Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?

If I have enough time it will be State of Mind, or just some quick sessions on Hollow Knight... or maybe both if it's a real lazy Sunday. ^_^

Starcraft II! Its awesome and Gallium Nine is a must to play this game. The engine is heavily CPU bottle necked which doesn't help wine at all, Nine takes off the Dx9 -> OGL conversion off the CPU and the game performance becomes very good.

X2: The Threat. X3 is nice and all, but I love parking my ship inside of a station, it's the little thing that increases my immersion to the point where I just love flying around planning my economic empire.

The Witcher 3 (Proton) - after 73 hours of gameplay I finally reached the end of the main storyline. The hype about this game is validated...

TW:Warhammer 2 - loving this game!

Finishing Pillars of Eternity + all the DLC -s (only The Master Below and the last bossfight left) after that starting PoE 2... What a surprise :D And Paladins all day every day :)

I play quite a lot of WH40K Gladius, i really enjoy this game.

Also, testing : The Colonists, Rise of Liberty, Odd Realm, Spinnortality, Meeple Station, Seed of Resilience, Species ALRE, and many more.

Playing as Pig on [Project: Gorgon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/342940/Project_Gorgon/)

I don't play often (a few weeks, a couple of times per year, i'd guess), but i play since 2014 i think. I've a Spider, and a Bat.

Some Doom wads as always, including Freedoom Phase 1 and my own wads.

I'm trying to get Resident Evil 2 remake working, but it doesn't work due to stupid WMF, so I'm playing the Gamecube version of the original RE2 on Dolphin.

This might help a bit..
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/ajyx51/resident_evil_2_playable_with_the_latest_dxvk_and/

Insurgency as always. And some Paladins on Proton because it works and it's fun :D

Slime Rancher just because and The Lion's Song. I'm partway through the third chapter in the latter and am pretty sure the smug dude is going to rip off the protagonist's theorem. :(

We're back to family fun with Move or Die, thanks to forced SteamPlay, after the game being broken for over 6 months on SteamOS (due to too old libstdc++ shipped with the system).

Doki Doki Literature Club! I think it's a great visual novel and not very long. It plays great on Proton, just click n' play!

Why use Proton for a game that has a "native" Linux version packaged along with the Windows download (assuming you got it from itch.io)? It's written in Python, so it's actually platform agnostic, and you can easily launch it using the "ddlc.sh" file in the game's folder.

I'm currently playing Hero-U. I got it while it was on sale on GoG at some point, and although I must say that I'm torn. I like the story and the characters, but the fixed schedule on most of the game days feels a bit like, well, going to school. Also, I guess I'm about 15 years older than the game's target audience. Physical age, that is. I still refuse my mental age to progress beyond 10.

The Witcher 2. I've been churning through my backlog lately and hope to get this one wrapped up soon. Also been playing with OBS and setting up some limited streaming to Twitch. We'll see how that goes.

Payday 2. Wife and i really enjoy some heisting.

Nothing in particular. Mostly Protonic testings.

Plus I have to feed my three new Steam Accounts:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/CAS-BiGSUBiS-ProtonicEdition

https://steamcommunity.com/id/CAS-IndieS-ProtonicEdition

https://steamcommunity.com/id/CaS-BiGIS-ProtonicEdition

Impressed by the diversity of what everyone is playing. For me, it's:

• Rocket League (Native)

• Allspace (Native)

• Hypergate (Native)


• Angels Fall First (Proton)


• Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (Proton)


Also, shout out to whoever was using GCompris. My kids (1st and 3rd grade) can still always find something there they love.

Question to all: My kids both play chess, and chess.com seems fine, but is there a great Linux chess program out there somewhere?


Last edited by iiari on 26 Jan 2019 at 10:30 pm UTC

Chess at lichess.org

Civ 6
...just ...one ...more ...turn.

Dishonored 2 -- hopefully on proton if it doesn't start acting up again.

I really like it, though at normal difficulty it's still a tad too easy. The second game's environments are a lot more detailed (and more Deus Ex-like), though, and that's a big plus.

I'm playing a lot of games I haven't for a long time, due to two factors:

• I had a failing RAM module in my computer that went undetected for a long time (it's my first time dealing with such hardware failure) and made RAM-heavy games pretty unstable. I replaced it, and upgraded my hardware at the same time with more RAM, a better graphics card, and a new dedicated SSD for my games.


• The update to Steam Play that lets you force it for specific titles: I've got a few games that technically have Linux versions which I could never get to work on Linux, but I've managed to get most of them working with Steam Play.

Thus, I've been playing XCOM 2—which I pre-ordered, have all the DLC for, and yet only played two campaigns before, right after it released and before the DLC actually came out. I'm loving the War of the Chosen content! It just adds so much new, fun stuff to play with, and really helps fill out the strategic layer to make it as engaging as the tactical side.

I've also been playing a game from my childhood, Age of Empires II—I discovered it has a few new DLCs I hadn't known about, so I'm playing through the new campaigns and starting to whittle down the frankly ludicrous number of achievements it comes with. :)