I was looking quite hard at purchasing Black Mesa yesterday. I never did play the original Half Life, but thoroughly enjoyed HL2 back in the day. Can anyone tell me if BM has LAN multiplayer, and if so, is there PvP?

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Arg! My wallet hurts! There goes my house deposit...

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Quoting: Mountain ManAt this point, what is the best Ubuntu alternative?

I've had exactly one problem with Manjaro since I switched right after Ubuntu's first announcement dropping 32bit support, and I found the solution in two minutes using a quick search on DuckDuckGo.

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Borderlands 2, of course. That seven-year-old game is still amazing.

Oh, and Liam, after reading GoL's articles about Ubuntu dropping 32bit support soon... I also switched to Manjaro this morning! Of course, I had to install lib32-openal myself before Borderlands 2 would work...

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Yay, more Borderlands 2! No Linux version? *sadface*

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But... but... I haven't yet finished playing Borderlands 2!

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Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: PieOrCakeMy two sons and I play Borderlands 2 together almost every day; two on Kubuntu and one on Windows 7. Yesterday's update breaking cross platform multiplayer was all the prompt we needed to finally replace Win7 with Linux. It's good that the update will eventually be coming to Linux, but we want to keep playing NOW.

A person switching to Linux is always positive !

But if the one on Win7 wants to play Fortnite or Apex with his friends, perhaps running Borderlands 2 via Proton is also an alternative ?

Thankfully neither of my boys have expressed any interest whatsoever in these new fangled "Battle Royale" games. They're happy just playing on our LAN.

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That looks like it could induce chronic giggling in my house. Wishlisted.

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My two sons and I play Borderlands 2 together almost every day; two on Kubuntu and one on Windows 7. Yesterday's update breaking cross platform multiplayer was all the prompt we needed to finally replace Win7 with Linux. It's good that the update will eventually be coming to Linux, but we want to keep playing NOW.

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...and made by an Aussie, partly as a labour of love. If you haven't already, read the backstory about him developing this game, saving up his money, quitting his job and moving to Brazil, doing more development... it's quite interesting.

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