Patreon Logo Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal Logo PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.
Latest Comments by scaine
The Witness may one day see a Linux port, for fun or for ideological purposes
5 Apr 2016 at 2:01 pm UTC

but we would not try to support it seriously
I'm not going to buy this, seriously. Blow now ranks updown there with Newman. Hopefully that's where they'll stay.

Sword Coast Legends developer n-space has closed up shop
3 Apr 2016 at 7:50 pm UTC

Quoting: Keyrock
Quoting: GuestOnly real way to succeed is perhaps via what Obisidian do and actually listen to what the PC playerbase wants and it wasn't a streamlined action RPG (I suspect a lot of those 50% who were happy would also be happy with a more traditional in depth RPG).
Ironically, I enjoyed my time with the Sword Coast Legends campaign while I grew to hate Pillars of Eternity, largely because of how incredibly tedious that game was. I know I'm very much in the minority, though.
Maybe, but I also don't understand the love for PoE - it was a save-fest. If you walked into certain fights without having using a campfire before hand (in order to have your full arsenal of spells/abilities available), it was pretty much game over. That made gameplay and general adventuring tedious since you could only buy campfires back at your base (that I knew of). So much potential wasted by a tedious mechanic.

7 Days to Die alpha 14 released, Linux graphics broken again
27 Mar 2016 at 3:18 pm UTC

Yeah, I started playing this at Alpha 13.8 a couple of weeks ago - loved it. Great performance, great game play, lots of skills to upgrade, loved it. However, it's infuriating when games are released utterly broken. Same thing happened with Soul Axiom, which I recently refunded.

As for EA Hell, there's a few games going through this at the moment. I don't buy EA and haven't done since the early days when I took a chance on Prison Architect and Tabletop Simulator. They weren't terrible experiences, but they were a good couple of years in EA, which gets frustrating. I think the Fun Pimps probably have another year of EA ahead of them before they announce a release date.

Does your mouse flicker or flash constantly in Unity games? Here's a solution
26 Mar 2016 at 12:45 pm UTC

Hmm - never had this before. I'm running stock Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit, Unity desktop. I have Nvidia proprietary drivers on - we have much the same set up. I checked the value using dconf-editor and it was on. I've turned it off to see if I see a difference anywhere.

PAYDAY 2 on Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts & port report
24 Mar 2016 at 11:52 am UTC Likes: 2

Regarding tearing - I take it you've got triple buffering enabled? Doing so completely fixed all screen tear for me.

As per [url=ttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/1166#]Solar's post on the GoL forums[/url] last year:

Navigate to /etc/x11
Open xorg.conf as root
Locate metamodes HDMI-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0 under Section screen which is near the bottom (of course you might not have the same resolution here)
and change it to metamodes HDMI-0: 1920x1080_60 +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }

Then save and reboot.

Tomb Raider, the excellent 2013 game is officially coming to Linux from Feral Interactive
23 Mar 2016 at 1:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

Can't wait to buy this. And its sequel. Great news.

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days
21 Mar 2016 at 6:59 pm UTC

Quoting: wolfyrionI thought that the GOTY Edition would be the whole game but I guess I was wrong...

However dlcs doesn't have the tux icon.

So are all these DLC's required :o?
Yeah, I have the same question - does the Linux version support the GoTY DLC packages, since they don't have the tux icon? I guess we'll find out when TheBoss livestreams later.

An interview with The Final Station developers
17 Mar 2016 at 7:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

The style looks similar to the Quantisized Bit games that came out yesterday, albeit the gameplay in this looks a bit more laid back. Any idea on price? Looks like my kind of game.

Life Is Strange looks like it's being ported to Linux by Feral Interactive
17 Mar 2016 at 7:01 pm UTC

This would be great news - been tracking this for months and had largely given up hope of buying it. Can't wait!

GOL Asks: What have you been playing recently?
16 Mar 2016 at 2:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

After giving the Fun Pimps such a hard time for their awful Linux support, I finally got around to playing the late Alpha 13 version of 7 Days to Die.

I have to say, it's really, really good. It's get absolutely panned in the Steam reviews right now - lots of people preferred Alpha 12, so I'm going to re-voice my hatred of reviews for Early Access games... but since I never played Alpha 12, I'm coming in fresh and it's really superb.

Like Minecraft, only with good graphics. Well, and a lot more detail hunger/thirst, warmth/chill, clothes, infection, and a really, really slick crafting system. And of course, a huge variety of zombies.

So, yeah - definitely worth checking that out if you haven't played it yet.