It's question time once again, time to tell the world what you've been playing and let us know if it's worth getting.
I've actually been really enjoying Sid Meier's Civilization VI with the new expansion, it's far more addictive than I originally thought. While I previously got bored with it after a few rounds, that's no longer the case.
The disasters system with climate change adds so much to the game to seriously make it that much more interesting. Soon my English army shall take over what's left of the world…
In regards to the performance of the port (which isn't great in the later game), Aspyr Media did say this on Reddit:
The answer is actually not technical, but simply bandwidth. Frankly, it was a valentines miracle to get Linux out along-side Windows in a playable state that we were happy with AND cross platform. There will be time for optimizations once the dust settles, and we will continue to optimize for as long as we work on the product. For Civ V, that was years.
As for other games, I still can't pull myself away from Rocket League. Now that I have a few hundred hours in it, the amount of tricks I can pull off is increasing all the time, once you get to grips with some aerial maneuvers the game certainly opens up a bit.
Another shout out to Streets of Rogue, still one of my absolute favourite indie games. The amount of time I'be put into this is nuts. Probably one of the funniest games I've ever played with friends. Absolutely check it out if you haven't and do have a look at our video of it!
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Quoting: NeoTheFoxDUSK. It was the best shooter I've played since forever. And it dragged me in so hard that I've started playing Immortal Redneck again. I really can't wait for AMID EVIL to come outLike NeoTheFox I have been playing (and finished) DUSK. Amazing game because the gameplay just "feels" right, and how do people program a feeling? :)
And concerning Proton, I have finished both Prey (2006) and Prey (2017). Both games were better than I expected, because of their story lines. I was totally surprised by the 'immersive sim' concept of Prey (2017).
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I finished Shadow of Mordor recently, it was great, better than I had expected.
Otherwise lately I've been catching up on some indies, such as Undertale, Trine and The Stanley Parable....all great too!
Otherwise lately I've been catching up on some indies, such as Undertale, Trine and The Stanley Parable....all great too!
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please_use_plain_text Feb 18, 2019
Dark Souls 2 DLCs via Proton. Maybe bosses and level design are a little less inspired than the other Souls games, but DS2 is still a good game and still my favourite (maybe because it's the first one of the series i've played)
Euro Trucks Simulator 2. Still the best game to listen to some podcasts :)
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Euro Trucks Simulator 2. Still the best game to listen to some podcasts :)
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voyager2102 Feb 18, 2019
I decided last week to end my 300+ days of uptime and reboot my computer to get the graphics drivers ready for The Witcher 3 ;)
Boy, was that ever worth it. Just wanted to see if it really runs (after getting the kids to bed)... 3 in the morning my wife comes and asks if I am crazy and I should go the f*&/)( to bed ;) Played it whenever there was time after work and thoroughly enjoyed every second. What a game so far!
Then came the Civ 6: Gathering Storm release and I did something I rarely ever do: I bought it immediately on impulse b/c I had spent hours already watching the firaxis twitch channel where they talked through all the new stuff. A bit on the expensive side for an expansion... but hey, it's Civ! This is going to cost me a couple of cents per hour I am going to spend with it!!!11!
To make it short: We played it all weekend in (family) multiplayer and loved it - so much new stuff. Now to the negative point: My wife played on her mac and when I installed it from my account on her computer it gave me an instant steam hardware survey. Shit, I thought - I never get those on Linux!!! So I install it on the Windows laptop my daughter is using... steam hardware survey. Damn!!! That can't be! But not on Linux on my main system!
Other than that I recently (this month) played:
Boy, was that ever worth it. Just wanted to see if it really runs (after getting the kids to bed)... 3 in the morning my wife comes and asks if I am crazy and I should go the f*&/)( to bed ;) Played it whenever there was time after work and thoroughly enjoyed every second. What a game so far!
Then came the Civ 6: Gathering Storm release and I did something I rarely ever do: I bought it immediately on impulse b/c I had spent hours already watching the firaxis twitch channel where they talked through all the new stuff. A bit on the expensive side for an expansion... but hey, it's Civ! This is going to cost me a couple of cents per hour I am going to spend with it!!!11!
To make it short: We played it all weekend in (family) multiplayer and loved it - so much new stuff. Now to the negative point: My wife played on her mac and when I installed it from my account on her computer it gave me an instant steam hardware survey. Shit, I thought - I never get those on Linux!!! So I install it on the Windows laptop my daughter is using... steam hardware survey. Damn!!! That can't be! But not on Linux on my main system!
Other than that I recently (this month) played:
- War of the Overworld - fun little game that doesn't take too long to just pick up for one level (at least in the beginning). I will play it again but it also didn't totally exite me.
- Robothorium - also fun and very similar to Halcyon 6's Combat. At the moment I categorize this as casual gaming that I can start play a little then do sth. else
- Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth - really well made adventure but a little on the casual side which makes it easy to play, put down and pick up again anytime - I am playing this in short instances for about 2 months now which is very unusaual for an adventure for me.
- John Shafer's at the Gates - just had to get this one when it came out to see what the former Civ Lead Designer could do with his own game... sadly it is labeled a full game but plays like early access. Lot's interesting concepts but sadly not fleshed out. I'm probably not going to play this in a while and hope that they will work on this some more.
- Particle Fleet: Emergence - being a HUGE fan of Creeper World III I just had to play this. What should I say - played through the campaign in one day... probably not going to play it again since while it is not a bad game it is just so much less than Creeper World 3.
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I've been playing Skyrim SE in Proton for a few weeks now. No special config, it just worked, other than needing an audio fix. Runs very nicely (occasional freezes, loss of some audio), better than the none-SE version ever did with WINE, and that's with an Intel GPU (NUC). Using Manjaro, for info.
Quoting: Scoopta...I'm still waiting for Skyrim special edition to be playable in proton because once that happens it'll be freaking amazing on this setup.
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Quoting: vgnmnkyI've been playing Skyrim SE in Proton for a few weeks now. No special config, it just worked, other than needing an audio fix. Runs very nicely (occasional freezes, loss of some audio), better than the none-SE version ever did with WINE, and that's with an Intel GPU (NUC). Using Manjaro, for info.
Quoting: Scoopta...I'm still waiting for Skyrim special edition to be playable in proton because once that happens it'll be freaking amazing on this setup.
Quoting: vgnmnkyI've been playing Skyrim SE in Proton for a few weeks now. No special config, it just worked, other than needing an audio fix. Runs very nicely (occasional freezes, loss of some audio), better than the none-SE version ever did with WINE, and that's with an Intel GPU (NUC). Using Manjaro, for info.Probably should have clarified. I'm running RADV with LLVM 7.0.1. The DXVK wiki mentions some games have a tendency to hang with LLVM 7.0.1 and unfortunately it appears Skyrim SE is one of them. I keep hoping that a newer RADV with LLVM 8 will end up in the Debian experimental repos(I run Sid) but not as of yet. I guess I could try my hand at compiling RADV myself but that sounds painful.
Quoting: Scoopta...I'm still waiting for Skyrim special edition to be playable in proton because once that happens it'll be freaking amazing on this setup.
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I just finished "The Magic Circle" which was a very enjoyable game to say the least. Now I may get on with the First of the new Tomb Raiders...
Cutting edge gaming from me.
Cutting edge gaming from me.
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Arehandoro Feb 18, 2019
The Witcher 3 and why did I wait so much to play it. It will still last me a good couple of moths though :D
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Quoting: ArehandoroThe Witcher 3 and why did I wait so much to play it. It will still last me a good couple of moths though :D
The Witcher 2 put me off The Witcher 3. Having to drink potions before certain fights to have any chance of success is just a horrible gameplay mechanic. Well, that and all the mixed messages from CDPR about whether we were getting a Linux native build. Or was it mixed messages? I remember Valve "announced" it, that was retracted of course, but did CDPR ever say anything on the matter?
So yeah. They're not on my "don't buy" list or anything, but there are so many better developers (for Linux) that I'd rather spend my money on that even years after its release, I've never felt the urge to go there.
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With the recent release of Alpha 17, I've been revisiting 7 Days to Die, solo. It has come so far since *so* far since I first purchased it four or five years ago; though, it still has its share of head-scratchers (like, how can I put all this dirt I just dug up to make that hole, back into that hole?) If you have your own copy of 7d2d sitting in your Steam library, collecting dust, you might want to fire it up and see how far it's come.
I've also been playing a little zombie-horde shooter I picked up on sale for pennies called [Blood Waves.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/654470/Blood_Waves/) I a bought it primarily to test it for Our Most Beloved ProtonDB, because it didn't have an entry yet. Everything worked perfectly except the controller, which went undetected, until I fired-up Kozec's SC-Controller---ta-daaaa!
And, as is our custom, my bro-in-law and I have been playing Borderlands TPS once or twice a week.
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I've also been playing a little zombie-horde shooter I picked up on sale for pennies called [Blood Waves.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/654470/Blood_Waves/) I a bought it primarily to test it for Our Most Beloved ProtonDB, because it didn't have an entry yet. Everything worked perfectly except the controller, which went undetected, until I fired-up Kozec's SC-Controller---ta-daaaa!
And, as is our custom, my bro-in-law and I have been playing Borderlands TPS once or twice a week.
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