Something a little unusual happened for me, when I had the new Steam client update: It wanted to download a number of older Proton Installs, e.g. 3.16, 3.16 Beta, even though I am using Proton 4.2 (4.2-2) and that tool is installed and set to be my "specific Steam Play compatibility tool" for the various Windows titles that I have installed. I dealt with it by ensuring all my Windows games were tied to Proton 4.2, and manually uninstalling the earlier Proton tools. All seems fine following these manual steps.

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I've gone through numerous thoughts and a range of emotions with respect to the Epic store. This latest news about easy running of Epic's windows client via the hard work of the Lutris and WINE teams does soften my dislike of Epic a little. On the one side, the Epic game client now works easily on Linux, and a selection of games (including exclusives not available elsewhere) is now accessible from this store front. On the other side, there is no native Linux game client, and none of the games being sold on the store is native Linux. Also, I find exclusivity to be an abhorrent anti-consumer practice designed to restrict consumer freedom while being beneficial to the store and game publishers.

So, this is my take on it: (1) Get an Epic account and pick up the free games. (2) Avoid buying on the Epic store as much as possible (until the current situation changes). (3) Keep buying native Linux games on stores that support us, typically Steam, GOG, itch.io, Humble, and similar. (4) If you have to buy a Windows-only title, at least try to buy it on Steam and play it with Proton, to boost Linux play and purchase statistics.

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Something about its graphic style reminds me of old Ultima games, and I mean it in an endearing way rather than mocking. Checking my wishlist just now, and yes, I'd already added this game.

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As a massive fan of FTL and Slay The Spire, it is good to see this title coming out. Watching with interest, added it to my wishlist already. Compounding scaine's sentiment - Roguelike's like this play differently with every run-through. Owing to RNG, you end up with different encounters, different card decks, not to mention that you might choose a different starting character/group of characters. You also might find multiple endings.

When I started FTL and Slay The Spire, it took me many hours of play, before I was even able to get near the game ending. Certainly, they have been among the best value games I have ever owned.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: dpanterStill a bit miffed about the 166 US$ price tag on the limited edition Beast box. It would have been very, very, very nice to have that stunning piece of box art on my shelf. Had my finger on the trigger many times back in December, but the price stayed my hand each time. :S:

The normal box isn't as cool imho, plus it's still a hefty 40 US$... but the free version doesn't include the inevitably epic Buckethead soundtrack. Oh well.
At least it's coming soon! ^_^

WAIT
166$ for a doom wad ???

No, $166 is for a collectable merchandise box [External Link] which includes the game wad.

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Now that I've read your game-play review, my interest is even greater than before. I've been following the game and already wishlisted it.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: g000hDebian Linux 10 Buster (Testing) and have enabled the Experimental repository but only permitted (manually installed) the Nvidia graphics drivers/libraries from it (version 415.27).

nvidia-driver 418.56 has been in experimental a while now. :)

Well, a couple of weeks ago. For me, a *while* is a few months...

Your comment spurred me to manually update to the *latest* experimental drivers, and for any Debian beginners, I'm sharing the technique below (but I suggest to only run commands like this if you back-up your OS).

su -     
# I don't use sudo, this gives you "root" privilege (for the following commands)
vi /etc/apt/sources.lst

- Add experimental, alongside buster:

deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
..
..
deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10defaultRelease

- This is a new config file, running alongside the other apt configs, and it just contains:

APT::Default-Release "buster";

- Having this stops experimental packages from installing, unless you manually force them

The regular update and upgrade commands:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Now we're ready to install the new experimental Nvidia driver and associated packages:

apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-driver libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386
apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-vulkan-common

I also like to do various clean-up and maintenance commands, e.g.

update-grub2
reboot
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean

Going into Nvidia X Server Settings, and the new driver is visible: 418.56

After doing this, I tried out my non-performing Proton titles and a few random Proton titles and all were running just like they were with the 415.27 driver. Maybe a tiny frame rate change.

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Sharing my own recent Proton experience: I have 16 Proton games installed. My Steam client set up is to "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" but the "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" is unticked. This is fine however, because you can individually go into each game's properties and set the game to use a specific version of Proton (e.g. The latest 4.2-2)

In order to use Proton in this way, I found that I needed to manually install the Proton Tool in the TOOLS part of the Steam Library. As I am writing this, I have Proton 3.16 Beta installed and Proton 4.2 (meaning 4.2-2) in the TOOLS list.

I have just gone through the various Proton enabled titles, and updated each of them to use Proton 4.2-2 and in some cases, when I tried to launch the game it would hang. However, a repeat attempt, and occasionally a restart of Steam Client, and eventually they are all up and running again (well, the ones that I don't have issue with.)

Here are the titles I have installed: Antihero (* never worked), Blades of Time, Braveland Heroes, Card Quest, Elder Scrolls Skyrim SE (* NPC audio still doesn't work), Fallout 3, Legend of Grimrock 2, Monster Slayers, Redout Demo, Risen, Runestone Keeper, Styx: Shards of Darkness, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Superflight, Tales of Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation.

Of those titles, Antihero has never worked, Skyrim SE is somewhat improved with recent Proton but I still have the NPC audio being silent problem, and Fallout 3 GOTY used to fail completely until a more recent Proton release (e.g. 4.x). The 14 games listed above with no asterisk (*) after their name all work near perfectly.

Noting that I am running Debian Linux 10 Buster (Testing) and have enabled the Experimental repository but only permitted (manually installed) the Nvidia graphics drivers/libraries from it (version 415.27).

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Quoting: GuestIs there any possibility to share some steam keys with other Linux users? Not that I'm expecting much, but I would rather give away a key if I knew it will be used on Linux or steam play.

Hi. There are a number of ways forward for sharing steam keys on GOL:

You could just post the key, and the first person or automated bot to claim it would get it. (Problem is that automated bots might not be Linux users.)

You could mention the games that you have spare keys, and ask that people Private Message you, and then decide if you want to give to one of those people. (Most regulars on here are Linux gamers, and would claim the game as a Linux title on Steam, as you prefer that.)

You could hand over the key to Liam, and he could then pass it on, maybe to a GOL supporter.
- The key could become a prize in a competition on the site, either random winner or chosen winner.

Finally, you might find someone who has a steam key that you want, and you could use it as the basis for a swap.

Hope these ideas help you make up your mind.

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Regions of Ruin [External Link] is 90% off on Steam at the moment.

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