This feels like it's doing for apps/windows what OBS does for cameras. Cool idea, but tbh, while hacks like this are needed, and given that so much of my job involves screensharing from various apps/windows... I'm gonna be on X for years to come.

Having said that, I suppose the bulk of my sharing is from Chrome, running O365, so I guess I could experiment a little, since there's Wayland support there already. It really does feel like a lot of extra hassle for security features I won't notice or benefit from anyway (as a single-user system used to browse mainly very trusted sites).

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Quoting: AnaWhats the game in shot? :)

Not completely sure, but I think it's Chained Echoes, which Liam gave a glowing review a few months back.

Edit - or... it might be Octopath Traveller, or its sequel?

Edit again - goddamit, this is a rabbit hole! Googling Lloyd and Tio suggests that actually, we're looking at Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero

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As Cyril notes, Wargroove also promised an Advance Wars feel, just like Symphony of War promised a Fire Emblem feel. They come close, but just didn't click for me. Makes me realise all the little touches and perfectionism that goes into a Nintendo title. The artwork is there in a lot of cases, but it's the underlying gameplay and mechanics that make these games special.

Time will tell - this does look particularly faithful to Advance Wars. Hopefully the Devs "got" what makes that game special - the characters, the balance, the "easy to learn, hard to master" aspects of it all.

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Fond memories of Monkeyball on my GameCube, and then the incredible motion-sensitive Super Monkeyball sequel on the Wii. This game is giving off a great vibe!

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Quoting: Kuduzkehpan

Quoting: dvdHow's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

HAHAHAHAHA! very smart joke. Torchlight is mobile game now. so cant be matched to this masterpiece.

Dunno about v3, but Torchlight 1 and 2 were both superb. What's your beef? Why the weird antagonism towards it?

Quoting: dvdHow's the game? Is it any good compared to Torchlight?

It's less focused on loot whoring. Instead, you earn your money through kills and quests. Instead of giving you tools to sell loot, like Torchlight, Last Epoch has the most incredible loot filters I've ever seen in a game. You effectively build a firewall ruleset out of loot filters, line by line. Sure, that could be a single line saying don't show tier 1 or 2 items. But it can also be insanely complex, like:

• Hide T1 and T2


• But show all axes, regardless of Tier


• Capitalise any equipment that does Necrotic Damage


• And re-colour any Axes that also do Necrotic Damage to RED.


• Never show Staves or Wands of any Tier


• And so on...

It's insane! So powerful! And intuitive (mostly).

Last Epoch is a strong candidate for best ARPG in my book. I still miss some things from Grim Dawn:

• Grim Dawn had better voice acting


• Grim Dawn zooms out just a bit more, which is far more comfortable


• Grim Dawn lets you rotate the map, which makes "fighting downwards" a non-issue, you just rotate down to up!

But all told, it's very nice.

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Quoting: Zappor

Quoting: devlandFYI, characters are stored on their servers. You have to login to play.

Offline play is promised at release. Shady stuff IMO.

This is completely wrong, offline characters are stored locally.

That's true, but currently does demand an online login in order to play. They intend to remove that requirement with the v1 release, but even then, of course, you'll still have to login every 30 days for Steam to validate your account.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/112eq94/no_real_offline_mode/

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Quoting: TriasSpend a few hours in single. Apart from no-textures-during-choosing-a-character at the beginning, I encountered no notable bugs. Performance was also good on my side. :).

If you got the no-textures during character select, then you're probably missing the mini-map borders, ground textures and quite a few particle effects. The game was much, much prettier with -force-vulkan for me. But I did the same - played for 45 minutes thinking this was the experience, then went hunting for Linux issues and discovered that vulkan fixed so much of the game's engine.

Quoting: JarmerIf you go into steam for the game, and force it to use proton experimental, the game will do an update then it fixes all the texture stuff. Character choice screen is fine, etc... I played it a bunch yesterday without any issues at all. Really liking it!

Or just use -force-vulkan on the native version, provided you don't intend to do multiplayer with Windows users.

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Couple of things after spending my Sunday afternoon playing with a friend:
1. On Linux native, using mesa, I had to use -force-vukan to get any textures to load in this game. This was first reported to Last Epoch on the Steam Forums in 2018, so it's incredibly disappointing it's still not fixed.
2. When transitioning from one zone to another in multiplayer, the guest will frequently disconnect if they click on the zone transition first, before the host (who was on Windows). Pretty frustrating, so I switched the game to Proton Experimental and removed -force-vulkan. After doing so, I didn't get any disconnects through around 5 hours of play, even when the host and I were in entirely different zones for extended periods (which is rare, but sometimes happened if we needed to offload loot).

Other than the -force-vukan issue, performance seemed reasonable. My beast PC handled it no problem, and my mate who is on Windows with 1060 also oggled at the pretty graphics and commented how smooth it played. So the heavy optimisations you can read about in their blog have paid off. Zone transitions still take a few seconds to load though.

The long and short of it - this is finally a game that scratches my Grim Dawn itch. It's a little more "zoomed in" than GD, but nowhere near as bad as Path of Exile. Build customisation is decent (although we're only just level 20) and the various skills are inventive. For example, the mage has a skill called "static" that deals immense damage, but he need to move around to build up charge! The Acolyte has a hilarious skill where she summons flaming zombies who then run screaming at the nearest enemy and explode - like those bomb guys from Serious Sam. They're hilarious and can get you into trouble sometimes by running off to attack a horde of enemies you hadn't spotted!

Lots of fun, basically. Really enjoying it.

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Quoting: TurkeysteaksJust purchased the bundle, though already owned Control and Hellblade. Particularly excited to try Sable.

Side note, not sure if anyone is aware but if using the link Liam gives you, when adjusting where your money goes, an extra option is given to choose how much of your purchase goes to GamingOnLinux.

Yeah, they took away the "per-game" sliders, but there's still a nice amount of customisation possible. Here's what the default £20 looks like.

So now you can bung Liam even more if you're so inclined!

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Worth it, hugely, for the first two games alone. Control is superb and Hellblade's atmosphere is incredible. Praey looks great (a Shadow of the Collosus tribute) and both Batora and Dreamscaper have a Grim Dawn vibe, but single player. I've no interest in Syberia (point'n'click), but I've been meaning to pick up Sable for months now. Call of the Sea looks like a nice wee bonus - a first-person puzzler.

Might have to pick this up, even though I already own the two main stars.

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