I'm playing a lot of games I haven't for a long time, due to two factors:

• I had a failing RAM module in my computer that went undetected for a long time (it's my first time dealing with such hardware failure) and made RAM-heavy games pretty unstable. I replaced it, and upgraded my hardware at the same time with more RAM, a better graphics card, and a new dedicated SSD for my games.


• The update to Steam Play that lets you force it for specific titles: I've got a few games that technically have Linux versions which I could never get to work on Linux, but I've managed to get most of them working with Steam Play.

Thus, I've been playing XCOM 2—which I pre-ordered, have all the DLC for, and yet only played two campaigns before, right after it released and before the DLC actually came out. I'm loving the War of the Chosen content! It just adds so much new, fun stuff to play with, and really helps fill out the strategic layer to make it as engaging as the tactical side.

I've also been playing a game from my childhood, Age of Empires II—I discovered it has a few new DLCs I hadn't known about, so I'm playing through the new campaigns and starting to whittle down the frankly ludicrous number of achievements it comes with. :)

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After literally years of hitting that "nothing changed this month" button, I finally have reason to update my info: my brother got me a better graphics card for Christmas (a GTX 1060 6GB compared to my old GTX 750 Ti), and since one of my four 4GB RAM modules failed I replaced it and another one with 8GB sticks. And while I was at it I bought a 2TB M.2 SSD exclusively for games since my previous 512GB SSD (which also had operating systems, /home, etc.) was getting too small. Now I'm able to install all my owned games at once again (~354GB) for the first time in quite some time, playing with a graphics card that lets me max out the graphics settings, and with the recent Steam Play update I'm playing Windows-only games in my library (from the brief time I had a Steam account before switching to Linux) that I haven't been able to enjoy in years! :D

Quoting: LinasProton made me change my mind in the native vs. non-native game discussion. I never liked using Wine, because it was tedious. If something did not work, you'd have to mess with all sorts of DLL overrides, registry hacks, etc. If I wanted all that, I'd use Windows. But Proton made it fun again.

My two primary use cases for Proton are: 1) all the part ones that we never got on Linux: Torchlight, The Witcher, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, etc. and 2) all the games I have accumulated from buying various bundles. I still don't buy new games to play in Proton, because I think a native port is a better option. But if there comes something I really want, and it has a platinum rating on ProtonDB, I might just go for it.

Being a Linux gamer never felt so good. :)

I'm finding myself in a pretty similar place, actually; just a few days ago I found myself seriously tempted for the first time since switching to Linux to buy a non-Linux native game with the thought that if it doesn't work with Proton I can just get it refunded. Interesting times! :)

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Yeah, it's a fun little game. It has a nice range of "seriousness" to it; you can play it just like an actual mini-golf game, or you can add in things like the ability to jump (which opens lots of interesting new routes and shortcuts to try), or go full-on crazy with non-spherical ball shapes, high gravity, or even hockey pucks!

I personally like the music, but yeah, with only a single track for each of the different course it does get repetitive fast.

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Having taken up painting IRL six months ago, this looks interesting! Granted the actual game mechanic is more like photography, but the process of composing a painting is pretty similar to composing a photograph (another hobby of mine)… :)

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Wow, nice, in the mere 10 games that managed over 100,000 simultaneous players, TF2's still going strong! :D

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Your description makes it sound kinda like Star Wars: Episode I: Racer, a game I loved as a kid. Might need to check this one out… :)

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Does anyone know exactly how many new provinces got added to the map? I lost count somewhere around the sixth or seventh occurrence of "Added X new provinces to region <Y>" in the changelog, and haven't had time to go back and recount. :P

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Wow, looks (and sounds) quite pretty, I'll have to check it out. I'm a big sucker for those low-poly stylized art styles. :)

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Can't wait to see what kinds of crazy levels people come up with! :D

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Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: fabertaweI so nearly bought XCOM 2 and War of the Chosen in the last sale but have such a backlog of games I put it off. Looks like I'll miss the free expansion now.

It looks like if you pick up XCOM 2 and War of the Chosen before December 3rd you'll still get this expansion for free? I'm not 100% sure but that's what it seems to be saying.

Yes but not on sale ;)

Ahh, gotcha! :)

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