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What have you been playing recently and what do you think of it?

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It's question time once again, time to tell the world what you've been playing and let us know if it's worth getting.

I've actually been really enjoying Sid Meier's Civilization VI with the new expansion, it's far more addictive than I originally thought. While I previously got bored with it after a few rounds, that's no longer the case.

The disasters system with climate change adds so much to the game to seriously make it that much more interesting. Soon my English army shall take over what's left of the world…

In regards to the performance of the port (which isn't great in the later game), Aspyr Media did say this on Reddit:

The answer is actually not technical, but simply bandwidth. Frankly, it was a valentines miracle to get Linux out along-side Windows in a playable state that we were happy with AND cross platform. There will be time for optimizations once the dust settles, and we will continue to optimize for as long as we work on the product. For Civ V, that was years.

As for other games, I still can't pull myself away from Rocket League. Now that I have a few hundred hours in it, the amount of tricks I can pull off is increasing all the time, once you get to grips with some aerial maneuvers the game certainly opens up a bit.

Another shout out to Streets of Rogue, still one of my absolute favourite indie games. The amount of time I'be put into this is nuts. Probably one of the funniest games I've ever played with friends. Absolutely check it out if you haven't and do have a look at our video of it!

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KuJo Feb 18, 2019
GTA V and No Man´s sky via Proton.
Battlefield V via Wine/DXVK and Lutris.
Corben Feb 18, 2019
Fired up Frostpunk. Just wanted to check if it's working with proton, as I've read it could crash after the 2nd ingame day. And got 3h pulled in, where I wanted to get some sleep 2.5h earlier, which resulted in 15 days ingame ;)
Short fazit, seems to be a great game! Sadly 11 bit Studios went their backs on Linux, but as proton jumped into the gap, I can live with it. 11 bit Studios created a very good and addictive experience here. Makes me want to explore that winter world a lot more.

And yep, platinum rating for protondb ;)


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theghost Feb 18, 2019
From time to time Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Great story, gameplay and graphics. I can only recommend it, it's one of the few AAA games we have and it's often pretty cheap (<10€).

Most of the time a play Dota 2. It's one of my favorites. Easy to learn but hard to master but so much fun.
theghost Feb 18, 2019
Quoting: Elvanex8 years after I initially purchased it, I'm still playing the hell out of Mount and Blade: Warband. :) I finally hit the 1,000 hour mark last week as well, and that's not even counting the 200 or so hours I played before I got it on Steam. lol.

I don't know about that. I bought it a few years ago because of the good ratings on Steam.
It was pretty buggy. Often I couldn't finish quests, a proper tutorial was missing.
Quests were often the same (bring letter from a to b).
For me it felt quite unfinished although fighting was some fun.
Is this game really playable and enjoyable without using mods? Most of the time people say they use mods.
theghost Feb 18, 2019
Quoting: ExpalphalogChroma Squad.

I was a little iffy about it at first - I tend to dislike Japanese pop culture (my tolerance for 'wierd for no reason' is really low), I was just getting too old for Power Rangers when they first hit so I only watched like the first season of the first series, and I am not a fan of games going for the retro console aesthetic unless there's a good reason for it. But I love turn-based combat and it kept piling up good reviews so I am finally getting around to it. And I frickin love it.

In the beginning I really liked the game concept but at season 3 or 4 it became too boring for me.
Every season, it's basically the same over and over (apart from better items).
Nothing bores me more than repeating game concepts. They should have ended the story faster. I left this game unfinished.
Dragon8oy Feb 18, 2019
War Thunder maily at the moment, I'm so damn close to my second jet.
Steppa Feb 18, 2019
Hi
Arma 3!! Both experimental port (armaonunix great community) and proton way.
ryad Feb 18, 2019
I've bought Fallout 4 GOTY since I thought, it shouldn't be a big hassle anymore thanks to Proton.
Well... I was wrong. Although I tried several suggested workarounds, the game just won't work as fluent as expected. Issues like broken sound (despite Protons FAudio in 3.16-7), wine freezes on quit, quirky mouse and keyboard input spoil the fun of the game for me.

At least my all-time-favorite CS:GO works like a charm, thanks to a native implementation.
Scoopta Feb 18, 2019
I recently picked up Cities Skylines again and am finding that quite fun. There was a period for a while where I wasn't gaming much but I recently bought a 3rd monitor so I can play at a massive resolution of 5760x1080 and I have to say it's amazingly immersive. I would have done it sooner if it weren't for the fact that eyefinity doesn't exist on Linux. The only reason I did now is because sway recently got support for global fullscreen and I've found that it works great as an eyefinity alternative. I'm still waiting for Skyrim special edition to be playable in proton because once that happens it'll be freaking amazing on this setup.


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rick01457 Feb 18, 2019
I've been utilising the brilliance of wine to play guild wars 2 as my main mmo, and elite dangerous to participate in the distant worlds 2 expedition. Notable native games i've been playing are two point hospital, which really manages to capture the theme hospital vibe with some neat additions, and transport fever which really manages to capture that transport tycoon vibe with some neat additions.
If you'd asked a couple of weeks ago i would have said that i am finally getting baldurs gate 2 completed. It's still not completed.
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