I used to play mostly just native games. I slowly started care more just about support and when availability of native builds dropped I moved to Proton. Not that support has been great with native games usually and now with Proton is murkier and it's better just to check protondb.

At least with Proton combined with Steam Deck developer gets sort of training wheels. So if were lucky developers inch towards being able to make good native builds or in worst case game just detects Linux as Steam Deck and does very Steam Deck specific things.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThey hadn't cancelled that already?

I'm not sure if I know all the steps in between, but I think first change was to remove retroactive part of the license change. That was the part causing biggest panic. After that at least there were better options of avoiding runtime fee than removing all released Unity games from all stores.

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I got Civilization V as a gift. Game was a physical copy, but it required Steam. As Civilization fan I didn't hesitate too much and installed Steam via Wine. Played quite lot of Civilization V after that.

Later the Linux port of the game arrived and I was bit surprised that everything worked (except the mods).

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Publishing must be handled by the third party consultancy as Humble Games was shut down. I wonder how long we are going to see new games published by Humble Games. Wikipedias list has four that probably don't have release date yet. Five if counting Wizard of Legend 2 too as early access is not technically a release.

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I wasn't sure if the combo of mechanics works together, but Moon Watch is surprisingly fun. There's chance of getting relatively overpowered combos, but the luck won't last forever. I unlocked one new set of starting cards that changed the tactics a bit, so there are new stuff to explore for a while. And probably even more when the game is eventually released.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: amataiThis move is not so much a gift to players than a way for Paradox to reduce development cost.

Yes, that's probably the reason. It's baffling that a company that always pushes a huge number of DLCs makes such mistakes. Your example of two separate war systems remind me of the people that demand that Euro Truck Simulator 2 should have a paid DLCs that improve the quality of the base map (including older DLCs) creating two sets of maps that have to be supported at the same time instead of going over all the old content slower as free updates.

I haven't followed how the EU:s DLC model works, but with Stellaris they release free update with the DLC and will have some of the features in the free update. Doesn't entirely remove problem of potentially conflicting DLC:s, but reduces the conflict possibility. Even better would be just release free updates, but apparently Paradox earns enough with the DLC:s that the maintenance burden is still worth it.

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Quoting: EhvisPlayed it for a couple of hours. Exceptionally high quality for an early access game. Nice that provides varies choices for difficulty. Both at the start and mid game. So far it mostly plays like the first game. I'm just getting into fluids, so that's a little bit different. I guess the biggest change is that you need platforms for building space.

Quoting: Eike.. no challenge, no satisfaction...

I'm not fully sure what I would expect from such a game, but this one didn't seem to provide it. I liked Infinifactory, because I wasn't sure I could build what's needed. I didn't get this feeling from playing the demo of Shapez 2. :-/

The challenge in the first game was getting to build the MAM (Make Anything Machine). I guess this game will result in a similar thing, but with more options to deal with. It's a design challenge instead of a combat one.

There are also difficulty levels too and some of the shapes go crazy. I gave up first game because of one of those monstrosities, but Shapez 2 at least in the demo had layout preview tool where you can see the individual layers. Stacking has some complexities that can be hard to figure out without it.

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Even the old demo had plenty of features that the tutorial doesn't even mention. I watched few people playing the game and learned something new. So I guess only question is that will the full game have enough content to keep people playing past the refund window.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: AnzaI oddly enjoyed Icewind Dale.

Why not?

It's not bad, but different. What I failed to mention is that you have to create a complete party in IWD. A huge part of the less story aspect is that there are no predefined companions in the game world that can join the party.

I wasn't trying to imply that it's bad. The D&D games in the bundle just happen to be old and they are based on the old D&D ruleset (which they follow quite closely).

As for the Icewind Dales story, I remember being positively surprised. It's not nearly as deep as Planescape Torments story (I have mostly forgotten what happened in Baldurs Gate games), but it still has some interesting characters and at least one twist that I didn't expect.

Spoiler, click me

At one point I though that I did something wrong as everybody turned against me, but after reloading save, I figured out that the conflict was unavoidable.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: dvdBtw. how are Icewind dale and Neverwinter nights?

Icewind Dales what Baldur's Gate would be like if you took away most of the story and replaced it with combat.

I oddly enjoyed Icewind Dale. I don't know if it was just that the combat encounters were bit more fun than in Planescape Torment. Despite that it's still old fashioned RPG in it's core, so if you don't have any experience in the genre from that time period, it might take a while to adjust.

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