What are you clicking on this weekend? Let us know your current favourites

After cleaning my apartment, i found my good old dolphinbar (a bluetooth adapter and sensor bar combo for dolphin emulator) that i got 3-4 years ago before i definitely switched to linux full time. I decided to use it and play some wii games. It didn't work at first but i found a way to make it works on linux. It works perfectly now so i plan to play some new super mario bross wii. With vulkan blackend, the game run at a smooth 60fps.

Talking of Vulkan, i also plan to play like i do almost everyday to overwatch. I switched full time to linux after i tried overwatch with wine and dxvk. Even with my nvidia gtx960, it works 60fps on high with no drops.

Probably playing a bit of Warhammer Online also with the help of wine. Quite fun for some RvR action.

How are you playing that? Are there community servers or something? I went to http://www.warhammeronline.com/ and saw that it was sunset.

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark. Mouthful of a title, but a great turn-based strategy game.

I am currently going back and grinding the hell out of old levels, not because it's necessary (it's really not unless you're a poor strategist) and not because I like grinding (hate it actually), but just because I am not ready for the game to be over so I am delaying the final fight as long as I can.

This is great to hear! I took a small chance and bought this game near the end of Early Access before the price went up. I haven't played it yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll like it a lot as I'm a fan of Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.

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As I'm at a LAN party this weekend, we're playing quite a lot already:

• Evolve: Yep, that game, that was once promised to come to Linux, when Valve took off with all the Steam Universe anoucements, like Steam VR, Steam Controller, SteamOS, etc. It was the first asynchronous multiplayer game, but didn't work out as expected. They switched to Evolve Stage 2, which was Free2Play, but it also didn't work out. So they've shut down the game and its servers completely. Only owners of the former paid version can still play it, by switching to the Evolve legacy "beta" branch. So you can still play multiplayer via Steamworks and just invite your friends. And it works pretty well via proton. Not perfect, as you lose input after tabbing out and in, and there are some rare crashes here and there. But you can always reconnect, so it's not too bad. And this game is still much fun. If you're lucky to find a retail version, [you can still play](https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/222418608-How-Can-I-Play-Legacy-Evolve-) the original Evolve.


• Insurgency: Looking forward to Sandstorm though. But in the meantime, we play its predecessor.


• Aliens vs. Predator (2010): Tricky in proton, but it does work on certain dates, if you copy the ceg executable from a wine or windows installation from the same pc. Works perfect in wine though. But I just realize, that it seems they've shut down VAC support for the dedicated server? It doesn't connect to steam anymore, though it was working perfect some weeks ago. We had to do it via friends invite as with Evolve... well.


• Dynablaster Revenge: A great bomberman clone. It has native Linux support


• Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne: Green Circle Tower Defense. And damn, we are still failing this map. I also have to try D9VK with this, as my FPS go down hard, whren there are too many creeps walking around.


• Beat Saber: Yep, they have a HTC Vive Pro here at the LAN party, even with the wireless module. That's pretty cool, but it's so hot in the sports hall here, I didn't play more than 2 songs... otherwise I would have melted :D

So much about what I (we) have played so far, but there is more to come. We still have Blur and FlatOut 2 on our list... and we'll see what else. BlazeRush and ShellShock Live maybe.

Probably playing a bit of Warhammer Online also with the help of wine. Quite fun for some RvR action.

How are you playing that? Are there community servers or something? I went to http://www.warhammeronline.com/ and saw that it was sunset.

https://www.returnofreckoning.com

I started playing Fallout 4, but Dogmeat remembered me too much my beloved dog who passed away that I had to stop: seeing someone harming him makes me mad. It's very strange, never felt this feeling because of a videogame.

Yeah they made the dog really well. And I agree, I too find it strangely uncomfortable to see him getting attacked. But you can choose other companions too, including that bot early on, and leave the dog safe back home and cuddle him while you fix the house. :)

Please Note:
Fallout 4 works well out of the box using Proton only if you use a gamepad, otherwise you'll have problems with mouse spinning or jumping

That particular problem is fixed with one line in the config file of fallout: "bBackgroundMouse=1"

But there is another mouse issue that only happens now and then that I've not found a solution to (probably doesn't affect all, but I have to run a custom resolution due to my ultrawide screen).
So yeah, I'm playing it on a controller as well. Really great performance on the game too!


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Have been putting in a lot of hours in Graveyard Keeper and just started Lords Of The Fallen (awesome game unfortunately the Steam versions DRM is not removed so it won't work on proton unlike the GOG version)

Playing nothing this weekend :) ( yet, I hope tomorrow will do some Galactic Civilizations 2 as the pretty box came yesterday )

Playing the amazing new Amiga shmup "Reshoot R" under FS-UAE under Ubuntu !
http://reshootr.richard-loewenstein.de/
(released this week :-)

You need an AGA chipset, I hope that's not too high end !

Wow, this game looks nice!

Vambrace: Cold Soul is my current favourite. Version 1.05 fixes a lot of niggles I had with the balance and gameplay, and the game is faultless to play. It also looks, ahem... stunning ;-)

Also looking forward to delving back into ATOM RPG, with its new content. Also on my list to play are Hedon and Undead Horde.

Working on the second straight playthrough of Witcher 3.

Don't really follow new games much. And once I really get into a game, I play that a lot over a prolonged period of time. Quality over quantity :)

The backlog is colossal, although I've been fairly restrictive about buying games on sale and whatnot. Maybe Linux will be able to still run these things in 40-50 years? :D


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Rimworld. The most recent update came out Thursday and it decreases load times drastically for games with mods. I went from 800 sec to 180 sec on my old laptop.

I just lost half my colonists in a raid, so it'll be interesting to see if I can rebuild before winter.

Cool. I got the email about a new update, but haven't downloaded and tried it out yet. It's a great game. The raids get a bit silly later on (and the blasted ships are a pain in the neck), but I like the early to mid game.

(Sorry for all the consecutive posts, I'm reading through the thread)

To the Moon, the game was sitting in my library since December 2016 so I think it's more than time to have a look at it! Not bad so far (about 1 hour in it), sad story with an old console era vibe for the graphics and gameplay! :|

I kinda envy you. You're in for such an awesome game (although some will rudely call it a digital story or suchlike). Heartstrings may get pulled ;-)

Dying light the following :).

I'm actually playing a little Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind via TES3MP (openMW multiplayer).

Good old Minecraft for me, but also Super Cane Magic Zero, I have been waiting for it to come out of early access! :)

I am ashamed to admit, but it is "Pathologic 2" for me this weekend.
It is a shame this game is not available on Linux

It should be eventually (unless they back out on their promises):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic/

Still playing The Witcher 3 in Wine/dxvk.

Doom Tribute, a recreation of Doom 1 and 2 levels on GZDoom engine.

I've been replaying Deus Ex Mankind Divided, discovering small things that eluded me in my first playthrough.

I'm on my first playthrough of Surviving Mars: Green Mars (decided to play as Paradox since the game seemed much too easy on the first playthough of the base game). It's luckily one of those games you can have running on a extra screen while working (on a deadline for a project this weekend) since most of the time it kind of runs without interference and it is beautiful to watch.

These days it seems that Paradox alone will be enough to fill the (little) gaming time that I have with all the great titles they brought to linux! Thanks paradox!