever played. Seems like a garbage port. Are you getting good performance from it?
Not a single crash and good performance so far.
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Quoting: loggeQuoting: tonRGong Xi Fa Cai for all the Chinese GOL readers! (dunno if y'all exists)
...hongbao na lai? ;-)
新年快乐！
Anybody of you is Chinese?
If so, could you share some enlightenment about the latest developments on Steam regarding the huge increase of Chinese users?
I'd really appreciate some input from China, more than Western guessing...
Last edited by Eike on 16 February 2018 at 9:15 am UTC
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Quoting: qptain NemoThere is no accounting for taste but I thought it looks alright. At least clear to read and informative. I'm always curious about users' grievances with particular UI decisions though.
It's not about the looks (for me), but about information and functionality.
The list used to have some ten items on a screen for me, now it's barely five. I've got 67 items on the list at the moment. So at a glance, it yields way less information (I care for) than before.
I got an item at the top which I wanted to have at the bottom (as we're now supposed to whish list Windows items as well, I'm putting those at the bottom and told my wife she could gift me one of the upper ones (She will not do any filtering. Won't happen.)). This used to be easy, waiting some seconds with the item "in hand" and the list scrolled below. This stopped working, the list is not scrolling anymore when I reach the edge of the screen.
The whish list is broken.
*edit* I found something not too obvious: There's a rank number at the lower left of every item - and you can just change it! The manual moving of items is still broken, though. And "scroll down, look where it should end up, scroll up, enter the number" is not an optimal UI either...
Last edited by Eike on 16 February 2018 at 9:21 am UTC
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Quoting: Eike*edit* I found something not too obvious: There's a rank number at the lower left of every item - and you can just change it! The manual moving of items is still broken, though.
Hmmm... manual moving is no more a thing, but at least now you just have to change the rank number and it will be saved directly, before you had to manually save changes... It's not that bad even if "drag and drop" was a cool feature (but with more than 1000 games in my wishlist dragging items was less than optimal for classification ^^)... :)
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Quoting: riusmaHmmm... manual moving is no more a thing, but at least now you just have to change the rank number and it will be saved directly, before you had to manually save changes... It's not that bad even if "drag and drop" was a cool feature (but with more than 1000 games in my wishlist dragging items was less than optimal for classification ^^)... :)
Manual moving is still possible with the "grabber" at the left, but not practical for more then some five ranks I guess.
Probably for a very small or a very large number, the new method is better.
Was it obvious to you you could just change the number? I just tried it out of... despair.
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lucifertdark Feb 16, 2018
Am I the only one who thinks everything is a little bit clearer on Steam today? The Fonts have increased in size for me just a little & it's great, please tell me I'm not imagining it.
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Quoting: EikeManual moving is still possible with the "grabber" at the left, but not practical for more then some five ranks I guess.
Probably for a very small or a very large number, the new method is better.
Was it obvious to you you could just change the number? I just tried it out of... despair.
Well... I don't find the "grabber"...
(but clicking "TOP" I can put any game from my wishlist at its top)About "changing the number", I was using this method before this update so it is not new to me... but you're right that the functionality is not really that obvious to find (was more obvious before I think). :P
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: loggeQuoting: tonRGong Xi Fa Cai for all the Chinese GOL readers! (dunno if y'all exists)
...hongbao na lai? ;-)
新年快乐！
Anybody of you is Chineese?
If so, could you share some enlightenment about the latest developments on Steam regarding the huge increase of Chineese users?
I'd really appreciate some input from China, more than Western guessing...
Not Chinese (Ethnic or National). But I'm live in significant majority Malaysian Chinese housing area. But still, 39.5% of Malaysia is on Asia continent which means we're Asian right. :D
@Eike
Again, I don't know much about China, but remember our comments about Malaysian/Asian gaming scene few months ago? The situation still unchanged except there is 5v5 version of Vainglory which very hot stuff in my hometown.
There is no generally SE Asian-wide gaming news or generally tech news website as far as I know. Most of time, we read our own country news website (English and/or local language) but you can read on Tech in Asia for a start.
p/s: BTW, my bloodline/ethnicity is super messy. Cannot tell exactly what the mixed is (privacy concern).
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Quoting: johndoeQuoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.
Anyone seen this error before?
This game is great. Don't give up too fast, but it's some kind of broken when you use mesa drivers. Read here...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93551
Compiling the "LD_PRELOAD shim" works for me.
Quoting: ColomboQuoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.
Anyone seen this error before?
Its not broken mesa driver, as @johndoe says, its broken game.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/373420/discussions/0/353915309344847166/
Many thanks to you both! I got it working now and you probably saved me hours of troubleshooting :)
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