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MMO tactical shooter Mavericks still planned for Linux, will have a one thousand player Battle Royale
31 August 2018 at 2:27 pm UTC

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: razing32
Quotea 1000-player last-man-standing game mode

Jesus
If they pull that off , that's amazing

But will it add anything? The difference between a 10 person game and a 100 person game is that it adds a "loot" stage to the game while still having to watch your back. This required a bigger map and more players to pull off. But what will they do with a thousand players? You could make the map bigger, which would make games longer than they need to be. Making it busier would make things very chaotic from the start. They could also change the game concept entirely and make something that doesn't resemble the current BR games. Obviously, the latter would be the most interesting.
If they control starting location density by spawns instead of parachuting, it could work without making the map too large. Way more action. Map shrinks sooner. There are definitely ways to make 1,000 players work while balancing session length, I think.

BlazeRush is another completely awesome co-op game available for Linux
29 August 2018 at 10:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

Reminds me of Rock 'n' Roll Racing for SNES, which I loved as a kid. I'll have to get this so I can be like every parent and make their kids do what they used to do. :)

SCUM, a very exciting sounding open-world survival game should come to Linux
29 August 2018 at 10:14 pm UTC

Quoting: CaenthAnother survival game in Early Access. Can't even recall the amount of them anymore and still waiting for a decent one to be actually released. Hard pass.
FWIW, Don't Starve, Starbound, ARK, and Rust are fully released. SCUM, in fact, releases today. I do, however, agree that the Early Access trend for build+survive games is tiring. I don't think it's going to go away. It will only shift to whatever is the most popular genre of game to create. Early Access, while maybe annoying, is pretty attractive to publishers that want to get paid during development. As long as people pay, it won't go away.

As far as SCUM goes, I think the trailer looked quite fun. I'll surely pick it up if the reviews are good after it runs on Linux.

Valve have rolled out Steam Play into the stable Linux Steam Client, along with touch controls for Steam Link
29 August 2018 at 10:03 pm UTC

Well, this is nice because I am not usually inclined to install a beta version in order to get features early.

The Linux Civilization VI patch with cross-platform multiplayer hit a bug, going back to approvals this week
28 August 2018 at 12:47 am UTC

Quoting: Xicronic- and it's not like Valve is going to expand the whitelist to 1,000 games tomorrow.

An update on the Linux version of Underworld Ascendant
28 August 2018 at 12:43 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Kels
Quoting: jarhead_h
Quoting: TheSHEEEPI always die a little inside when someone says "PC" to distinguish it from linux and/or mac.
It's just so... wrong. PC describes the hardware, not the software.

EXACTLY. PC means Personal Computer, not WINDOWS computer. The term applies to any general computing device regardless of OS. Linux, Apple, Windows, etc all fall under the umbrella term PC.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that PC was a synonym for Windows.
Even Apple promoted the term "PC" to mean "Windows computer" in old advertising.

A Gummy's Life is another brilliant local and online multiplayer game for Linux
28 August 2018 at 12:35 am UTC

Yeah, I might pick this up when it's finished to try it with my kids.

Action RPG Last Epoch delivers the Alpha build, currently broken for me on Ubuntu (updated)
28 August 2018 at 12:30 am UTC

Quoting: UnshraWhen I was on Windows, I backed Path of Exiles (still have yet to claim my custom weapon design for backing.) Now that I'm focused on native Linux gaming you can be sure I'll be backing Last Epoch. The look already reminds me of PoE I hope they can deliver at least half of what PoE does while still supporting Linux.
Are you playing EVE Online on Linux? I'm just wondering how native you mean. :)

Looks like the fighting game Fantasy Strike may be heading to Linux
28 August 2018 at 12:25 am UTC

I can't wait to doll myself up in a wedding dress and then beat the crap out of people.

Jokes aside, I haven't really played fighting games since I was a kid. OK, I guess there was one for PS Vita that I bought but didn't like that much. I'd be up for trying this one out if it came to Linux. I think I'd need to play against friends for me to have fun. I don't picture myself getting good enough to have fun playing against randoms.