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The gorgeous ocean adventure & survival game 'Make Sail' enters Early Access in March
20 Mar 2018 at 3:03 am UTC Likes: 1

This game really got me exited. There's a somewhat similar game, The Last Levitathan, but Make Sail seems more concentrated in exploration and expanding your ship.

Sure buy the moment it hits Steam.

Tannenberg & Verdun FPS games updated, Linux versions have some big input issues
8 Mar 2018 at 6:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheSHEEEPSomeone must explain to me what they find about these games.

I didn't play Tannenberg, but Verdun.

My experience was this:
Get spawned.
4 second later: Die
Spawn.
Die.
Slowly sneak along to the - die.
Spawn.
Try and catch up to the moving frontline - die.
Spawn.
Throw a grenade. Killed someone!
Die.
Spawn.
Be extra careful, moving at snail speed and around bushes. Survive at least 15 seconds. Don't move an inch.
Kill the fool that just spawned. Kill the fool that tries to sneak. Kill the fool running towards the frontline.
Need to move now.
Die.
Repeat a few times.
Quit the game. Uninstall. Took about 20 minutes.

And I played with 3 friends. Only the one who suggested the game had any fun.
The rest was as quick to move on to other games as I was.

I honestly don't get it. Why would you play a shooter in which moving means certain death?
I like my shooters skill-based, run balls blazing into the hellfire of enemies, dodge with superior reflexes, kill with superior aim - well, or die trying. In Verdun, I had the feeling both movement and aiming are almost irrelevant. As long as you can aim somewhat surely, an enemy in your sight is insta-dead. Just as you are.
Pick a good place, camp around, get some kills. Compared to the like of UT, CSGO, etc. it just seems.... boring.

So... someone PLEASE explain how this can be considered enjoyable, because obviously there are some enjoying this.
Believe me, this game is tons of fun. It thrives to be "realistic", so single player "rambo tactics" won't work and you'll prob. get killed. You need to follow your squad and play as a group. Also, always stay in cover, if you shoot out of cover you'll prob. get killed before you get to safety.

Tannenberg & Verdun FPS games updated, Linux versions have some big input issues
8 Mar 2018 at 6:49 pm UTC

Oh, I was experiencing that bug yesterday. Good to know it's already reported.

WWI FPS 'Tannenberg' to get a good performance bump
2 Mar 2018 at 10:28 pm UTC

Quoting: DamonLinuxPLI hope to see new content for this game soon. Maybe they can release expansion like Polish-Bolshevik war? :D
Russian civil war, with "reds", "whites" and "blacks". Nah, I know I'm asking for too much. :D

Learning to game-dev on Linux: Resolutiion is a Zelda-like in the making
28 Feb 2018 at 8:11 pm UTC Likes: 3

Great article. Count me in for a copy.

King of Fighters 2002 is currently free on GOG, plus a bunch of titles on sale
25 Feb 2018 at 3:18 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestThe rom that comes with KOF2002 in gog works with MAME 0.194. Its a way better way to play the game.
Indeed, not only it runs better, you can run other KoF games and the controllers work.

Depth of Extinction, a turn-based tactics roguelike with RPG elements set underwater, it's good
14 Feb 2018 at 1:25 am UTC

Proud to say I got it since the first build on Itch.io ?
Haven't played much of it, though. It's promising, I love the cyberpunk Waterworld setting.

Starmancer, a space station sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress will have Linux support, looks awesome
14 Feb 2018 at 1:09 am UTC

Sounds just like my type of game. Also, I follow the devs and they used Blender 3D for modeling.

King of Fighters 2002 is currently free on GOG, plus a bunch of titles on sale
14 Feb 2018 at 12:56 am UTC

Thanks for the heads up! I already got my copy of KoF 2002, sadly I can't get any controller to work. :(

I'll post if I find a working setup. I really love to play this on Linux, since I played a lot of KoF 95/98 way back.