The weekend is almost over and a nice week full of news is about to begin. Before it does, let's get talking! What have you been playing?
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition has been sucking up a lot of my time recently, thanks to a new update coming out with a bit of new content. I have so much love for the destruction in this game it's unreal! This is where I have honestly spent most of my time, stomping on everything and identifying explosive areas to set off fun chain-reactions from a shot or two and just watching everything go to hell. Love the customization too, plenty to unlock from vehicles to pilot to ridiculously powerful weapons.
Since Abandon Ship got a Linux beta recently, I've also been putting some time into that while chatting to the developer to help ensure a smooth release later this month.
I also helped the developer of Elteria Adventures identify a bug preventing the upcoming Linux version from launching, so that was fun too.
What have you clicked on lately? Do give us your recommendations in the comments.
I'm trying to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but it crashes randomly or causes GPU hangs, so it's hard to continue, it's a pity it doesn't (still) work under Proton.
Then I tried Conarium: the native Linux game refused to start complaining about problems with OpenGL shader cache. Guess what? It worked like a charm under Proton... I moved to Slay The Spire and is very good.
Then I went through my backlog, testing games with Proton 4.11. Hard Reset Redux refused to start, same for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter and for Darksiders Warmaster Edition. ENSLAVED:Odissey to the West finally works like a native game, with high FPS even without D9VK (it had previously some graphics glitches that made it unplayable).
Finally a surprise: the game Masquerada: Songs And Shadows works like a native game under Proton and seems one that is very good. Has very beautiful graphics and music, played a little bit and liked a lot the combat system: it's like an hack'n'slash but with active pause. For what I saw, the story is also interesting.
And finally I read some books: "The City & the City" from China Miéville and an essay from Guido Tonelli entitled "Genesi" (italian for Genesis) which talks about what are the most recent discovers made by physics about the origin of the world (despite being an informative essay, it's hard to follow).
That was my weekend and tomorrow is Monday, damn! :D
And also gave me a nice fps bump in Insurgency. Thanks to the Gol Discord and [dpanter]!
Additionally playing some Underlords and enjoying the changes Valve brings to the game.
These afternoon I tested space mercs, I'm a bit mixed about it, the game looks good and the feeling while flying is really nice, but the non invert controls are strange for space SIM, and the enemy marker is not eye popping enough for me. Apart from that it's an addictive game, I will probably spend a lot of time with it the next week.
On the steam play side I just tested resident evil 4 which seems to work great with the d9vk launch option. Watch dogs runs at a decent frame rate but without sound, but as I'm on leave, I have plenty of time to investigate tomorrow :D.
When I am listening to podcasts, I want something that takes very little thought, does not require the use of headphones (of course) and the consequences of making a faux pas is relatively inconsequential. For that I have been playing Regency Solitaire.
Finally, I have been playing some SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. Liam did a fantastic review of this game HERE. It summarizes nicely why I think I will continue to play this game for awhile.
Guild Wars 2
Rise of the Tombraider
Last edited by Feist on 4 August 2019 at 8:31 pm UTC
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