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It seems it was fixed before I noticed it was broken (though I’ve noticed a couple times in the past). It’s hard to get upset with the finals when Embark’s website has references to the open source projects they give back to and they discuss hiring consultants to test updates on Linux (despite not supporting it officially). Their support has also been quite kind when I’ve reported broken updates on steam deck.

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There was a REALLY old Civilization board game that was not actually derived from the computer game, and it's awesome. Just elegant, innovative, full of emergent properties. It's like multi-tier in what you're trying to accomplish. The end game is all about Civilization cards, which are like technologies. Most of them do something useful in the short term, although the arts less so. But at the end of the game, you don't win based on conquest or anything, you win based mainly on having the most points' worth of civilization cards. Philosophy isn't much use but it's worth more points than anything else; not gonna win without it. To get the civilization cards, you have to do trade. To do trade, you have to build cities--on a turn you draw one trade card per city, and they're in 9 tiers of value, so if you have just a couple you only get the crappy stuff. Every turn there's a trade round as everyone tries to swap cards to build valuable sets. To build cities, you have to have a decent amount of territory and population. If you start a war, you might get more territory but you risk nuking too much population and not having enough to support some cities. And, hidden among the trade cards there are disasters, ranging from earthquakes to civil war, that shake things up.
But it's an all-day game that's best with a bunch of players, so I haven't had that many chances to play.

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Wait, is The Crew Motorfest playable on Linux now? I thought it would get you banned...

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Meanwhile the Epic storefront / launcher has not improved its responsiveness since launch.
This has to be one of the reasons to run a launcher like Heroic. Because Heroic actually cares about user experience.

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Just registered to say thanks for taking this stance! I wish more outlets did the same.

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Yup this looks pretty fun for a casual time.

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Esync patches are still disabled in this release. Sticking to 10.10 until NTSync makes an appearance.

Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing. Unfortunately ntsync progress hit a snag and it will take some time before they'll sort it out.

I don't expect esync to be re-enabled though. They merged part of nstync preparations which I guess makes maintaining esync patches a mess and they don't want to do it. But on the other hand I wish they still did it, since ntsync is delayed.

I'm disappointed that there hasn't been any (visible) progress on ntsync patches merge request.

They are working on it. Apparently there were some problems with the current version which they still didn't resolve.

See: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8445#note_112308

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The best (and admittedly only) board game based on a computer game I played so far is Dorfromantik.

Dorfromantik is certainly really good. I can also recommend the last two iterations of the Civilization boardgame. The older one ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/77130/sid-meiers-civilization-the-board-game ) of the two is a bit convoluted and needs a few selfmade-rules to lower the luck-factor, but if you like 5-hour-long game sessions with high complexity where you can hear the gears turning in every players brain, its a really great game.
The newer one ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/233247/civilization-a-new-dawn ) is a lot more streamlined and has one of the best turn/action-mechanics I've ever encountered in a boardgame.

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I'm disappointed that there hasn't been any (visible) progress on ntsync patches merge request.

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And i had to say: the finals is a good game, i think its a fresh air among so many competitive shoothero who take themselfs so serious

this game is savage good breathig air

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It's Gif like Gif-sur-Yvette.

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I'm sure we will be able to solve the pronunciation issue in a giffy.

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Esync patches are still disabled in this release. Sticking to 10.10 until NTSync makes an appearance.

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​This wine version in my case still have a very low opengl performance (wow64)

Resident Evil 3 (Old)

https://i.imgur.com/cKPvqR0.png

In other things my wine system bar seems work normally

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Probably the middle-ground to keep everyone happy is to call it a G.I.F. file.

I'd say this is the middle-ground to keep everybody equally unhappy. :D

As a German speaking, I'll just pronounce it German style, which happens to be the "G" variant, not the "J" one. :) (Just like the German pronunciation of "Giraffe", BTW!)

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Been using computers for 45 years - First computer used Commodore Pet. then ZX81, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Atari ST, IBM PC, etc. As a person living in the UK, and mixing with other computer users, we all used to pronounce GIF with the J sound (like in Giraffe).

I believe this hard G way of pronouncing GIF originated in the USA, and I believe it was mispronounced by the media (news presenters, etc) and the mispronunciation stuck. As far as we British are concerned Americans pronounce lots of words wrong, for instance Aluminium.

Younger Brits have been following American TV, films and social media (Youtube) and picking up all the bad habits from there. There was a British guy I worked with, only 10 years younger than me, who had adopted the American pronunciation for "Petri" (Petri Dish) from watching American medical TV shows. The British pronunciation is "PET REE" while the American is "PEA TREE".

Like Linux_Rocks mentions above, the Creator of GIF pronounces it with the J sound. Say it however you want, just sharing the history of this issue. Probably the middle-ground to keep everyone happy is to call it a G.I.F. file.

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Jandalf says it is pronounced ‘JIF’.

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I am low key hopeful this commitment from Embark bleeds into Arc Raiders...

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Thank heavens that Valve added the SteamDeck=0 option.

@WMan22, does that enable graphics settings in the native Linux version?

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Roblox who don't care about Linux support at all while pretending that they are "testing" it.

Eh? Last I heard, they explicitly check for, and BLOCK, Wine. In other words, they went out of their way to make it NOT work. Is there something else happening now? (Not that I care personally, but it seems to be popular with kids)

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Meanwhile, EGS has nothing but worthless giveaways.

Be that as it may, but I've been playing a lot of Dishonored DOD, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Ghostrunner, Deliver at all Costs, Mudrunner, GTA V and maybe a few other games i got over the last year or so during their give aways...haven't spent a cent at their store, but enjoying the freebies on my new build with RX9060 XT with Heroic Launcher. keep em coming :D

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Oh no.... they misspelled Chris Hülsbeck's name in the trailer! Regardless, I"m happy to see more Amiga style shooters get a comeback (there's also an upcoming Project-X remake that looks decent).

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Barely noticed anything different. Though now that I'm actually paying attention to the videos, they do make the games look more enticing. And with better format, things probably will improve.

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Builders Journey was a fantastic game and I'm sure this will be no different

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The best (and admittedly only) board game based on a computer game I played so far is Dorfromantik.

I can imagine that Dorfromantik translates well. Slay the Spire is also pretty good translation, even when there are few modifications to make it multiplayer.

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Easy Anti-Cheat

The usual culprit. It's good that developers at least are trying to remedy it, good contrast to the likes of Roblox who don't care about Linux support at all while pretending that they are "testing" it.

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It actually has a Native Linux version, but last I checked it was tweaked specifically for the Steam Deck, with no graphics options so it's all pre-set.

I wish game developers would stop doing this, alongside no longer bundling graphics settings with their cloud save.
It's better to have a
"These are the graphics settings tested and optimized for steam deck. Changing them will have adverse effects on your performance. Are you sure you want to change your graphics settings?"
warning than just outright locking off the settings. Thank heavens that Valve added the SteamDeck=0 option.

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Looks really cool.
See, this is what that one about frogs needed--some base in just what the creature is who's doing the building.

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Thinking about this game made me wonder about the possibility of a new kind of automation mechanic. So like, a lot of industrial thingies like ports, factories and stuff have a number of processes going on. And we have two ends of how to do them . . . one is, you sort of abstract them, you place a widget that does the thing and passes its results to another widget which you also place and you try to get good positioning and flow and that's the game. And the other end is just actually doing the processes all the time manually, which seems to be what this game is mostly based on.

So what if you had a game where overall, you're placing the widgets. But, the efficiency they work at is based on you doing the process manually in a minigame--they operate at speed and efficiency based on your best run of handling the job personally. So at first, you'd need to do quite a bit of manual operation, but around the time you get tired of that is hopefully also around the time your efficiency plateaus a bit and you can just leave the widgets working as well as you managed and spend more time expanding the operation and working on streamlining your production setups and stuff. And then maybe later you notice a bottleneck where you think you could get some advantage by improving your performance on some process and you go back to handling the heavy machinery personally for a little while. Kind of a niche idea, but I dunno, maybe it could be fun?

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%1 figure most definitely includes consoles. The Finals is more popular on consoles than PC as far as I know, especially on Xbox.

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