Nice, I bought the game just after release and enjoyed it, despite a few annoying bugs (had to search for a walkthrough after getting a key object, but the pop-up explaining how it works did not show, and I was stuck... :/)

I was looking for an excuse to try another run, this update seems like a good occasion :smile:

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Quoting: 2fastHunterI found an old game running again: Battleforge https://forum.skylords.eu/ [External Link]
Discarded by EA and brought back to live as a fan project.
But i could not get the installation work under Linux. Maybe someone could write a Lutris installer out of this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/4210-open-stress-test-all-you-need-to-know/ [External Link] and this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/6012-new-development-on-skylords-reborn-mac-via-wine/&tab=comments#comment-81184 [External Link] That would be great :)

Oooh, someone else knows about Battleforge :smile:

I tried the game somewhere around last summer (on Windows), but it was quite buggy (stutters and crashes).
I haven't tried it since I switched to Linux though.

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Played Street of Rage 4 with 3 friends. It was fun, but I am not quite clear on some mechanics... That will make an excuse to play it again and unlock new stuff I guess :smile:

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Haven't tried the demo yet, but this reminds me of the old Powerslide game ;)

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: gabberNow let me get this straight: You shoot, burn and blow up others. But how dare you call them a nasty word, that's too much. That's "hate-speech" and "toxic".

The one is virtual - a bunch of pixels is killed.
The other is real - an actual person is insulted.

Ok, your avatar, your representation in a virtual world is shred to pieces in a graphical manner and with sophisticated animations, 3D graphics and sounds, but still words which are as virtual as any graphics are worse? So the words unambiguously affect the person, they could not be "protected" by these nasty words like, you know, not giving a f* about them instead of asking for censorship?

If anything, it is still filling the chat with unneeded text. Even if all the insults were replaced by, say,

dsqjghkdfjhgqjkdflqgn
jkqhdgjhjqdfksgdfg
eztrygfhghn
[...]

That would still make it voluntarily annoying for other players to read the chat, even if no one is actually insulted. That is (or should be) considered toxic behaviour.

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Quoting: M@GOidA world of advice, tough, is that the pacing of the game is tied to your screen refresh rate. If you play it in anything above 60Hz the game will become very fast and almost unplayable.

I had the same problem with The Mummy Demastered (on Windows), and I also had the problem with Risen 1, which I could fix by using Libstrangle [External Link].

In Steam:
 
strangle 60 %command%

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I am switching between Ratropolis [External Link], a cute blend of Slay the Spire and Kingdom, and Crucible [External Link] with a friend.

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: mylkacrucible is still working

And it is really pretty. Its performance is also good. Hope it stays playable.

Unfortunately, for me the game is barely playable ; I only get around 40-50 fps at low details. My friend is playing on Windows 10, same GPU as me (Geforce 1070), but he recently upgraded to a Ryzen 3700x, and he is getting ~80 fps in high.
Not sure if the difference lies in the CPU, Windows vs proton, or both... But it seems that even Windows users are complaining about low performances.

I am also looking at Monster Train [External Link], which seems cool but has minor issues on proton, and Adore [External Link], but there seem to be no reports on protondb yet.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: KayKay91

Quoting: BladeforceNever heard of it but it sure looks like a rip off of worms

Cept this game has nothing to do with Worms, the combat is not turn based and it's basically ya pick a weapon you wish to start with and ya go around killing, using your mouse to aim.

Can only presume the comment was aimed at another article - the Shellshock one, maybe? Even then, not really anything like Worms in execution, but at least the gameplay concept in that is vaguely similar to Worms? A little?

From what I recall (haven't played this game in years), it was more like a Tribes - 2D platformer edition, with approximately the pace of Quake.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxI do not fully agree with the "you can still easily mount your physical drives [...]", since I recently change a dead hard drive and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to mount it to /games and have it recognized after a reboot...

You don't even need to fiddle with config files (like /etc/fstab), there's tools for it in the KDE system settings or as Gnome "discs" (not 100% sure about the name). So, I still think it's easy to mimic what Windows does if you find it superior.

Yes, I did use Discs, but for some reason, I could not mount my drive to /games ; it was only mounted is /mnt/strangeUUIDHere, so in the end I just went into /etc/fstab.
Under Windows, a new disk just get mapped to the next available letter. I do find this easy.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxStill, you can also mount drives or partitions in Windows as folders, too, so you are not limited to 26 mounted drives either.

Yes, some decades after Unix/Linux, Windows did adopt the possibility AFAIR. (Probably not because drive letters are better, BTW.) But if you're happier with letters, you're still stuck with 26 of them.

Yes ; but the original post I replied to (and this is something I have seen in several places, nothing personal against anyone) implied that the letters were a Windows issue. If anything, it just look like an option (which is used by default) in addition to mounting partitions to folders.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxAlso, If I want to make a backup of my system "/", I am not sure if all my "/home" and "/games" content will be copied too (resulting in a huge backup file, I guess). With letters for separate partitions, I find it easier.

If you want to make a backup, you need to know what you want to copy and where that is. Which is even harder on a modern Windows. Did you know that Windows merges directories "behind the curtain" and shows them as a single one to you? How would you copy that and restore it a similar way?

(Emphasis mine)
Exactly. On Windows, you just use the provided backup tool, and it's done (and yes I am aware of the merged directories). So, I don't see any Windows issues here. Things are just done differently.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxUnless you have a specific "program X" in mind, I do not know know of any program which configuration is stored in the registry ? Usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home).

I don't have statistics here, but I think many programs store stuff in the registry. You can try with a handful if you like and search for their name in the registry. You might be surprised... But when you say "usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home)" - how is this less scattered than /etc/?

To be fair, when I spoke about scattered files, I had one specific example in my head: Pulseaudio (and soundcard) configuration.
According to various information I have found (but have not yet implemented successfully), these are the files that would need to be edited:
- /etc/pulse/default.pa
- /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/native-instruments-komplete-audio6.conf
- some other location, which I remember included something ending in ".d", but the exact reference is probably in one of the several bookmarks I made while trying to fix the issue.

And you also mentionned /etc/Xapp, which I had not heard of (yet). This is what I call "scattered".
On Windows, those files would probably be located in something like %ProgramFiles%\Pulseaudio\ , or %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Pulseaudio\

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxI still have some program that I used in the late 90s, made for Windows 98, that I can still use without reinstalling anything, and despite changing / reinstalling / changing Windows version (and hard drives) over the years. And if you really need the registry part, it can be exported quite easily.

If you know that it exists in the first place, if it actually is a single place, ... Hardly easier than copying /etc/Xapp, is it?

Hardly easier, hardly harder. But again, in reply to people thinking that the registry is an issue, I am not sure why ?

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxSo, in all fairness, I am not sure as how those different behaviours qualify as issues on the Windows side.

Please don't take it personally, but to me it seems more a matter of "I don't know how to"/"I'm not accustomed to it" - which is all ok, but not really Linux' fault. (Neither yours, everybody was new to everything at some point of time.)

I do not take it personally ;)
I am not saying that Windows is better than Linux (that would be the wrong site to do this :P ), but that I do not think than free-bashing Windows on what appears to me as non-issues (things are just being done differently) is helpful to anyone.

Now, if we are going to speak about embedded spywares... :whistle:

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I am starting to think that I should start a thread in the forum, as I didn't want to hijack the original News. Please tell me if I should do so, because I am still new here...

Quoting: EikeNot everything is better on Linux, but IMHO, the points you mention are.

Quoting: furaxhornyxBut, how is Windows drive letters system bad ? It help keeping things tidy (when I install a game, I want to install it on my SSD drive, but when I am downloading, say, a Linux iso, I want to have it on my big capacity hard drive). On Linux, I struggle trying to get games installed on the right physical disks.

On Linux, everything is reachable from a single point, "/". On Windows, it's not. You seem to see that as an advantage, but what if the drive letters are used up? (Yes, I've been at least close to this.) You still can easily mount your physical drives or partitions under /B/, /C/, etc in Linux if you want to... But you've got infinite possibilities - not 26.

I do not fully agree with the "you can still easily mount your physical drives [...]", since I recently change a dead hard drive and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to mount it to /games and have it recognized after a reboot... Still, you can also mount drives or partitions in Windows as folders, too, so you are not limited to 26 mounted drives either.

Also, If I want to make a backup of my system "/", I am not sure if all my "/home" and "/games" content will be copied too (resulting in a huge backup file, I guess). With letters for separate partitions, I find it easier.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxAbout the registry (that I never have had to use in years of using Windows, it is only required for very specific tweaks), how is that worse than tinkering with conf files scattered everywhere ?

Could you please copy me your configuration of program X? It's complicated and I really like the way you did it. Well it's scattered over places in the registry (which AFAIR is in several physical files). It's under /etc/Xapp on Linux, copy the file and fine. You want to make a backup of your whole system configuration? cp --recursive /etc /somewhereelse. (That was how I moved from 32 bit to 64 bit Linux back in the days.) How do you do that with the registry? I don't know.

Unless you have a specific "program X" in mind, I do not know know of any program which configuration is stored in the registry ? Usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home).

I still have some program that I used in the late 90s, made for Windows 98, that I can still use without reinstalling anything, and despite changing / reinstalling / changing Windows version (and hard drives) over the years. And if you really need the registry part, it can be exported quite easily.

So, in all fairness, I am not sure as how those different behaviours qualify as issues on the Windows side.

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