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UT is really an awesome series ! Nice to see it still kicking !

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The technical improvements are welcome, but I hope their writing has improved since they gave the BG games the "Enhanced Edition" treatment.

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I'm sure I'll get it once it's out for Linux.

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Quoting: Crystal Dagger

Quoting: razing32OK , curios now.
What would you recommend to a complete n00b of MUDs ?

How unforgiving are they and how time consuming (compared to a MMO RPG) ?

I haven't played much MUDs mainly because they aren't "from my time", I wish I would give a good effort to get into one because I'm sure they are great. I've known plenty of people that have played them and I've even tried them myself a little so I hope that I can reply your question.

From what I've heard they give you very unforgiving memories since a good side of MUDs is that you use your imagination (just like reading a book) and you generate a mental construct, so, in a way, your brain creates the "graphics" the way you want them to be. I've seen some graphical MUDs with really simple and static graphics, ascii maps, maybe an avatar, etc.

Secondly the "time consuming" aspect varies a lot depending on the MUD as far as I'm aware, some might be very punishing, sandboxy, etc while others are not as much, just like the vast variety of mmos you got like 5-10 years ago when they were "a thing". An MMO that gets quite often compared with a MUD is Wurm Online (which works on Linux, I highly recommend it since I play it on a daily basis lol).

Also, I've been told (not really sure about this but I can imagine that it is true) there are MUDs were you can literally do anything and I mean ANYTHING you can imagine, making look open-world sandbox MMOs look like nothing.

Last but not least the communities there are "old" and by old I mean mature, so the chances of finding that "special snowflake" or a raging "kid" are lower, but you'll surely will come across someone eventually I'm sure...

The first one that comes to my memory is Aardwolf, it has been around for a long time - http://www.aardwolf.com/

pd: Sorry for the long reply and my English...

I did hear of aardwolf.
Was asking on a few MUD sites when I wanted to remotely login to my Pi from work and play MUDS try MUDs in my spare
time
Might finally give it a go.
And your English was very good ;-)

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Well this is really interesting. I've been watching Liquidsky pretty closely since the article the other day and have been wondering whether its for me. With the lack of real Linux support (and the lack of any real service right now) I'm already having my doubts over it, so it's really nice to see an alternative.

This type of service really could be the future of gaming for many I think, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of these companies gets picked up by Valve at some point. I think the first success will happen when the pricing becomes right though.

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Quoting: ShmerlAbout delayed versions. What happened to Everspace? They said, they had some issues, and nothing since then.

I've been wondering the exact same thing. :-|

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I really wish this would work well with mesa and without graphical issues. Makes me want to install my copy of UT2004 to see if anyone is on, if not bot it up. I miss the good ole UT days.

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Geeky comment:

Safer:
cd "$HOME/Downloads/LinuxNoEditor/Engine/Binaries/Linux/"

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I am excited for this. Been waiting for this before grabbing the new torment game.

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I wonder if they're cool with us making an unofficial launcher

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I'll play it again!

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Story is miles better than the fairly mundane sword and sorcery tale of BG. It's all very depressing, mind. Highly recommended.

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Finally!! But if it is like the other "enhanced" editions, it will be released with plenty of bugs, and it wil be worth wainting till they get it all sorted out.

Bit since I've never finished the original, and since it is not 100% in gemRB, this is one I'll get for sure! Also I plan to play this one fully before Torment: Numerara

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I would pay for such a service if it would allow me to play any game, even if I don't own it, or if there was a hourly credits option (buy 50hours, you have 6 months to use them).

Big drawback is of course the performance, most solutions like these are highly dependant on the ping, and were too mediocre for my requirements (even for my fibre connection). This seem to use AWS, so there's no instances in France for me (yet), and lag spikes are to be expected. I'm used to the 144fps and low input lag nowadays.
Also 60GB hard drive is disappointing this doesn't fit GTA+DOOM.

Still will test as there's a free try possibility. It seems you can add non-steam too, anyone tried that? how does it work? Can you mount a CD and install there? Copy files?

@LIAM, did you or anyone logged in with 2FA?

Quoting: runedaltonWe actually think the price is rather fair (in any case, due to server costs we can't go any lower). Some services have limited hours per month (e.g. 20 hours, for $20 to $30 per month), while Snoost is completely unlimited. That means you could literally play 10-20 hours a single day, and still just have spent a dollar.

what if you play 10 hours in a single day of the month?

The website states "Billed monthly", do you only pay for the day you used the service, or do you pay 32$ every month?

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Better than silently dropping the port. As long as the port still comes I'm happy :)

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Quoting: karmikThere is actually a new update from developers:

Thanks, added it in.

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There is actually a new update from developers:

QuoteWe’re following a similar path with the Linux build, just a little behind, with its first public beta landing mid-week and the final build launching a week or two after. If you’re a Linux user, keep an eye on our Twitter (@teamcherrygames) to find out when the beta is up.

Full post - http://teamcherry.com.au/huge-hk-one-month-update-over-65000-copies-sold-holy-moly/

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Fortunately,I can make a good bet someone on Tabletop Simulator's workshop has a mod for this already or will have one.

Mods for it exist but they will never exist on the workshop long as the game gets taken down by DoW for copyright infringement all the time. You have to ask around for people to send you the save.

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Quoting: FuriousI don't have Vulkan capable GPU, but maybe someone try -vulkan -sm5 ?

Vulkan last I checked with Epic is not in the Linux builds.

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Will it ever be a free to download game and a complete one?
I have great memories with the old unreal tournament on linux, but if it doesn't run well, you have to register, and it's not a properly game. I prefer one of the multiples free open source games fps that are already on linux and plays well.

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Fortunately,I can make a good bet someone on Tabletop Simulator's workshop has a mod for this already or will have one.

Well I can't play Tabletop Simulator with my mom, as she neither has a pc with enough horsepower nor will enjoy the interface.
I argue this while I still can play Ticket to Ride both on Linux and my tablet, but just as a reminder - Tabletop Simulator is not for everyone.

I'm actually working on a little Unity2D implementation of an online-multiplayer table, that will let you create and import basically every card/boardgame (that's not physics based) but will hopefully have a cleaner interface and should work on mobile and desktop all the same. No 3D/physics, as I consider those unnecessary for this type of games. Basic online cardgaming already works, but I'll take my time to properly finish it.

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I don't have Vulkan capable GPU, but maybe someone try -vulkan -sm5 ?

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Quoting: runedaltonAnytime. :) We have a couple of Linux users (myself included) working on the project, so there's definitely been a lot of motivation to make sure it worked on Linux. And I actually just got a message in right after my last post, that one of the guys found out that the "stream randomly quitting after 5 seconds" that Liam experienced, might be due to a bug in the VPN setup with bitrate transferring consistently, so we'll look into it right away. :)

I hope we can resolve any bugs there might be, so it will become a great solution for some Linux users. Please let us know if you have any other questions. We're super happy for all the feedback and support we can get! :-)

This looks fantastic, i was waiting on LiquidSky closed beta key for a month as they had native linux client aswell, but as they launched open beta (2.0) there are no indication of linux support, though it looks like its working with wine (nobody isn't currently able to login with wine) so im going with your service as this looks more promising :)

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Puh...

my comment in the last article was:
"I'm also happy to wait a little bit longer. I'm really exited for this one."
At this point in time I'm starting to get a little bit annoyed.

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Anytime. :) We have a couple of Linux users (myself included) working on the project, so there's definitely been a lot of motivation to make sure it worked on Linux. And I actually just got a message in right after my last post, that one of the guys found out that the "stream randomly quitting after 5 seconds" that Liam experienced, might be due to a bug in the VPN setup with bitrate transferring consistently, so we'll look into it right away. :)

I hope we can resolve any bugs there might be, so it will become a great solution for some Linux users. Please let us know if you have any other questions. We're super happy for all the feedback and support we can get! :-)

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Thanks for the clarifications, and thanks for thinking of the Linux community!

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Take your guesses; mine is 2019 :D

That is the problem; they're releasing games when the heat of game goes off. People (via dual boot or Wine) already deveours the game and mostly they don't need to buy again when it is released.

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Hi guys,

I am one of the gamers who made Snoost. :)

I saw the post and thought it would be appropriate to register and reply to some of your questions in here. :)

First of all, thanks for the mention - We're really excited to see more people trying it out.

Snoost is rather new (we just launched our first Alpha) and thus there will probably be a ton of improvements coming in the next few months (we've already eliminated a big load of bugs since release) and we're working really hard to collect feedback and optimise the experience based on the response we're getting.

In short, we did not want to make this product if we were not able to accomplish three main goals. 1) Give users access to install any game they own, and not just a restricted selection (which we would need to with a licensing model) and 2) to provide unlimited hours of gaming, no matter if you play 50 hours or 300 hours per month 3) to be able to offer all of the above for just a dollar a day.

We actually think the price is rather fair (in any case, due to server costs we can't go any lower). Some services have limited hours per month (e.g. 20 hours, for $20 to $30 per month), while Snoost is completely unlimited. That means you could literally play 10-20 hours a single day, and still just have spent a dollar. That was our goal, because we (as gamers ourselves) sometimes play a lot some weekends (some more than others) and we would hate to worry about "how many hours we have left". I hope this makes sense. :-)

The reason we decided to go for a "any game you own" approach, is that we simply didn't want to restrict the selection, as that would only have enabled gamers to play the games that we had the regional commercial licenses for, which is something that other companies have tried and yes... ended up with a very limited offering of games, plus we saw it as a something that could drive the costs up and thus make it impossible to offer cloud gaming for the price that we wanted.

In regards to the login, Steam etc., I just want to make clear that Snoost is not in any way storing any Steam account login credentials. You sign in to your Steam account directly on the cloud gaming server, in a closed environment that only you have access to, just as if it was your own computer. And that is exactly what Snoost is: A personal server (or cloud rig if you will) that you can use to play your game on, and we have just automated all the steps required to launch it and seamlessly use Steam In-Home Streaming. We've also automated backup processes, cloud storage etc., to make it all work. I admit though, there might still be a lot of work left to address issues with some games or systems.

I'm sorry for the first impression you had Liam, but we're already setting up a new Linux environment and will try to see if we can provoke the same experience with Fallout 4 and fix it as soon as possible. It may be an issue with the Steam client, but we will look into it right away.

Oh, and about the "linux"->"Mac". That will be fixed in an update tomorrow. Thanks for pointing it out! :-)

I hope this answered some questions. :) We're just really excited for what we will learn in the coming months, and can't wait to give the service some more features and improve it day by day.

Thanks for the awesome feedback! :-)

Regards, Rune

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i just disable screen saver entirely and shutdown the monitor when i'm not using it...

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