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I hope they fix the path-finding issue with doom 1+2 at some point

Sometimes the demons get stuck

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Not for me. My mods are already installed. All I have to do is upgrade the game and update the config files with my mod list and game settings then I'm ready to go...!

I guess I spoke too soon. The OpenMW 0.49.0 generic installer works beautifully in Mint 21.3 but the OpenMW 0.50.0 installer throws a "version `GLIBC_2.38' not found" error and fails. So much for the OpenMW team's claim that they provide a universal/generic installer that works for any distro.

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And most games do exactly that. They ship their 32bit modules.(not all 32bit libraries, mind you, but still!)

And it's a shame more of them don't ship ALL of the needed libraries (32-bit or 64-bit). It's annoying to download a supposedly universal/generic installer only to have it fail on account of a missing version of a particular library. If they did, I'll bet we wouldn't have to worry as much about old native games failing in newer versions of Linux. (Missing libraries even happen with flatpaks & AppImages due to poor packaging jobs by devs.)

Looking at you, OpenMW 0.50.0!

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Quoting: StellaHopefully this won't cause problems for 32-bit games or 16-bit programs via Wine eventually, I'm assuming the prior version of Steam Linux Runtime will continue to be available for compatibility?

Yes. Steam Linux Runtime 2 is still available, and 3. And Steam Linux Runtime 1, although it is just symlinks to components from Runtime 2 as far as I can tell (apparrently no incompatible changes between 1 and 2.)

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If this was a single player survival/base building or story based game I would have bought it on launch. Unfortunately I have zero interest in MMOs at this point. It's a shame, because a lot of the visuals and some of the gameplay looks fun.

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I'm really hoping this turns out good. as a kid, everything from Clive Barker was read and as a movie watched. and look, I didn't turn that bad, haven't sacrified anyone yet. (still time)

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Quoting: Cloversheen

Earlier this year it also had an update to improve the anti-cheat on Linux too, so hopefully now you won't have too much trouble running it on Linux systems with Proton.

Anyone having any experience playing it crossplay?

We would be playing it with 2 linux users and 1 windows user.

Have played that exact config (2 on Linux, 1 on Windows) earlier this year, and it worked fine - from memory we all hosted at various times, but it might have just been the Linux players hosting. I use the 'bypass launcher' beta branch that you can opt in to, but that may not be necessary.

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They haven't documented it, but they also added arm64 build instructions and FEX submodule.


https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/tree/experimental_10.0?tab=readme-ov-file#arm64-builds

Now that Steam Linux Runtime and Proton is arm64 compatible the only thing that is missing is the arm build of Steam client.

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"Neat. I´m gonna add this to my library and play it later"
*Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is already in your Steam library*
"... ah"

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Pretty sure COD needs kernel level any cheat.

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Overwatch 2 uses phone number verification, you can't play without verified phone. However it doesn't use kernel anti cheat.

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The Wheel of Fate is Turning!

Rebel 1.

Action!

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Quoting: linuxjacquesTotal War: WARHAMMER III review ratings on Steam are ... not great.

I stopped trusting Steam reviews a couple years ago. Too many trolls and review bombers have rendered the overall score effectively worthless.

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Another game for me to stumble across in my Steam library a couple years from now and ask myself, "Where the heck did this come from?"

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This is a small thing that most likely annoys just me, but I wish they'd patch the Bethesda connection attempt in the Quake 1 port so that it happens only when you actually do something that requires that connection. I love that remaster, but I genuinely cannot stand that gnarly pop-up on startup every. Single. Time.

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I've got a 13 year old 4TB Hitachi happily chugging along in my array, with not a single blip to its name so far. As long as anything important is backed up and you're ready to swap in a new disk when one fails, you should be fine. Have fun!

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I hope this fixes the intermittent freezing I started to get on Halo: MCC.

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Does the native port work on a standard Linux system?

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No Linux native port?

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Good, lets get rid of these terrible companies like Activation/Blizzard etc that block Linux and release terrible games.

From what I understand, Blizzard is actually one of the few if not the only Dev out there to do anti-cheat right. Overwatch uses a server-side anti-cheat last I checked.

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Good, lets get rid of these terrible companies like Activation/Blizzard etc that block Linux and release terrible games.
Get better Indie Alternatives that support steam-deck and Linux, its the era of Indie/Small developers IMO!
The big corporation developers have no clue what their doing and are loosing loyal fans at geometric rate!

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Are there more of this kind?

There are. Blender Studio tries to do one for almost every major feature release that comes down the pipe.

https://studio.blender.org/films/

Oh so many already. Thanks.

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Don't forget to get the other free DLC with it. There's several of them for the game.

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Quoting: CloversheenAnyone having any experience playing it crossplay?

We would be playing it with 2 linux users and 1 windows user.

To be clear I've not played in ages, but crossplay used to work although it was something weird like I believe the Windows user would have to host.

Nowadays I'm 90% sure it's plug and play, but someone else chime in if they know for certain

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Earlier this year it also had an update to improve the anti-cheat on Linux too, so hopefully now you won't have too much trouble running it on Linux systems with Proton.

Anyone having any experience playing it crossplay?

We would be playing it with 2 linux users and 1 windows user.

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Definitely worth giving the demo a try! Played it on a twitch stream of mine very recently with the dev and had a great time!

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As noted in the article, the last test was in 2022.

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Will this work if TWWH1 and TWWH2 licenses are through Epic Games and not thru Steam?

I haven't been able to run either TWWH1 or TWWH2 due to "no mods found" error. I used legendary to install and heroic to run them using wine.

Hope TWWH3 will not have these problems.

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I got good value out of Dune: Awakening, really enjoyed my 110 or so hours.

Negatives:
- There's a bit of grind for sure
- The same-y-ness of the PvE missions starts to pale eventually
- The forced PvP mid-game is a weird design-choice even if there's almost no chance of you meeting another player
- End game is all PvP, which I have no time for.

But the positives! Beautiful game, decent choice of weapons, nice progression through meta-tree unlocks. Shai-hulud breathing down your neck as you cross the sands between the rock islands. The atmosphere, the mining, the base-building. It's all great. And the ornithopters! Hell yeah.

Really enjoyed it. Unless they change end-game, I'll never play it again, but it was so much fun while it lasted.

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I played this for over a year using my Steam Deck and I don't think anything changed. Is this just Valve being sloppy with certification again?

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