Quoting: Picoboom

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: drmoth

rougelike

Roguelike!!

(sorry, it's my pet hate)

No problem, read again, I have indulged you. ;)

Haha, but it's still rouge, not rogue. I don't think he was annoyed by the capitalisation...!

Not a pet hate of mine, but an easy mistake to make.

Ummmm, it looks to me that the evidence would favor drmoth's assertion that the spelling is "roguelike" not "rougelike." "Rouge" [External Link] is makeup applied to one's cheeks, whereas a [rogue](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/rogue [External Link]) was an unprincipled person and also the protagonist of the 1980 game Rogue [External Link] from which the term "Roguelike" [External Link] draws its meaning.

But, as you say, it's an easy mistake to make. :)

I think you misunderstood me - the article is still "rouge", whereas, of course, the correct spelling is indeed "rogue". Hamish simply capitalised the word in response to someone's "pet hate", but didn't address the spelling. In fact, given the smiley face in his reply, I suspect he may have done so on purpose...!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: scaineDammit. I just bought a 4-pack. The commando mode brought back too many fond memories of the commando mission in command & conquer. And the multiplayer looks pretty spectacular.

If there's an army forming for a Twitch, and I'm available (Friday's can be sketchy for me), I'll be there.

Is there in-game voice in this, or is it just easier to run your own TeamSpeak/Discord/whatever app to handle it?

Can't remember about voice, but it's always easier to use our own stuff to not have random others scream at us :)

So, I should know this, but if you're doing a multi-player game like this (i.e. organised through GOL), what's the official method of voice comms? Is it Mumble, as suggested by cprn? Or Discord, as I'm sure I've heard that mentioned before (maybe for chat, rather than voice though...)?

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Quoting: vecchersad, even with a lot of bad reviews i was still thinking about buying it.

Yeah, me too - I'm just a big fan of FPS shooters. But, well, I'm glad I was sitting down when I read this article /s. The total communications blackout never ends well.

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Dammit. I just bought a 4-pack. The commando mode brought back too many fond memories of the commando mission in command & conquer. And the multiplayer looks pretty spectacular.

If there's an army forming for a Twitch, and I'm available (Friday's can be sketchy for me), I'll be there.

Is there in-game voice in this, or is it just easier to run your own TeamSpeak/Discord/whatever app to handle it?

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: drmoth

rougelike

Roguelike!!

(sorry, it's my pet hate)

No problem, read again, I have indulged you. ;)

Haha, but it's still rouge, not rogue. I don't think he was annoyed by the capitalisation...!

Not a pet hate of mine, but an easy mistake to make.

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Quoting: GrimfistNice writing Liam, took me a while to read it through ;)

This article is from Hamish, I think.

Loved the Shadowrun series - the first got me back into the whole cRPG/tactical thing. I finished it, went to Wasteland 2, then waited for a crazy long time before coming (last month!) to play and finish Dragonfall. Superb.

On the strength of Dragonfall (MUCH more interesting storywise than the original), I've just bought Hong Kong.

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Quoting: fasterthanlimewe're a small team [External Link] building a company with no external funding. Usually the answer to the question "why in the world aren't they doing that yet" is "we were busy working on something else".

And yet you're still doing a better job of basic filtering than Valve. That's a thumbs-up from me. All Valve have done so far with their "O/S filter preference" is cause frustration that it doesn't work!

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Quoting: Leeo97oneOn Steam, we can already choose what platforms we want to show:

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To be fair, it's supposed to work, but the steam client doesn't always respect this setting, especially in big picture mode. Plus, some client updates randomly break it quite often, in my experience (though it seems to be OK right now).

Yeah, sadly this setting only appears to work (mostly) on your primary queue - the one that shows at the top of the page. All the others show Windows games. It's still infuriating enough that I rarely visit steampowered these days. My purchase decisions come from articles on here, or reddit.

If I decide to visit steampowered directly, it's usually through this bookmark:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&category1=998&os=linux
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If only I could get that (and the rest of Steam) to filter out Early Access titles...

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I've heard great things about Squad - people with actual stories of their experiences, as if it were somehow "real". Most of that is because of the in-game voice audio, which is, I believe, positional, such that members further away from you may/may not hear you, depending on how far away you are from them (and fall back to radio in such instances).

Excited to hear that it's a possibility for Linux, but I imagine they'll be facing some big challenges based on the amount of content in this game! Fingers crossed. Would love to buy/play this one - I've been looking for a proper squad-based shooter since I stopped playing Planetside 2 back in 2013.

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36 hours to complete the whole campaign with non-lethal force. Loved it. What a game.

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