Quoting: denyasisTried Terreria. Sadly I feel bored with it pretty quickly. I think I just want in the mood.

Switched over to Crying Sun's with proton. Liking it quite a bit, although it's inspiration from ftl is obvious, the setting is quite nice. Reminds me a bit of eclipse phase

Terraria is one of those games where you can feel somewhat lost if you don't take look at a guide at some point. It's more fun to play it when you have idea that there is better weapon or armor out there, you just have find all the ingredients and in case of ores, you might have to upgrade your pickaxe. There's lot of different things to do.

Truth to be told though, I gave up before final boss. I didn't feel like going back to previous boss in hope of getting random loot that would be needed to be able to craft a better weapon.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI repeat: We need a third player in the GPU market.

Intel have been working on Xe for quite a while now. Actual real-world performance, and how much it's directed towards gaming rather than machine learning, are still to be determined, of course.

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThey should calm down and release new GPUs every three years and not every year.

I'll freely admit that I find AMD's products and release schedule confusing, but on the Nvidia side:
Fermi 2010
Kepler 2012
Maxwell 2014
Pascal 2016
Turing 2018
Consumer Ampere? 2020

You don't have to buy a new card every generation if you don't want to.

If you skip a generation or two, you'll get larger performance boost compared to what you had before. Not every generation is going to double your FPS, but if you wait as long as I have, that is likely going to happen. I still have GTX 970...

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I have old save that I have been trying to finish from previous alpha, but despite of that quite many of the new features appeared.

Space hazards give bit of risk factor to resource collection. Solar flares and micrometeoroids chew shields relatively quickly, so in areas with hazards like that you can't really go and pick everything you can get hands on. When shields are gone, ships tend to get full of holes or fires start appearing around the ship. In worst case both at the same time, though smoke should escape through the hole...

Not sure about refugees yet. So far only refugees have been forcibly rescued pirates and I wouldn't let them go even if asked...

I think disasters can be turned off, which should be good for those that like bit more relaxed gameplay. If ship gets destroyed, it's not game over, but rebuilding missing parts of ship can be quite time consuming (I haven't tried to that all the way through, I just loaded earlier save).

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I have been mostly playing Space Haven. It's kind of spaceship building game combined with fleet management.

As it's in early access, there's more stuff coming. Also everything doesn't yet work perfectly, but that's to be expected with alpha builds.

But as of now I have had fun building more ships into the fleet and hoping that pirates don't come to destroy the defenseless unfinished ship. Not that they will away with that anymore. If they dare to try hit and run too many times, they will get obliterated.

While doing that, essential resources are running low and there's danger that fleet ships lose power one by one, which means that all other resources essential for life support will run out of too...

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Community recommends started to be much more useful, I had to ignore as first recommended game was Windows game and checking every game what platforms it supports is quite tedious.

It looks like there are three widgets to go. "Players like you like love" shows Windows games (I had bit of bad luck and all of the recommended games were Windows only).

"Because you played" is also riddled with Windows games. With this one it's bit of a shame that Deep Dive is gone as it's able to show quite large selection of similar games, even split between popular and niche categories.

Of course when next sale comes, all nicely filtered stuff is going to be replaced with event specific stuff.

Quite lot of stuff to ignore if I would shop just based on the Steam store front page.

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Great that the project is still going. I remember that it's old and what I was able to find from Github, it looks like it started back in 2002.

I think I must have played it sometime before Steam for Linux was launched, which is also long time ago.

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Quoting: pageroundIn the meantime, if you want to run DD via steam, opt into the beta branch "prebclinuxmac". In my testing the default will crash on me. Running the current version through proton gets you a little further, but still results in a crash.

I have been playing 12 hours or so with the beta branch and I don't remember it crashing.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI think this only shows off the AUTO resolve combat. Oh wait, a flicker of it at 0:09, would have been nice if they showed some more.

There was combat in the demo earlier. It was basically 2x3 grid of combatants on each side and each character had different abilities. If that's all there is to combat, it could get repetitive quite fast, unless there's some variation thrown in during the game.

Looks like though free prologue coming up in a week or so, so those that missed the demo can take look at the game too.

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Quoting: EhvisI can imagine that it's hard to get seen in the flood of games. Especially in the roguelike segment where you're not exactly alone. Need some luck there I think.

Still a very good show to get a full game on there at 17. Even if motivation was a problem, you still managed to get through it and get it done. Don't think I would have replicated that at that age.

At least based on how I browse games, having lot of positive reviews helps. Also if at glance there seems to be something unique in the game, I might at least spend more time reading about it.

Though Humble Choice subscription demotivates bit on buying new games, I haven't bought any so far from Steam sale this year. Past years I have bought relatively much from Steam sales.

Though I think even people wishlisting the game makes Steam algorithm see the game in more positive light, which might mean it appears on front page.

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Quoting: wolfyrionI dont remember anything about Beyond a Steel Sky
I dont remember if I finish it or rage quit

I guess I will have to play it again....

I remember that I finished it. It is one of those games that have been in the Ubuntu repos since the beginning of time (approximately) so it was a long time ago. Apart from a few iconic scenes, I don't remember the story at all. So my question is now, do I replay the Beneath a Steel Sky before this one and will I have time.

I have finished it too. I remember that it has at least one annoying pixel hunting puzzle. Though as the game is pretty old, they didn't know better back then.

Spoiler, click me

I remember that there was something small in middle of the floor, I think it was some kind of factory or something.

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