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Personally, I'm going to be jumping back into Rocket League. Between the intense gameplay and sweet music, it's certainly in my top 10 most played Linux games. As much as I love the game, I'm simply terrible at it. Anyone who's watched some of our livestreams will attest to that fact, but even so I soldier on and keep playing. It truly says something about a game, to keep pulling you back in even when you know you're probably go to have loss after loss.
It always amazes me seeing people drive along the roof of an arena, to then boost through the air with pin-point accuracy and smash the ball right into the goal. I still haven't been able to wrap my head around those sick aerial jumps.
As a reminder, Rocket League and others are available in the The Humble Hooked on Multiplayer 2018 Bundle. I will be looking to setup a few more GamingOnLinux tournaments soon!
After that, likely more Phoenix Point, as they did recently release the Linux version of the backer build! I'm already incredibly impressed with the level of detail and how it feels mechanically. It might blow XCOM 1/2 right out of the water, which for me is a pretty tall order because I absolutely adore both XCOM and XCOM 2. More on that in a future article once I can gather some thoughts on it.
Finally, more time eating people in MachiaVillain, will have thoughts up on that ASAP.
Over to you in the comments!
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I'm getting ready to hop back into more Starbound. Picked it up after watching a few episodes of a let's play and am loving every bit of it.
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I started a new farm in Stardew Valley 1.3 beta. I "cheated" a little on day 1 by bringing in 3 people to use their energy and parsnip seeds, and a little on day 2-4 to have one of them water the crops for me, but playing two or more characters at the same time is inconvenient because it doesn't autopause in inventory any more, and I am not able to play two at a time better than having one do nothing until I let the other do nothing.
Thinking about multiplayer with other people, but the host is the only one to keep the savegame so I don't want to play with total strangers.
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Thinking about multiplayer with other people, but the host is the only one to keep the savegame so I don't want to play with total strangers.
Last edited by Ketil on 19 May 2018 at 1:37 pm UTC
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Some Tomb Raider (2013) which i want to finally finish before starting the sequel. I didn't really get warm with the earlyer titles but i really do enjoy this one.
I'm also planning on some coop sessions of Dying Light on nightmare with a good friend of mine. He just upgraded his pc an needs to finish the main game first, then we'll probably take a look at "the following" dlc
Sad that this one does cause lots of trouble with mesa, even if it should be an easy task to support it by now.
I'm also planning on some coop sessions of Dying Light on nightmare with a good friend of mine. He just upgraded his pc an needs to finish the main game first, then we'll probably take a look at "the following" dlc
Sad that this one does cause lots of trouble with mesa, even if it should be an easy task to support it by now.
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Not much time to play anything on the weekends, but managed to do the Dirt Rally GoL league event and played/gonna play some GTA V wit the help of DXVK. If i have some more time i will try to play more Rise of the Tomb Raider also.
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Stardew Valley has been my main time sink for the past month or more. And I haven't even installed the new beta (I don't play online). I did enjoy a couple rounds of Droid Assault earlier this week but I seriously have to get rid of my Stardew Valley habit before I try playing anything else.
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West of Loathing. Don't let the stick figures fool you, the comedy is top notch and the gameplay is fun as well. I'll also play some Rocket League with friends, and of course a bit of Dirt Rally. I never seem to bore of those two. I got American Truck Sim gifted to me as well, installed and waiting for a test drive.
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I am moving from Windows 10 this weekend to Ubuntu 18.04 I am going to try all my native linux games on Steam. I dont know if i will be able to only run Linux but im going to try.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera on its free Steam weekend. It seems a bit wordy for my liking, although that might just be because I want to get through as much of it as I can before the time runs out. It's not something that usually bothers me too much. I don't think I'll end up buying it, though. After all, Shadowrun: Hong Kong has been sitting unfinished in my Steam library for months. (I just checked: it's been almost a year.)
I've also got back into Minecraft in a minor way over the last few weeks. Just single player, but I'm sure I'll be noodling around in that at some point too.
Also, with the Monaco GP next weekend, I expect I'll have a bash round the streets of the Principality in F1 2015 sometime this week, if not over the next couple of days, to remind myself how mad it is.
I've also got back into Minecraft in a minor way over the last few weeks. Just single player, but I'm sure I'll be noodling around in that at some point too.
Also, with the Monaco GP next weekend, I expect I'll have a bash round the streets of the Principality in F1 2015 sometime this week, if not over the next couple of days, to remind myself how mad it is.
I picked up Mankind Divided last night but was disappointed with the performance, will probably end up uninstalling it tbh :(Yeah, it's pretty poor. It's a good game though; I ended up playing it on more or less the lowest settings and had a good time with it despite everything. Those loading times, though...
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If I'd find the time, I would be
- finishing on Algo Bot, a programming puzzle gaming starting easy and having a nice difficulty rampup, and/or
- buy and continue Bear With Me (the free first episode really helped me decide on this one!), an adventure game being cute and dark at the same time.
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I am moving from Windows 10 this weekend to Ubuntu 18.04 I am going to try all my native linux games on Steam. I dont know if i will be able to only run Linux but im going to try.
May I ask why you're moving?
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RandomGamer 19 May 2018
Going to play the tutorial to Faster Than Light some time during this evening, and if I like it maybe lose a couple of hours to said game spread over the weekend.
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Unfortunately not Rise of the Tomb Raider. Still crashes on my machine.
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Anders1232 19 May 2018
Total War Warhammer! I'm starting my 5th campaign on it. Just love it, and hope fot the GNU Linux version of Total War Warhammer 2
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TobyHaynes 19 May 2018
Rise of the Tomb Raider (now at 47% complete!).
Possibly some Terraria (my children have started playing it again and I had forgotten what a massive time sink that game is)
Much as I love playing Rocket League, I gave up in it because of toxic idiots ranting about losing a team game blaming everyone except themselves and quitters leaving as soon as the first goal goes in. If things have improved on that front, I might give it another go. But I'd need to be convinced that poisonous comment levels have dropped.
Possibly some Terraria (my children have started playing it again and I had forgotten what a massive time sink that game is)
Much as I love playing Rocket League, I gave up in it because of toxic idiots ranting about losing a team game blaming everyone except themselves and quitters leaving as soon as the first goal goes in. If things have improved on that front, I might give it another go. But I'd need to be convinced that poisonous comment levels have dropped.
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- Brutal FreeDoom - Unloved
- Tales of Maj'Eyal
- Protostriker M
- The Fall 2: Unbound
- Xonotic
This wad recommended to me awhile back and I got it running but never ended. I just got to the point where I got a red skull key. Totally lost in the maps but I am loving it.
I've been playing this game at night for about 30 mins at a time before going to bed on my bedroom HTPC. My wife loves the music and like to read out loud the story as it unfolds. She also like to heckle me when I make a dumb move and get my character killed.
I am on the search from SHUMPs that are no twin stick shooters since I hate using the sticks on modern day gamepads. I just want a gamepad and buttons to enjoy my games. This is a great little freeware gem. I am about it end this one as well.
Still on the first level of this game. I loved part 1 and I am eager to see what's in this game. I just ran enough of it to make sure it runs excellent on my machines and it does.
I have guest coming over tonight for drinks, potluck dinner and fragging. I have 16 machines ready to roll but due to weather only 12 are coming. We doing no bots then 1) Domination 2) Last Man Standing 1 Life Each and 30 Deathmatch. Winner gets bragging rights.
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Elliot Quest.
- The good: Long and polished game. Good music. It's difficult enough to enjoy the achievements but not too difficult. I love metroidvanias.
- The bad: I'm not a fan of retro graphics in general. Some mechanics are not explained anywhere and that's frustrating sometimes. There are some non-official manuals to solve that though.
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Avehicle7887 19 May 2018
I'll be continuing Pillars of Eternity 2 and occasionally switch to Everspace for a few runs.
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