Quoting: gradyvuckovicAnyone else get the feeling that if this year was a poker game, Valve just shoved all their chips into the middle of the table and yelled, "All in motherfuckers!" and threw down a hand of cards with nothing but Tux penguins on them?

I mean... that's the highest hand in geek Poker though, right? RIGHT??

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Quoting: redneckdrowI'll definitely leave a negative review on this once my hand feels better.

Oh, it runs fine in Proton Experemintal, if that wasn't obvious. Two thumbs way down! :angry:

Can't be good dealing with that. Funnily enough, I also played for two hours and feel much the same way, minus a sore hand. I actually enjoyed one or two of the training mini-games... somewhat. I liked the blocking one, it was fun. I kind of enjoyed the offense one until they started throwing in weird patterns. But, I hated the dodging game, detested the magic game, and the bow was meh.

But yeah, it's a mobile game for sure, and it's just a grind/clicker. Can't defeat a boss? Grind training until you can. Nope, nope, nope. There's a tiny bit of skill, but it's dwarfed by the grind.

Hard pass.

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Quoting: redneckdrowSlasher's keep is fun, but the block mechanic needs work. It just doesn't seem to register half the time, and is useless at blocking ranged attacks. Speaking of ranged enemies feel cheap, with your methods for dealing with them being few at first. The artwork is pretty good though. I'd give it a 5.5/10 if I assigned arbitrary numbers to games anymore.

Slasher's Keep should be fun... but it's just not, for some of the reasons you mention. I also didn't like the inability to hit half-height boxes, the lack of crouch, the inability to pick up potion from certain boxes, and the weird "hit things with your inventory sack" which isn't explained (it knocks back enemies). And yeah, the block mechanic is next to useless, since the swing mechanic takes so long on most weapons. Very irritating game to play overall. I don't recommend it at all.

Quoting: redneckdrowQuest Hunter... ho hum. Another Diablo clone that just doesn't try anything new. There's a lot of unnecessary hand-holding too. My advice, skip it.

Nothing will top Grim Dawn for me, but I'll still give it a shot, just make sure! :grin:

Dreadlands looks like it might very well be excellent!

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Bought this for Slasher's Keep (despite already owning both the excellent Delver and superb Tower of Time), but I love the look of Swords & Souls too. Worth taking the risk on Dreadlands to be honest, with this kind of quality in the overall bundle!

Edit: Hmmm, Slasher's Keep is a bit rubbish. Nowhere near as good as Void Bastards and I didn't really spend a lot of time on that game either. Fingers crossed for the rest.

Edit2: Dreadlands worked perfectly with Proton-6.13-GE-1, including the opening cinematic. Game plays brilliant. It's an XCOM clone - leveling, gear, recruitment, base-building, missions, the whole thing.

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Quoting: GuestI'm not leaving Linux completely - I will still prefer free software for my daily tasks and use Linux on my non-gaming PCs. I might revisit Linux gaming if the situation changes, but... Right now I don't see a reason why I should prefer gaming on poorly implemented Windows to gaming on Windows.

The only reason that matters, for me, is not having to put up with Windows itself. If you think that's a better experience (for you), then that's perfectly valid.

Me? I wouldn't touch Windows with a bargepole. My contact with it through work reminds me how terrible it (still) is, and I'm glad I removed it from my life nearly 8 years ago.

As for the issues you describe - I don't know what to say. I've never had issues like you're describing. I had to add a pulseaudio latency variable to Cyberpunk, I suppose, but compared to the hell of getting things working on Windows 7 back when I used it... this is easy street. I suppose it comes down to the fact that I check ProtonDB before I buy a game, so I tend to only buy those games that I know will be a fairly click-play experience. I wonder what games you're playing to have such a terrible experience.

Finally, I'd suggest that this is the exactly wrong time to be giving up. With the Steam Deck promises of a seamless experience, anti-cheat suport, and huge improvements to Proton, this is an exciting time to actually stay and see those improvements happen! And if they don't pan out to your expectation, then you make the jump back.

Depends what you're playing I suppose. When I look at my Recent games in Steam, probably about 80% of them are through Proton and every one (except CyberPunk) is click-to-play.

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Incredible progress. It was only in April that he blogged about getting a simple cube to raytrace. Now if I could only get my hands on one of those fancy 6x00XT cards that actually support hardware ray-tracing, I might be able to take advantage of the next iteration of his work!

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TeodosioMuch depends on the success of Steam Deck. If it manages to bring millions of new users to the GNU/L world...

I'm not sure why people keep thinking this will happen like this. Even Proton was claimed to do this when it came out and look at this headline now. Most people have an everyday phone that runs Linux. Their consoles are BSD. Where is this influx of dev Linux support people somehow expect? People don't care what their devices are running, just that they do. They're not suddenly going to migrate because their Switch rival runs a certain OS.

Because... Android and consoles have nothing to do with desktop Linux. This does. It's running desktop Linux with a new version of BPM fronting it. You can't get a game to run on this console without providing that game for Linux generally.

I don't care if people don't adopt desktop Linux particularly. But having a big ticket console forcing developers to support my desktop Linux would be all kinds of (extremely selfish) marvellous.

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So choice is good, but not when Canonical provide it. Because... reasons, or something. Gotcha.

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Mesa 19 is now "very old"... :grin:

I remember being excited by that very release because when I upgraded to it, Stellaris would run like silk on my 2016-model XPS 13!

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: scaineI mean, why does Debian get a pass for using apt, when RPM was available the year before? Sounds like NIH syndrome to me, right? Hell, they went with Gnome instead of XFCE, which had been around for three years by that time.

I know you're ranting here and probably shooting from the hip but...

XFCE actually used a proprietary toolkit at the time (XForms), KDE was in a similar predicament with Qt. Hence the popularity of GTK.

Also, rpm probably predates the apt tool, but dpkg and the .deb format is older.

...I shall now hastily make my exit from the thread hoping to not get hit by the crossfire.

Haha! Apt learned from RPMs mistakes to avoid "RPM hell". This is what makes Linux, all Linux, so awesome. Everyone is "standing on the shoulders of giants".

Meanwhile, Microsoft is dragging the corpses of its enemies behind it, becoming more and more weighed down as it progresses. What a couple of months for MS - PrintNightmare RCE, SeriousSAM Local PrivEsc, and most recently now we have PetitPotam Remote PrivEsc. They're just the worst.

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