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Agree with Dpanter's comment, but that said, you can pay as little as £9 and still get all six games, so if you have a cohort of in-real-life pals that you can use to play these titles, it's still a steal. But if you're expecting lobbies to fill your team out as you play... buyer beware.

Also, there are probably better co-op games generally - Dpanter's favourite is Deep Rock Galactic (hmmm, or is it Dying Light??) while my tastes are more geared towards traditional roguelites: Deadzone Rogue, Abyssus, Gunfire Reborn, and Jump Space, for example.

Or there's Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap, Remnant 2, Returnal, or Warhammer 40K: Darktide. Or if you fancy some top-down action RPGs, there Ravenswatch, Shape of Dreams, Emberknights, or of course Path of Exile 1/2.

Can't believe it's nearly three years since I wrote this - I need to do an update!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/festive-co-op-games/

Or, you know, there's always Helldivers 2.

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Not buying unless they make all the DLC available offline without Galaxy. They knew this would happen and went ahead with releasing it anyway.

It was better to hold off and do additional internal testing than disappointing the customers like that.

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Quoting: SirMCJeager

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: SirMCJeagerI'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

I am not concerned about who they interact with, but I don't like that they actively and financially support a known racist and bigot like DHH. Which makes me unwilling to support them, so that I do not support the hate by proxy.

If that doesn't sound reasonable to you, I suppose that shows your own bias. Willing indifference is an active political stance.

Looking up about him, just seems like a conservative who doesn't like the influence of Islam and the negative influence of illegal/asylum immigration into Britain.

Please don't jump to preconceived conclusions! I absolutely love Framework for what they are doing! And I bet other people expressing their worries about their financial ties include a lot of people who do so specifically because they *care* about Framework and what they stand for. As stated above in the Wikipedia article (but feel free to seek your own sources for those concepts) explaining the concept of "paradox of tolerance" or "paradox of freedom", this is about more than merely "differing views".

I want there always to be plenty of reasonable conservative (and progressive) people - there are perfectly good reasons to be anxious about and opposed to unrestrained, un-debated changes being forced upon us by the opinions of few. At the very least more democratic inclusion is needed. But this DHH person allegedly e.g. calls for attacking a whole category of people based on the actions of exceedingly few! This isn't about labeling anyone racist. This is about having a rule that nobody should get to do what Hitler did - make public speeches about killing or seriously harming people simply by category. Would you defend incitements of mob violence against white people for the crimes of a few elites or loonies among them? In my information sphere, I see far more white acts of terrorism than non-white. Also this person was *not* talking only about illegals or asylum seekers but about people having any part of their ancestry from outside Britain in the last few hundred years. If you actually chat with a number of immigrants, you learn that here, too, are spectrums - some are indeed slightly alien (which has both good *and* bad effects to the society) and some only differ partly in their genetic heritage and their grandparents lives (which are similarly slightly alien to these people themselves).

We *can* dismiss others by putting them in boxes (like "conservative/progressive, right/left bias"), but I believe we can get further in the world by listening to each other's points and evidence, not by making caricatures.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI really doubt that is the actual real reason, because it's a bit silly if so considering you can just drag them all into the Up Next like I do.

According to Steam and Reddit forums, it apparently used to be a feature, but was removed during the pandemic because of the heavy load on their servers.

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Has anyone made BoF IV work on Linux? It won't start for me, even when using ProtonGE 10-34 + the launch command "WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ddraw=n,b;dinput=n,b %command%".

I have seen comments saying that it works in steam deck so there must be a way.

It boils my blood that Capcom finally decided to release so many great old games on Steam at a quite fair price, like Dino Crisis 1-2 and the original Resident Evil games, and all of them are so broken on Linux.

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It's a weird bundle.
Looking at SteamCharts... they're all more or less dead, pardon the pun on these predominantly zombie games.

The Anacruis is effectively dead, zero playerbase, a whopping 5 Steam forum posts in 2026.

Back 4 Blood is practically dead, averaging ~1k players and it has never been much better since the initial 2 months after release saw nearly all players abandon it. They are still trying to scam you for 60€ for this 2021 flop! A subpar clone of Left 4 Dead 2, get that instead and be much better off.

Zombia Army 4, a few hundred players. Dead.

Vermintide 2, ~2k players average. At least some people still play, there was a massive spike in November which faded fast back down to that 2k again. They did fix EAC about a year ago so we can play it now, check GOL anticheat information for making it work on Linux!

Zombie Army Trilogy, a few dozen players. Dead.

Killing Floor 2 is a classic with a stable 3k+ recurring players average, likely your best bet of the bunch. A well loved title with an active community and tons of Steam Workshop mods. Just happens to be on 90% sale on Steam currently, Digital Deluxe edition for less than 4€ or the Ultimate edition with tons of skins for 10€.

Honest opinion, get KF2 on Steam and leave the rest behind. Of course supporting Humbles charity work is a good choice in itself so there's that. Using the links in the article helps support GOL so either way, kudos.

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I wonder if unlocking the Cosmetic Pack DLC by launching via Heroic Games Launcher would suffice, as an alternative to GOG Galaxy.

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Quite happy to see that. 😊
Also this is the first time after me switching to Linux exclusively that Steam bothered to include me. So I'll proudly claim that the recent increase is partly my doing. Look Ma, I'm on TV! 😆

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Quoting: rea987Well, ETQW was released in 2007, I guess it's old enough. 😆

Everything from Doom3 onwards is new stuff in my book. 😄 Maybe it's the fact that I am getting old, maybe it's that I was quite disappointed by Doom3, but for me it marks the point in time where games are not retro any more.

Damn I am really getting old. 😂

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Past month it had an unrealistic dip which was not corrected, this peak also looks a bit unrealistic, I'd like to be true but I guess it will be corrected and we'll land into the low 4%s (4.2-4.3 maybe)

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Quoting: Koopamarking up games to then discount them

Sounds like they have to wait 30 days to do that?
"increasing a game's price will result in a 30-day cooldown on discounts"

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Quoting: KoopaMy bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

The rational choice is to choose the price that maximises profit in each region. Setting the price too high reduces the number of units sold, and so reduces profit.

this is the ideal world... but other things come into consideration in reality... like artificial scarcity, or monopolizing a game segment, or marking up games to then discount them so the user perceives there was a hefty discount when there is not. Also I've seen some games that have huge demand, like selling a lot of copies in my region, actually being marked up higher than the US, simply because users are willing to pay that price, its not that simple.
Also some big studios dont care about this... I live in Argentina, latam-usd region and some AAA have exactly the same price as in the US. They didnt care about regional pricing before... I have doubts they will suddenly care.
Tbh what it looks from my end, is that regional pricing is falling apart, fewer studios do regional pricing by the day, to me Valve's move is kinda a desperate move because they dont want regional price to fall apart.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: F.Ultraare we 100% sure? The MR consists of 15 commits done one month ago which all seams to be legit and in fact does bring in zink

50% sure! From the comments: "This MR was meant mostly as a half joke for April fool's day, but it works and I think it might be an interesting solution overall."

So a half joke :)

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Yes, it was just for EU.

Quoting: CaldathrasWith the free year of extended support, Win10 EOL is really a bit of a fiction.

And not having a MS account (which was one of the many reasons not to use W11) still makes W10 EOL for EU citizens, too. I know, it's a weird situation where W10 is end of life and kinda not. But this is also the reason some people delay the switch to Linux another year.

When I speak "because of W10 EOL" I include all the reasons people may don't want to switch to W11 as online account, Copilot, broken features, advertisement on desktop, bloatware, trackers, "feature" updates and so on. To me the EOL is the term that indirectly speaks about all these problems.

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Quoting: Xpanderand yeah i agree that having line of text from one end 16:9 sceeen to another is not ideal either but at least double the current squished size would be good.

And I was thinking, "Wait, it takes up way more than half the scr--oh." I always read most websites zoomed in multiple times because print is too small, so the text takes up a wider portion of the screen for me.

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I keep seeing that as "OwnGOAL" . . .

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I really never pay much attention to the downloading except when I'm installing a game I intend to play in a minute. For the rest . . . it happens at some point. I guess part of it is that I've never really wrapped my brain around the idea that a game is something that gets updates. Intellectually I know it happens a lot now, but my gut says that when I buy a Steam game and download it, that's like buying a box with a CD in it back in the day . . . I have the game now and that's that.

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Nice news and all but seriously, where is Rage? Just really odd that has never shown up.

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Swiss here, maybe I'll buy games through Steam again. Currently, the difference is so ridiculous that it's often a better deal to pay the full price in a third party store than to buy on sale through steam. Also nobody, beside fellow swiss steam users, can send me gifts.

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That's a very narrow interpretation. If that was truly the intention then they wouldn't require you to log in to their site to access the installers, they'd just email you a direct link.

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Quoting: CaldathrasAnybody with a Microsoft Account can easily access the program.

AFAIK, that's EU only? Others need to jump through additional hoops?

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Quoting: KoopaMy bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

The rational choice is to choose the price that maximises profit in each region. Setting the price too high reduces the number of units sold, and so reduces profit.

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Yeah, the research I saw also suggests there's a "too short" length as well, with lines shorter than ~40 characters causing too much disruption due to having to frequently jump back to the beginning of a new line. But what the optimal length for any given person is will probably be different. Hence more customization options would be great. 🙂

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Quoting: GoEsrIf you consider that DRM then having to log in to their website to download it would be DRM. At some point any digital product you buy is gated behind a service you don't control. The difference to Steam is that you only have to do it once, just like downloading the offline installers.

The point of GOG is that the offline installers should be all you need to access the content you paid for. As such, having to use Galaxy to be able to access cosmetics DLCs you paid for *is* DRM.

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If you consider that DRM then having to log in to their website to download it would be DRM. At some point any digital product you buy is gated behind a service you don't control. The difference to Steam is that you only have to do it once, just like downloading the offline installers.

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However, they also note: "Access to Cosmetic Pack DLCs in offline mode requires launching the game via GOG Galaxy at least once".

So, DRM.

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Lose a climber? Their resources go with them, morale drops and it will only get more challenging.

Isn't that just Peak? 😛

*rereads title* Oh wait, this is Beyond the Peak, my bad.

It weirdly reminds me of the board game Leviathan Wilds, a game that's sort of like Shadows of the Colossus if you and your friends were climbing giant leviathans to shatter the corrupting crystals growing on their bodies to free them instead of killing them. Same kind of 2D vertical climbing mechanics (although you're not roped together in Leviathan Wilds).

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This seems like a double edge sword, prices could go down or up depending of which option devs stick to, and tbh with how things are with the economy around the world I have no hopes of prices going down... My bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

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Getting some Shadow of the Colossus vibes from that giant robot in the trailer, interesting!

Oh, I see it has a demo? Might give that a try.

Actually…if a game has a demo, that might be something worth mentioning in the article in case people want to check it out.

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Interesting, sounds useful!

I suspect most people are not bothered by the lack of a Download All button. Like, I get it; I get that itch in my brain too when I go to the Downloads page and see a bunch of things queued up. But if I'm not looking at the Downloads page, I don't really think about it. As I checked just now, I have twelve games in the queue (from a library of over two hundred). At most I might want to play "a few" of those today, but it's not like I'm going to be playing all of them today, so whether they download right now or over the course of the day doesn't really make a meaningful difference to me. Any single game I want to update I can do so, but otherwise, the ability to update twelve games at once – while it might scratch that mental itch – doesn't actually do anything for me, practically.

That's not to say there aren't situations where the ability to queue up everything wouldn't be handy, like if I'm updating my Steam Deck library right before a trip where I won't have connectivity. But I suspect most users wouldn't particularly care if a Download All button existed. (Given Steam's huge userbase, there has to be a long tail of users with just a small number of games, most of which won't all have updates available at the same time – so even if they're prioritizing downloads, they might see two or three rather than 10+, at which point they can just click a few update buttons.)

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