Quoting: Guest(…) I like being able to roll back versions at my discretion. (…)

Serious question: How do you do that?

I only know two choices using Galaxy or keeping the old installers on an external HDD. The first option does not work on Linux and the second one is cumbersome, really cumbersome. I know that because I keep several installers for some games and it wastes a lot of space.

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Quoting: GuestThat's all nice and all but I for myself don't care that much about Updates. When it runs and I can finish the Game why bother? At least that's how I feel about that. And for Multiplayer and such I myself don't care. I was and will be a Singleplayer Guy. And for the rest like Automatic here and there I call lazyness. Before Steam there was no such thing either and everyone was okay with it.

According to some developers, like Tim from Twice Circled, no Galaxy on Linux is equal to no Linux version on GOG. Obviously that is based on a serious misunderstanding, but as he has refused/neglected to answer my questions, I assume that the missing library package (i.e. the Steam runtime) is the problem, although that could be included in the GOG version as well. Who knows?

GOG is very bad at contacting developers through their preferred channel according to some of them that I contacted in cases where the GOG version was behind some time. Some of the games were updated on the following day. It's baffling, but it seems that GOG are as bad at communicating with the developers/publishers as they are when dealing with customers. Other developers promised an update very soon when I contacted them three months after the update hit Steam and that update is still not there almost 18 months later.

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And there are the abandoned games on GOG that lag several years behind the Steam version. And some games have updated Windows and Mac versions, but the Linux version is outdated. Obviously that is not only GOG's fault, but they are a part of that problem.

@Shmerl: According to elcook GOG is doing fine. And you know how accurate and honest he usually is.

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Quoting: Lakorta(…) During the "pay a few bucks and get a random game" they gave refunds to Linux users if they got a Windows game. (…)

Yes, I've read that as well, but that does not have anything to do with Linux. They refund every random game if the user does not want it and it has not been downloaded.

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Is Galaxy ready? Where is the Linux version? Where are the sane choices made during the development that are non-invasive. They've added Galaxy-based telemetry to many of the games (e.g. Witcher 3) that tries to phone home if you do not block it by your firewall.

It's part of many Windows “offline” installers that can only be circumvented by using innoextract which does not work on some installers because GOG choose to use a beta version (5.6.2) of Inno Setup that does not exist anymore, because they've decided to skip ahead to 6.0.0. I've been updating my offline backup this month and I've looked into some of the “internal” changes. It's Galaxy that seems to be run during the normal installation process.

At least the missing Linux version of Galaxy means that there are some clean installers.

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Quoting: rea987If it's solely based on EDuke32, I doubt physics and weapons handling is authentic to original Blood. Therefore, I personally prefer BloodDGX.

Contrary to BloodGDX, it can play the original demos without desyncing. That is a strong indication of authenticity.

It's open source. I've read that BloodGDX's source code should be release some time, but there has not been any sign it.

And it's not written in Java.

IMO the lighting/shading in BloodGDX looks off.

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Quoting: RandomGamerI've just killed my first Bolter, and Doc just got kidnapped after I delivered a tissue sample, so I think I'm about to go somewhere called The Pit.

My advice would be to stall it until you complete all available non-story missions. ;-)

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Quoting: RandomGamerBought Dying Light on the recent Steam sale. Story and characters are a bit meh, but I really do like how the game plays. About 30 hours in and only 28% of the game finished, so can’t complain about content. It is also creepy as hell when night kicks in. Hardly any jump scares, just an eerie atmosphere.

7/10

I don't know at what point of the story you're at exactly, but it will get more meh over time. IMO it's very annoying because the gameplay and the atmosphere are so good.

I'm curious what your opinion of the game's ending (and the ending of the DLC) will be.

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I haven't played anything this weekend, unless you count wrangling Qt as a game.

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Quoting: Code ArtisanThe real problem here is that Easy Anti-Cheat on Windows is working through a kernel module. Kamu can't port that module to Linux because of the GPL license which would force them to provide the source code. As of now, when EAC detects Wine, a stub module is downloaded instead of the normal one.

Like the non-existing NVIDIA binary blob? If anyone is desperate enough to accept kernel level spyware (which any anti-cheat gizmo has to be) to play a game, they are free to taint their kernel.

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Quoting: Tchey(…)Unless i've missed something.

If it was cheaper now the backers that payed more to get earlier testing access during the Kickstarter campaign would feel cheated.

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