Feel this is a good place to quickly mention a few things about the Humble Monthly Subscription bundles:

I'm something of a regular when it comes to buying the Humble Monthly, and literally just pause it whenever the Early Reveals don't appeal to me (Typically when there are no Linux titles in the early reveals). The last Monthly I bought was the previous one, which included Cultist Simulator, which was a wishlist title for me. I'm certainly tempted with the next one which includes Linux game Northgard.

There is additional motivation for me to buy the bundles even when the Linux titles are a bit lacking, owing to Valve's Steam Play / Proton: It would particularly irritate me if I bought a Monthly and then once the Late Reveals were shown, then there was a distinct lack of Linux titles. Now, this isn't so much of a problem, as a decent amount of them will just work fine on Linux thanks to Proton.

In the last Humble Monthly bundle, 8 games total - 3 games were native Linux (1 in early reveal), the remainder for Windows (and at least 50% of them should definitely work on Linux with Proton). Then as an additional benefit, 4 of the games were DRM-Free Downloads (2 on Linux) and a downloadable soundtrack. Another pleasing thing was the fact that (despite my huge existing game collection) I didn't own any of the titles in the bundle (Hurray!). Access to the Humble Trove, containing masses of DRM-Free Download Games of which many are Linux titles is the icing on the cake.

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My games partition is already practically full, so I'm not going to bother trying out Battletech. Noting that Terratech is also doing a Free Weekend and 40% discount sale on Steam.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: g000hAs such, I haven't enabled this OS filtering in Steam client myself.

I didn't see the part you cannot do with having the filter set...

I haven't enabled it because it would exclude me from seeing deals on Windows-only titles. When enabled though, I can see it would potentially benefit Linux gaming from a visibility perspective. I thought these details were implied by my post.

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I can see that this is reasonably beneficial in (a) Allowing gamers to filter the game selection on views in Steam client, and (b) Allowing developers to see interest from Linux/SteamOS gamers.

AND..

I personally want all the games I play to have native Linux versions and I actively buy native Linux and mostly discount Windows titles.

BUT..

If there is a Windows title that is seriously tempting and is low cost, e.g. 90% discount, and I check that it is running nicely on Linux via ProtonDB database... Then... I want to know about it and I might actually buy it. And if I do, then it still counts as a Linux purchase and the developers can see me playing it on Linux (via Proton) for purposes of evaluating marketshare.

As such, I haven't enabled this OS filtering in Steam client myself.

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Mostly I continue to play native Linux games. I've got a few issues with gaming:

- I don't like to uninstall a game until I've completed it, and now I'm racking up about 40 installed games and practically zero completions.
- A lot of the time, I'm keen to have relatively casual entertainment when gaming, and find that often games are set up to be frustratingly difficult.
- Going somewhat in hand with the previous grievance, I'm irritated by games requiring excessive numbers of controls. Quite often I'm having keyboard fumbles and not able to change weapon or swap mode or whatever. It's not so bad if the game is slow, but if it is a twitch-shooter like Serious Sam, where you need to make key presses as fast as possible, well - Not happy.
- If I leave a game for a while, then I forget the story, where I've got to, and get disinclined to go back into it again. That accounts for about 30 of my 40 installed titles.


Earlier today I played a session of FTL - I am trying to complete the various in-game achievements. I've put at least 300 hours into FTL, and haven't seen or done everything in the game as yet. In today's session I got to the end-boss with a ship that I'd never beaten the boss with, and (yet again) failed to defeat it.

I play Crypt Of The Necrodancer quite often, and have put more than 100 hours into that. My current focus is to complete Zone 4, taking on Dead Ringer boss. I have got to Dead Ringer about 10 times in the past month, but got killed trying to defeat. One thing I really like about Crypt is that you can play with one hand, e.g. cursor keys, which means I can concentrate on the game rather than trying to avoid keyboard fumbles. Saying that, I still fumble on this game (It uses numerous multi-key combos).

The past couple of weeks, I've been playing RUST (native Linux) and have put quite a few hours into that. I started play on wipe-day, noticed the new in-game 'copters, and play Solo on a "fairly" quiet server (typically 20 people online at all times). I'm playing more as a role-player, than most of the competitive psycho-killers that are attracted to it. Playing Solo when lots of other players are playing Cooperative - is very hard. Additionally, I don't like to dedicate massive amounts of time to playing, i.e. farming, building a massive base. I try to build smart - Build well-hidden small bases (and multiple of them), so that if my base gets offline-raided (when I'm not there to defend it) then I haven't lost everything. You could think of me as someone who plays RUST like Thief, i.e. sneaking around and avoid combat. I quite like the tension and realism that I feel when immersing myself in this game.

During the recent Lunar Steam Sale, I picked up numerous titles. One was card rogue-like game "Card Quest" - It is a Windows title, so I'm using Proton to play it. Noticing that it is a good strategic game, but it tends towards you needing to play perfectly, i.e. thinking through all your future card plays like you might set up moves in a game of chess, and it verges on irritating with the amount of perfection you need to employ in order to survive.

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Interested in a couple of those titles, but....

1) Already own 5 of them.

2) Just bought 18 titles in the recent Steam sale. (Plus a couple elsewhere.)

I think I'll probably pass on this bundle, heh.

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The other night I watched a few youtuber Rust sessions, and one video session involved two hardcore players taking on a clan of Rust players who were hacking the game / cheating. These hardcore duo were so good that they were still griefing the cheaters to the extreme, but you could see that these hackers were using aimbot technology so that they'd get headshots constantly.

The cheaters would get Banned by the countermeasures in place, but would then keep returning with a new player login, grab their clan weapons and continue taking on the non-cheating hardcores. I personally can see the need for this type of technology, but at the same time, it would be good if it wasn't configured indiscriminately knocking out edge-cases like Linux players using Proton.

Here is the hacker griefing session to which I was referring.

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For me, the loading time is about 1.5 minutes. Not sure why you'd have loading times of 6 minutes or 20 minutes. (Guess: Could be the server, could be your computer's RAM, graphics card.)

I haven't noticed any difference in the loading time (approx 1.5 minutes) for me, for the new release or the earlier ones.

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Quoting: cprnThis game still resets the progress weekly (or bi-weekly, can't remember), right?

Once per month, and the wipe day was earlier today / yesterday.

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Very pleased to hear this news. 560 hours of play to date. It is a bit of a time-sink though.

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