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Free to play MMO 'War Thunder' has a big update with a revamped game engine
14 Mar 2018 at 10:17 pm UTC

I wonder if this improves performance on Linux because I used to play this on Windows way way back and it ran well, but when I moved to Linux i got awful frame-rates even on low settings.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 7:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: linux_gamerNever played a game like LiS, will buy the new one asap.
It's better to play the original LiS first though.

Edit: Oh, wait... Now I see what you meant :p

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 2:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KimyriellePlaying this game will feel odd to me, as I played Life is Strange, and thus already know what's going to happen to the characters in the end.
You are supposed to have played the original first. This game is written with that in mind and makes a lot of references to the original which you would miss out on if you hadn't played it.

I would never recommend anyone to play this before having played the original.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: legluondunetThe first episode works well with Wine since several release.
I will buy this one too, instantbuy for me.
Really? Last time I tried the characters were invisible which makes it completely unplayable. Glancing at winehq-appdb it seems this issue is still present.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 12:13 pm UTC

I don't think the technical details are too important for this game as long as it's stable and bug free. It's not very demanding so it should run on a potato regardless. That's a good thing. I prefer good games before fancy tech demos. The game is pretty in it's own way. It captures the art style of the original perfectly while also improving a lot on the animations which adds a lot to the characters. The animations in the original game looks very robotic once you've experienced LiS:BtS.

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 11:38 am UTC

Quoting: DrMcCoySure. But I wish the endings weren't such a Bury-Your-Gays downer, tbh.
Seen several articles on https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ [External Link] which calls the game out for this, but I'm not sure I agree.
Spoiler, click me
Out of four potentially queer characters only one is buried for sure, while another one is up to player choice.
Both of these are not the fault of Before the Storm, but the original game. There's no way Before the Storm could have changed the outcome for these characters. Also, the game is about loss and tragedy which I think is a big part of what makes it so relatable. Would it be as emotionally powerful if the developers shyed away from these themes? I doubt it. It will be interesting to see where LiS2 takes it. I don't want to see them overdo it.

Edit: Added spoiler tags

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
14 Mar 2018 at 11:20 am UTC Likes: 2

Awesome. Time for a fourth play-through then. Is that healthy? Gosh, I love these games so much.

I highly recommend this. Just keep in mind that it's not about the ending, it's about the journey.

The Linux beta of Arma 3 has been updated to 1.80, compatible with Windows again for a time
7 Mar 2018 at 10:31 am UTC

Has the flickering foliage LOD transition texture issue thingy been fixed yet?

Can you hear that? It's the Steam sales train and it's arrived, also Steam Wishlist revamp
16 Feb 2018 at 9:54 am UTC

Quoting: johndoe
Quoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.

Anyone seen this error before?
This game is great. Don't give up too fast, but it's some kind of broken when you use mesa drivers. Read here...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93551 [External Link]

Compiling the "LD_PRELOAD shim" works for me.
Quoting: Colombo
Quoting: BrisseFinally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.

Anyone seen this error before?

Its not broken mesa driver, as @johndoe says, its broken game.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/373420/discussions/0/353915309344847166/ [External Link]
Many thanks to you both! I got it working now and you probably saved me hours of troubleshooting :)

Can you hear that? It's the Steam sales train and it's arrived, also Steam Wishlist revamp
15 Feb 2018 at 10:17 pm UTC

Finally I've acquired Hollow Knight which I just played for almost 2 hours and it seems pretty cool, and Divinity: Original Sin EE which I tried to launch but it just crashes instead. Bedtime now so I'll have to investigate that tomorrow, but worst case scenario I'd just get a refund but I really would like to get it working.

Anyone seen this error before?