Quoting: KimyrielleIt's kinda sad when thinking that Valve and Paradox are the last two major publishers still supporting Linux natively...

For me personally it's even more sad, because while I do a lot of business with Valve, I never cared about their own games much. I am just not into shooters (or really anything First Person) and I wouldn't touch that toxic hellhole that's the MOBA community with a ten foot pole, either. And VR is out of the question for me and my motion sickness, too. So unless they're coming up with something dramatically different from what they've done in the past, I am likely not going to care much.

You might like Portal. I'm in the same boat as you, not being much of a FPS person and have no interest in multiplayer stuff.

It's just slow paced enough that you don't need any twitch skill. More of a puzzle game than a shooter.

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Yeah. I can see it behind super useful for players challenging each other to beat a segment in Better way out even helping something who is stuck.

I see potential for it to be an interesting debugging tool as well. Like sending in save file, but since it's the cloud....

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Quoting: KimyrielleWhy limit your potential revenue by catering to only one type of audience, when all it takes to be more inclusive and thus more profitable, is adding a difficulty slider?

I too enjoy difficultly in small doses. Gaming shouldn't be frustrating, we have our OS for that, lol.

But sadly, the problem with the slider is how is adjusts difficulty. I'm a big fan of TBS and often the biggest complaint is the difficult setting has nothing to do with the skill of the opponent, instead just increasing the amount of resources for the AI to mismanage. For some reason people feel upset that the AI can only win by "cheating" and not from skilled play

Also making the slider is not exactly easy either. You'd essentially have to make sure every setting is "balanced" in terms of game mechanics and AI behavior. Often nerfing units or resources causes the AI's to turtle, but with no resources.

Even if it's supposed to be easy, having the AI sit in the starting base with nothing but spammed cheap units isn't (always)fun.

I like the idea of the slider, just not always the implementations for TBS.

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So, it's a live CD that you can save to and managed by a "valve" package manager outside of the environment?

It's a sensible next step. Let's them practice locking down the environment and maintain control within the walled garden without having to get involved in hardware. That way they can safely iterate features while removing variables.

They can also use this as a predictive indicator for future investment. This can provide hard numbers of how many people use it, continue to use it, or abandon it in favor of Windows.

Also on the plus side maybe they can fix that annoying windows 10 bug that pops up everytime I plug a Linux usb into a windows pc: "Something is wrong with this media, would you like to fix it?" No windows, no.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt has hot ass support? Hard to be sure when all I'm seeing is spaceships.

My understanding is that for most things, such support requires a lot of manual effort.

Looking at the video, I'm not sure how much a hotas would help or how relevant it would be. I must admit though, anything that makes me want to dust off my joystick is a win in book. Looks very nice.

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Wine and the contributors behind it are true heros of Linux gaming.

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Quoting: inkheyWhat i do really like in debian sid, is that i don't have this kind of big update which change too much things in the system and cause potential lots of issues at the same time, on debian sid, it's look to me that the system don't change much after each update, it's less stressful.

I agree with you, but more when I think of Debian testing. It's like that perfect middle between sid and stable. I used it for a very long time.

I might like Opensuse TW as my daily driver, but my little file server is running debian stable 10 years non stop.

I think what scares me away from arch is the fear of unexpected breakage and maintenance. I love to tinker with the systems, but sometimes I just want to play a game and when it suddenly breaks, that can be really frustrating. It sounds like ebdeavoros might be a good way to try it out.

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I've landed on opensuse Tumbleweed. The reason. YAST. I've never seen anything like it when I was in the debs or heard of anything like it anywhere else. I would have expected something like it to appear in other distros, but maybe I just missed the news (I last used Ubuntu in 2007)

For me openSuse TW is fresh enough that I'm running the latest packages pretty fast, bit not so new that I get the obvious bugs. I'd date say I think it updates a little faster than Debian testing, or already feel that way.

I also like it because it is mature. The defaults make sense and most things work out of the box. In the 2 years I've run OpenSuse TW, I think I've only had 1 breakage and on top of that they've anticipated that possibilty and mitigated it with a snapshot system to roll back the system in case of a bad update.

I think I'm going to stay on this one for a little while

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My apologies, I was not trying to quote you out of context, I read your comment as some how Valve dropped the ball by providing proton and thus competing with the porting houses. Which I think we agree on. My comment or argument rather is that it is a great move by Valve for Valve regardless if it is good for Linux gaming or not.

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Quoting: fleskFeral didn't drop the ball, Valve did.

I don't think that valve dropped the ball. They played the perfect move. How many of us bought a game to play on proton? That's profit. And it's immune from the decisions if devs to release on Linux or not.

On topic:

Hellpoint, looks awesome. I might pick it up. I've never played a "souls like". Would this be a good starter? Or is there a better game to introduce the genre?

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