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Let's lighten the mood a bit shall we? It's question time here on GamingOnLinux! Let's have a talk about what you've been playing recently.

I will of course go first: Dota Underlords. I have quite the sweet spot for it already, even though I'm absolutely terrible at it. This might be the game to finally get me to kick my unhealthy Rocket League obsession, which is amazing considering how radically different they are. I adore strategy games though and unlike normal Dota, I don't need to think ridiculously quickly. Since you don't need any kind of reflexes for it, sitting back and relaxing with the Steam Controller is another reason I quite like Dota Underlords. In the evenings on weekends especially, I can be quite the lazy-gamer, so anything that allows me to kick back with it is likely to get my vote.

After only being out for a few days, it's already annihilated the player record for Artifact. Artifact's all-time high was only just over 60K whereas Underlords has sailed past 190K, although that shouldn't be too surprising since Underlords is free and isn't rammed full of micro-transactions (yet?) and it helps being on mobile as well of course (According to one of the SteamDB folk, the mobile players are being counted too).

Based on what the Underlords team have said, coming "soon" will be:

  • Full Scoreboard
  • Social features: Scrolling through the map, hearing other player's fights and full chat.
  • Hero VO.
  • Balance: Dragon Alliance, Dragon Units and Items (Boots)

They also said they're exploring a "Turbo Mode" for those who find games a bit too long. I also love the sound of that very much!

What else? ISLANDERS! An instant purchase the moment Linux support became available, what a beautiful city-builder that's not really like any other. Incredible style, with fun game-play that has you trying to get your score constantly higher and it doesn't take a huge amount of attention from a tired mind.

On top of that I also played the Linux Distribution-Hopping Game 2.0, with a full switch to Manjaro. So far, so good. Everything installed smoothly, grabbing extra software is easy and KDE shines on it.

So, what have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?

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Pangachat Jun 23, 2019
Dota Underlords on mobile, at night because i'm at nightshift at the weekend, and Dota Underlords all day on Desktop for the same reason :D
Seegras Jun 23, 2019
I was wondering how you could play Raft, since it crashes on me with UnityPlayer.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005) in module UnityPlayer.dll at 0023:106b6d17.

Then I found out, I could run it with "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" as launch command.

Still, why don't you need to set this?
Stoney_Fish Jun 23, 2019
No Steam gaming for me this week end, I cannot get the Steam client to start.
"Could not connect to steam network"

On Thursday I installed a new router so I assumed it was related, tried a different internet, even Hotspot from my phone.
I tried a few workarounds , including steam --tcp but no luck.

Tested on my wife's Ubuntu laptop that had not been updated for about a month and the Steam client started fine.

I did find this :
Steam does not connect on kernels newer than 2019-06-17 #6326

I'm expecting there to be a kernel patch soon.


[Edit]
Ubuntu 19.04 There was a kernel update , I can connect to Steam again.


Last edited by Stoney_Fish on 24 June 2019 at 7:47 pm UTC
Botonoski Jun 23, 2019
Gosh, I just spent four days building a desk out of scrap wood without any power tools. I feel I should celebrate by using this new desk and enjoying some games and whatnot, but all I wanna do is gently caress my new desk.
Seegras Jun 23, 2019
Quoting: Stoney_FishI did find this :
Steam does not connect on kernels newer than 2019-06-17 #6326

I'm expecting there to be a kernel patch soon.

As it says in the issue, the patch is already here:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1120222/raw/
Works on 5.1.12.

Edit: And on 5.1.13, which you must also patch yourself, if you use mainline (and not distribution) kernels.


Last edited by Seegras on 23 June 2019 at 7:24 pm UTC
Dunc Jun 23, 2019
I downloaded Underlords (because, well... FREE!) but I haven't played it yet. Mainly because I bought the first Project Cars in the Humble sale on Monday night - they were practically giving it away - and I've already put in more than 20 hours on it. I should really get myself a wheel...

Quoting: BotonoskiGosh, I just spent four days building a desk out of scrap wood without any power tools. I feel I should celebrate by using this new desk and enjoying some games and whatnot, but all I wanna do is gently caress my new desk.
Stop that. You're making the rest of us look lazy. :)


Last edited by Dunc on 23 June 2019 at 3:03 pm UTC
Beamboom Jun 23, 2019
ronnoc Jun 23, 2019
@ here I've been playing a lotta Rise To Ruins...571 hours in it as of now. I must be addicted

Also, some Sky Force Reloaded, and 7 Days to Die. Been a good weekend so far.


Last edited by ronnoc on 23 June 2019 at 3:10 pm UTC
Klaas Jun 23, 2019
I've continued to have trouble varnishing wood. It's a painful trial as a family member sprayed water on the newly varnished surface that I put into the sun to dry.

I've helped a friend put in some drywall and played HyperRogue (new FPP mode makes me dizzy) and Renowned Explorers.
ageres Jun 23, 2019
Resident Evil 4 with HD textures from http://www.re4hd.com/?page_id=6064 and d9vk.
I had to use a Windows VM to apply the 4GB patch tool and install new files. Is it possible to execute Windows .bat files with Wine? I couldn't do.
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