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Currently playing Duet Night Abyss (so far it works like a charm on Linux) and Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

Sometimes doing meta or two in Guild Wars 2.

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Been playing the new CK3 DLC, All Under Heaven, Linux native.

I started as an unlanded Adventurer in what is nowadays Korea. Bought a treasure map that took me all the way to the Black Sea. The treasure didn't amount to what I thought it would, but taking on contracts and visiting plenty of landmarks along the way still paid off. Upon return, I seduced one of the king's daughters, but failed to run away with her. After some time (and a few bastard children), a change in leadership allowed me to invite her to my camp, and after taking care of her betrothed, was finally able to marry her, in the hope that possible offspring inherits her claim to the kingdom. By now, I turned in some fame in exchange for an Estate, to actually experience more of the DLC content, but compared to life as an adventurer, attempting to climb the ranks of the Meritocracy is fairly boring. So I'm still hoping for plan A to come to fruition.

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Nice! Would be quite useful for Trails in the Sky FC.

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I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky, Utopia Must Fall, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, all on the Steam Deck. I love NMS but this Kingdom Hearts entry is probably skippable. Utopia Must Fall is beautiful and a lot of fun for a game to play for a few minutes at a time. Love the art style and steam deck support sold me on it.

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Please do not talk about dgvoodoo2, it's closed source and his dev is not friendly with open source project that uses his tool. He recently asked Lutris team and other open source projects to no more use his tool. We need a dgvoodoo2 replacement and open source. DXVK, DxWrapper...cnc-draw replaced a lot of dgvoodoo feature, but nothing for 3DFX games.

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This month I've exclusively been playing Hades on the Deck.

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I’ve been bouncing between Hell is Us and Silent Hill F, which has been enjoyable, though this week I’m going to try and get some more time into the System Shock 2 remaster.

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It's been a lot of getting stuff working on my Steam Deck in recent weeks, as my laptop is now on the fritz. So I've got:

* Guild Wars 2
* Serious Sam 2 & 4
* Elite: Dangerous
* X4: Foundations (this one surprised me; the secret is apparently disabling Volumetric Fog?)
* Factorio (I keep bouncing off it and keep trying anyway)
* Stardew Valley
* Starsector

I can't seem to sit on one game for very long at this time of year. But at least they're all working to my liking!

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ARC Raiders, Palworld, and Megabonk

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I dumped almost 80 hours into Megabonk somehow (a great Native Linux title), but mainly I've been achievement hunting retro games on RetroAchievements; some via RetroArch (regrettably) on Steam, but mostly going after GameCube titles and preparing to play some Wii titles. I even got a DolphinBar, and an official Wii Remote and Nunchuck in preparation for going after Super Mario Galaxy achievements with my partner (Wii Remote needed a tweak to work, but I even played some Sonic Racing CrossWorlds with my Wii Remote and it worked flawlessly).

I haven't been playing ARC Raiders because I avoid games with invasive Client-Side Anti-Cheat (afaik it's userspace on Linux, but I don't want to support developers who use kernel anti-cheat).

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Last month:

- Heretic + Hexen (only finished Heretic so far)
- No One Lives Forever
- Quake 2: Call of the Void add-on
- Expendable
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Midnight Club 3 (PCSX2)

This month:

- Unreal 2: The Awakening (it's a lot more fun with doubled player speed)
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (with Duke Nukem DLC)
- The Talos Principle 2
- Crysis Warhead (had to stop because it constantly crashes during gameplay, unfortunately)
- Ratchet & Clank 3 (PCSX2). I've already played this one when I was young, but it's fun to replay it ~20 years later.

Plus the usual rotation of "forever games": Trackmania, Smash Bros. Melee (Slippi), QuakeWorld, Toontown: Corporate Clash.

Patient gaming at its finest.

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I finished two games last week:
Rack'n'Slay, it was pretty cool.
Gris - while I appreciate the art style, the gameplay was pretty boring.

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A pointless, amateur, project.

This almost sounds like amateur would be something bad.

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I've been playing:


(steam links)

[Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321470/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Survivor/)
[NGU Idle](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147690/NGU_IDLE/)
[Hades I & II](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/)

Lately I've been considering trying to find some kind of longer form game... like "World of Warcraft" but without being World of Warcraft? If that makes sense? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Looks like it's by the author of D8VK? I could be remembering incorrectly though. Either way, pretty neat to see! I wonder if it'll stay standalone long-term or if it'll get merged in. I guess that would depend on interest upstream and how cleanly it could be merged in.

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I've played a lot of House of Necrosis last month, and some Tokyo Xtreme Racer this month.

Oh, and I've been playtesting the next major update for Project Silverfish.

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A pointless, amateur, project.
Besides, if your rig cannot handle anything 7 or less in software rendering mode, then it will unlikely run dxvk.

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D-pad in the wrong location. Pass.

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d3d7 is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability, and applications that for one reason or another mix and match d3d7 with older ddraw (not ddraw7) and/or with GDI are not expected to ever work

dgvoodoo2 (converts old DirectX into newer DirectX) is closed-source, so couldn't be included directly, but the author of that tool has likely worked through those quirks for many games already; it's probably worth having a conversation.

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This sounds like game preservation!

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This is really cool, while there's already an implementation of Directx 1-11 in the form of WINED3D (openGL), Vulkan is just better. Try it for yourself, the installation is dead simple. In the Demo for Harry Potter 2, all the graphical glitches with the transparency were entirely gone when I switched to Vulkan rendering

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When wil there be a Glide translation layer on top of vulcan so I can play the original carmageddon pretending my old voodoo card still works

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definitely the felicitous offspring of Vampires: Survivor and Diablo 1
Unfortunately, I finished all in the first one (bought at its releasing), ~40h time play. Do the DLC worth its 4€?

I like to play the sorceress especially on the bridge level. Upgrading till feeling the powa of electricity :D

I would love to find some goals or missions. Or more farming like in Diablo with more boss that lay down items (armor, helmet, etc.); Or a system where you find items that could be upgraded for example by mixing together two of them of the same class in the base camp to add their effects.
... And a VERY HARD level, where surviving would be really challenging out of combining the right items and magic.

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but the Mesa driver version just seems like it would be a good fit to add don't you think?

Totally agree.

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GTK feels like 2005 but that the corners are rounded

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So I did check the achievements
Over 25% have beaten the final boss
Over 20% have achievements that I also have that I thought go a bit into the more obscure late game completionist stuff
Over 14% did a 100% run
2.5% did the no death run
Those numbers sound very high to me, especially the last one

edit: also probably worth mentioning that 39% got to the first credits screen. I can totally see myself just being done at that point without giving it much thought, and I think that's exactly what I did when I played Hollow Knight, I liked it but never cared enough to look up anything about the game. This time with Silksong I got obsessed to the level that happened when I first played Dark Souls, that is I still find myself watching random lore videos and stuff like that

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I've never used an auto install mod list for openmw before but now I DEFINITELY want to try it. Might even give it a go later this week! Exciting! Thank you for the link.

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Finally the ugly smoothing is off by default. That was so annoying, every time I introduced someone to the game, I had to send them a config file with sane graphical settings before we could play or they would complain the game was an ugly mess. Explaining to them which of the 10000 settings to change was way too complicated.

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Great news! The switch to Qt will make it look much better if you use custom themes like I do. EasyEffects always looked out of place on my system, since it was built on GTK 4. Not anymore. Updating now!

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I played the DLC yesterday and it's great, more quests to finish and three new characters to play with. So long my free time! :-D

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