Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: lucifertdarkOne thing I'm confused about myself is, how do you cancel the subscription?

I just found out where to cancel the subscription, it's hidden away in Account Settings, I found it by accident as there's nothing on the site anywhere, that I can find, telling you how to unsubscribe, except on the page where you can cancel it. helpful eh?

Yes, they're playing sneaky so-and-so's. I checked that pressing "Cancel" leads to the Pause your Subscription dialogue.

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Very tempted. Holding out for a sale.

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Sharing my own status on Humble Subscription:

For a long time, I've been watching it, starting a monthly subscription when I like the early-unlock game, taking advantage of the extra 10% store discount while it is running. Then I cancel the bundle before the next one starts just in case I don't like the next bundle and they charge me for it.

Generally, I've been fairly happy with the hidden games, but as long as the early-unlock is good enough I don't mind if the hidden selection is useless for me (as a Linux gamer). On occasion I've been very pleasantly surprised by the hidden selection.

Also noting something else Humble have been doing recently - They have been giving $2 Store Wallet Credit to Subscribers, when the Subscriber buys one of the regular Full Bundle (e.g. This one: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/hope-for-orphans-bundle ).

BUT, I changed this mode of operation this New Year. This is my new way of using the Humble Subscription:

I took advantage of the Yearly Subscription Deal at the start of the new year. It was this: Pay for 1 year subscription, get 12 months for the price of 11 months, and ALSO get $20 Humble Store Wallet Credit.

The 1 year Subscription is actually 12 Monthly Credits. You can pause the subscription at any time, and then not take a specific Month's game titles (e.g. because they are Windows-only). Then you continue it again, once there is a game you want. While the subscription is running you get 10% discount on nearly all your store purchases.

For me, I expect I'll pick up approx 50% of the monthly releases, so this 1 year subscription will last me the next 2 years before it runs out (I imagine). And yes, I picked up the current Civ 6 early unlock (Feb 2018 bundle).

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Not sure if you guys have noticed, but right now FTL is 78% off on Humble Store and not only do you get the Steam key, but DRM-free download from Humble and browser-play from Humble and iOS version too.

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Me again. Great News - I'm not sure when it happened, but finally FTL supports windowed-mode resizing (on Linux at least).

I'm on a 4K screen, I load up FTL and change from full-screen mode to windowed-mode in the Options, and I get a too-small play-window. Then, I select the corner of the window with the mouse, and resize it to be the window size I want, and the game is nicely handling the game-window resizing.

Whoop! Very happy about this.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestFTL had so much potential, but really it's an exercise in masochism. It should be called "RNG: Count the Ways it will F*#$ You."

It does not matter how many times I've attempted to complete a run, some new BS event would take place. One you simply could not overcome, or would have to deal with at the worst possible time.

I was blown away at the sheer creativity put into the number of ways the game can ruin your run. I don't remember if the RNG (ie. so-called "luck" ) ever really worked in my favor. Another one of those games with a solid foundation but turned into a cultural fad in itself as a game that's stupidly hard for the sake of being hard.

So until they add a mode that has less RNG events (much much less), or one that balances the number of bad RNG events with good ones (if there even are any), I doubt I'll ever install or play again. This game sits in my "Garbage" steam category out of principle. My patience (and free time I have to sink into any game) has reached its limit with FTL, which, in this case, appears to be 5 hours of playtime.

You should try Massive Chalice :)

Actually, where I really really like FTL (including its balanced game mechanics. Yes, the RNG too), I'm not at all keen on the mechanics of Darkest Dungeon. FTL - you start a completely fresh game each time (or load back to the point you had reached). The game lasts no more than 3 hours start to finish. You choose your starting ship and you have difficulty options (Easy, Normal, Hard ~ and then Mods as well.)

With Darkest Dungeon, you are trying to build up a team of characters and every step along the way, they're getting increasingly insane and diseased. So, you finish a dungeon, your best characters are ruined, and you're hoping to take on harder and harder dungeons. Basically, you make mistakes in your DD play, and you might as well wipe hours and hours of punishing work that you put into the game to get to that point.

The RNG in FTL is a lot more balanced than you'd think. Watch some game play videos on Youtube, and see the techniques people employ. Use the Pause button a lot! Fire off the weapons by hand so that they all work together. A lot of the fun in FTL is choosing options based on your current status. Do you need to buy another weapon, do you need to repair the ship, do you need to reinforce the doors. When RNG favours you with an item - Do you use that item or do you stick with your existing weapon, augmentation, crew member. Lots of strategy involved.

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Funnily enough I played a long session of FTL last night. And I was feeling very confident when I reached the final boss. My ship had Burst Laser III (5 shots), Flak Gun II (7 shots), Basic Laser (1 shot) and Automated Reloader and Weapon Pre-Igniter augmentation. Level 3 shield, 51% evasion. Plus other good stuff. Unfortunately no Small Bomb or Breach Bomb as a 4th spare weapon. (I would have bought that given the chance.)

Literally, all those weapons fire off immediately - and were aimed on the Boss shields to take them down as quickly as possible.

What does the Boss do?... He only randomly / flukily sends a Hack-Bot to attack my weapon systems. Absolute b**tard! It powers down my weapons regularly, and I find myself unable to take down his shield. Literally this was the only thing that could have saved him. Still, it was a good run. Love this game.

I contacted the FTL developers some months ago about how much I liked the game, and also an improvement suggestion. FTL looks fine on a 1920x1080p monitor in windowed-mode. But, it does not look fine on 4K (3840x2160p) in windowed-mode. You need to run it full screen else it is much too small. My suggestion was to have pixel resizing as a Setting option, e.g. 2x resolution or 3x resolution (or dynamically resizing by grabbing the window border with the mouse). They responded, but I think they indicated it would be unlikely to happen (old game and all that). I guess this hasn't gone into the game patches, but I'll have a look when I get home.

Probably played 250+ hours of FTL (and still haven't unlocked everything yet).

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When I'm on hangover duty tomorrow, I might getting around to voting.

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Quoting: GuestJust a thought to increase Linux market-share...

If the big boys supplying pre-installed and custom built PC's and Laptops such as the likes of System 76 were to get in touch with some of the Developers to bundle a key or 2 for popular Linux game titles and have Steam, ItchIO etc pre-installed with the system.

There was a time here locally where I reside that ZorinOS was pre-installed on some hardware of a local PC supplier, unfortunatley never really took off because those very same customers would then purchase MS Office and couldn't get it installed.

Find it strange that people will buy into the latest smart-phones and it never seems to be a hurdle to get their biggest needs sorted ie WhatsApp etc. People seem to want to adapt to the latest smart-phones to show their one-up-man ship it would seem but yet put them infront of a Desktop to use and change the look and they get this dumb look on their face and say right out they can't use it??? In my experience changing friends and family over to using Linux is easy when they're very young or rather old in excess of 40 years. A few minutes showing them around to do their e-mail and search the net and use Libre Office for their simple office needs is generally all good. The youngsters are another story once they figure their mates are playing PUBG for example. On the whole most will say "Wow, what you using there?" until they hear Linux and all of a sudden you become alienated.

It's rather sad that here locally that particular supplier never actually trained their staff properly so that they could give good and sound advise to their customers, their systems were very well priced against the other players with M$ Win pre-installed. Obviously don't go sell a customer MS Office when they've just purchased a Linux powered machine from you?

Anyway, would be nice to see the likes of System 76 doing something as suggested with bundled Steam keys etc, with their high end workstations they could tailor their Pop OS! for specialized CAD use etc...

The next thing is for the big names like Red-Hat, Open Suse and Canonical to target big businesses the likes of banks, insurance companies etc to migrate over to Linux. Once you have more people exposed to using it in the workplace, I think the easier for them to adopt it at home. For example, I know so many people that use MS Office, Outlook and Adobe Reader at work that they don't even want to use the open source alternatives on M$ Win at home... yet they'll quiet happily use Google Chrome and stay signed in for their web based email??? Sheeple for ya - right?

In terms of exposure to Linux, this old neighbour had an old laptop with a broken Windows install on it (Windows 95 or XP, I can't remember). I offered to fix it for him, by installing Linux. He happily engaged with Linux - browsing, emailing, OpenOffice for working on documents and spreadsheets, making Skype calls and messages. He wasn't really used to Windows, and took up Linux with very limited computer skills - and managed okay with it.

On top of that, by running Linux he never had any malware or viruses take over his machine, and all his software kept up to date with minimal effort. He ended up having more IT issues with his ISP than with Linux.

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Quoting: pete910Nice improvement! Every little helps.

Really wish Vulkan would be more widely used tbh. More chance of us Linux people getting a port too.

To be fair, there are more games with Vulkan support than DirectX 12 support. I'd say that's progress.

However, Microsoft are doing what they're best at - Monopolizing the market - They don't allow developers to use Vulkan on XBOX One platform, only DX12. So if you want to develop for Windows and XBOX, then you have to include DX12 support to get your game on XBOX.

One of the things that has irritated me about Microsoft for years is their anti-competitive practices. Would be great if the EU could sue them about it.

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