Well this isn't just about last week...

Finished Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the main story, a while ago (Origins and Odyssey run very well on Proton!). Becomes very repetitive at the end, so lacked the motivation to go through the DLCs as even the beginning looked pretty similar, just a different map.

Then started to go through my list on steam, as the number of unplayed but interesting titles grew larger and larger...

Tomb Raider Underworld: Nice old one, runs fine in Proton if you switch of anti-aliasing, but way too buggy. Could have been much more fun otherwise.

Tomb Raider Anniversary: Played a third or so of it, then got annoyed by bats that take half a magazine, crazy boss fight, etc., so abandoned it.

Control Ultimate Edition: Very interesting story, not the usual stuff, was lots of fun to play. And also very good performance on Proton. The fight's can get pretty intense, but there's an easy mode, so you can focus on the story if you prefer that.

State of Mind: Also one with a very interesting story. Though: I hate low poly graphics. And considering the graphics it was horrible to see how much GPU it needed to display that. Disappointing, but only by the performance / efficiency of the engine. Other than that, it's a good game.

Now I started Everreach: Project Eden. The controls behave a bit weird (well looks like a direct console port) and by the landscape you can't see where you're able to go or not. It's not depending on the slope of the ground but there's weird invisible walls so you need to look at the map very often, especially in narrow regions...
But story wise it already looks very interesting and so far I like it.
One of the developers / game designers worked on the Mass Effect Triology before and you clearly see that in the game. Im only 20% in but I'd say it could easily be some kind of prequel to the Mass Effect Triology. Even some menu items, the mouse pointer, etc. look pretty familiar.

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Horror is not a game style I like, but I'm always in for a good story. So this is good news for me. And as it's also on sale right now, I'll take a look...

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Quoting: EhvisSteam says 2.2% of its users own a VR headset. The GOL statistics have 16% registered with a VR headset. Makes me wonder if VR ownership is really that high on Linux on whether it is a very selective data set.

The last time the Steam Survey popped up for me (for me it always shows up at the beginning of a year) it didn't recognize my VR equipment. So I suspect the number from Steam might be too low.

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Quoting: poisond

Quoting: peta77The reason why they officially don't support Linux, was that it only worked 100% on AMD GPUs for Linux. Do I remember that correctly? Does anyone know what the current status of that is? Because if it doesn't work as good with an Nvidia GPU even the current price is way too high for me.

Async re-projection isn't supported on nvidia, so you need a GPU that is fast enough if you don't want stuttering. But it ran flawlessly on a 1080ti at max settings.
On the AMD side I experienced various rendering bugs and graphics glitches so ... meh.

OK, I bought it now; about half an hour into playing it. Best looking VR game I've seen so far. Up til now runs flawlessly on ultra-settinsg. Really great how they reproduced they Halflife universe in VR and how many details there are. Though many of the stuff is not really usable. But still nice and adds to the atmosphere. Guess I'll be spending some time on it the next days...

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The reason why they officially don't support Linux, was that it only worked 100% on AMD GPUs for Linux. Do I remember that correctly? Does anyone know what the current status of that is? Because if it doesn't work as good with an Nvidia GPU even the current price is way too high for me.

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Why haven't you heard of it before? Come on, Lichess obviously is an abbreviation for "Liam's Chess"! :wink: :tongue: :grin:

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: denyasisThe GIS import seems really interesting. Imagine levels based off real world locations. Could be really neat for strategy and FPS and builder games and others.

I can imagine it might be particularly handy for the military/industry simulations whizse mentions.

That totally makes sense. I've seen some renders from GIS software and it looks pretty sweet.

It also comes in handy if you're lazy creating a landscape on your own but know some place (and have actual data) which fits your needs. Unfortunately that feature (as well as some other landscape tools within unigine) are not part of the community edition :sad:
You'll need the sim/engineering edition... and that one costs about 6k $ ... per year that is! :cry:

And it doesn't recognize my spacemouse, even in the editor... There's a request which is 4 years old, but nothing happened. I'd have thought, it's something you'd have as one of the essential features, especially if it's targeted at engineering as well where usage of 3d-mice is very common..

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: x_wingWake me up when they release office.

Unlikely. MS wants everybody to use Office 365 anyway, and is very likely to make local versions less and less desirable over time, until the elbowed everybody into their cloud. The last thing they're likely going to do is add new platforms to stand-alone office.

Didn't they already announce there'd be no further standalone versions? Or somewhere in the near future. That's going to be a wonderful time for people when required to store everything in the cloud. Especially considering a newspaper article I recently read, where they reported on how quite a few Microsoft cloud accounts got suddenly disabled without any notice or explanation and people had a hard time to get them re-enabled to get back access to their personal stuff (of which they of course didn't make a backup somewhere else as cloud storage is super-safe). Seems that they are using some kind of bot / AI to make such decisions. And decisions those things make are still rather questionable, depending on the learning process.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxI believe the main purpose of this browser is to ensure that the Office 365 suite has a browser they can test against, and guarantee the service works with. Large enterprise customers demand solutions that are cross-platform as they have often mixed environments. So the browser could perhaps be a good thing, maybe a sign of Microsoft moving towards providing platform agnostic services/software rather than forcing Windows down everyone's throats :tongue:

office 365 works without any problems with firefox on linux... we have it at work and i didn't have any problems yet (ok, i still use thunderbird and libreoffice most of the time)...

but maybe they intend to add additional stuff which then only will work with their browser but they don't want to anger the linux business users; they can then just say: "use our browser, it's also available on linux, everything else is rubbish anyway"... that would be the pessimistic outlook...

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i'm very happy with all the possibilities and the privacy options i have with firefox (or torbrowser on web-sites that don't block it), so i don't see any reason to switch (i don't use netflix or something else that requires edge)... but it's actually something good for linux when more applications, even from microsoft, get ported to linux.. that should increase its relevance and could make it more attractive to other users who are not happy with ms windows as it lowers the bar for switching with more of the known environment becoming available, so not much gets lost.. hopefully other big software companies join in soon to port their stuff, that could give linux a real boost...

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