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GOG are celebrating their Community Wishlist feature with a big sale
19 August 2019 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Klaas
Quoting: Xpandernot gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms
You mean you want to get spied on like on the other platforms. The mere existence of Galaxy brings more telemetry to games, even if you use the offline installers.

yes, i want to take advantage of their multiplayer features and automatic game updates and i don't really care about telemetry. + their new GoG Galaxy (invite only beta version) apparently supports steam and other launchers also, which on paper sounds good if all the things can be in one place.

GOG are celebrating their Community Wishlist feature with a big sale
19 August 2019 at 2:23 pm UTC Likes: 14

Release the GOG Galaxy client for linux


not gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms

The situation with Blood: Fresh Supply getting a Linux version is looking a little unclear
19 August 2019 at 12:22 pm UTC Likes: 2

i shouldn't say this maybe but it works amazingly in proton anyway with all the avilable render apis the game has (dx11, opengl3.2 and Vulkan) - played like 4 hours with zero problems.

Facepunch adjust their Linux plans for Rust, refunds being offered as it won't continue at all
15 August 2019 at 3:37 pm UTC Likes: 5

Well said. Big Kudos to Garry for being honest and communicating with us!

Sad to see Rust on Linux go, but thats how it is sadly. I will not refund mine. I hope to play it from time to time with SteamPlay (Proton)

Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
10 August 2019 at 3:27 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: XpanderI Hope valve will hurry up with the EAC as the windows client in wine (last time i tried, non eac server) worked way way better anyway, with double the framerates of native client

What if that would mean installing a root level spy daemon?

Don't really care, if its secure enough and enables me to play some games. If there would be massive reports about the security issues with it, yeah sure it will be bad then. But im not that much of a tin foil hat guy.

edit: and before someone comes calling.


I use linux beacuse of the flexibility. Security is nice bonus to have but not the end of the world.

Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
9 August 2019 at 6:07 pm UTC Likes: 3

Meh :(

thats no good news. I Hope valve will hurry up with the EAC as the windows client in wine (last time i tried, non eac server) worked way way better anyway, with double the framerates of native client

The extreme arcade space-shooter Space Mercs is now available on itch.io, plus some sales info
9 August 2019 at 5:46 pm UTC Likes: 4

Bought on Steam
Not my type of game really, but will give it a go when i get some time! Visually it looks pretty good!

Thank you for Making Linux first class Citizen

A three-way look at Rocket League on Linux, with D9VK versus Linux Native
3 August 2019 at 8:04 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PikoloDoes __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command% make a difference on AMD GPUs?

no

there is mesa_glthread=true

What have you been playing and what are your thoughts?
14 July 2019 at 2:59 pm UTC

DiRT Rally - Taking part of the GOL League we have had running for more than a year: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3909

DiRT Rally 2.0 - New Season just Started: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3971
Obviously not many people have this game as its not native, but it does work well in proton but without FFB support, for that you need custom proton or run through wine and steam.

Surviving Mars - Just started playing it. Completed the tutorial and Started a New game. Still learning. Love the details on the environments and it has some amazing music as well. Ofc Gameplay seems really nice also.

Warhammer Online - Tiny bit of RvR Action i managed to squeeze into my weekend as well. Needs wine to run this and works with D9VK also. https://www.returnofreckoning.com