Strange Brigade is a game I'd love to play on Linux, but it's encumbered with Denuvo, so I never bought it despite a decent rating with Proton. When will publishers learn...

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Can't remember who it was recently mentioned Killing Floor 2, but I downloaded all 80Gb of it and started levelling up my support perk again. Great game, but frustrating when to get a bad team. In KF1, healing your team mates was a given (healing others is like a 60% heal, while healing yourself is about 25%)... but in KF2, it just doesn't happen. Still enjoying it though. Amazing gunplay, very satisfying when you put it all together.

Otherwise, I'm on a three day break to the Borders right, so I'm on my laptop, and started playing Tales of Maj'Eyal again. Lots of nice QOL improvements, still the amazing, frustrating, epic experience I remember! Still my second most played game of all time too!

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I'm gonna play my sceptical card on this title. We Happy Few was meant to come to Linux, but MS stepped in, bought the studio and announce, "suuuuuuure, it's still coming to Linux", then of course, it didn't.

So I'll stay hopeful, but I'm reigning in my expectations for this.

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Whoohoo! Can't wait for this one - but I have short break starting tomorrow, so I guess I'll have to! Essentially purchase next week when I get home though. The demo was superb... I want more. More. MOAR!

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I'm coming up for needing a new laptop - my beloved 2016 XPS is over 4 years old now. This is gonna get a serious look. Love it!

Edit:
So the near-top-of-the-range model, with Ryzen 7, 16Gb of high-speed Samsung memory, and a UK keyboard layout comes in at £975+shipping. That's about £250 less than I paid for my XPS13 over four years ago, which had less memory, but a bigger (500Gb) hard drive and came with Ubuntu pre-installed. The XPS13 is 200 grams lighter though, and had a hiDPI screen... but an all AMD laptop that also looks good??

I'm pretty impressed. I should be in a position to buy something around November time, so this is getting bookmarked!

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Quoting: RedneckI've been playing CSGO with my online buddies and Killing Floor 2!

I was also looking at the Raspberry PI to use it on the tv, is it smooth? Because I tried Steam Link on my Chromebook and it didn't go very well

How's KF2 these days? I'm thinking about getting back into it. I spent 8 hours getting to know it, but didn't feel the same love for it as I did for the original. But the gunplay is outstanding and very few games make zombie slaughter so enjoyable. My biggest issue with it is the same issue I had with the original - until you spend 100+ hours in the game, you don't know the maps well enough to be really effective.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanI've been continuing to go through Bioshock Infinite and The Talos Principle. The Talos Principle did get much more engaging when connectors and fans were introduced to the puzzles. However, I don't care for the philosophical drivel, and a couple of the puzzles are annoying to execute rather than being difficult to figure out (these involve learning just how close you can get to mines before they will home in and kill you). I still like Portal 2 better. I'm getting close to the end, but I've been playing it a bit less and Bioshock Infinite quite a bit more.

I also got Steamlink going on a couple of Raspberry Pi 3s. I have noticed a couple of oddities. If more than one computer is running Steam with Steamlink connections enabled when you open Steamlink, it cannot distinguish between the two. It will pretty much invariably claim to be connecting to the same computer regardless of which one it is actually connecting to. The only way to stop it from randomly connecting to the wrong one is to shutdown Steam or disable remote connections to it.

Also, my rather old desktop in the cellar works for Steamlink to connect to, but controllers will only work in the Steam interface, not within games. When Steamlink is connected to my current desktop, controllers work fine. I suspect this could have something to do with the old desktop still being on Ubuntu Studio 18.04 (which is supported as an LTS version by Ubuntu but not by Ubuntu Studio), while my normal desktop is running Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS. It would be soon that I upgraded the one in the cellar to 20.04 either way, but I wonder if that will fix the issue. I'm much more likely to want to remote to the one in the cellar than my regular desktop for 2D games, since it is more likely that someone would want to use the regular one for something else.

Oh, that's a shame! I LOVED the philosophical drivel in Talos Principle! Sure, it's drivel, but it's so atmospheric and it does allude to the wider story of what happens to "you", the android, after you leave the puzzle chambers and "ascend" the Tower.

I also loved, although never completed, the meta-puzzles of the island. There are optional puzzles you can do in each area, which cause physical effects outside of that areas boundaries. Like, one I did caused a laser/ray to shine outside of its play area, over another play area. I think the intention is that you could then use that laser/ray in that new area to cause yet another effect in another area. The love and attention to detail is astounding.

I'm with you on Portal 2 though. That game just had more character and charm. Wheatley is great, GladOS is great... but it's Cave Johnson that makes it. JK Simmons absolutely knocked that character out of the park - the lines are great, but the way he delivered them was outstanding. What a game.

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Quoting: GuestEnslaved via Proton.
Got it somehow in the past for cheap.
It is an old UE3 Game, so it is very light, but still it catches me FAR MORE than Shadow of the Tomb Raider which i put in standby and almost forgot.

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Thanks to enslaved, i discovered Ninja Theory team, and got their reboot of Devil may cry for something like 6 euros :-) SOTR will wait a bit more...

And (as always) Grid autosport (which i finally got it running at double framerate in wine).
I'm playing it since years and i've just completed the Touring discipline, i'm in love with that game.

Also, Beneath a steel sky in Scummvm with my smartphone.

Just stopping by to say that Enslaved is superb. I loved the characters, I loved the setting, I loved the environments, I loved the gameplay. It's great.

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Not much change from last week - still playing 7 Days to Die A19 natively (Vulkan), and Grim Dawn via Proton. However, Superhot: Mind Control Delete came out last week and I sank around 8 hours into that too. Amazing game, like a roguelite version of the original, but makes you EVEN MORE awesome.

And I'm still dipping into Dota Underlords for the odd game. Turns out, those heroes I mentioned that had been cut from the final release? Not really - Valve are doing the whole "seaons" thing with Underlords now, and about 15 heroes are "out of season", so no doubt they'll be back when season 2 lands, whenever that might be. I haven't looked at figures for Underlords, but given that it takes a good 30 seconds to score a multi-player casual game, I wonder if numbers are dwindling. It was near-instantaneous before!

Oh, and I did a few of Mana Spark too. So replayable and has the whole "one more game" lure. So glad I bought this one.

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Quoting: Mountain ManGreat game. I think I still have a .deb installer tucked away somewhere on my hard drive, but it's broken now and throws up an error if try to run it, so Osmos exists mostly as a memory for me. When I bought it many years ago, it came with a free album of ambient music by Mat Jarvis called Sounds of Earth that I still enjoy listening to.

Well, you made me look...

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