Quoting: GuppyIs there anyway to get proton to spit out some usefull debug info?

Not sure. You could try DXVK_LOG_LEVEL=debug and messing around with WINEDEBUG [External Link], but it's not something I've ever looked into in any detail, and I don't know if Proton's implementation is the same as vanilla Wine.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI just wonder if this game is going to have the right "feel" being on the Unreal Engine. It might look like a Half-Life game, but will it feel like one?

There's a section about it in this Half-Life documentary [External Link] (highly recommended, by the way). They seem to have spent quite a lot of effort in making sure it does.

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Quoting: GuppyAny tips for getting past that?

Sorry. :( It worked perfectly for me with that fix. Weird that it fails the same way on both machines though, with different hardware. A distro issue, maybe?

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Quoting: GuestUnfortunately I was not able to get LEGO Lord of the Rings to work with Proton ._. but had not much time to fiddle around with the prefix.

It just needs DX9 via winetricks:

WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/compatdata/214510/pfx winetricks directx9
(You might also need to set WINEARCH=win64, depending on the default for your distro.)

It seems to work fine, although I've only played the intro/tutorial. I'm still finishing off The Hobbit.

As I said the other day, I think the Lego games lost a lot of their charm when they started voicing the characters, but they're still a lot of fun, even as a bit of a guilty pleasure for us grown-ups. :) (Two free Lego games in as many weeks? Now I know it's Christmas.)

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Quoting: DuncAll I'll say is that the idea that only certain man-made things qualify as Art is a very recent one in the scale of human history.

Is Linux art?

I said not to get me started. :) But yes, of course.

Quoting: devnullArt is by nature subjective and yes that includes porn. That doesn't mean all porn is a masterpiece nor that you must agree with someone else's interpretation.

Precisely. As I say, to my mind anything fashioned by humans is art. The question isn't whether it's art or not; it's whether it's skillful art or hamfisted art, powerful art or bland art, art which enlightens or art which degrades... there are many distinctions which could be made between “good” art and “bad” art; it depends on what form that art takes. And, as you say, even those interpretations are, to a great degree (although I wouldn't say entirely), subjective.

(Crikey, this is all getting a bit highbrow for Christmas, isn't it? :) )

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Quoting: FredOI'm finally getting Helium Rain. I haven't played a space trading type game since Freelancers! I had hoped they would bring Elite Dangerous to Linux at some point, but it never happened...

I've been keeping an eye on ED in the Proton DB. It's moved up from Borked to Bronze, with a few Gold reports, so maybe soon...

Quoting: KetilI disagree, video games are art as long as the components of the game are combined with the purpose of realizing a vision. Disqualifying all games from being art, will in my opinion also disqualify a lot of films, and a lot of music from being art.

Don't get me started. All I'll say is that the idea that only certain man-made things qualify as Art is a very recent one in the scale of human history.

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Now, that's interesting. I was about to agree with everyone who's saying it's disappointing, because when I checked my wishlist at about 7.30GMT (after voting in the Awards, so yes, the sale had started) considerably less than half of it was discounted. But now almost everything is. Weird.

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I'm not really a big fan of multiplayer, so that didn't bother me much, however I can't deny that the game has always felt as if it's lacking something. Even if you didn't know, you could almost guess from playing it that it was probably originally intended to be multiplayer.

That said, I've had a lot of fun out of it. It just lacks variety and any real sense of purpose once you've got food and water production going. There's a sort of difficulty gap: exploration is fun until you've seen all the biomes, and then, presumably, a search for the alien artifacts is supposed to take over. But that's a much more daunting prospect, since you basically have to cover the entire surface of the planet to find them. As I say, more variety - different biomes (some kind of parametric variations on the existing ones, maybe), more animal and plant types - might make that a more interesting experience.

But I wouldn't be too tough on Craneballs. What they set out to do is really hard - probably harder than they realised - and, multiplayer excepted, it's about 80-90% there. It just needs more interest to really hook you in.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThe only thing they need to look into at this point is performance, as you still cannot build very large cities without them starting to lag fairly significantly and taking ages to load.

I have cities I built back when it came out that I can no longer load. Having to significantly upgrade your hardware (and it's not as if I haven't upgraded at all) to continue playing the same game isn't really on.

But yes, that aside, at its core it's about as close to the perfect city builder as there's ever been.

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It also affects the menus in Planet Nomads, across the entire screen (for me, at least, but I wonder if that's something to do with the resolution or aspect ratio; I'm still on 1280x1024). The fix works. I didn't know you could force recent versions of Unity to use Vulkan. Interesting.

Quoting: EhvisThe interesting bit for me is that the distortion affects the steam overlay bit. Combine that with the top screenshot which shows the game screen that is under the text box, it looks like an issue with the way overlays are used in Unity games.

I think so. As I say, it only affects the menus in PN. (And the logo on the loading screen, but it makes sense that it would rendered the same way over the background image.)

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