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What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?

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It's the weekend and the sun is out, so naturally many of us will be staring at a bright screen playing the latest and greatest Linux games.

I tend to go through phases of being attached to specific games for a few weeks before utterly burning myself out on them, currently Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has managed to hook me back in. It's not exactly the newest game, but it still has such fluid and fun gameplay that there's still really nothing else like it in the shooter scene.

HITMAN is also tempted me back once more, since I've never actually gone through the Patient Zero bonus campaign. With HITMAN 2 being announced, I feel like I need to get my practice down in case Feral Interactive say they're porting it to Linux again (they sadly haven't—yet). It would be odd if they didn't, since HITMAN seemed to be quite a popular game with Linux gamers.

Caves of Qud has also been amusing me lately, such a great story maker. I won't tell you how many times I've died…

So many games, so little time. Choosing what to play does become a real issue, with an insane amount of great quality games on Linux—there's truly never been a better time for us.

What are you playing this weekend and what do you think about it?

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stretch611 Jul 14, 2018
Quoting: ElvanexI've recently been super addicted to RimWorld. :) I'd been trying to avoid it until 1.0 was released, but I finally gave in and started a game in beta 18. For anyone on the hook on this buying this game, let me assure you that it is totally beyond worth it. :) It's one of my top 5 favorite games of all time!

Rimworld 1.0 is currently in testing... You can access this through the beta tab in steam.

It is quite stable, no crashes for me at all... But they are still adjusting the balance.
ProfessorKaos64 Jul 14, 2018
Turok 2 for sure!!!!
knotted10 Jul 14, 2018
Superhot, Hacknet maybe HoN
Philadelphus Jul 15, 2018
Been playing a lot of Stellaris lately—I'm getting back into it seriously for the first time since the game-changing 2.0 patch, and while I one of the people who were initially skeptical about the changes I find I'm actually enjoying the game a lot more now, especially the war side of things. Previously I tended to play really pacifistic empires as I found the war system confusing and cumbersome (compared to other Paradox grand strategy games), now I'm in the middle of a campaign as an empire of Determined Exterminator robots, trying to cleanse the galaxy of all organic life (and enjoying it a lot). :)

Some funny moments have occurred, such as when the Fanatic Xenophile fallen empire awoke, then their rivals the Fanatic Xenophobes awoke a few years later and started a War in Heaven. I tried to stay neutral (as I wanted to wipe both of them out), but the Xenophiles declared war on me and forced me to become a vassal, drawing me into their war. In revenge I continued expanding peacefully and upgrading my tech, eventually taking out the Xenophobe empire they were fighting (while also fighting off attacks from the Fanatic Spiritualist fallen empire every decade or so because one of my sectors colonized one of their holy worlds). And while all this was happening, The Contingency (an ancient machine empire trying to destroy all advanced life in the galaxy) awoke and because of how much of the galaxy I owned three out of four of its initial expansion sites were near my borders, so I had to destroy them. All this finally left me strong enough to break free of my masters, then conquer them in turn…which transferred all of their vassals (which was most of the rest of the empires in the galaxy by this point) to me :O. Now I'm the undisputed master of the galaxy, having wiped out two more fallen empires along the way, just waiting to conquer or integrate my vassals to get that sweet, sweet achievement.
Alm888 Jul 15, 2018
X: Rebirth. Because why not?
rea987 Jul 15, 2018
Quoting: blackmambaWell I haven't even had my morning coffee yet but I guess once that's rectified I'll play some Enemy Territory Quake Wars for a bit and then continue my Elder Scrolls Oblivion playthrough for a bit. I've installed these both recently after completely forgetting I even owned them, things got nostalgic pretty quick lol.

ETQW servers are populated in the evenings of Europe and North America. If you are into competitive action, TAW Clan's public events also offer custom maps which spice things up pretty well. :-)

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/etqw#events
https://www.gametracker.com/search/etqw/
Boldos Jul 15, 2018
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- Warhammer40K: Gladius - Relics of War: Very nice game, I'm a bit surprised and astonished at the same time, that I really do not miss the diplomacy in the Civ-type 4X game :)
- X Rebirth: Gave it a try after some years, and - again - I'm very surprised that it is not AS bad as I remember it. It is not X3, but some of game's features are awesome... Looking forward to X4! (and also to StarCitizen, if/when released on Linux... although I estimate that could happen some time e.g. early 2026, so, X4 for now :) )
(No time for Stellaris this weekend :( ...shame on me :) )


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gaardon Jul 15, 2018
Desperados here too :) Great game from my childhood its nice too replay it again.
Ehvis Jul 15, 2018
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I'll try to finish the Tiny Tina DLC in Borderlands 2. For as far as it will allow that to be done solo.
stud68 Jul 15, 2018
Bioshock Trilogy including DLC's from start to finish.
Just about to start Infinite again.
Also Bit of Portal Stories Mel on the side.
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