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I've been trying out some games on Amazon Luna. Up till now, I had ignored it since the free stuff was less than interesting. But they put Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (a game too heavy for my pc) and Hogwarts Legacy (a game unsuitable for purchase due to failing consumer friendliness restrictions) on there so I've been playing those.

I've enjoyed my time, but it's immediately clear to me that this is not the default way that I want to play my games. Input lag is noticeable. This especially problematic in menus and when trying to fire a gun. Not really an issue with other stuff though as these games are not particularly quick.

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Quoting: Tethys84I went to Nexusmods to see what mods there were for Stellar Blade, as I do for most games I buy... Big mistake... just gross.

I mean, what did you expect? I'm not really surprised. ^^

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Pentiment, Pathfinder:Kingmaker and also replaying the first Pillars of Eternity again in the newly added turn-based mode

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Factorio Space Age for the last two months... It's really nice, but man it's so much work, lol

Also playing Valheim with my wife. We're about to enter Mistland, so in "preparation" we're spending a few weeks building a fancy house.

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Quoting: notinuseI've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2. I like old-type dungeon crawls similar to Dungeon Master, and Grimrock 2 adds outdoor areas that work better than I expected. Having a lot of fun crawling around the sewers.

This is high on my list! You think it'd be good on the Deck? Or is a mouse keyboard better?

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Where Winds Meet, Stellar Blade, and Project Zomboid.

I'm really loving Where Winds Meet. It's the first online game I've truly enjoyed for a long while now. I just hope it doesn't turn into the typical NetEase game eventually.

I went to Nexusmods to see what mods there were for Stellar Blade, as I do for most games I buy... Big mistake... just gross.

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After 70 hours or so I just finished Immortals Fenyx Rising that was recently given away by Ubisoft. Overall a good game in the Ubi style of a large map with lots of "points of interest" to explore. Decent, if relatively simple, puzzles and combat, but the story and dialog are terrible. After 60+ hours it was all getting a bit same-y so I rushed through the main story to finish the game.

I just got War Mongrels from a Fanatical bundle which I hope will fill the real-time tactics void that Mimimi left. I've only played half an hour or so and, though I don't think it'll be up to Mimimi standards (and the controls are annoying), it looks pretty good.

Also tried once again to get into Outer Wilds with not much luck but will persevere...

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In an effort to finish some uncompleted games in my library, I'm back to MechWarrior 5: Clans after dropping the difficulty. Once I realized I just wanted to finish the story and was sick of getting stomped in every campaign it became a much more enjoyable experience.

I've also been jumping between Demonschool and Blippo+. Demonschool's good for when I want a bit of tactical puzzle action, and Blippo+ has been great when I just want to watch some TV without actually picking something. I also enjoy it's general weirdness and impressively accurate reproduction of 80's public access.

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Still Duet Night Abyss. I also play Wagotabi to practice my Japanese and some Umamusume from time to time. So nothing fancy really ;)

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[quote=Eike]I just bought Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story because they are going to remove it from Steam, and it was heavily discounted. It's, well, ... more "Lost Phone".

I just picked the bundle, thanks for the tip. Years ago I played through Simulacra and enjoyed it. Sounds like it may be similar.

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Deus Ex: Revision.

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better late than never I suppose… the biggest culprit here must be the 2 DRM's they are running AT THE SAME TIME (Denuvo and Capcom Protector), and what's worse is that the game apparently checks every single texture going in and out of memory. Such a waste of processing cycles for nothing useful.

Shame on you Capcom for treating your paying customers so badly.

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After spending most of this year gaming on my desktop, I've finally returned to the Steam Deck OLED and "fixed" the awful static issue the 3.5mm jack had on a lot of launch models by slightly loosening the screws holding down the audio board. So to fully make use of a static-free headphone jack, I've been relaying Furi.

Banging soundtrack and an overall exhilarating game. I'm about halfway through and love it just as much as I did the first time round many years ago.

I haven't abandoned my PC completely though and have been making my way through Two Point Hospital. Another game with a fantastic soundtrack (though for wildly different reasons) and it's generally a relaxing time. I'm currently at the Tumble hospital and my receptionists keep whining about needing to go to the toilet despite the overwhelming amount of toilets I build for them, but it's otherwise going smoothly.

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Tokyo Xtreme Racer (I beat it and started a NG+ run), Blood Refreshed Supply, Chasm, Xuan-Yuan Sword 7, Halls of Torment, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, and I went back to Earth Defense Force 5 too. And that's just the PC games.

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I came back to Hero Siege, after 2 years since I played last time. It is still as amazing as I remember. I played a good amount of hours to Astroneer, and started a couple days ago a new game in Pokemon Añil, a fangame GBA style Pokémon. A good variety of genres

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WHERE WINDS MEET is taking nearly all of my free time. Incredibly impressed with it for a Free game. It seriously feels like a game they could’ve charged top dollar for. Theyve seemingly created a huge community for it. Unreal how much content is in there, how graphically beautiful it is, how clean the combat plays, how fun the puzzles are, and again how FREE it is.

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Oooh, bit of everything. Haven, Little Rocket Lab, Until Dawn on the PS4, Viewfinder are the most recent ones.

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Mostly various maps for Duke Nukem 3D

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I've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2. I like old-type dungeon crawls similar to Dungeon Master, and Grimrock 2 adds outdoor areas that work better than I expected. Having a lot of fun crawling around the sewers.

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I was super hoooked on Arc-Raiders for a few weeks too, probably in large part because a discord I'm in made it their game du jour. It's a great game, but I've not felt the urge to play it for a week or so now really.

Instead I first started paying Diablo 1 again since I wanted to see what I actually think of a game I really only played when I was 13 years old. Then after a tip from my younger brother who's even more of a Diablo head than I am, I checked out Children of Morta again. I played it a couple years back but never got hooked then. I would like a co-op partner for it (my brother has it on a different device), but it's pretty good for what it is so far. Like Diablo 1 it's also more of a dungeon crawler than an arpg, which I like.

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Melvor Idle and Luanti (Hades Revisited) for the most part. Looking in on other games here and there, but nothing sustained.

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Mostly Outer Worlds 2 ... It's good. Not excellent, not groundbreaking, but it's fun to play. The stealthy sniper build I have going is super fun. I'd say I'm probably 2/3 finished. I'll get it done by the end of the year. Then next I'm REALLY hoping they'll fully release the turn based mode for Pillars of Eternity 1 (currently in beta) so I can play that one. Really looking forward to that.

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EVE Online, since 18 years straight now.
Pax Dei, from some of the guys who developed EVE.
The Lords of the Rings - Return to Moria, and we're digging deeply and greedily (what can go wrong?).
Elite: Dangerous, basically since 1984...
HumanitZ, but we stopped the EA playthrough, as we wait for release.

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Halls of Torment and King is Watching mostly

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Not much due to lack time, energy and willingness. Occasionally, Super Mario Bros Remastered.

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I just bought Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story because they are going to remove it from Steam, and it was heavily discounted. It's, well, ... more "Lost Phone".

And I played Year Unknown. The demo already is half of the game. There's that one big choice in the end...

I don't regret playing either, but they're no must have played to me.

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Outer Wilds & The Finals these days

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

Couldn't it attach the same way the closed source Nvidia driver does?

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

That might be a strength in the long-run though, because if you're relying on security through obscurity, we all know how that ends. But if you implemented an open-source anti-cheat tool that was actually robust? That would be a huge win.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users.

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

A fix for your appimage problem is [appimage-launcher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher).

Thanks! But another fix is to avoid AppImages, haha!

I think we have a slight problem with a packaging format that needs an external app to manage the packaging format. I suppose the same could be said of Flatpak needing flatseal, but now that Plasma has integrated that into the Plasma settings, I'm definitely a flatpak guy these days. Not for Steam... but definitely for everything else that I can't install easily with my existing package management tool!

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