I still haven't given this a go. Really need to get some time set aside for giving it a shot. I'ts a weird thing that since I associated it with CS:GO and since I'm so utterly tried of my months and years playing CS1.6, I just find myself... not caring. Despite how fun it looks.

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I need to get back into some Overwatch soon. Me and @Buenaventura played pretty regularly for a few months, him on tank, me on support. It worked really well, and I enjoyed playing in a mostly winning team. But playing "solo" on QuickPlay can get old pretty quickly, when team composition falls apart and I'm the only healer on a side with 5 DPS. When that happens, I usually just take my own DPS to make a point..

Great game though and, combined with Lutris, an experience that feels genuinely native.

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Looks like Worms... in real time. Could be a lot of fun for a sofa set up!

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Yeah, I had a similar probably with CO2 - tons of oxygen kicking around, but if you let that CO2 build up, the lower portion of your base becomes uninhabitable! Hopefully it's easier to cool water in the final game too - heat exchangers were woefully inadequate when I used them last time I played, about a year ago.

Love it though. It's got charm, complexity, wonderful learning curve and loads of polish.

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I've been on the edge of buying Mechanicus for about 3 months at least! If it weren't for Path of Exile working perfectly in Steam Play (and being completely free), I'd probably already have pulled the trigger! :)

And now I have to decide whether it's going to be Mechanicus, or Rage 2. Probably Mechanicus because it's a) native and b) cheaper!

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Denuvo is still present on Nier:Automata and Monster Hunter World, which both run well (apparently) on Steam Play. Haven't tried them myself, as I won't touch any title that uses this DRM. I bought Dishonored 2 the moment they removed it. Mutant Year Zero was another great title that dropped Denuvo.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPCan you actually play the game alone? Well, I mean, I know that you CAN, but how is it?
I don't usually have people to play with and I loathe playing with totally random people. But I'd like to give the game a try as it seems really interesting.

Quoting: Alm888And what it has to do with gaming on Linux, again?

Is launching any random Windows game through WINE worthy of a news article?

To prevent useless comments like these, articles now have tags that can be ignored.
So you no longer have to suffer the terrible fate of reading Wine-related news, and other people don't have to suffer comments like yours.

You can and it's okay up to hazard level 3, if you're decent at FPS and spend a bit of in-game cash to upgrade the drone you command. But to be honest, this is a game where, almost always, "random people" are awesome. Like I say, the little touches in the game make, the way it actively encourages teamwork (driller making areas accessible, engineers laying platforms for scouts to grapple to, gunners laying down ropes for getting across chasms, or setting up shields during a swarm), just makes you happy when someone joins your game.

Honestly, when I get out my drop-pod after joining a game, I hit V, my character hefts their axe and shouts "Rock and stone, brother" and almost immediately, everyone else present will hit V and I'll get a chorus of "For Caaaaal", or "Rock and stone to the bone!" back at me. It's just pretty goddam awesome.

Should Liam be reporting about Windows games that work perfectly on Steam Play? Yep. I wouldn't be playing this indie masterpiece if he didn't. Or Overwatch. Or Path of Exile.

These games are near-as-damn PERFECT on Linux. I'd like to hear more of that, not moan about the purity of the platform. Great to see Sin streaming Rage 2 yesterday too - even better that they've just removed Denuvo from it. Playing AAA games on day 1 doesn't happen very often for us. This is a crucial technology for us, whatever your (Linux) politics are.

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Quoting: soulsourceThe devs had an awesome talk at Unreal Fest last year, about how their levels are being made/generated (it's a semi-procedural approach). I guess the slides are online somewhere?

Found this article [External Link], but no slides that I could see.

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This is an absolute gem of a game - I have nearly 100 hours in this already. It's all the small touches I love: the way the dwarves will just shout voice lines randomly, the way you can use your laser point to call out enemies, or ores, the way you can "salute" your comrades by hitting the 'v' key. It just fosters this camaraderie you don't see in many games. Love it.

Rock and stone, brother!

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Quoting: fagnerlnI love kingdom rush, but on smartphone feels like a P2W. How ironhide's game hold on PC?

Nooo, really?
I finished all Kingdom Rush on android without paying. You need stars so sometimes play again a stage to get the star, but you can easily finish them without paying (and without special artefact that you can buy using the gems)

Yeah, but on Android, they spike the difficulty to encourage you to buy gems for things like bombs and freeze. It's a bit of a rip-off. On PC, the games are much better balanced and don't have any micro-transactions at all. Not even hero purchase - you unlock the heroes as you progress through the story.

Kingdom Rush 1 had beautiful balance (since heroes always start the mission at level 1), albeit a few spikes. Kingdom Rush 2 and 3 use the model of permanent XP for your heroes, so you might have to grind one or two earlier missions if your heroes level is too low to comfortably complete later missions, but nothing too arduous. Indeed, you'll probably only notice that grind if you constantly switch heroes. Stick with one and you can probably just fire through the whole campaign.

Edit to add that although it's a short review and nearly a couple of years old now, [here's my earlier article which covers the Kingdom Rush games.]

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