Quoting: einherjarDoes Multiplayer coop work well with steamplay?
Perhaps it is something that I can play with my son.

Yep, Multiplayer just works.

Quoting: einherjarIs there any motivation in the game, to do things? Or is it just "Sandbox: Do something or not, doesn't really matter"?

No Mans Sky has a story you can experience, and there are certain abilities you can learn and master. To be able to do certains things, you need to e.g. find or craft the materials first, and to be able to get those you need to do other things first etc.
It depends on if you like exploring a lot, as imho most of No Mans Sky fascination is coming from exploration.
Also there is a lot of hidden lore, and even more with the latest update, which is not obvious at all. But iirc if you once made it to the center of the galaxy the "story" is over (I didn't complete it yet, so don't take my word for it).

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This is so cool! Time to sink more time into it :D
Thank you so much Hello Games.

I'm just wondering though, do they know that lots of Linux gamers are playing No Mans Sky, or did e.g. Valve approach them?

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Hm... Discord isn't that small company any more, that could use the excuse they have no staff nor budget to implement this. Though I'm using Discord in the meantime on a daily bases, probably the amount of Linux (and Mac) users is as small as in the rest of the gaming world. This bumps us down to reality, showing us we still are a too small market to get first class support. Mostly, there are exceptions of course.

Just a heads up, though we can't broadcast from the Linux Steam client, we can use OBS to stream to our Steam profiles: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/broadcast/setting_up [External Link]

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That's kinda funny, as they said already with the announcement of Everspace 2 they are going to have Early Access on Steam, but People went like: yeah, sure, and you're still going to be an Epic exclusive.

Well, I can't blame those people, we've been disappointed more than once with promises of Linux support and Steam releases, and then the Game went Epic exclusive -.-

But Rockfish Games wants to build up trust in indie developers, publishers and studios again, they really have the intention to keep their promises. As they have proven already in the past. I mean, no one knows what the future brings... so if they are offered several 10 millions of dollars... who knows, everyone has their price.

From how I got to know RFG and especially Michael Schade, they are keen to try new things (Everspace classic is literally available everywhere!*), but they also know who their fans are and they don't want to lose them.

* Everspace 1 is now called Everspace classic, and the game is available on PC (Linux, Mac, Windows), consoles (Nintendo Switch, PS4, XBox One), each store (at release time: Steam, GOG, Humble), for every input device (Keyboard/MoveMaster + Mouse, Controller, HOTAS) and even for VR!

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Among others, also the Linux gaming community expresses our deepest condolences.

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The demo on Steam works perfectly with Proton. I'm wondering, why that's Windows only, while having a demo for Linux on GoG.

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Mumble "just" does what it's meant for: voice chat. And that is does brilliantly.
Discord is more like a bit of everything, voice chat, chatting (like irc with channels), video chat, streaming (lately), even game distribution...
I still prefer Mumble over Discord, as I can host it myself, so I have full control over it and nothing is monitored. Also with Mumble I can do a fancy audio setup, where I can filter channels for streaming, when people don't want to be audible on stream. That's just not possible with Discord (yet).
Again it's more like, the right tool for the right task. And Mumble does an awesome job for voice chatting.

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The GamesCom demo was already feeling pretty much like a playable thing. Even with more than 5 hours of gameplay! And I didn't even see everything (It was pointed out to me there were some more little quests/activities). People were asking if it was already released as it did look like a finished game.

So I'm very interested to see what the Kickstarter playable demo will be like.
Though we'll have to wait for a native release until 2021, I'm sure we can play it with Proton in the meantime. Can't wait to get my hands on it! Though I have to wait now a month longer.

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Quoting: Torqachu

Quoting: CorbenCEG protected executable.

Like Warhammer 40.000 Space Marine... is no good playing with an "alternative" exe...

CEG and mfplat are my number one foes. :><:

I was only successful with Aliens vs Predator (2010), where you can use the CEG protectd executable from a wine or windows steam install from the same machine. If you then also fake the date (on some days the game crashes, on certain days it works flawless), it works in Proton. But that didn't work yet with any other CEG protected executable. Well, at least those games work flawless in wine Steam.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CorbenAliens: Colonial Marines

Oh? Now this I have to see.

Edit: Eh I guess it needs some .NET fixes? Doesn't load.

Maybe not only .NET but it's also a CEG protected [External Link] executable. I used wine for this and installed D9VK manually, to get Steam running I was using -no-cef-sandbox as parameter for Steam.

But people report it installs fine with Lutris [External Link] as well.

edit: you can see the Alien shader glitches in a VOD here [External Link].

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