Quoting: Patola

The good news is, Valve don't sound done with Half-Life and that they're "not afraid of Half-Life no more" and future projects might even be outside of VR for the rest of us.

I'd rather prefer the opposite happened, that VR became cheap, accessible and compatible so that everybody would buy one set and enjoy the immersion and gameplay additions it offers.

While that might be true, VR is not a replacement for games. It is a separate thing with separate games. One thing is very clear to me is that there is no way to have both a normal and VR version. One will suffer because of the other. And since most of us don't really want to be wearing a headset all of the time, we need both to be a thing regardless of the price of VR systems.

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I watched the video (without sound) and I have no idea what I just saw. So definitely different.

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I picked up Dicey Dungeons [External Link]. Only played the first "show", but it is good fun. And picked up the Puppygames Ultrabundle [External Link] because I will have to try Basingstoke at some point. And a few more that I don't quite remember :D

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Onto the subject of gaming on Linux: honestly, the majority of my personal game time has been taken up by Into the Breach. It's so gorgeously streamlined, accessible, fun and it's also ridiculously complex at the same time. Tiny maps that require a huge amount of forward thinking, as you weigh up each movement decision against any possible downsides. It's like playing chess, only with big mecha fighting off aliens trying to take down buildings.

I like into the breach. There's one issue though. I got my "Victory" achievement in one game and two hours of play because the game "lets" you. Now I need to find a reason to play it again to see what more the game has to offer, but so far I haven't done that. The whole "you can go to end game any time you want" thing hasn't been helpful to keep me in the game.

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Quoting: GuestBeen tweaking and tuning my system for VR. Built a liquourix/zen kernel for my gentoo install and tried some different power management approaches, but my 2080 and the nVidia drivers really don't cut it for VR on linux. It would mostly be okay if I ran the index at 90 hz and really cut down settings in HL:Alyx, but it would still cause nausea inducing stutters fairly frequently. :sad:

2080 should be fine, especially for Alyx. Key is turn switch back to legacy reprojection and keep the headset at 80 or 90 Hz. You might get a frameskip here and there, but nothing jarring. "Normal" reprojection is so broken on nvidia that it's unusable and makes it look like the performance is low.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EhvisAlso noticed another thing. It used to be enough to "have" humble monthly to get your 20% off in the store. They now changed it to require it to be unlocked.

I've not had to do that? Odd, it just happened as I would have expected.

No. You could use the 20% until you paused. After that it was gone until the new month started.

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Quoting: spjoeBasingstoke and Earthlock have no Linux icon. Do these games officially support Linux?

They have Linux icons on Steam.

Also noticed another thing. It used to be enough to "have" humble monthly to get your 20% off in the store. They now changed it to require it to be unlocked.

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You're paying quite the premium for those privacy features though. Did a quick check on what it would cost to have it "here" (including VAT and such), it would be about 40% more expensive than a locally available laptop of similar specs. For that difference I would sort out my own privacy settings.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: EhvisAs someone with an aerospace engineering background, I should really put more time into this game than I have. Ok, where to fit this in the todo list. :dizzy:

Whoa, you will probably love the Ferram Aerospace Research [External Link] mod (the author is no longer active, but there's a fork [External Link] for recent KSP versions).

I have looked at mods to make things a bit more realistic in term of size and physics. I was hoping to find a mod that would replace the two body physics implementation with a three body one so that all those stable orbits wouldn't be so stable any more. But since it would still be "Kerbal physics", it seemed like a good idea to first see how that worked.

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As someone with an aerospace engineering background, I should really put more time into this game than I have. Ok, where to fit this in the todo list. :dizzy:

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