Quoting: randylThe intro and tutorial are well presented which I think is important in a sim/builder. The graphics aren't fancy, but it looks good and so far I'm enjoying it.

Yeah, I think the campaign does a very good job of easing you into the game's systems, which are quite complex and intricate when you're finally playing with everything in the final scenario (or in the free-play mode). I'm playing the new Freshwater Frenzy campaign and it's doing a similar job of slowly teaching all the (many!) new features. :smile:

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Quoting: PhiladelphusThis, uh, huh. :huh: Giving me some interesting ideas to consider… :S: I've got over a hundred games in my Steam library, I wonder how many I could splice into a coherent video? :)

The more videos displaying gaming on Linux the better. I would be happy to watch your video:)

Well I don't want to promise anything I won't end up delivering (especially as that would be a good amount of work to put together), but—thanks. I will think about it. :)

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Quoting: setzer22It makes me feel blender doesn't take the gamedev use case seriously. Another case I can think of is their collada exporter: It does not export animations (just the currently selected one). Can you believe that? I don't many people are doing animation work for games with Blender, otherwise these would be top-priority issues.

I think you're probably correct with that, didn't they drop the internal game engine a few versions ago?

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Quoting: LinuxwarperWhere someone could edit a video displaying how many games can be played on Linux, like Marc Di Luzio did [External Link].

This, uh, huh. :huh: Giving me some interesting ideas to consider… :S: I've got over a hundred games in my Steam library, I wonder how many I could splice into a coherent video? :)

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Quoting: GuestJWE now runs, as well as Planet Zoo! :)

Just tested Planet Zoo too, and it ran fine for the ~10 minutes I tried it. It didn't start at all before with the main Proton branch, I was using a custom build mentioned here. Looks like I can switch back now. :)

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Huh! Interesting. :huh: At least with Johan at the helm it'll be in good hands. Maybe we'll finally see Vicky 3, even?

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Sounds like some pretty exciting additions from the announcement, I'm looking to dive back in (heh) when it comes out. :)

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Quoting: GuestBasically, think about achievements as some kind of "offline" competition.

Yeah, that wouldn't be a healthy attitude for me personally. I can't control what other people do, so I'm not going to let my happiness be contingent on their actions. :)

These kinds of tools have been around for over a decade now, so I can either sit around and worry about the integrity of Steam's achievement system, or realize that the integrity was an illusion all along (though a pretty passable approximation) and get on with my life (and earning more achievements for myself ^_^).

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From my point of view, I got the achievement—it's not my fault the game's bugged and doesn't recognize it. And while in a perfect world I would absolutely report these to developers, realistically some of these are never getting fixed. (Civ V, for instance, will never have its Linux port updated, and incidentally has a few such bugged achievements.) I only use it in cases where I absolutely, positively, and unambiguously met the requirements for getting an achievement, where it's 100% certain that it must be bugged (where people have sometimes even checked the code and seen that it's bugged). It definitely doesn't feel as good as seeing it pop up in-game, but at least I can finally rest easy knowing that I've got an accurate achievement completion percentage.

On another, perhaps more positive note, the new ability to see stats is going to be super handy for those achievements which need them but are bugged and don't show them. Now I can finally see exactly how many more tiles of forest I need to cut down in Civ V for that Paul Bunyan achievement. (Yes, I know there's already a way to do that for Civ V, that's just an example. I know there are other games out there which don't show stats properly.)

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Ah, time to update! I first heard about SAM from the previous post on it here some months ago and checked it out. I've used it to unlock a few achievements which I've definitely fulfilled but were bugged and didn't fire, such as the achievement for playing a game on an archipelago map in Civilization V, which is broken. It's really nice to be able to unlock those few achievements which have been taunting with their unattainability.

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