Just played through the prologue. You're right, Liam, it's incredibly narrative heavy and needs a fair bit of patience. The story/style of the thing weirdly reminds me of Pyre a little - chatting to your companions on the road, while managing the resources needed to get to the next location. However, if you've ever played Nowhere Prophet, you'll see some similarities there too, although Vagrus isn't card-based. The combat is very similar though!

It has a very laid-back style. Hints of Darkest Dungeon, but no where near as grim.

I really enjoyed it, but I'll hang fire on the full purchase for now, as the slower-pace is something I have to be in the right head space for, and right now, I need the instant gratification of something like Grim Dawn instead!

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Along with Gunfire Reborn, Embr is one of the titles I've had my eye on for some multiplayer with my sons. It looks like a lot of fun, although the Early Access banner is putting me off (same with Gunfire). I also wish games like this sold a 4-pack on Steam. Even a small discount on a multi-buy often motivates me to pull the trigger on a good co-op game. But neither of these titles offer it, which is a shame.

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I got back into Dota Underlords [External Link] for the first time in nearly a year. It's a completely different game post-launch. They've dropped various heroes (bye bye Enchantress, Anti-Mage and others), rescaled heroes (Axe is now Tier 5... FIVE!) and introduced new alliances/mechanics (Void, Vigilant). Finally, two new Underlords, and a slightly lame "campaign" called City Crawl, which is basically an advert for you to buy the £4 Battle Pass, considering how much "content" (aesthetics only) is basically locked unless you have one. Good fun though, still frustrating at times.

I think I'm weaning myself off Elite [External Link]. I got my Krait MkII, and lots of money, so the next step is to visit the Engineers. That's when I realised that my 80 hours in this game would have to become 800 hours if I wanted to take it seriously, even with the wiki and various out-of-band websites aimed at helping you. It's fun (80 hours speaks for itself), but I think I'm done with it now.

I've started my first proper A19 run in 7D2D [External Link], inspired by Sin's recent streams. This is probably the best alpha they've released for a while and it feels like this game could be in the final straight. I predict one final alpha, then the next release will be "gold". You heard it here first!

Finally, I've started a new character in Grim Dawn [External Link] for a second playthrough. Absolutely superb game. Wonderful graphics, very satisfying gameplay, although the Veteran mode does turn the boss fights into a bit of a chore. They're absolute bullet sponges at this difficulty! Still enjoying it though, and I've just topped 50 hours in this game.

So, two native games, two Proton. I don't feel quite so dirty as I did last week!

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It was World of Goo [GOG [External Link], Steam [External Link]] that made me think that gaming on Linux might be a thing. Then the HiB came along and I think that really made people take note.

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Wow - last time I tried this game, it was empty and dull. But... haha! I've just checked - that was 2015! So, yeah, I guess five more years of development will change a game!?

I'll give this another go, for sure. Another competitor for Drox Operative 2, it seems. And it's free!

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Nice, thanks. I'm tempted, but those constant video glitches and the chromatic aberration is also headache inducing. Can they be turned off? Honestly, I don't know why the developer thought that trailer was a good idea - zoomed in, flickery, colour-blurred graphics?? Is it to differentiate from being compared to plain old asteroids??

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Honestly, I'm pretty happy with this model. Sure, it's a little annoying to have to buy something on the market, but that also ties the account to 2FA (Steamguard), so there's twice the benefit.

Unless someone can give a good reason for new accounts not to be restricted like this? The game is still perfectly playable, for hundreds of hours judging by my account, without voice/text chat. Callouts are a little harsh, but again, you can play without them and callouts tend only to be useful in a team that actually functions like a team, and you won't tend to notice their lack until you've decided to commit to the game anyway.

The last time I played TF2 was over a year ago though, so maybe some new, critical functionality is tied to chat/voice. The only time I ever used it was to ask people to ready-up (I only ever played Mann vs Machine). God, I hated the ready-up system... Valve could learn something from Killing Floor here. Too slow? Tough - get out there and die, that'll learn you!

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I dropped quite a few hours into the original, but I do think that Starcom Nexus surpassed it - not surprising when you realise that there's nearly five years between these titles. But as a result, Drox 2 has a lot to live up to!

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I'd love to try this, and I suppose it's just under £2 without a sale... but is it always that zoomed in? I got queezy just watching the trailer, let alone trying to play all squashed up to the screen like that! It's like when FPS games default to a POV of 70... it gives me a weird, "kind of" motion sickness.

Can you "zoom out" in the game?

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Quoting: andy155War Thunder High Tier - Noob Gameplay. :tongue:
https://youtu.be/8TMEWyI2vr0 [External Link]

Very confused by this game to be honest. There's one moment, around the 19m mark where you put three shells into an enemy tank and it's still going, whereas your tank is frequently one-shotted, often from so far away, you can't even see the enemy that killed you on the map.

I have a friend who SWEARS by World of Tanks, and it's basically the same - pixel perfect shooting from kilometres away with seconds-long reloads. I... just don't get it! :grin:

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