Quoting: EikeI played through Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love. Still not totally sure what to think of it. It is a good point and click adventure, but it's strange to have a funny adventure about "real socialism"...

I have not finished it yet, but I actually find it pretty depressing (likely the reason I set it aside for now). Not that it isn't humorous in an absurd kind of way, it's just that it has the ugly face of existing socialism lurking right beneath a very, very shallow surface.

Quoting: EikeBTW, anybody had crashes on saving with this adventure as well?

Not me. The only bug I remember was audio not working 50% of the time. Restarting once or twice and it would be fine for the remainder of the session. But when it came up silent on the intro screen, silent it remained.

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Civilization VI. With all the add-ons. I like the series ever since I played the first installment on the Amiga. I've bought (almost) all releases since. Civilization: Call To Power, then ported by Loki, had been my first commercial Linux game.

Technically, Civ VI is running great, including a multiplayer match with my Cousin, who's on the Windows version. Gameplay-wise, it's ... Civilization. The details vary from release to release, but at its core it's still the same as its 1991 grandfather (which isn't bad, actually). Currently working my way towards a science victory, and losing a bit of sleep over it. "Just one more turn" and all of a sudden it's 1 am :-).

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QuoteAs I understand, they were aiming for GOG and itch.io as well

As a backer, I had access to DRM-free builds on itch.io since their first alpha (which was available for Linux too and worked like a charm). Subsequent betas were Win/Mac only, so I didn't follow along, but now itch.io has the Linux version again, released 9 days ago. (I think we backers got an earlier go at the game, because they did not want to release to general audiences amidst the Steam summer sale.)

Gameplay wise, I only briefly tried the alpha (until Ophelia's untimely demise at the hand of an assassin). But I think that's the core concept of the game, reliving the "same" series of events time and time again, using your newfound knowledge to change them to your (and everyone else's) favor.

I've made the mistake of buying Civilization VI in the summer sale, so likely will not be able to play Elsinore for a while to come (and I need to complete Kingdom Come: Deliverance, too).

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Not in my price range (anything above €200 seems excessive to me, given my gaming habits). Also, my next GPU (and CPU) will be AMD, come what may.

But I assume my 2015 GTX 950 will last me another year or two. By the time I'll finally replace it, any €180-200 card will blow it out of the water :-).

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Quoting: cprnI didn't try that for a while but does any of you have issue of Kingdom Come not starting at all? I last played it 8 months ago, worked flawlessly. And yeah, I did link all the DLLs from Win64Shared to Win64 so it's not that. I don't even remember how to debug this (it's the only game I ever run with Steam Play)! Help?

I'm currently playing the GOG version with wine 4.11 and (as of yesterday) DXVK 1.2.3. That one did not even require copying any of the DLLs. It just worked. So I would assume the game runs with current Proton as well. Have you tried verifying the installation?

Otherwise, you could look at the DXVK logs in the game directory or enable proton logging if those are inconclusive.

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Quoting: OdisejCanonical is struggling and apparently needs some help either in people getting involved or in donations.

I was actually thinking about that. I used to spend some considerable money on S.u.S.E. Linux in the past (which was still cheaper than downloading and burning CDs myself). Then came broadband and Debian and later Ubuntu, but I never really considered giving back (even though I can afford it much more easily nowadays than 20 years ago).

If we value open source and the freedom that comes with it, it gotta be worth something to us ...

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Glad I did not spend the weekend installing another distro and did something productive ... uh, I mean, played some games, instead :-).

In the long run, I guess a way has to be found to keep old 32bit software running, be it through emulation, VMs, containers or what have you. The way the software world evolves, I fear it will likely be in a browser :-(.

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Still Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I really like how plain and quiet and unexcited it feels most of the time. And also when it occasionally surprises with vistas such as these:

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Perfect! This comes a day after I did a clean re-install of Ubuntu 18.04.2 :-(.

While I had been aware of plans to stop the 32bit variants of the distribution, I never would have imagined that they'd also remove 32bit support from the 64bit distro at this point in time.

Not sure what I'll do now. Back to Debian? A colleague suggested Manjaro, but after a quick search it appears as if there aren't any ready-made wine-devel packages. Don't really want to be limited to wine-stable or compile anything but 64bit wine myself.

Or I'll just sit it out and hope that somebody provides a PPA for the essential 32bit stuff. Will not upgrade before 20.04.1 LTS is out anyway.


That said, as a developer (and even as a user), I do not understand how in this day and age we're held back by legacy 32bit stuff. It's understandable that support is desirable when looking at games from 15 years ago, but why aren't things like Steam or GOG Galaxy or modern software install packages 64bit these days? The one bit that wasn't 64bit on my Linux system (before I ditched Windows as gaming OS in 2015) were the shoddy Canon printer drivers, and even then it irked me that I had to have a host of 32bit libs installed on top of the regular 64bit stuff. Maybe it's about time for some of the developers out there to move with the times! :-).

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, now that the final DLC is out.

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