Every so often we like to have a chat with our readers, and find out what you've been really getting into lately on Linux.
Since the UK is currently in lockdown, I've been spending some extra time with the mini-me since school is out and I've been trying out everything they're into. This has involved, unsurprisingly, a lot of Minecraft since it's an accessible game. We've recently discovered a few communities than run huge servers, and each have a ton of mini-games. One such mini-game is Bed Wars, and it's actually quite a lot of fun.
Each team spawns on their own little island, giving you time to protect your Bed which acts as your spawn point. Lose your bed, no more re-spawning and it's the last team standing. It can get really quite tense actually! When you're busy gathering material from your team Summoner, to turn around and spot an opposing team quickly building a bridge over to your island and suddenly panic sets in. I've been trying it out on TheHive server, which seems to work well.
I also consider myself something of a Dragon Ball super fan, so I finally caved in and picked up a personal copy of DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT (Humble Store / Steam) and I must admit my intense surprise at just how flawless it runs in the latest Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play.
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Like the HUD in the top left? That's the brilliant MangoHud covered here on GOL a few times now.
As you can see above, performance is fluid with it on max settings. It's actually a little ridiculous how easy gaming on Linux has become. Now I just need to work on my reflexes for such a fast game…I'm not usually one for fighters like it.
So GOL readers over to you: what have you been gaming on Linux lately and what are you thoughts on it? Let us know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Next up is Black Plague, but it looks like I stumbled on another article to write with this one.
I gotta say, they have made a lot of improvements to the game in general. it looks great, and is fun to play. If your not familiar, it is a diablo 3 / Path of exile game. It is different enough from both to be unique.
I also recently switched to RetroArch with Beetle PSX HW core for PS1 emulation. ePSXe runs very poorly on my new computer, mednafen is too picky about games images and renders games only at the native PS1 resolution. RetroArch also supports .chd file format allowing to reduce images size greatly with chdman utility. The new Ozone UI is much better than the old one. I've finished some PS1 games, now I'm playing Parasite Eve 2.
Next on my list is FTL Faster Than Light, I did play it a little bit a long back but now I have more time so after I am done with The long Dark that is my next one
Also playing a bit of Little Nightmares (good but not great), Monkey Island 2 (never finished it), The Journey Down (again, now that I have all three episodes), and Trine 2 (coop with my daughter who is trapped at home with her parents).
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One thing I always find annoying in the later stages of Stellaris is that, with all the migration, my leader pool is always cluttered up with various aliens when I want to recruit my species 'cos they're frankly superior. I guess I can avoid that by being evil, which is fun now and then but . . .
- X4: Foundations (after the release of Split Vendetta DLC). Very nice update, lots of bugs fixed (some new introduced). Really worth it
- World of Warships => just tryint it out. Very good... for a weekend, then a bit repetitive
- Bioshock Remastered Edition => Oh my! A wonderful game. Like System Shock 2, just in 4K. Just awesome :)
- Unity3D => spent already around 10 hours of tutorials & 2 other full days fiddling with it.... Building my 1st space empire game :)
- Everspace:
An all timer, I'm trying to finish a hardcore run (the real rogue-like, perma-death mode) with the Gunship, which is the most difficult ship to steer imho. - GTFO:
A really difficult hardcore stealth coop "shooter" (though you mostly melee enemies). The interesting thing about this is, 10chambers is releasing new levels constantly (it's in early access now, and this happened for the first time now), and the previous levels (combined in a "rundown") are gone then. So if you haven't seen the levels, well, you're out of luck. But damn, this game is totally my type of game. - Half-Life: Alyx:
Though I'm experiencing some crashes here and there, and performance isn't the best, this is the best triple A story VR game I've played so far (Boneworks and The Solus Project are good too). Haven't finished it yet, because... damn this game gives me the creeps from time to time. I guess I've never screamed (in a game) like this. Enjoy (spoilerfree):
- https://www.twitch.tv/corben78/clip/TransparentSarcasticKangarooPunchTrees
- https://www.twitch.tv/corben78/clip/CoyProductiveFriseeRedCoat
- https://www.twitch.tv/corben78/clip/DullCautiousArtichokeOSkomodo
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Another one is AC:Odyssey. I am in Athenian base to destroy their war supply and captain. It's a huge game. I am taking time.
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