What's that? It's the weekend? It can't be already can it? Yes. It's time for the weekend chat about what we've been playing and what you've been playing.
There's been so many good Linux supported releases lately I've been a bit spoilt for choice including these just in the last week: DemonCrawl, UnderMine, The Battle of Polytopia, Littlewood, Monster Crown, Core Defense and Hellpoint (plus plenty more I've missed).
Recently though, I've been having masses of fun in Orcs Must Die! 3 on Stadia with a co-op partner. Getting to test out all the different trap combinations, it's genuinely good fun. It was fun enough by myself but now with a partner, it's far more amusing especially trying the later difficulties. Good manic entertainment.
As for actual Linux-desktop games, Jupiter Hell sucked me right in once more. Jupiter Hell is the spritual successor to DRL (D**m, the Roguelike) and it's one of the most furious roguelikes I've ever played. While turn-based, it's so streamlined and fluid it feels almost realtime. It's also quite gorgeous in places. Jupiter Hell has evolved quite nicely during Early Access and it's easily worth a look.
I also spoke to the developer of Haque, a rather fantastic glitch fantasy roguelike from 2017. As great as it is, the Steam build had a bug where a file was named "Haque_Text.zip" but the game was looking for "haque_text.zip". Linux case-sensitivity strikes again. They mentioned they will fix it as soon as possible.
Additionally: it appears that there's another big CPU security issue, this time not just affecting Intel. According to the paper it should affect Intel, ARM, IBM, and AMD CPUs.
Lastly, NVIDIA put up a new Vulkan Beta Driver 450.56.06 with the sole change listed as new support for the VK_EXT_4444_formats extension that landed with Vulkan API spec 1.2.149 that we reported on here.
Deals Reminder:
- F1 2018 is free on Humble Store
- Humble Choice giving away all 12 games this month for the Premium/Classic subs
- Valve's QuakeCon Sale has plenty of games that work with Proton - GOG also has a QuakeCon Sale
- Humble Raw Fury 2020 Bundle - 3 days left
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Humble Double Fine 20th Anniversary Bundle - 5 days left
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Humble also has a Game Design & Animation book bundle for anyone interested in that side of things
Over to you in the comments: what have you been gaming on Linux lately and what are you looking forward to the most across this year?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
on_en_a_gros Aug 9, 2020
And with the release of EA titles on steam I was finally able to give a shot to titanfall 2, and oh boy am'I happy with it.
nattydread Aug 9, 2020
Quoting: CFWhitmanI also fooled around with Eye of the Beholder from the GOG sale recently
If you liked Eye of the beholder and Dungeon master also check out The Legend of Grimrock (native linux) and The Legend of Grimrock 2 (platinum proton) as they are more modern interpretations and just as good if not better.
As "testing, lurking", dozens of games as usual.
oldrocker99 Aug 9, 2020
Popup Dungeon, to be released officially 8/12. I'm a backer, and it is one charming little TB dungeon crawler with a nice sense of humor. Recommended.
Quoting: notinuseQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoBorderlands 3 FREE WEEKEND..... On my Windows 10 machine, because via PROTON doesn't work properly yet.I haven't played BL3 since April, but I have about 57 hours into it, all played using Proton. I wonder if there was a code regression.
his PC info says 4core CPU. maybe too slow for B3
imho B3 is very very bad optimized for its graphic. ive seen games with more realistic graphics performe much better
ohhh and i had to switch to DX11, because VkD3D is very buggy... it froze my PC twice. with DXVK i hadnt any issuse in 2h
Mohandevir Aug 9, 2020
On Steam, just tried the humble give-away, F1-2018. Nice game!
Got The Battle of Polytopia this week. A really good, streamlined/simpliefied, 4X-like game. Already played through a few games.
Multiplayer with friends the last couple weeks has been:
- Golf With Your Friends
- Strange Brigade
- Unrailed!
- Gremlins, Inc.
So I thought hey, times have changed, my machine is new, drivers are good, let's see. Smooth like butter now, having fun mowing down aliens with my vicious towers.
Also just went through Dear Devere. It was sweet and romantic and had nice drawings. Short, but at the price of "Free" your dollars paid per hour of entertainment = 0.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 9 August 2020 at 10:53 pm UTC
Quoting: nattydreadQuoting: CFWhitmanI also fooled around with Eye of the Beholder from the GOG sale recently
If you liked Eye of the beholder and Dungeon master also check out The Legend of Grimrock (native linux) and The Legend of Grimrock 2 (platinum proton) as they are more modern interpretations and just as good if not better.
I'll keep that in mind. Of course, I received all 3 in the Eye of the Beholder series at the same time. I always wanted to play them back then, but I didn't have a computer when they were popular (unless you count my old, broken Timex/Sinclair 1000, which the game didn't exist for). I thought about picking the first one up for a game console, but I never did.
Last edited by CFWhitman on 10 August 2020 at 12:41 pm UTC
So I played my guitar instead.
Quoting: SolarwingTried to play final fantasy 5 using steamplay but still the fonts don't show properly yet.There's more to life than videogames. Not much worth speaking of, but definitely more.
Tried it some time ago and didn't like planet resource mechanic. Tried it again knowing it was different and I've found I really like the game. It would be my dominions5 in space if it were turn based. Sadly it's RTS, but still very good.
Took a break from KSP, I'll be back to it soon. And then maybe Cities: skylines. It looks like a lot of fun
Quoting: SolarwingTried to play final fantasy 5 using steamplay but still the fonts don't show properly yet.But did you play your guitar on Linux?
Quoting: DuncThere are things worth speaking of, but since a gentleman never tells . . .Quoting: SolarwingTried to play final fantasy 5 using steamplay but still the fonts don't show properly yet.There's more to life than videogames. Not much worth speaking of, but definitely more.
Comandante Ñoñardo Aug 12, 2020
I played as Zane Flint, with a similar power of the Timothy, the Jack's doppelganger.
I like that in this game you can have two powers at the same time...
The holographic clone, plus the drone.... plus that Messy Breakup shield with the little drone flying around you..
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