I'm the opposite as well. I tried playing an also-ran MOBA way back in 2010, and I hated the pressure of being a newb but also responsible for 20% of my 5-person team. (That's the main reason I've never been interested in Overwatch.) In a team of 12 I feel a lot less pressure because my individual performance is a much small fraction of the team, so if I'm having an off-day or just not doing well for whatever reason I don't feel like I'm wasting everyone else's time by not pulling my weight. :) With 12 players you also get more chances for teamwork, which is what I really like about the game; once it's down to ~7 players or so it starts becoming all about 1v1 or 1v2 skill matches against scattered enemies, which I don't find as fun. I also main Medic, so the more people I have to keep alive in the chaos who can serve as meat shields protect me from the enemy team, the more I like it. :D

I'll have to jump in and see how it's going (haven't had a chance to play for a few weeks), Payload's my favorite game mode so it's always nice to see another map for it. ^_^

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Quoting: mcphailThis remains the best game I've played on Linux. Going Free to Play might scupper the hope of a complete edition anytime soon but it is hard to be churlish when they're offering so much content for no money at all.

I don't know, multiple people on the forums are prophesying that this means the end of development on it (and thus a complete edition might be closer than we think). It's had two fairly meaty free patches since the last DLC, back in…the early part of the year? *checks wiki* Wait, Holy Fury came out about a week shy of a whole year ago‽ Wow. No announcement of any kind of upcoming DLC in that time, which is unusually long. In fact there's been a lot of radio silence on the forums from the devs for a while now…

Thus the speculation that this signals the announcement of CK III at PDXCon this weekend. I dunno if I 100% agree—could be that they've simply been saving an announcement of the next DLC for PDXCon—but I guess we'll find out soon enough.

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Quoting: chrAlmost related, but was I the only one who didn't know that Groogy (one of the public-facing devs) works and plays on Linux? [External Link]

I didn't know that, no! ^_^

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This looks great! Even more games I can play with distant friends. :)

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I wanted to get into fish model modding in Megaquarium recently, only to discover that Blender was specifically mentioned as not working due to the file format chosen. Here's hoping that more sponsorships like this in the future will lead to more support and more use of FOSS-compatible standards! :D

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A combination of FTL AND XCOM 2? Be still my beating heart. :wub:
I'll wait till it shows up on Steam, though.

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Quoting: eldakingToday they released a hotfix for EU4 that supposedly fixes the issue. I won't be able to try for a while (not today, maybe not until Saturday), but I assume it will be fixed for next release.

I just tried, and it worked alright for me (other than setting my desktop resolution to 1280×720 the first time). It seems to set all DLC to on and mods to off (due to some big incompatibility with previous versions), so just be aware of that.

Quoting: HoriWhat about Stellaris? IMO that game actually needs 64bit more than CK2, as it seems to me more memory consuming mid-late game.

If they're doing it for CK II, I'm sure it's coming for Stellaris eventually. It's probably just a matter of fitting it into the release schedule. I bet it'll be announced along with the new Stellaris expansion that's been teased for PDXCon.

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: DuncI had to resort to the magic SysReq key to reboot.

The what now? :O

Raising elephants is so utterly boring [External Link]. :)

That's amazing, I'd never heard of that before! :woot:

Now given how infrequently my Linux machine actually freezes up that badly, I'll probably have completely forgotten it the next time I need it. :wink:

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Supposedly they've got got an internal fix for the Linux/Mac issues with the launcher not launching from Steam already, hopefully the sheer number of other important bug reports doesn't keep it from being delayed too long. :|

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Sounds like on the forums that the new launcher…er, launch has been pretty rough—lots of people reporting being unable to launch the launcher from Steam (though launching the game directly from the executable works fine), or problems with it not recognizing owned DLC or mods not working. (Though to be fair, the reports of problems seem to be pretty evenly split between Linux, Mac, and Windows, so it's not just a Linux issue.) I'm a fan of Paradox, and understand bugs get missed sometimes, but…oof. This sounds like it really should've spent some more time in QA. Anyway, if you're thinking of trying the new update, maybe just do some reading to see what to expect, or hold off for the next hotfix patch that hopefully fixes the issues.

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