Y'know, I thought I owned one or more Tropico games already, but never got around to playing them. Unfortunately a quick search of my steam library yielded no results, so I guess I just imagined buying them..

That's something I'm going to immediately rectify. This dev has supported Linux gaming for the past four years (bringing Tropico 5, Surviving Mars and Victor Vran to the platform) and I want to reward that.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThey should have delayed the Windows version by half a year. I guess that would have doubled our market share right there. :D

I can't really see a card game being exclusive to Linux being a big driving factor in people abandoning Windows/OSX, even if said card game is made by Valve.

Personally, I have no interest in this.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: Doc AngeloRobots drink water, eat meat and build wooden houses? Hm. Isn't that a little bit odd?

They are preparing a settlement for humans.

Well, that's what they were designed to do, but they've gone rogue and now want to "be" human. In order to fulfil that desire it makes sense that they demand the same resources as humans. They probably have some way of converting this stuff to energy behind the scenes. :)

It does seem like the dev started out with a human colony game, but then wanted to make it more unique without completely changing the mechanics.

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This looks awesome. Hopefully the developer fulfils that promise.

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Quoting: FireBurnAny idea what they've changed? New packages? Updated packages?

I have to run this command so I use the native packages on my machine to prevent segfaults

find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb*.so*" -o -name "libvulkan.so*" \) -print -delete

You should probably use the native runtime. Not sure if Gentoo has such a thing, but Arch has a wrapper:

Quoting: /usr/bin/steam-native#!/bin/sh
export STEAM_RUNTIME=0
# Workaround for dbus fatal termination related coredumps (SIGABRT)
# https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4464
export DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0
# Override some libraries as these are what games linked against.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/steam:/usr/lib32/steam${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
exec /usr/lib/steam/steam "$@"

Adjust to your system.

It's good that they're finally moving away from the ancient Ubuntu 12.04 base, but I hope they don't just bump up to 14.04, which is EOL in five months..

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Looks cool! I wonder how many input bugs it has on Linux though. :P

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12.

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Quoting: 14I want to just play Dwarf Fortress like an elitist, hardcore gamer nerd, but I haven't been able to make myself take a week-long video class to learn how to play.

And that's just the introductory course, learning the rest takes a lifetime. ;)

Honestly though, if you can find the time to learn the basics, and you go into it with the aim of learning to play, rather than trying to win, you'll quickly pick up the experience you need to enjoy the game. (Having the Dwarf Fortress wiki on quick search helps too!)

does it still require you to memorize keyboard shortcuts like you would a foreign language?

Dunno what game you were playing, but DF has pretty clear menus. You can memorize commands if you want, and it definitely speeds up play, but it isn't mandatory. :)

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Quoting: GuestJust a heads up if you are on the fence about buying the game, it will cost more after release

https://steamcommunity.com/games/294100/announcements/detail/1694931857997590569 [External Link]

That's a pity, I was hoping there might be a launch day sale. Oh well, congrats to the developer, but I'll stick with Dwarf Fortress. I can't justify paying £25 on a slimmed down version of a game I can play for free.

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I have been playing:
Streets of Rogue - nearly unlocked all characters now. Very fun game, although the cop lock down mutator is annoying, I always get it when I'm trying to be pacifist. :/

Graveyard Keeper - pretty sure I'm almost at the end game of this now. Quests seem to build up a backlog, then when you finally progress one, it causes a chain-reaction of quest progression.

L4D2 - joined Sin for a stream and had a good couple of campaigns. L4D is always good fun, although it can become a bit of a timesink.

Beyond that, I've been replaying Legend of Zelda: Oracle of {Seasons,Ages} on my 3DS, and Spiderman on the PS4.

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