I've just played an hour of this and it's reasonably fun, if pretty basic. There's not much guidance going on, and chests seem to be bugged, often giving nothing. The lack of path-finding by the enemies is frustrating - they just fly/crawl in a straight line towards your base... if you don't have enough turrets, you die, simple as that. The random amount of wood you get from trees is also pretty frustrating. Two bad days in a row will see your run end.

Can't fault the price and I might come back to it occasionally, but despite all the upgrades on offer, I don't think there's enough basic gameplay at the moment. Definitely one to keep an eye on though.

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Oh, hell no! :D

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: poke86Wasn't Borderlands 3 supposed to be a 6 month Epic exclusive?!

At this point we can all agree that Epic exclusives are more like a Steam veto agreement.

Yep, BL3 is available on the MS store. Pretty much the reason I won't support Epic. In fact their behaviour makes me more likely to remain with the monopolistic incumbent, Steam, because they're trying to break into that monopoly by being anti-consumer. Pro-dev, I suppose? So there's that. But I'm not a Dev, so...

As for Stadia, I wish it luck only so far as it might benefit traditional Linux gaming in the long run (e.g. Devs go the Vulkan route). I've no interest in it beyond that.

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I'd love to see Outer Worlds or Borderlands 3 ported. But the biggest benefit Feral bring to my table these days is
a) removing EAC restriction or
b) removing Denuvo

I'd still love to play Vermintide 2 (EAC) or Monster Hunter World (Denuvo), Strange Brigade (Denuvo) or Nier: Automata (Denuvo). I own the first title already, which is a blow, but I'll never buy any title "protected" by Denuvo. Ever.

With the exception of Total Wars games though, to be honest, I've bought every title that Feral released. So I guess I'm a shoe-in regardless!

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I did indeed pause this month. I haven't bought Shadow yet, but intend to pay full price when I do. Nothing else on the choice menu stood out, so it's a miss-a-month from me.

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Quoting: scaineThis game had great quality. I'm looking forward to seeing the studio's next offering! Horizon Chase Turbo looked amazing, but I'm just not really into racing games, so I've given it a miss right now. I wonder what else they're working on?

Just noticed that Horizon Chase Turbo is on the Humble Choice this month, so I guess I already own it!!

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Well, this review got me very intrigued, I have to say. The visuals are vaguely reminiscent of State of Mind, and the pointlessness of it all strikes me as a play on The Stanley Parable.

Not sure what to make of this! And that's a good thing, I think.

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This game had great quality. I'm looking forward to seeing the studio's next offering! Horizon Chase Turbo looked amazing, but I'm just not really into racing games, so I've given it a miss right now. I wonder what else they're working on?

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Brisse

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Quoting: BrisseI've been running the native version of ETS2 but it won't start after the latest update [External Link].

Native still starts and runs just fine for me.

It's probably an issue affecting only certain distributions. I had issues before as well when the game could not find libsteam_api.so (...)

...and that's why some developers choose to not support Linux. The way you put it, it seemed their failure. In my opinion, no developer should have to support all Linux distributions and variations. Yours is not in the steam "supported" list for the game, is it?

Brisse's profile suggests that they're running Debian, while you and Tuubi are Ubuntu/Mint. And yeah, for games, Steam are making assumptions based on the Steam runtime / Ubuntu targets. Base Debian might be missing something here.

But tbh, I think it's probably more likely a locale issue in this case! I think Brisse is Swedish and the whitespaces are probably an international character set difference. I suspect that this might be fixed by passing the LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 %command% or something similar on start up.

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Ha, I made the same point on the Discord, actually. From what we know of the rings though, they're incredibly fluid. Stuff bumping into stuff all the time. Hence very difficult to keep track of stuff unless you visit it from time to time.

Ultimately, best not over think it. Hard sci-fi is superb and the attention to detail is insane but at the end of the day, this is about making a fun game, and a permanent POI marker might make certain story elements pretty difficult to maintain. Maybe it'll change in future though, who knows?

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