Quoting: ExpalphalogWhat's the difficulty level like?

I got Darkest Dungeon when it came out and I absolutely loved it right up until the final dungeon where the difficulty spiked so hard that it made me uninstall and never play again. That game was tough, and I can handle tough. It slowly increased in difficulty as your stable grew in power and was very well balanced throughout almost the entire game. Then it suddenly went straight from "Only by careful planning, strategic gameplay, and a bit of luck can you beat this boss" to "The first minion you encounter is going to wipe your max level party without breaking a sweat."

I felt the same way when playing it. It has really nice start and the difficulty is raising as you level up, but then you just get something that is almost unplayable. Never finished it because of this. I like tough games, but this was too hardcore.

Quoting: GuestYeah that kind of garbage game design, *ahem* "hard core difficulty", is all the rage with kids these days...

Darkest Dungeon is essentially a basic JRPG like Final Fantasy series without any real story, with a labyrinth to navigate, cool artwork and edgy themes, and tons of grinding and difficulty to make an 10hour game into an 100hour slog. And kids eat this trash like it is candy and rate it "best game evah" and "masterpiece". What can i say, perhaps i am just old.

I looked through some of the positive reviews and most of those people didn't played more than few hours of the game, which is explaining the high score.

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There is no better prevention to leak, than having the code open. :-)

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I had a strange issue with this one. Instead of Linux version, it downloaded Windows one and failed to run with "Missing executable" error.

With help from the developer I was able to work around this issue by switching to Linux Container Runtime Compatibility tool, which automatically started download of Linux version. After the download, I just disabled the Linux Container Runtime and the game works without issue.

I have to say that developer was really helpful and replied quickly on Steam discussions. :-)

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I would recommend to use LBRY instead of youtube. I'm watching TLG and Lunduke on LBRY.

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Quoting: liamWith the Linux version of Steam, they've also now disabled the CEF keyring integration by default as it was causing prompts to come up for both GNOME and KDE desktops to ask for a password.

Is this is about having to re-enter my password when launching Steam every once in a while? I'm on XFCE and it happens to me often enough that I keep a shortcut to a text file with my password on the desktop.

I'm glad it's been resolved for my Gnome and KDE brethren and sistren. I hope the fix is the same for XFCE --- if this is the same problem, that is. If not, oh well, I'll just keep doing like I've done for years now. :)

I didn't have this problem since I started using Steam in Flatpak. Probably the flatpak doesn't allow the access to GNOME and KDE keyrings.

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Quoting: ExpalphalogI didn't know you could force Proton on games with Linux builds. I'll look that up and give it a shot. Thanks!

EDIT: It worked! At least I think it did. I got an error about the language not being loaded but then the launcher came up and I was able to get into the main menu. You are a scholar and a saint. Thank you.

The Proton is very helpful in this, I got a few old games with native port that weren't running and forcing them to run with Proton did the trick. At least we have another option to try when support for the game is bad or non-existent.

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I really like what the studio is doing with the game. They started small (4 factions) and added another three factions since the game was released. :-)
I hope they will continue with this and in the end we will end up with turn based version of Dawn Of War, which had 8 playable factions after last datadisc.

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This looks like kind of game I would play. The last time I played something similar was the new UFOs (UFO: Aftermath, UFO: Aftershock), which have this realtime+pause tactical mode as well. This will definitely go to my wishlist.

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Quoting: scaineI know Linux users have a reputation for "fixing" stuff, but honestly, if I get a game that doesn't run when I hit the "play" button, I give it a forum topic on steam and if the dev doesn't respond, it's a refund and move on. It's happened... twice? But there's no excuse. Either you're selling to this market, or you're not.

I had a two games that I had the same issue with, but both of them were old titles, so I ended up playing them with Proton instead directly playing Linux version.

And with the above I must say my thanks to developer of Demetrios, which was so kind and responded to my e-mail over weekend and even sent me an old build to try it on my gaming machine.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI think there should be some kind of "report game" button on Steam so that games that don't actually work out of the box on linux get a red linux icon or something, to warn buyers.

This sounds like a nice idea, maybe there is a way to propose this feature request to Valve.

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