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Welp, there goes the weekend, I guess.

Looking forward to this! Wonder if we'll see a sale tomorrow...

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Huh! I hadn't realized that Quake 4 never got opensourced - I'd just sort of assumed that somewhere down the line it had been. That's a shame! I'm one of the folks who actually quite liked Quake 4, and I'd actually been thinking about giving it another spin soon. Looks like this article should give me some help with that!

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Sure, if crossplatform multiplayer is a requirement for anyone, Civ 6 would be difficult to recommend in its current state. For those of us only interested in singleplayer, though, I've been extremely happy with it. I've put in ~120 hours on Civ 6 so far, nearly all of which during the time that Windows folks had the Fall 2017 update, and I've been having a great time regardless. Sure, it's a shame that Civ 6 patches take awhile in general to make it to our platform, but I'd personally have no trouble recommending it to someone (again, so long as crossplatform multiplayer isn't a requirement).

Let's all keep in mind that Aspyr's also got to play with the hand they've been dealt. The very fact that crossplatform multiplayer appears to be so hard may speak to the overall challenge of getting this codebase ported. How much of their previous porting work can be automatically merged, and how much requires manual tweaking? How far ahead of the patch did Aspyr even have the code to start the porting process? Since we can only guess at basically all the factors here, I'm inclined to give Aspyr the benefit of the doubt, given their pretty great history with other ports.

Quoting: 14Because of the Humble deal right now, I'm fairly tempted to grab this game. But lack of cross-platform neuters it. I think I'd be better off getting Civ V even though it's getting on the old side.

Civ 5 remains quite fun, of course, and if I'm being honest, I'm one of the folks who would say that Civ 5 in its current state is a better game than Civ 6 in its current state. As others have pointed out, modern Civ games tend to only really hit their stride after a major expansion or two. But yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't regret a Civ 5 purchase. It's still awesome!

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Quoting: TetsI'll wait. The "system requirements" section on the store page still have "Additional Notes: You must install GLIB 2.28 in order to run JavaFX Media."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they literally just copy+pasted the requirements from the first game in the series, which happen to be completely incorrect since it's a totally different engine. Still doesn't reflect very well on their commitment (or non-commitment) to supporting Linux, of course. I'd been waiting to hear how this new one worked before buying it. The port for the first one was just super awful, like nearly unplayably awful.

Still, I'm happy to hear that the new one may be doing much better, even if they don't know how to put up requirements properly!

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I've been going on a little adventure game binge, spurred by my recent Full Throttle purchase (which I'd never actually played before). Which led me to finish up my Day of the Tentacle Remastered runthrough which I'd been letting languish for awhile, and then started up Zork 1 again 'cause the mood hit me. Huzzah for nonsensical puzzles!

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Thanks for the notice on this one; right up my alley, and it is certainly quite enjoyable. A nice mix of mechanics which do start to get nicely complicated as time goes on.

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Quoting: GuestWindward drops you in the game with zero explanation about who you are and what the goal is, it’s almost the same for Steamworld Heist (they tried to explain things in long cutscenes but I can’t say it helped much)

I've been having a fabulous time with SteamWorld Heist, actually - I can't believe it took me this long to stumble across it. I agree that the plot is pretty bare bones, but I think all the dialogue and stuff between missions provides enough context to serve as the glue between the actual missions. And the atmosphere is quite pleasant, at least if you're not tired of steampunk stuff. Anyway, I'd personally give it a pretty glowing recommendation. Scratches my X-COM itch better than X-COM does, actually.

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Aha, quite welcome! It's been awhile since the last official HIB. Lucky for me, I'm actually interested in most of the ones in here, and the only one I'd already had was Kentucky Rt. 0.

A few numbers, for those inclined to like numbers:

Arithmetic mean of days-between-HIBs: 151 days (5.0 months)
Standard deviation: 62 days (2.1 months)

Intervals between HIBs (in days): 224, 224, 140, 170, 110, 92, 160, 106, 118, 42, 203, 39, 165, 181, 147, 175, 273
Maximum HIB interval (between 17 and 18): 273 days (9.1 months)

Next HIB, if exactly at mean: October 14, 2017
Next HIB, if exactly at mean+stddev: December 15, 2017

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Quoting: DarkMavrikWell from what I noticed of the 200+ Linux games I have the only ones I noticed broke after updating was feral interactive games. SO figured this was an issue with their ports, if not my mistake.

The issue's not limited to Feral (though they're one of the more notable devs whose games are affected) - lots of other binary packages that aren't even games have been affected by this, in fact. If there's blame to be assigned, it'd be on the Arch side, though "blame" is a pretty strong word - it's just a consequence of being on a rather bleeding-edge distro (though I think the original openssl patch which caused the issue came from Debian?)

Feral could certainly push out updates to their games which could fix this on their end, and may end up eventually doing so, though to my knowledge the distributions that they officially support don't have this problem, so it may not be high on their radar (especially when workarounds exist). I really hope that Arch itself will include some kind of official libopenssl-1.0-compat package rather than just relying on AUR for these kinds of things, though I imagine chances are slim since that still hasn't happened.

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