What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it? It's mostly Dota Underlords for me
Let's lighten the mood a bit shall we? It's question time here on GamingOnLinux! Let's have a talk about what you've been playing recently.
I will of course go first: Dota Underlords. I have quite the sweet spot for it already, even though I'm absolutely terrible at it. This might be the game to finally get me to kick my unhealthy Rocket League obsession, which is amazing considering how radically different they are. I adore strategy games though and unlike normal Dota, I don't need to think ridiculously quickly. Since you don't need any kind of reflexes for it, sitting back and relaxing with the Steam Controller is another reason I quite like Dota Underlords. In the evenings on weekends especially, I can be quite the lazy-gamer, so anything that allows me to kick back with it is likely to get my vote.
After only being out for a few days, it's already annihilated the player record for Artifact. Artifact's all-time high was only just over 60K whereas Underlords has sailed past 190K, although that shouldn't be too surprising since Underlords is free and isn't rammed full of micro-transactions (yet?) and it helps being on mobile as well of course (According to one of the SteamDB folk, the mobile players are being counted too).
Based on what the Underlords team have said, coming "soon" will be:
- Full Scoreboard
- Social features: Scrolling through the map, hearing other player's fights and full chat.
- Hero VO.
- Balance: Dragon Alliance, Dragon Units and Items (Boots)
They also said they're exploring a "Turbo Mode" for those who find games a bit too long. I also love the sound of that very much!
What else? ISLANDERS! An instant purchase the moment Linux support became available, what a beautiful city-builder that's not really like any other. Incredible style, with fun game-play that has you trying to get your score constantly higher and it doesn't take a huge amount of attention from a tired mind.
On top of that I also played the Linux Distribution-Hopping Game 2.0, with a full switch to Manjaro. So far, so good. Everything installed smoothly, grabbing extra software is easy and KDE shines on it.
So, what have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Then I found out, I could run it with "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" as launch command.
Still, why don't you need to set this?
Stoney_Fish Jun 23, 2019
"Could not connect to steam network"
On Thursday I installed a new router so I assumed it was related, tried a different internet, even Hotspot from my phone.
I tried a few workarounds , including steam --tcp but no luck.
Tested on my wife's Ubuntu laptop that had not been updated for about a month and the Steam client started fine.
I did find this :
Steam does not connect on kernels newer than 2019-06-17 #6326
I'm expecting there to be a kernel patch soon.
[Edit]
Ubuntu 19.04 There was a kernel update , I can connect to Steam again.
Last edited by Stoney_Fish on 24 June 2019 at 7:47 pm UTC
Quoting: Stoney_FishI did find this :
Steam does not connect on kernels newer than 2019-06-17 #6326
I'm expecting there to be a kernel patch soon.
As it says in the issue, the patch is already here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1120222/raw/
Works on 5.1.12.
Edit: And on 5.1.13, which you must also patch yourself, if you use mainline (and not distribution) kernels.
Last edited by Seegras on 23 June 2019 at 7:24 pm UTC
Quoting: BotonoskiGosh, I just spent four days building a desk out of scrap wood without any power tools. I feel I should celebrate by using this new desk and enjoying some games and whatnot, but all I wanna do is gently caress my new desk.Stop that. You're making the rest of us look lazy. :)
Last edited by Dunc on 23 June 2019 at 3:03 pm UTC
Also, some Sky Force Reloaded, and 7 Days to Die. Been a good weekend so far.
Last edited by ronnoc on 23 June 2019 at 3:10 pm UTC
I've helped a friend put in some drywall and played HyperRogue (new FPP mode makes me dizzy) and Renowned Explorers.
I had to use a Windows VM to apply the 4GB patch tool and install new files. Is it possible to execute Windows .bat files with Wine? I couldn't do.
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