Too bad it's so PvP focused. Doubt the changes will make me try it.

Depends on what you want from a game. I'm 60 hours in, closing in on an Ornithopter now, but never had to worry about PvP. Until the end game, the PvP content is like 1% of the game and optional (wreckage of ships). Even then, I've geared up for 3 wrecks, expecting chaos, and never saw another player. Seeing other players in this game generally is quite rare. You see their bases, but rarely the other players - the map is just too vast, and the servers are well instanced.

So if you're buying for end-game content only and expect to pour thousands of hours in - sure, you should probably stay away, I guess. But if you're like me and just wanted a few hundred hours of PvE gaming - so far, I'm absolutely loving the combination of exploration, combat, grind/mining, base-building and crafting.

And the worms are terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. Great game.

Edit to add: if you go on the Steam forums, there are many, many threads complaining about how PvP is "forced" on you, and there's no PvE content. I have absolutely no idea where these come from, unless ALL players care about is the Deep Desert (which is the end-game content). I suspect there's a vocal minority at play here - the kind of player who absolutely expects that this game will become their life and they'll play nothing else for the next 3-5 years.

There's a weird dissonance here for me though. The only real reason to risk PvP in the Deep Desert is for bulk materials to make the absolutely top-tier vehicles, armour and weapons in the game over and over (in case you lose in a PvP battle). But if you're PvE-only... you don't need so many materials. You'll make the fancy stuff once, and you're golden. No need to constantly grind the Deep Desert. So which is it? Do you want the PvP grind, or the PvE grind? The complainers seem to want both.

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Ugh. Telemetry driven development is the bane of my computing life. It insidiously causes some devs to use it as a substitute for actual thinking instead of as a support.

I doubt that's the case here. And in open-source, it's absolutely vital, since you don't get to interact with your user-base otherwise, except through forums/discord, which carries an enormous bias (the only people who interact this way will be technically-focused anyway, while your "normal" goes unnoticed, which is especially likely now that the SteamDeck has jumped into so many non-techie lives).

This article has reminded that I turned user-feedback off when I last installed, thinking that I'd turn it on later. And I forgot to do so! It's now on, at one setting lower than maximum. Nice wee app, integrated into Settings.

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After Backpack Hero I was stoked for this, but it looks like it's PvP-only, so no interest! Shame though. Looks great.

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Wandersong is absolutely phenomenal, and I can't recommend it enough. Absolutely joyous game.

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I've been playing on Proton Experimental since it became a thing, and it's been mostly fine, but I have been thinking that maybe it's time to choose a stable version and stick with it. I think I might try some of my games on Proton 10 and then just stick with 10's stable release when it's available. Experimental hasn't bitten me yet, but it's probably only a matter of time.

Gaming is just so stable on Linux now. Absolutley mind-blowing progress from just, say, 10 years ago when it felt like you constantly had to add tinker lines to Steam's launch parameters, or use Glorious Eggrolls version to get things working.

Not these days. Hit Install and hit Play. Madness.

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The sequel looks like a very, very different game!!

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It's so crazy, because even though I don't really like boaty things in real life (fishing, houseboats, rafting, kayaking, etc etc etc) some of my favorite and most played games on the Deck have been boaty. Dredge, Sail Forth, Dave the Diver, this game .... So strange. Maybe the portable format just leads more to that type of game I guess.

Dave the Diver is absolutely incredible - the perfect Deck game. I couldn't imagine making time to play it on my main PC, but I played hours and hours on the Deck, while on holiday abroad, the year it came out. And the boat theme, on Deck? I'm in same boat (sorry) - I played hours of Dredge on Deck, and also spent a fair bit of time with Ship of Fools.

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Barely played the first, but sank quite a few hours into the second before the red ring of death claimed my Xbox360 and I jumped ship to Sony's consoles forever. So I missed all the later sequels too. They were okay, but relied too heavily on wall-based cover. Fun characters though, despite the many, many cliches.

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The rest of them that the article mention are definitely available now.

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Plasma 6 has been an excellent series - so slick, so much attention to detail. And Wayland has finally unlocked the higher refresh rate of my monitor at 4K, which is lovely.

Just a shame that Wayland doesn't support remembering window positions, which is extra-annoying when Plasma has all these features built into it to do just that... but they don't work at all in Wayland.

So Firefox remembers its position, Steam remembers its position, but none of the KDE apps, like Dolphin will. Unless I move back to X11.

It's a small issue, but it's been bugging me for a while.

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