Hey, Puzzle Agent is whitelisted! That's a great game and pretty funny too, you all should play it.

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Quoting: bostock11Hi there,

Another Brogue junkie here! Nice to meet you. Have you ever ascended? If so, how did you do it? Would love to talk brogue with you and show you some cool seeds.

I've never successfully ascended, no. I think the furthest I've gotten was about the 23rd floor or so, on a wand of plenty/wand of empowerment build that I used to make a flock of flying vampire ogres.

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I haven't tried playing Maia in a long time, not since you could only have one IMP robot and there weren't any aliens yet. But you could see it was worthwhile even back then, and I've eagerly been awaiting the full release so I could take in all the improvements at once.

Good work on Roth's part bringing his little project all the way to the finish line.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo I'm wondering what "souls-like" combat would be, and why that would be deep. ;)

Presumably in terms of the need to observe each enemy's individual attack patterns rather than simply hack and slash your way through indiscriminately. Liam mentions how it's slow-paced, and indeed the Souls games generally are slow, where you're not just dashing through everything normally.

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Quoting: dibzAgreed, I think at this point Proton is the way to go simply to increase adoption rates. With adoption rates comes demand, and with demand comes financial justification to "actually" support linux.

Way I see it, we've had a chicken-and-egg situation for a long time now. We don't have "good" (that is, AAA) games on Linux because we don't have market share. But we don't have market share because we don't offer good games. And around and around we go.

Steam finally decided fine, we'll just pick a point on the cycle and start from there.

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Quoting: Geppeto35we can't accept that games "works" with bugs, workaround, fixes, etc...
How to attract new users and players on linux if they have to code, tricks etc. just to play a very common and old games as Skyrim?? My son of 13 want to play Skyrim SE, subnautica, etc. I have to spend hours to find that or this trick so he can play them. It's not an acceptable situation.

That's an important point. When I look at a game that looks really fun and some nerd is like "you just have to run a script" I'm like hold it right there! To someone new to Linux who hasn't got a background in coding, that shit's intimidating as hell and will definitely set up a barrier to adopting the platform. And adoption by "normal folks" is part of the point of initiatives like Proton.

We need to get to a point where a game like Skyrim SE or Subnautica or Overwatch or what have you "just works" without needing command-line parameters or scripts or awkward workarounds, or you can say goodbye to a lot of potential new Linux users.

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Ah, I figured it wasn't necessarily your skin...

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Not to be confused with Wizorb [External Link].

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Huh, I was just watching Hex's video where he plays the demo. Still some stuff to work on, but it looks like a solid start.

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I'm looking longingly at Child of Light, which I bought shortly before switching (back) to Linux, and is listed as Borked on the Steam Play compatability list. Really wanted to play that through, too.

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