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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2018, an end of year review
19 Dec 2018 at 7:05 pm UTC

Quoting: g000hRealising that you can't put every notable game into this end of year article, surprised that Slay The Spire didn't make the notables list.
Not fully released yet. Kept it to full titles.

Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2018, an end of year review
19 Dec 2018 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 5

Side-note added: Marc "mdiluz" recently started a "side-gig" working on Linux tooling, thanks to a little help from Valve.

The itch.io Winter Sale is live with plenty of indie games going cheap
19 Dec 2018 at 2:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NezchanOoh, I was planning to get Dicey Dungeons this Xmas for myself anyway. This just seals the deal.

Hidden Folks is tempting too, at 50% off. I hear it's excellent.
I can recommend Hidden Folks too, fun little game, the sounds just top it off :D

The Rocket League winter event is live, new GamingOnLinux tournaments details!
19 Dec 2018 at 9:38 am UTC

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Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Eike
Hopefully the timings for the US are correct, time-zones are hard when RL only lets me pick in my local zone.
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/utc-to-pst-converter [External Link]
Exactly what I used :)

Edit: Seems I might have had the timezone wrong somehow, so I will likely need to re-do the US events. Don't worry though, it will all be correct before they start. Or not, double checking I think the US PST times are actually correct. I'm sure someone will till me if it's not.
Could you just post the US tournaments according to their UTC time? North America is generally UTC -8 to -5 going West to East.
Done, not sure how much difference it will make since the US time-zone used was noted too but sure :)

Dead In Vinland, an impressive looking survival management sim just added a Linux beta
18 Dec 2018 at 8:59 pm UTC

Quoting: Kristian"It should hopefully come to GOG to when the Linux build is officially released."

That sounds good, is this something they confirmed somewhere?
No, it's more what usually happens as Steam makes it easy for developers to have test builds up.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had plenty of updates lately, Danger Zone is looking good
18 Dec 2018 at 12:02 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: NibelheimDid they fix the early random start game crash ?

Atm, I need to ait+tab at workaround... It works like 90% times.
Did you see this at the bottom of the article
Note: If Danger Zone crashes for you when deploying, see if setting Shader Detail to Medium (Video Settings, scroll down a little under Advanced Video) helps. There's a bug report [External Link] open for it, with it working fine for myself and others when setting it to Medium.

The Rocket League winter event is live, new GamingOnLinux tournaments details!
18 Dec 2018 at 10:57 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Hopefully the timings for the US are correct, time-zones are hard when RL only lets me pick in my local zone.
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/utc-to-pst-converter [External Link]
Exactly what I used :)

Edit: Seems I might have had the timezone wrong somehow, so I will likely need to re-do the US events. Don't worry though, it will all be correct before they start. Or not, double checking I think the US PST times are actually correct. I'm sure someone will till me if it's not.

The Black Mesa team have pushed out a new Linux beta
18 Dec 2018 at 10:20 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ChiKinWill this fix the sudden, terrible frame drops that make the game unplayable?
Possibly, if that was related to memory use then it might help quite a bit. Can't really test myself, as my main unit is NVIDIA and my laptop is Intel but a bit too low powered for such testing. I really need to get my hands on a nice AMD GPU next year...

Editorial: An open letter to Valve on why they should keep on embracing Linux
17 Dec 2018 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Salvatos
Quoting: GuestI wanna play multiplayer games with linux users ONLY. Linux user has different brain than windows user.


Also, remember GOL rules:
- No licensing wars. We do not care about the politics of FOSS/FLOSS/OSS or whatever. We are a gaming site, not a place for mindless zealotry.
Quoting this because the picture is amazing.

Also because the bit quoted is hilarious, different brains? Hahahaha. I think someone has been drinking too much special juice.

The KKnD remake using the OpenRA engine has a first release out
16 Dec 2018 at 7:37 pm UTC

Quoting: TheChosenEvilOnethere is a WIP Dark Reign [External Link] mod (that is what OpenRA calls games) for OpenRA
Oh wow. Dreams can come true. Hope they continue to work on it :D