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I also love Metroidvania style games. This one reminds me a whole lot of Symphony of the night.

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Well, good news for DoW fans! :D Now let's adventure ourselves in guessing the other game...

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Breaks cinnamon on mint 18.1 with kernel 4.11. 4.10 is fine however.

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Eww, physical real life shit. :V

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Quoting: razing32I do have some concerns on this game.
Digging through steam reviews I came across one that mentioned the community tried to implement cars as a mod last year and were more successful than the devs.
However since I do not actively play this or follow the community I am unsure of the validity of that statement.
Wonder if anyone can confirm one way or another.

Here is the review I am referencing:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198030619437/recommended/108600/

The car mod was very crude, basically hacking existing features (as mod dev mentions in the interview linked below, his cars are essentially a bags moving around :P). What Project Zomboid devs came with is vastly improved on and seems justified the time it took. It's kinda similar with other features - NPCs were removed the early version of the game, are now being recreated via mod as well (coincidentially by the same author who did the car mod :P) and I got a feeling that what PZ devs will bring will again be very improved over what mod offers.

Generally devs are in good terms with the modding community (game got a workshop support early on after all, and the mod support is being offered in forums, discord and highlights mentioned in weekly reports). The author of the vehicles and survivor mod got interviewed and featured in the main page by them recently, the author of the other major mod, Hydrocraft got an early heads up, (2) before the rest of community knew it, when they introduced a feature that breaks the mod giving the mod author time to adjust to it - they also implemented features that helped the transition and featured the mod in their monoid at that time, to advertise the search for artists - they actually are still adding thing to improve the mod compatibility. Also, at least two of the current developers I know of were a community members/mod creators before they were hired by a The Indie Stone.

The devs are however generally working on the game very slowly and that's the most controversial part. Like I mentioned, the NPCs that were originally in early builds (some files remnants are still in this game), got removed at one point, and after people eagerly waiting them back, developers decided not to discuss them until they are really close to come. That's why insisting on giving any info about NPCs is generally forbidden on forums, as devs won't discuss it. Revamped animations that were showcased over a year ago now (and hinted even earlier) didn't came yet either, to the point they were slowly been compared to "vaporware" the NPCs currently are - although animation update is still widely discussed, unlike the NPCs. Since then, about a half a year or so ago, they partnered with another company, General Arcade to speed up the development, and it seemed working - vehicles along with NPCs were a major step in development (also believed to be another kind of a broken promise), so seeing them in a playable game in the form that was better than people expected (physics, handling and overall feel) was a really good surprise and look forward.

On the other hand, the game grew up to an unimaginable scale compared to what it originally was - having a major engine change, way bigger map that original and another graphic overhaul a year ago. On top of that is really advanced multiplayer on player-hosted servers, but also LAN and local co-op. The review linked also mentions hacking, so it's probably good to know that the previous and upcoming builds focus greatly on cheating protection and giving power to admin to ease the management - giving logs of suspected hacking, supervision tools and more in-game feature to aid detecting and punishing misbehaving players for admins.

Lastly, the developers behind Project Zomboid seems like one of the more honest I've seen recently. They survived so many initial issues, including theft of a laptop with the only copy of the game early on, yet they don't really care for milking money. They don't want to discount the game too much during 6 year old period now, until it get finished, just to make early payers don't feel scammed, recently even rejecting the offer of the community for some other way to support project, stating they have enough money for now.

And as a final note, from my own experience, over the time I observe the game (which will be since it was in Desura 6 years ago :P), even if I don't play actively, I do report a lot of small bugs when I do, such as typos or other minor issues in game files - and I am very pleasantly surprised when they are fixed quickly, so personally I can't say they don't work on improving the game from my own seeing.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionI don't know if it's running better now because of patches, or because I finally abandoned that godforsaken fglrx.

Probably because of the dropping fglrx.

How can you stand with it until now?

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I don't know if it's running better now because of patches, or because I finally abandoned that godforsaken fglrx.

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Well if arch is having this issue I imagine those on openSUSE tumbleweed hit it weeks ago? Did tumbleweed have the compat package in place to help with this?

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I'm excited to play this and I really hope this will release sooner rather than later.

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Good he realized he needed a break before burning out. Certainly hope this one will see a release one day, it looks very promising.

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Quoting: DarkMavrikWell from what I noticed of the 200+ Linux games I have the only ones I noticed broke after updating was feral interactive games. SO figured this was an issue with their ports, if not my mistake.

The issue's not limited to Feral (though they're one of the more notable devs whose games are affected) - lots of other binary packages that aren't even games have been affected by this, in fact. If there's blame to be assigned, it'd be on the Arch side, though "blame" is a pretty strong word - it's just a consequence of being on a rather bleeding-edge distro (though I think the original openssl patch which caused the issue came from Debian?)

Feral could certainly push out updates to their games which could fix this on their end, and may end up eventually doing so, though to my knowledge the distributions that they officially support don't have this problem, so it may not be high on their radar (especially when workarounds exist). I really hope that Arch itself will include some kind of official libopenssl-1.0-compat package rather than just relying on AUR for these kinds of things, though I imagine chances are slim since that still hasn't happened.

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Axiom Verge is also on sale for 50%, http://store.steampowered.com/app/332200/Axiom_Verge/

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For now wine still running similar to 381.09, xfce desktop works without issues

View video on youtube.com

^_^

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Alien Isolation is also on sale (75% off, 9,24€ here in Italy) for two days!

I bought this only after seeing Sin's livestream, so story is spoiled but at least I got to know the game and the Alien universe.

Thanks to the GOL community for the brave livestream and Feral for the game!

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelThe CLOVE was the first English trading ship to arrive in Japan in 1613. It's main goal was establishing trade relationships (especially spices) in the far east.

That sounds pretty convincing to me.

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I will believe them when it's done, not one single second before that. Too many dark corners in there development statements over the last... what ? 8 months already ?

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Quoting: razing32I do have some concerns on this game.
Digging through steam reviews I came across one that mentioned the community tried to implement cars as a mod last year and were more successful than the devs.
However since I do not actively play this or follow the community I am unsure of the validity of that statement.
Wonder if anyone can confirm one way or another.

Here is the review I am referencing:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198030619437/recommended/108600/

Well, if the devs were ONLY implementing cars, I could see your concern, but they likely have a whole wad of other things also being worked on. It sounds like they are just getting started on cars.

Fair enough. That is one way of looking at it.
I used to really want to play this a while back but looking at all the negative reviews on steam not sure what to think. Maybe I'm letting them get to me too much.

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Quoting: EhvisI'm just waiting for someone to provide an interesting take on Spice Clove. No idea how to match that to Shogun 2.

The CLOVE was the first English trading ship to arrive in Japan in 1613. It's main goal was establishing trade relationships (especially spices) in the far east.
Other countries like the Portuguese and the Dutch had landed a few years earlier but since Creative Assembly is a British developer, choosing the English landing slightly after the end of the timeline of Shogun 2 (1545-1600 if I remember correctly), could be another hint.

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Quoting: GuestGreat, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).

*sigh*

I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.

Gonna try reverting to 375.xx

I had to run sudo nvidia-xconfig to fix this. I guess we can't blame Mint if an unsupported Ubuntu PPA package causes problems. It's not likely they're tested on Mint at all.

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Quoting: bubexelIt have direct mode for VR? Anyone knows?...

The drivers 381.09 had already Direct Mode support for SteamVR.

Wrong. 381.09 doesnt have direct mode.

update: yes, this new driver works with direct mode! :D

Well not sure what you did but I was using 381.09 and SteamVR + HTC Vive in direct mode :)

Ye.. maybe i did something wrong :( but that new works, but i dont feel any change on steam vr latency :(

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Humble Store has Hard West (Steam key) at 70% discount.

Oh, and I'm currently debating whether I should get Downward early access game on Steam, currently 30% discount.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GloriousEggrollif you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch

I'm pretty sure it's a bad combo of the new nvidia drivers + the settings I had on my previous nvidia-settings + my older kernel (the original one packed with 18.1 cinnamon) + cinnamon itself.

Seems like it's a common issue with cinnamon, so when I get home from work I'm going to stick XFCE on there and see how that fares, and if that works ok then I'll update my kernel (pretty sure that'll fix it) and try cinnamon again.

If that doesn't work I'll try installing 381.22 manually (Which I used to do, but after I added the nvidia PPA I got lazy with Mint's driver manager as, before now, had always worked flawlessly).

I've been told more recently that mint isn't as good as it used to be and the devs sometimes can't keep packages maintained properly. Not what I know, nor fact, nor am I aiming to offend, just what I've been told by a few friends. Better off going with one of the *buntu suites for now if you want to stay debian based and have stability, but then again wiping and reinstalling things is never fun. Another solid choice for stability might be Fedora 25. Arch and Antergos are bleeding edge and are great for me, but you do have to troubleshoot often when package updates go awry (albeit not very often)

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Been holding off, but I think it's now time for me to buy Worms WMD. Thanks for the heads up Liam.

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Quoting: GuestGreat, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).

*sigh*

I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.

Gonna try reverting to 375.xx

if you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch

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Quoting: calfretLiam,

Can we get a permanent link at the top of GoL for this site? I had to dig thru the articles to remember the name for it.

Th last news is from a week ago and the top line of the site reads "PSA: We are winding operations down to focus on GamingOnLinux. This site was a fun idea, but time is short and GamingOnLinux is more important."...

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Liam,

Can we get a permanent link at the top of GoL for this site? I had to dig thru the articles to remember the name for it.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoYes. In Windows, the Nvidia driver has a huge list of games and You can configure the driver settings for each individual games...
In Linux, to configure the driver settings for each game is not that easy.

It's not? Maybe not quite as easy, but there are Application Profiles in the NVIDIA X Server Settings that you can set up based on multiple triggers, process name being one of them.

I know about "Aplication Profiles" in the NVIDIA X Server Settings... It MUST be intuitive like the windows version of the driver's GUI, but it's not..
Considering the open and cooperative nature of Linux, by now there should be a huge list of game presets in the "Aplication Profiles" list..

Also, I don't understand why the GUI of the Nvidia linux drivers looks so different than the intuitive GUI windows version.



Even the Nvidia Physx settings tab is not available on the Linux version...

In my opinion, that is not good if We want more incursions (or migrations) of Windows gamers.

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Quoting: erlaanWhat Game do takes place year 799AD?
Shogun is 1500 something right?
It's maybe a clue from Feral or it just to make us lost and have more to look after.
Feral

That could be Total War Rome II.

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Quoting: freerunnerliveI habe big Problem with playing 4k h265 movies. Under windeath i have very low CPU usage. Under Linux my CPU sucks over 100% usage.

Do you think it is related to this new nvidia driver, or do you have it with earlier versions too?
It might be enough to switch to another videoplayer

All versions incl. The New one habe the same problem

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