Oh, hey! We didn't miss the weekend this time. Time for another community chat and giving out your latest recommendations.
After mentioning last time about my current love affair with the Raspberry Pi 4, that has very much continued. Everything seems to be holding up nicely on it. There's been plenty of Steam Link game streaming, which has been quite the highlight due to how smoothly it has been working.
For actual games though, I'm going to take this moment to totally plug CARRION again (see my review) because it's just wonderfully crafted. I'm now onto my second play-through to see if there are any fun things I missed. Sounds like it's been quite a successful launch too.
Here's a bit of trivia for you: the levels in CARRION were almost entirely made using Tiled, a free and open source general purpose tile map editor.
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Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?
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CARRION & Brutal Doom (I & II). I must be out for blood lately ;) Ohhh good one I should play more of that game too.
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I have been mostly playing Space Haven. It's kind of spaceship building game combined with fleet management.
As it's in early access, there's more stuff coming. Also everything doesn't yet work perfectly, but that's to be expected with alpha builds.
But as of now I have had fun building more ships into the fleet and hoping that pirates don't come to destroy the defenseless unfinished ship. Not that they will away with that anymore. If they dare to try hit and run too many times, they will get obliterated.
While doing that, essential resources are running low and there's danger that fleet ships lose power one by one, which means that all other resources essential for life support will run out of too...
As it's in early access, there's more stuff coming. Also everything doesn't yet work perfectly, but that's to be expected with alpha builds.
But as of now I have had fun building more ships into the fleet and hoping that pirates don't come to destroy the defenseless unfinished ship. Not that they will away with that anymore. If they dare to try hit and run too many times, they will get obliterated.
While doing that, essential resources are running low and there's danger that fleet ships lose power one by one, which means that all other resources essential for life support will run out of too...
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Finally had time to look at Dead Cells, which seems ok 15 minutes in.
Jupiter Hell as well.
Jupiter Hell as well.
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Schattenspiegel Jul 26, 2020
As of this morning :The Longing Has Ended:
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The Raven Remastered (I have played the original a couple of years ago and liked it quite much. The story, even if it has a few little plot holes, is very nice)
Primordia: A real oldie, with an exceptional story. You play as a robot in a dystopian world and wonder, if robots were really created by man to maintain the world? Or is man is just a myth, an esoteric belief that a rational robot should ignore. (I confess, I am playing that one with a walkthrough, it is pretty hard and I play this one just for the story)
Beyond a Steel Sky: I just started, can't say anything yet about the game.
Cows vs. Vikings: A nice tower defense game.
Primordia: A real oldie, with an exceptional story. You play as a robot in a dystopian world and wonder, if robots were really created by man to maintain the world? Or is man is just a myth, an esoteric belief that a rational robot should ignore. (I confess, I am playing that one with a walkthrough, it is pretty hard and I play this one just for the story)
Beyond a Steel Sky: I just started, can't say anything yet about the game.
Cows vs. Vikings: A nice tower defense game.
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Been focusing on consoles with the release of "Ghost of Tsushima" though I have been replaying/modding "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines" and recently completed "Vampire: The Masquerade - Corteries of New York."
While cleaning house I dusted off my old PS2 and realized I have the full set of the ".hack" series. So I'll be pulling the BIOS from my PS2 and playing ".hack" via PCSX2.
While cleaning house I dusted off my old PS2 and realized I have the full set of the ".hack" series. So I'll be pulling the BIOS from my PS2 and playing ".hack" via PCSX2.
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I did some "game hopping" lately and moved over to Deus Ex Revison.
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I have played Arafell on linux which is a good game in a certain way. It remainds me of breath of fire series which I still like
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Acrophobic Jul 26, 2020
I'm happy to mention that I still playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 
Right now I'm still working from home which means I don't have a fixed work time. Thanks to this, sometime I forgot to stop working which leads to burn out in the next day. In other hand, I can't afford to play game for too long because it might took me a long time to push myself back to work. With that said, ETS2 hit the good spots for me.
So far in ETS2 I still don't have any truck, so I still took the quick job which is about 30-60 minutes for me. It's long enough for me to take a break from my job, but still shorts enough so I don't lose motivation to work.
Right now I'm still working from home which means I don't have a fixed work time. Thanks to this, sometime I forgot to stop working which leads to burn out in the next day. In other hand, I can't afford to play game for too long because it might took me a long time to push myself back to work. With that said, ETS2 hit the good spots for me.
So far in ETS2 I still don't have any truck, so I still took the quick job which is about 30-60 minutes for me. It's long enough for me to take a break from my job, but still shorts enough so I don't lose motivation to work.
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soulsource Jul 26, 2020
I dug out KSP once more.
Started playing and decided that my 1.10 install was still looking dull. Then I installed Scatterer and EVE and started messing with Scatterer's shaders to maybe improve performance. After reading through a lot of code and trying out a few things, I must say, the performance improvements I managed to get are all pretty negligible. Respect to the mod's developer, the atmosphere shaders are as far as I can tell pretty well optimized.
Started playing and decided that my 1.10 install was still looking dull. Then I installed Scatterer and EVE and started messing with Scatterer's shaders to maybe improve performance. After reading through a lot of code and trying out a few things, I must say, the performance improvements I managed to get are all pretty negligible. Respect to the mod's developer, the atmosphere shaders are as far as I can tell pretty well optimized.
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I just discovered the Sodium optimization mod for Minecraft. Holy moly... 32-block chunk draw distance, with ludicrous framerates. 
Pity it doesn't support shaders, though. But in the process I also discovered the Fabric modloader, and re-discovered Xaero's minimap. So that was fun. I'd forgotten how useful the custom waypoints were in that thing. I'm not heavily into modding - I hate it when an update breaks everything - but I do like graphical tweaks and little quality-of-life things like the minimap.
On that note, I also finally got Content Manager working for Assetto Corsa. Kinda. You have to start it in what I assume is a “safe mode”, which I also assume is why the custom shaders patch doesn't work (it might be a WINE problem, but that sort of thing is usually okay with DXVK). Which means that the Sol dynamic weather mod won't work properly either. Oh, well. Better than nothing. At least it starts a bit faster than the stock launcher.
And that's about it. Has it really been a week? (Well, no... but you know what I mean.
) In Elite: Dangerous, I used my shiny new 50ly Asp to travel to the Witch Head Nebula - because I can - but I haven't really done anything there.
Ooh, actually, now that I think about it... this Medieval Fantasy City Generator is on Itch.io, so technically that makes it a game, right? I wasted a good few hours messing with that and some of the dev's other projects.
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Pity it doesn't support shaders, though. But in the process I also discovered the Fabric modloader, and re-discovered Xaero's minimap. So that was fun. I'd forgotten how useful the custom waypoints were in that thing. I'm not heavily into modding - I hate it when an update breaks everything - but I do like graphical tweaks and little quality-of-life things like the minimap.On that note, I also finally got Content Manager working for Assetto Corsa. Kinda. You have to start it in what I assume is a “safe mode”, which I also assume is why the custom shaders patch doesn't work (it might be a WINE problem, but that sort of thing is usually okay with DXVK). Which means that the Sol dynamic weather mod won't work properly either. Oh, well. Better than nothing. At least it starts a bit faster than the stock launcher.
And that's about it. Has it really been a week? (Well, no... but you know what I mean.
) In Elite: Dangerous, I used my shiny new 50ly Asp to travel to the Witch Head Nebula - because I can - but I haven't really done anything there.Ooh, actually, now that I think about it... this Medieval Fantasy City Generator is on Itch.io, so technically that makes it a game, right? I wasted a good few hours messing with that and some of the dev's other projects.
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appetrosyan Jul 26, 2020
StarCraft 2 . No brainier. Active competitive scene, runs smooth (if you get fsync, e.g. Linux-zen), and has a lot of depth.
Witcher 2. The game isn’t balanced at all. It’s too hard in the beginning, too easy at the end. But it runs great and has some of the best implementations of bokeh in gaming.
Doom 3. One of a select few games that have an actual engine on Linux. It’s missing features, but if you get the Non-BFG edition, you’re in for a treat.
Dead Space 2. Not the same horror masterpiece that DS1 was, but on the other hand, it has a few creature comforts, and a remarkable selection of challenges. (I got the foam finger BTW).
Quake 4. Same deal, but better. It’s got wonderful set pieces, remarkable combat, and a lot of atmosphere.
Witcher 2. The game isn’t balanced at all. It’s too hard in the beginning, too easy at the end. But it runs great and has some of the best implementations of bokeh in gaming.
Doom 3. One of a select few games that have an actual engine on Linux. It’s missing features, but if you get the Non-BFG edition, you’re in for a treat.
Dead Space 2. Not the same horror masterpiece that DS1 was, but on the other hand, it has a few creature comforts, and a remarkable selection of challenges. (I got the foam finger BTW).
Quake 4. Same deal, but better. It’s got wonderful set pieces, remarkable combat, and a lot of atmosphere.
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nattydread Jul 26, 2020
This week I have been mostly playing
Witcher 3, Mad Max, Legend of Grimrock 2, Battletech and Black Mesa.
Witcher 3, Mad Max, Legend of Grimrock 2, Battletech and Black Mesa.
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alejandro-bringas Jul 26, 2020
I am currently playing Fortnite, Apex and Team Fortress 2, the latter is my favorite online game.
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JuridicalDrake Jul 26, 2020
CSGO night on friday
Minecraft(Engineer's Life)
A tech and progression based minecraft modpack
Dark Chronicle (PS2 title)
A nice dungeon crawler / rpg style game, been playing it on the PCSX2 emulator (Of course i own a legit copy) to yall who have a second thought on that :P
Minecraft(Engineer's Life)
A tech and progression based minecraft modpack
Dark Chronicle (PS2 title)
A nice dungeon crawler / rpg style game, been playing it on the PCSX2 emulator (Of course i own a legit copy) to yall who have a second thought on that :P
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Feels like my answer hasn't changed in the last 5 or so of these questions.
I'm still playing OpenMW. I have sunk more time into Morrowind (again) than I think I sunk into both Oblivion and Skyrim. It actually has a very good story line/lore, and there are so many excellent mods that add so much.
I'm still playing OpenMW. I have sunk more time into Morrowind (again) than I think I sunk into both Oblivion and Skyrim. It actually has a very good story line/lore, and there are so many excellent mods that add so much.
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Arehandoro Jul 26, 2020
A bit of Yakuza 0, Xenoblade Chronicles and Paper Mario: The Origami King.
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gradyvuckovic Jul 26, 2020
I played through the game ECHO, and boy what a unique gem. So sad that the studio behind it went out of business. It flopped at release due to lack of marketing. If you like stealth games, it's definitely something to put on your wishlist.
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