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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?
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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.
wvstolzing Jun 23, 2019
I have been feeling a bit smug and happy with my self about switching to POP!_OS before the Ubuntu 32bit blowup.
Last edited by KijBeta on 23 June 2019 at 4:52 pm UTC
Lycurgus87 Jun 23, 2019
Quoting: Para-GlidingQuoting: Lycurgus87Proton: Mordhau, [...]as a great fan of Chivalery:MW (specially with black knigth mod), i would try it. Does it run nice without tricks in proton?
Mordhau is the new goodie, its awesome I really enjoy it. Many ppl crying about it, but it is fun and a chill experience for me, mainly because really not matter you win or loose, you can have tons of fun (as soon as you learned how to not die instantly) and I think servers now are fixed so you get decent latency.
I would like to try AS:Odyssey (ancient greek <3 : do we meet Thales, Aristoteles or Plato?) as i had a lot of fun with this kind of game (Witcher3-proton, MadMax native, Middle Earth:shadow of mordor native) but never get a "uplay" game and I don't want to spend several evening searching how to make all those working ... I have a job and a family :'( ... :oP
Yeah it's work out of the box no tweaks needed. You can't do alt tab tho, but that's it otherwise runs great.
Last edited by Lycurgus87 on 23 June 2019 at 6:20 pm UTC
Quoting: ageresIs it possible to execute Windows .bat files with Wine? I couldn't do.A quick web search suggests either
wine cmd /c filename.bator
wine start filename.bat
CS-GO, casual shooting for a few minutes.
Arma 3, coop missions with my friends
Zero-K, fun with hundreds of robots and weapons of mass destruction
Quoting: ageresResident Evil 4 with HD textures from http://www.re4hd.com/?page_id=6064 and d9vk.As far as I recall - I used it for much the same purpose a couple of years ago - wineconsole is what you're looking for. Run on its own, it brings up a Windows commandline, but I'm pretty sure it runs .bat files too.
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.
{Edit: Oh, I see tuubi got in ahead of me. That'll work too. wineconsole is just a wrapper for that anyway, as far as I can make out.}
Last edited by Dunc on 23 June 2019 at 8:58 pm UTC
wvstolzing Jun 23, 2019
Quoting: Para-GlidingI would like to try AS:Odyssey (ancient greek <3 : do we meet Thales, Aristoteles or Plato?)
(A somewhat young) Socrates is in the game, alongside a few other spoilerific figures.
I don't have the game; though I've seen bits on youtube. They even went through the trouble of including a short 'Socratic dialogue' betweem the player character and the man himself ... though frankly it's pretty cringeworthy if you're familiar with the Platonic texts. It's a missed opportunity really; they could've done a lighthearted parody.
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