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Hellpoint, dark sci-fi action RPG launching on April 16 with Linux support
6 Feb 2020 at 2:42 am UTC

I like the visual quality. However, I don't know if this is just a phase, I'm not sure I'm into the theme. After A Dance with Dragons (book), The Witcher (show), John Wick (movie), The Pacific (show), I'm tired of dark and gritty themed entertainment. Perhaps I will still get Hellpoint someday, but I'm really not in the mood right now.

A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold
5 Feb 2020 at 10:13 pm UTC

Anyone else get trapped into super long games of Empire Earth back in the day? I can still remember a match my friend and I did one day against AI... 4 hours into it, we decided it would never end!

A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold
5 Feb 2020 at 8:30 pm UTC

Quoting: razing32Lord of the Rings Battle For Middle Earth - awesome story (though campaing was repetitive)
:woot: I forgot about that one! I don't recall if I played the campaign, but I played cooperatively with my friends many a time. I loved it!

I had no care for RTS campaigns back in the teenage days. The idea was strange to me. I loved comp stomps though.

A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold
5 Feb 2020 at 8:26 pm UTC

Quoting: TheSHEEEPAt some point, maybe, developers will realize that classic RTS development with a multiplayer focus just doesn't make sense.
For single player, sure, more than enough successful enough single-player RTS titles out there.

But multiplayer-classic-RTS is a dead genre, with a handful of (old) titles holding the players that are left captive. And those old titles are so well polished by now that any new challenger can only fail. Especially if it is in such a rough state as this one was on early access release.
How do you rank Northgard? When you say multiplayer, do you only mean competitive?

A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold
5 Feb 2020 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Man, that sucks. It looked really appealing. That said, I typically will not pay to test alpha and beta versions. Heck, I barely even do it if it's free for me.

Developed in Rust, the open-world and open-source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a big new release
4 Feb 2020 at 5:37 pm UTC

I tried Veloren out a couple months ago. It launched and stuff but there didn't seem to be anything to do yet. I'll try it again.

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant
3 Feb 2020 at 11:39 pm UTC

If Godot and Unity end up on equal playing ground, then sounds good to me. Competition is good for us.

You know what other engine would be nice to have on Linux? Frostbite.

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations
3 Feb 2020 at 11:28 pm UTC

This reminds me that I installed Mint to a 64GB USB stick for my dad long ago. I wonder if he ever used it. Time to ask and get that thing back if he never used it! :P Now that Windows 7 is beyond support, perhaps he will give Linux a try. *shrug*

Be a mad scientist and grow creatures in a lab in Test Tube Titans - coming to Steam in March
3 Feb 2020 at 11:14 pm UTC

It looks more like a tech demo to me. Pretty cool physics, albeit a bit fragile looking. I'd expect a building to act more brittle and break in chunks before swaying over like a tower of cake.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now open for voting
3 Feb 2020 at 11:07 pm UTC

Wow, Favourite long-term supported game is a hard category to pick!