This got me thinking about how much I'd like to read an article about what's it like to try and game on some of the less popular stalwarts of Linux. I'm talking about distros such as Mageia & Open Mandriva, Mepis, PCLinuxOS,AntiX & Tiny Core, Gentoo & Knoppix, or even Elive. (I'd try it out, but my slow internet would guarantee the whole project would take way, way too long.)

As far as Zorin goes? Meh. Nothing outstandingly wrong with it, I expect, but I don't find anything very interesting or unique in it either. Obviously there're plenty of folks who dig Zorin, and that's great. Linux is about choices. I just can't get excited about the glitzy crass glitter of another Gnome derived desktop, even if it has "Jelly Mode."

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Quoting: kon14The real issue with Gnome is how they break almost every single extension on every freaking release so you can't ever relax and enjoy your finished setup for long

Amen!

This is precisely why I've just given up on Gnome --- a total lack of functional sophistication. It's all flash without finesse, a rhinestone covered brick.

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Awesome video. Really gets my blood goin'.
Well animated and edited, edgy, like shards of glass.
I'd totally play this, but I simply couldn't do the rhythm combat bit.
I'll have to pass, but I'm glad this game is in the world.
The soundtrack, on the other hand, I would totally buy.

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Groovy. I've always been a little unsure about how much I'd like playing this game, and the price was never low enough to offset my uncertainty. But free? Yeah, I'd say that's plenty low enough to offset any doubts I had. :)

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Quoting: CorbenInteresting to see Bioshock 2 Remastered on the list. I just completed it with Proton 5.13-6, I've just disabled esync, and it was running pretty solid. During my ca 20 hour play through (incl. the DLC), I had like 3 crashes.

Oh, and if it crashes, and even created a core file in the binary's path, make sure to delete the core file, as the game won't start otherwise anymore. Same is true for Bioshock 1 or even the Borderlands games, so it seems to be a 2K thing. It even won't start on Windows anymore if a core file is present, but Windows normally doesn't create a core dump on a crash :D
So it might side-load something on start from a core file.

Hey Corben, thanks for the heads up. How would I go about finding this core dump file if I needed to?

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I gave Manjaro XFCE a spin when I was looking at distros last year. Man, almost immediately I remembered how generally ugly it was. It's been too long now for me to have any clear memories of that experience, but I have strong impressions of it just being a mess in terms of theming, a sort of jumbled patchwork of window styles and fonts. I mean, it might fixable --- probably is fixable --- if I just spent the time to fix it. So far it's just been easier to install Linux Mint XFCE and get on with life.

Manjaro is like KDE for me, something I want to like because I can sense so much potential behind whatever alien weirdness I'm being confronted with. I don't know. Maybe it's time to just bite the bullet and install Manjaro KDE on a laptop and just use it, break it, fix it, and like that. Just push through the dense undergrowth looking for the El Dorado everyone keeps saying is there somewhere.

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I'm thinking I may have seen this available for a while on Itch.io some years back. Wherever I initially saw it, the mechanic of group skullduggery just wasn't a draw for me back then. Yet the strength in numbers angle and game mechanics could create a power dynamic more like EVE Online than GTA Online --- powerful players tending to be more serious, invested role-players who are willing and able to swat individual trolls like the insects they are.

Or it may just become another prepubescent grief-fest like Rust or DayZ. Time will tell.

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Quoting: Nanobangmy feeble 6 Mbps AT&T DSL connection. The cycle of disconnecting and reconnecting make the whole experience a chore.

when did u try co-op? because a week ago there was a server update to use direct connection instead of the steam API, which should make things faster.
A better idea is running a server, u can run a server free for three months on google for example, when my free time is over I'm probably moving the files to a private location or another three months free trial.

I appreciate your taking time to give me a hand with this Aquabat, I really do. :)

Last week I downloaded the dedicated server package, but I haven't made the time to go through the steps to set it up yet. I've never set up a dedicated server for anything, so, while I don't expect it to be difficult, I don't expect it to be trivial either.

It sounds like things might be improved just by using the beta Steam client, something I do now, but my buddy doesn't do yet. I'll talk to him about it when we play again tonight.

Thanks again for helping me out Aquabat. Peace.

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If the game were never more developed than it is now, it would have been worth the money. Twenty one hours in and I haven't even left the first area, and I'm not looking to either. It puts me very much in mind of the prototype I played on Itch.io, only more fleshed out. I love the simple, lovely build system, that trees still actually fall and can be deadly to unwary critters and vikings alike, and that I can punch a sapling into submission. Like Liam said, the world is full of humor; It's simply charming.

It has things that annoy me, of course (like not being able to stab downward with my spear --- the first game I've played where having the high ground is a disadvantage in combat, lol) but these are minor things and are surprisingly few and far between.

The one thing --- the only thing really --- that's a big disappointment is that co-op is beyond the powers of my feeble 6 Mbps AT&T DSL connection. The cycle of disconnecting and reconnecting makes the whole experience a chore. We've started Vulcanoids instead, for now (no problems there, or with any other co-op game we've attempted --- thank goodly-ness). I've no doubt this will be fixed in due course and we'll get back to exploring soon.

"Hey! I found an old building It's got a chest in it --- AND WASPS"
"I'm on my way!"

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Quoting: AnzaYou can create rivers by just digging with pickaxe from closest shore.

Yay! I once tried doing this in 7 Days to Die and the water wouldn't flow, it just sort of globbed up and fell about like gelatine --- a very disappointing end to my aqueduct project.

Quoting: SeegrasSpeaking of which, how come it takes 2 copper ingots and 1 tin ingot to forge(!) 1 bronze ingot?

I expect you were being rhetorical, here, but, nevertheless, it's been my experience that this is a common mechanic in survival-crafting games, melding several "lesser" elements to create a "greater" one. I expect this is is just more of the same, though your point in this particular case is a good one.

Quoting: Seegrasthere are other idiosyncratic choices; like only being able to mason stone in the iron age. In fact, stone age civilizations like the aztecs did a lot of extreely intricate stone masonry. Or requiring bronze age technology for planting things.

These sort of constraints are always so inanely artificial and, I believe, almost always unnecessary, aren't they? They make me crazy. I'm disappointed to hear that the devs have resorted to this sort of ham-fisted world-building. I mean, I do get why they're doing it, as a means to reward effort, but it's still, just so ... cLuNky.

The better approach is to improve stats, to reward effort and technological advancement by making construction and activities easier and more effective as one progresses. For example, stone work: From the beginning one could build stacked-stone walls, which might be better than wood, but require more effort and time to fashion and bear the risk of collapsing immediately upon being built. One could then mason softer stones, like sandstone & limestone, using bronze age tools, and only with the advent of iron age technology could one mason and build with granite.

Similarly, gardening could be done early on, but only with some plants, only after some slow ground preparation using labor intensive, not very durable wooden and stone tools. Bronze tools would then be faster and more durable, and could actually cultivate the soil, allowing for all plants to be grown. Iron tools could be the same as bronze, but faster and more durable yet still.

And so on.

Here's hoping that the devs are planning to create a more sophisticated tech-progression system in the (very near) future, that the current crude one is just a placeholder. I expect the devs may be open to suggestions, and, at any rate, I'm nevertheless delighted by their success.

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