Quoting: GuestBy the way, are you the Hamish who calls in to Talk Heathen show on youtube?

Nah, I am just one of many Hamishes. ;)

Quoting: GuestFTL forums on Steam are full of people complaining that the game doesn't work for them any more after the patch. It's funny how those things work.

The updated version from GOG.com works brilliantly for me at least. Are these Linux users having issues or just FTL players in general?

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Well, what do you know, first time playing the game in months and I win easily on my first attempt. ^_^

Treasure your Pike Beams folks.

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I will just regurgitate something I posted in another thread, since it is relevant here: It is my love of old games that makes me still lean heavily on WINE these days. I do not buy modern titles that often anymore, and when I do buy them they are always Linux native, but I have been purchasing old titles on GOG.com or from thrift stores to play through WINE. There was a time I would not have done this, at least not through something like GOG.com where sales are still being tracked, but over the past few years the fight against DRM has become more important to me than even something being Linux native, and GOG.com has been doing a great job at pushing the tide back and freeing titles that never were DRM Free in the first place. At this point I would rather play a DRM Free game through WINE than use a native Linux binary tied to Steamworks, such as those from Feral.

I understand perfectly your desire to take a stand Scoopta, but to a certain extent we all must pick our battles. We just drew different lines in the sand for ourselves.

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I voted WINE simply because of the amount old Windows games I have been playing through it, and the fact that since the WINE 2.0 release it really has picked up some momentum in terms of offering a stable product. So much so in fact I have seen Windows users looking at us enviously as they struggle to get their older games working on Windows 10.

Second choice would have been MESA.

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Quoting: burningserenityI second this. I thought we are the Fringe. What, do you mostly play obscure DOSBox games or something?

Sometimes I do, yes. ;)

More to the point though I don't use Steam, and have not played a single title from Feral Interactive. I remember back when the first few Humble Indie Bundles came out we ALL had a common experience of buying and playing them. Now the market is so diverse that you can be a Linux gamer and not play ANY of the games your peers are playing.

Granted I have always been a retro gamer at heart, so my tastes are always going to lag behind the trend. But even I have a ton of newer Linux releases waiting to be played in my backlog.

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Man, seeing all these titles I have no relationship with makes me realize how completely divorced I have become from the mainstream Linux gaming community these days. :|

If anyone has any doubts how much the Linux gaming scene has grown, you just have to look at people like me sitting on the margins. Back in the day, it was simply not big enough for there to be margins.

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Hit Somebody!

View video on youtube.com

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Here is my full AutoExec.cfg file for the record:
seta r_useSMP "1"
seta sys_videoRam "512"
seta r_multiSamples "2"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_downSizeBump "0"
seta image_downSizeSpecular "0"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta image_ignoreHighQuality "0"
seta image_roundDown "0"
seta image_useCompression "0"
seta image_useNormalCompression "0"
seta image_anisotropy "16"
seta image_lodbias "0"
seta r_renderer "best"
seta sys_lang "english"
seta s_alsa_pcm "hw:0,0"
seta com_allowConsole "1"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"

When SMP works I am getting a near solid 60 FPS in most instances now. :)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: g000hNot sure if you guys have noticed, but right now FTL is 78% off on Humble Store [External Link] and not only do you get the Steam key, but DRM-free download from Humble and browser-play from Humble and iOS version too.

But the version they sell (as DRM-free) is still from 06/02/2014 :(

Strange, since the GOG.com release got the update.

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I have to admit that the first time I won FTL was by save scumming it, which involved manually moving and backing up the save files using my file manager from outside the game. Then a few attempts later I was able to win the game with no trickery using the same strategies I had used previously. Part of the problem I think is that the game itself actually does a remarkably poor job in teaching you how to defeat the flagship.

I also credit watching Kikoskia's incredibly fortunate Let's Play with helping me get there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2wyBHX_6fA&list=PLTvwKQHVid4bzdxY1nJYqFUrfPGGBwLpa [External Link]

Sometimes you just need to know that the game is in fact winnable. :|

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