Quoting: scaineI do like how Rust looks. Just a shame it's mainly PVP... just not my thing.

Well, yeah. But like me, if you find a low-occupancy / nearly-empty / your-own server, you can play with very little grief from other players.

I find it is "part of the game" to have a few potential trouble-makers that are best avoided. My least favourite eventualities are when (a) I'm just starting and getting attacked by a kitted-out player, or even worse (b) I'm doing okay by myself but getting hounded by a team, and finally (c) coming back to the game to find out my base was broken in, when I wasn't there.

My solution to each of the above issues is this:

(a) Avoid busy servers, or find somewhere remote on the map and keep your base well hidden.

(b) Have more than one base set up. Split resources between them. Find a less-busy or friendlier server.

(c) Have more than one base set up. Do you best to hide your base (or put it in a remote location). Also, keep on upgrading your base to make it harder and harder to break in.

For me, the game "7 Days To Die" is great to play single-player. You get a much deeper survival experience than Rust. The graphics on 7D2D are decent, but not quite up to Rust's standard. Also, when you run 7D2D and run your own Single Player (own server) experience, you can set the conditions as hard or easy as you want.

I'd be interested to play "Rising World" and "Ark: Survival Evolved" too. But, particularly for "Ark", I don't believe the developers are making sure the Linux release is up to the same standards (e.g. graphics) as the Windows release.

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Yes, I'd like to put forward my name for a key too. Noting that I didn't win any games in the Salien Steam event - Maybe Karma is on my side this time.

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For me this was a great review. Really like the fact that both the review and game-play video do not reveal and then spoil the story. Amused by the fact that I already have this game in my big Steam collection. Little tidbits of useful information like the community levels being good to extend game-play after you've finished the story, and what other things the developer has worked on - All good to know.

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Never had any problem playing Dying Light on my Linux rigs. Played on Debian and Mint Linux, using a range of Nvidia graphics cards ( GTX960, GTX970, GTX1070, GTX1080TI ). In my early days of playing it, I was using an AMD FX8350 processor, and it was one of the most graphically stunning and smoothest games on that processor. The FX8350 is 8-core and suited to well-threaded code, whereas many (other) games favour a very fast single core, where the FX processor is pretty underwhelming compared to Intel's core processors. Thankfully, AMD's Ryzen processors do a good job of redressing the balance and are amazing for multi-threaded code.

Currently play Dying Light on Ryzen 5 1600, GTX1080TI, 4K resolution, and maxxed out graphical settings. Thumbs up Techland for all your hard work on it. Really want the new game to come to Linux.

My own perspective on games which don't come to Linux - I don't buy them until they are *very* reduced in sales, e.g. 80% discount. So, if you want full money off me, make sure it comes to Linux. (I'm looking at you, Flying Wild Hog - Shadow Warrior 2 - still not bought that yet.)

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Cool that it is on Linux so quickly. Also, it is offered with 35% sale discount from now until 5th July on Steam.

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I'd probably build drones to look like ships from Star Control I and II. Urquan Dreadnought, Arilou Skiff, Chenjesu Broodhome, Ilwrath Avenger, Mycon Podship, Spathi Eluder, Yehat Terminator, Thraddash Torch, Androsynth Guardian are example ships. Those games bring back many fond memories. Free open-source release 'The Urquan Masters' was created as a modern port of those old games.

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Regarding the Steam Link - It isn't as good a deal as it seems, because £2 for the item and then £7.40 extra for delivery.

I'm all for hacking hardware, but this device is properly locked down. Yes, you can get Linux running on it, but reboot it and you have to mess around all over again to get chroot-ed Linux back. This is non-ideal for setting it up as a small low-power Linux box (media player, web server, simple desktop for browsing, etc).

Your best option is to forget about this idea, and use a Raspberry Pi instead. The Pi Zero W is similarly cheap (when you factor in the delivery) and isn't locked down.

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I bought For The King today, and it did a good job of sucking me in - I played for about 4 hours.

There are some BUTs though...

1) I play on Debian most of the time, and my main rig is Debian 10 Buster. Well, For The King (FTK) popped up a black screen and did nothing. Tsk! After reading Steam Forums and trying different things and getting nowhere, e.g. trying windowed mode ( -screen-fullscreen 0 ) and trying the command line: STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steam (from here: FTK Steam Info )

Eventually, I went into the FTK Properties on Steam, and selected the 32 bit Beta, rather than the regular game, and the 32 Bit one loads up and works fine. I tend to feel this is probably the fault of Unity3D but I'm sure the devs could include some sort of hot-fix in their release.

EDIT: So, for me on Debian 10 I needed to do both of these things to get it to run:
(a) STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steam # launch steam with this command-line
(b) Play the 32 bit version of the game (found in the Beta section of the game's Properties)

2) My 4 or so hours of game play. As you might already remember me mentioning - Love FTL, love Slay the Spire, love the design of Darkest Dungeon but it is just too punishing and unpleasant to actually play it. Well, For The King is too punishing and too random for my proper enjoyment. There should be an Easier Level setting below the "Apprentice" level, because Apprentice level is still much too hard.

The problem is that the game pushes you forwards, faster than you have time to recover (to heal your party, to stock up on potions, to search the surrounding area, to level up your party) and you either go too slow (and the world situation goes out of hand) or you try to keep up (doing the main story) and your party is too weak to take on the baddies.

Not happy with the balance and not happy with the game level adjustment. YMMV.

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Noticing that Terraria is at 50% discount in the Steam Summer Sale. This is pretty much the lowest it has been for 2 years. It is not the sort of game you normally find a good discount on.

Overwhelmingly popular too. 2-D Minecraft-style game but lots more depth and content (items, crafting, etc) than Minecraft. I have bought it.

Also, I picked up "For The King" too. And a couple of comments on that - which I'll put on the recent FTK post.

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Just noting that the free Shadowrun Returns: Deluxe on Humble store gives you a steam key, which can be claimed until 15th July, and then if unused it expires. The Deluxe version will upgrade the regular version with some extra content - I did it and the extra DLC was added to my regular game (which I already owned).

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