Quoting: Armand RaynalI like this game, but while playing it appears obvious that balancing this type of game is extremly hard.

Very frustrating to stumble upon a player that doesn't collect faeria nor place land and just wait for the OP cards to get in his hands.

Oh, come on! How long did you play the game? Do you really think there isn't a viable strategy against that type of deck you were matched up against? I would prefer to say: Playing the game can be hard. ;-)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeRealistically they should say something like "Linux Kernel version: blah, nVidia Driver: blah or AMD driver: blah, CPU: Memory: disk usage:"

Back in the Loki / LGP days, that's exactly what it did because they had cross-distro support. Steam is very Distro Agnostic. I've even ran it on a CentOS7 system.

This.

I guess the confusion about the now suddenly perceived need to develop games for "thousand different Linux distributions" again comes from one or more severe bugs in one of the latest Unity game engine versions. For instance that one bug that caused many Unity games not to work with certain window managers. And because many distributions use certain window managers as a default it looked like the distributions are again important. But any distribution can run any window manager. So as far as I know the distribution itself normally shouldn't be important if the game uses the Steam runtime environment and game development platforms like Unity manage to keep their bugs under control. Am I right?

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With "Divinity: Original Sin" and "Invisible. Inc" I got my last games I wanted for sure. The remaining games on my wishlist are titles I just want to monitor for how they develop (Early Access) e.g. or if they will get improvements (Stellaris e.g.) or to be notified when they'll come out for Linux.

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Quoting: KelsPeople keep raving about how good Streamlink Twitch GUI [External Link] is, but unfortunately they don't provide a .deb or .rpm package at all, and there seems to be little interest on the part of the dev to provide them. I tried installing via npm as the site suggests and it totally didn't work, so I gave it up as a bad experience.

Just tried it this morning. Seems slick. There's no need for npm or anything, just make sure you've got streamlink (>=0.4.0), x11-utils and xdg-utils (or the equivalent packages) and then download the latest release [External Link]. Now you can just run start.sh from wherever you extracted the package or create a nice desktop launcher with the included script.

Thanks for this information! Installing "streamlink" is easy with "pip" and after that "streamlink-twitch-gui" indeed just works if you copy it to /opt for instance. It has also nice configuration options.

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If a developer can remove a purchased game from your library (by mistake or on purpose) and it's not possible to get a refund than this looks indeed very disconcerting. This undermines the trustworthiness not only of the game developer but more importantly of Steam/Valve itself. Therefore it seems important to further investigate this story.

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"Hannah Montana Linux" - lol. Never heard of that distribution. ;-)

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Quoting: buenaventuraIs there a competetive scene to speak of?

Yep. The top players get invited to the Monthly Cup.

https://esports.faeria.com/ [External Link]

These are the current top players:

https://esports.faeria.com/top-ranking [External Link]

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And then there is the well supported and maintained Kodi which also has an add-on for Twitch in it's official repository which you can access inside Kodi. Kodi is probably in every distribution repository nowadays but you need a fairly new version because Twitch changed their API some time ago and older versions of the Twitch Kodi add-on might not work.

You can choose different resolution options and your Twitch username so your followed streamers are easily accessible via Kodi.

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Quoting: TuxCanadianusHow does this game compare with Duelyst? Has anyone here tried both and could give some feedback?

I know Duelyst only by watching some streams on Twitch.tv. But in addition to abelthorne's perfect explanations I only want to add the most obvious difference:

In Faeria you first have to place lands on the board before you can summon minions on top of them. This simple mechanic adds to the strategic depth. So the cards have different requirements before you can play them: You need enough "mana" ("Faeria" ) and you need the right amount of land types (powerful cards need e.g. 5 lands of the same colour) and you need the land at the right spot of the board so that the card/minion you want to play actually has an impact on the board.

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Quoting: morbiusTried it during beta and somehow didn't sit well with me. Don't get me wrong, it's a very fine game, but feels more built for rush then control decks, playing control makes games last long. Somehow it didn't hook me, but maybe I'll give it another chance at some point.

I love the game. The devs were very responsive during Early Access and changed balances of cards quickly, especially in the last few months and weeks. The meta in Faeria is now the best in it's history. Very many decks are viable - from rush to midrange to control. Pretty amazing. But you have to learn to counter rush. There are some good guides for that and other stuff on Faeria's new community website "The Hub": Faeria.com/the-hub

Out of the many card games now available I would say Faeria is the one where luck has the least amount of impact so it's very strategic but not as deep and hard as chess of course.

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