Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: iiari@Teodosio: As a casual gamer looking to get into my first space strategy title who has never played IG2, I'm just curious what aspects of the gameplay you consider outdated? And which modern Linux space game you'd recommend instead? Thanks!

Personally, I don't think "outdated" matters much in space strategy games. Really, you should start with Master of Orion II, so that like the rest of us when you start playing more modern games you can complain that none of them is really as good as MOO II despite the glitzy graphics.
And hey, MOO II is available on Linux, at both Steam and GOG. For cheap.

The sad thing is, that even the sequels from everything I've read of MOO aren't as good as MOO II.

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Ha, sadly I got The Witcher to work great under Wine previously, but then I couldn't get it to load my save games, and didn't want to start over.

So the real question is... how does part 1 and 3 run under 2.0, and why can't they just package them up like that so we get the full trilogy?

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At least with Civ5, there is an editor and a large community of modders. I agree with company of heroes. Granted I also stopped playing that because it is just a straight RTS vs something like commandos, which I think is the better game. Then again, RTS games aren't really my thing.

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Quoting: neffo

Quoting: bubexelUpdating drivers, and updating client vulkan loader. Well, it's ready to deploy vr to linux and steamOS.

Expect almost zero support for VR games on Linux for the short term. VR game sales mean they are not profitable yet, adding another OS to support makes zero sense financially.

I already have close to 20 games in my library that support VR and have native Linux versions. Understandable that they may not support Linux+VR, but they are most likely written in Unity, so support is pretty much built in for that. So I would say it is about 25% of my VR games have a Linux version. I should post on r/Vive and ask devs, since a lot of them post / read there.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeSounds like they took the drivers from testing and backported it for SteamOS.

... or are they using the Debian backports?

Yeah, kind of what the backports are :)

https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/nvidia-driver

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Nice. I'm still betting that once Debian Stretch goes into it's deep freeze, SteamOS will be updated to that. And it's looking to be a fine release, with kernel 4.9 already in unstable, it will most likely make it into Stretch, and the thousands of other new things with it.

Sounds like they took the drivers from testing and backported it for SteamOS. I find it funny with all the doom and gloom about it, people don't understand there is a reason that Valve went with a Debian base over the Ubuntu one the rumors were all about. Debian is stable over many years, and Ubuntu rushes too hard to meet their release schedule. It was appealing back when Debian was stuck in a freeze for so long that their software ended up being ancient. That hasn't been the case the last few releases.

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Quoting: rkfgSnip...

Would be interesting (I don't know if this is polite or acceptable to do, don't want any drama so just an idea) to track the devs by several categories on wiki (probably?):
— green zone: those who always deliver and care about Linux gamers (Arcen Games, InXile, Paradox, Frictional to name a few), back anything from them; if they promise Linux, they get it done;
— yellow (or gray) zone, not so famous devs, no previous record on Linux games, poor state of existing Linux versions or just plain unsupported ones with lots of bugs that are never fixed, unfriendly/hostile towards Linux gamers (Uber Ent. with Planetary Annihilation, Wildcard with ARK, Facepunch studios with Rust); whether to support is up to you but you're warned, they may become better or fail;
— red zone: outright scammers; promise and never deliver, sometimes not just the Linux version but any game at all, keep silence about Linux, no alphas/betas/anything tangible like it never existed in the first place (Stainless Games, Warhorse Studios although they refunded the Mac/Linux pledges in full so I'm not so sure to put them into this category); avoid at all costs and tell your friends and family.

Personally, I don't have a lot of scam experience. Almost every game from KS was released for Linux in some form I find satisfactory. However, I do have enough experience in poor Linux ports and bad support.

I like this idea! Though I wasn't aware that Uber Ent was hostile toward it, I have only played Planetary Annihilation a few times, and thought it got updated the same time Windows did. ARK I would completely agree with, that thing has been a broken mess for ages on Linux, and Rust... I do recall reading how much of a dick that dude is. But then again it sounded like he was hostile to all development, and more or less wanted to stop working on Rust for some minecraft clone.

I've been on the "Urban Empire for Linux" thread on the steam forums for a while, it seems Kalipso was on that Green Zone list as well, but they haven't announced any Linux version for Urban Empire, which is a shame.

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Yeah, this was a dick move on their part. I completely forgotten that I'd bought this game in early access because there was promise of a Linux port. After getting jaded on several other releases, I've gotten to the point where there are only few developers I trust (inXile being one, because Fargo is an awesome guy in general) and will otherwise no longer buy something unless it already has decent Linux support. Only exception right now is if it's VR, or it happens to be included in a humble bundle that has some Linux games I don't have.

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Quoting: m2mg2I don't know if it is due this or something in Rocket League, but the analog stick and most of the buttons on my steam controller don't work in Rocket League anymore. I have the settings recommended here and rebooted but still nothing. I've just been playing with an old logitech controller. Running Fedora 24.

Swap out the batteries. That's a sign that they're low (same thing happened to me mid-game).

By the way, apparently this site now uses cookies differently or something, I have some cookie destroyer plugin, and it has made me retype this message three times now... finally disabled it for this site.

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I'm not sure you'd compare them to Nokia... Steam is multi-platform. It works equally well on all platforms. The fact that all the software within Steam doesn't work on all platforms isn't Valve's fault. In fact, I'm pretty sure all of their own games do work on all supported platforms.

Nokia's issue was all about trying to support two different Operating Systems and not concentrating resources on either of them. Then selling out to Microsoft and completely ditching the two systems they had.

I'm betting at this point that Valve is simply waiting for Debian Stretch to be released for a major overhaul to SteamOS. Especially since they're probably the closest to core Debian than any of the Debian derived systems.

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