I had once read something that I will summarize here about Civ games.

The base game is a unbalanced mess which the DLC fixes. The funny thing is after it gets 12 DLC or so it's rock solid like it should have been to begin with -- I heard Civ V is that way.

I recently purchased Civ 6 and the 2 DLC to give it a go -- I am wondering if Civ 6 will follow in the footsteps of Civ 5.

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I bought this game maybe 2 weeks ago in preparation for my Steam Machine rebuild.

I will ABSOLUTELY be returning it if they don't get their shit together on this one.

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This looks great, I would love to play this.

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Id love to buy a bunch of Cry Engine games. Looking foreward to the improvements.

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I am looking to do a new SteamOS build, only thing is the mesa driver needs to be reved so I am thinking maybe Ill use Stephens Rocket or Arch with custom splash and auto login to big picture.

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Too bad it cant just be flatpaked.

I guess best you can do is tar.xz it for later.

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Our appraisal of Civ 6 was that the "graphics upgrade" really seemed like a "graphics downgrade" considering that they made everything so toy and blocky looking and took out the grunge look that befits RTS recreating year 0 human civilization.

Anyways, I'm sure the downgrade was strategic so they could launch on iOS and Android more easily costing less GPU resources.

I bought a copy when it was on sale. After the hype train left and we didn't get multiplayer on all platforms It's more of a -- well if we get 1-2 hours of entertainment out of it that's $5.50 an hour.

So if you got a extra 12$ and are looking for something to do, yeah why not.

Plus, I sortof like to buy all the top Linux games even if I don't like them just because it pumps money into the platform and I may change my mind as I play them.

Plus taking a gamble is fun. For example we bought FFXV on Xbox and were extremely skeptical we would enjoy it or that it would live up to the FF name. We paid $25 and are 120 hours in. So that's 20.8 cents per hour of entertainment.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: ElectricPrismCan someone please release a stat program on github that records stats once a month and we will make it a dependency of all steam installs.

Even if you had the power to somehow "make it a dependency of all Steam installs", I don't think another bit of (involuntary) telemetry is the answer. You'd just give more ammo to the privacy conscious Linux users who detest Steam. And make reluctant users like me just a bit more reluctant. Valve already has all the data they need (or want).

No problem, make it a second package called [steam-stats] and on first steamrun record "opt-in's" and "opt-outs". Opt-Ins will send hardware information, opt outs will simply send some sort of hardware signature and a single "+1" so either way WIN/WIN.

Get the package in Arch, Manjaro and Ubuntu and everyone else will follow suit.

I mean -- honestly, we all know Steam is DRM on some level but all of us who use it don't give a shit. Or if we do give a shit just buy the games that we can get non DRM elsewhere like Gog.

Those annoying bitchers will bitch about anything -- let them bitch and whine in their dark corner of the web and just ignore.

The benefits to Steam Linux Gaming make it important enough that it would be stupid to not persue.

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Can someone please release a stat program on github that records stats once a month and we will make it a dependency of all steam installs.

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I've had an eye on this one for a long time. I am very excited at the prospects. If anyone wants to jump on over to the thread and cheer the dev on that'd be great -- I can't wait to make this a staple of my gaming.

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