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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: KimyrielleI skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.

Sorry but what the hell? There are games where you need gender lock because of the story, Victor Vran is pretty much one of those. Ohh noo why do i have to play as female character in Tomb Raider? ...

thats just seriously stupid if you ask me. Why does the gender in games matter at all. If its designed this way its how you play it, if it has a choice to choose, then you choose what you want to play.

You sound upset. People have preferences. People like to play games with leads they can identify with. And yeah, there have been complaints by dudes about games that have female leads, even though there still aren't that many of them.

I've only played a bit of Victor Vran, and honestly so far I haven't really come across much that really requires him to be this particular dude. He's a bit of a cipher, you could swap him out for pretty much any gruff, detached character and have very much the same game. Is there something later on that contradicts that?

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Man, this game runs really well and it's so freakin' fun, even if it is brutally unforgiving (as it should be). :D

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Quoting: GuestMostly negative reviews? Ouch.

yeah, recent reviews are negative because of game balance.
hopefully they will fix all those issues, cause its actually pretty fun game

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: GuestHaemimont Games are the developers of the Tropico series and Victor Vran.
I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it much if it is similar to Paradox games or Tropico 5.

I skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.

Sorry but what the hell? There are games where you need gender lock because of the story, Victor Vran is pretty much one of those. Ohh noo why do i have to play as female character in Tomb Raider? ...

thats just seriously stupid if you ask me. Why does the gender in games matter at all. If its designed this way its how you play it, if it has a choice to choose, then you choose what you want to play.

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This looks awesome. I love strategy games, I love giant robots, and it's coming from two good studios. I'm sold.

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Quoting: GuestHaemimont Games are the developers of the Tropico series and Victor Vran.
I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it much if it is similar to Paradox games or Tropico 5.

I skipped on Victor Vran because I am not too eager to play games that force me to play a male character, at least not unless premade female characters become just as normal.

Paradox's grand strategy games are not for everyone, I concede that (I love them, though). But what's wrong with Tropico 5? It's nowhere as complex as the average Paradox game. I had fun with it, at least.

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I also found that Dungeons II crashed every time, about 20 seconds into the introductory video. So I was really pleased to find playgameswearingatux's message about simply skipping the video when it starts (press escape), as the LC_ALL=... command did not work for me either. However, it would be good to have a fix that I did not have to remember every time, and to skip the video as well if possible, does anybody have a permanent fix?

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Looks really cool. Paradox have been good to penguins.
Only 6 months , 3 weeks and 2 days till 2018. :(

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How do this do compared to War for the Overworld? I think War for the Overworld is a gr8 copy of DK2

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Looks nice. Seen a lot of real time action mech combat. Never seen a TBS in my youth.
Weeeeellll....not completely true. There was this compilation CD and a game called Power Dolls. I was too embarrassed to play it as a kid due to its title.

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I love the studio, i love Mechs, i love turn based tactical. On my radar since... forever.

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Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: dudiblahBreaks cinnamon on mint 18.1 with kernel 4.11. 4.10 is fine however.

You can't install the Nvidia-drivers on 4.11.0 due to policy changes in the Kernel. The Kernel just don't allow any non GPL code anymore. The Nvidia driver uses a mix of MIT/GPL License and that's the Problem.

There are 3 ways to fix that:
1) Patch the Nvidia driver, which is a legal issue.
2) Patch the Linux Kernel to allow non GPL code too.
3) Wait for 4.11.1, which should come this weekend and will allow mixed Licenses.

Thanks for the heads up. Almost did a ooopsy.

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I love the narriative. Its totally worth it.

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It's a swell game. I bought it in my dual-boot days, and it's a lot of fun.

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I'm already sold!

Message to the devels: please add a "Sniper" type Mech that can only fire from long distance. Maybe a one that has a shape like two legs and a big cannon over it.

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Used to play battletech back in the day - most likely all over this! :)

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I'm really impressed with this upgrade -- I'm getting nearly twice the FPS in Talos Principal's Vulkan renderer as I do with the OpenGL renderer now.

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This is the sort of thing I'm into these days. Gonna keep an eye on it.

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Instant buy. It's Paradox!

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Never been interested in mechs honestly, but after the Shadowrun series, I would buy anything that HBS wants to sell me.

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Quoting: HihiDanniThanks for the read. Guess I should try to read the full thread next time.

No worries! Sometimes it's very easy to miss the odd comment. :-)

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Quoting: dudiblahBreaks cinnamon on mint 18.1 with kernel 4.11. 4.10 is fine however.

You can't install the Nvidia-drivers on 4.11.0 due to policy changes in the Kernel. The Kernel just don't allow any non GPL code anymore. The Nvidia driver uses a mix of MIT/GPL License and that's the Problem.

There are 3 ways to fix that:
1) Patch the Nvidia driver, which is a legal issue.
2) Patch the Linux Kernel to allow non GPL code too.
3) Wait for 4.11.1, which should come this weekend and will allow mixed Licenses.

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Thanks for the read. Guess I should try to read the full thread next time.

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Quoting: CSharp

Quoting: TcheyYep, not many good RTS for Linux (yet ?), but still some good choices : [...]

I was referring to the RTS's that kind of feel like / play like the good old Age of Empires series. With lots of medieval armies and whatnot. But on your list are a few games I wasn't aware are out for Linux / aware of at all. Will check them out!

You now reminded me to try 0AD once again.

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Here it is working on SteamOS with the jemalloc workaround:

View video on youtube.com

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The G29 and its FFB works pretty well, you just have to put it on PS3 mode, as in PS4 is sometimes cease to work after quiting the game, and reboot does not always fix the problem. It can also happen that the G29 will be aligned badly, so I suggest to always go in custom event to check if everything works fine before trying online event or to go career mode.

If the wheel is not aligned correctly, you have to close the game, and then unplug and replug it and check if it works. If not you have to repeat the same operation.

Otherwise the FFB just works as good as on windows imo. It is slightly more precise on PS4 mode, but it can buggy. Otherwise it's similar to FFB on windows 7, and even better than on windows 10.

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Quoting: buenaventuraSo how are you liking the expedition? I just lost on the 6th map, mauled by giant crab, after being seriously ravaged by rampant alcoholism and pyromania ^__^' I could not enter any event without the place being mysteriously on fire afterwards! Also, everyone rebelled when the whisky ran out. It was fun anyhow! Will try again with a new explorer.

Well, there's a few things to note. I'm not 'just' playing Curious Expedition. Just recently been playing lots of '7 Days To Die' early access game, and finding that is very addictive. (Plus other stuff.)

In 'The Curious Expedition' I've tried out 2 characters, and played one of those until I died (approx 3-4 expeditions) and then switched to another character - a brand new game, and I've done about 6 expeditions with that one. The very last expedition - I didn't think I was going to make it. Two of my party had turned into Abominations, with cannibalistic tendencies. By the end of that game, everyone was dead apart from the Main Character, who had eaten the Mount as a last resort instead of starvation.

Played about 2-3 hours so far, and it isn't quite satisfying my gaming needs - rogue-like, exploration, survival - where FTL (Faster Than Light) does succeed. I think one of my issues with T.C.E. is that it throws completely random events at you, and many of them you can't react or counter, so you just have to suffer the consequences. Let's just say I'm probably going to have to go further and further in the game and see how it develops.

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Quoting: Alm888Does it know how to stream from Linux? (I really don't know, no joking.)

Yes. I tried streaming from my:

• Ubuntu 16.04 laptop(full success)


• Ubuntu 16.04 desktop (no sound streamed sadly, probably some configuration-specific issues - I had to install some custom sound driver on original installation of 12.04 if I recall correctly)


• and Macbook (worked ok after steam client update)

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Got it. Will give it a try in the next days.

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Quoting: Dolus

Quoting: meggermancurrently the AMD FOSS drivers are sitting around 20% behind the binary nvidia drivers.

80%!? Are they really that close?

Wouldn't surprise me. I mean, it would vary a lot I imagine from use case to use case and different applications etc.

But running an AMD 380X myself on open source drivers, I've had very little complaints and generally good performance even in games that supposedly aren't supported with Mesa. There are some exceptions though (looking at YOU, Deus Ex: MD).

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