Looks like it was a good decision to postpone a bit. Had I bought back when I looked at prices, it would have been a B450 motherboard, since X570 were stupidly expensive. Hopefully their prices will be more reasonable whenever the new hardware is out. Intention right now is to get an AMD CPU + GPU.

May not have mattered all that much tbh, because I tend to keep whatever hardware I buy for 5+ years and not upgrade a CPU for example, but it's nice to have the option, and to be more future proof.

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Been playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker [External Link] for a couple of weeks, and intensely for the last few days. Lots of fun. Great game.

Was difficult during character creation, I spent about 3 hours, because there are sooooo many options and things to consider. Opted for an Aasimar Sorcerer in the end, largely because I played a sorcerer in Baldur's Gate 2, so at least I knew a bit how it worked.

It is released natively for Linux, and works flawlessly. Sadly the sequel hasn't been promised for Linux yet, but I hope they will do that. It's Unity after all, so stuff like that is relatively easy. Like one developer said, it's basically just toggling a button when building the game. That's simplified ofc, but I do hope they release Wrath of the Righteous on Linux too. Will be an instant buy if they do.

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Really look forward to this. Cinnamon and Mint is great :)

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Admittedly many block-y games look similar... but is this in any way related to the "Timber and Stone" game or the people behind it? It looks very, very similar. Art style, colours, text.

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I read "Kill EA" on that shirt. Let's just pretend I wasn't wrong.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI think I already have everything I want from this bundle. For anyone who still hasn't played it, I recently installed Bioshock remastered under Proton and played an hour or so. It seems to be working well.

Nice. Just bought it on GOG a few hours ago, so it's good to hear it will likely run well on Linux. Had intended to play the classic version, but sounds like the remaster is okay now? Heard it was very liable to crashing.

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Sad they don't have any actual games. Makes the whole thing Worth less than the 1 euro they require.

Make humble bundle great again 😞

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[Valve] said it will "eventually help some DRM and anti-cheat systems"—so it's interesting to see more of this in upstream Wine.

Yuck!!! x10000000 :><:

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For those with a GOG account, please put in a vote here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/zoria_age_of_shattering [External Link]

(GOG and formatting.. well. I tried :huh: )

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Quoting: NeLeSHey everyone,

Thank you all for your comments and feedback. To answer a few issues discussed here:

Regarding difficulty, we made some improvements to AI in the latest patch and still analyzing whether this inadvertently pushed the difficulty level higher that we would want it. In this case there probably will be a small patch to fix this specific issue. The packs that gave you trouble are harder than the rest, but should have been defeated within 1-2 saves, max, as long as all points are spent and all abilities are unlocked to about level 5 - that should be easily achieved by that time. We'll look into this issue.

Thank you all again for your feedback,
Stefan

Thank you for the thorough reply, Stefan. Unfortunately not the first time I've heard this about GOG's process, and I've seen some uproars in the forum about games they rejected. Really hope they accept you, however, as I only buy DRM Free games these days, and steam and its sidekick Humble is not an option (I miss the good old Humble Bundle). Alternatively, it would be cool to be able to get it directly from you guys, but I don't know how expensive or resource intensive such solutions are. I know RimWorld does it, so I bought it there. Win-win. They get 100% of the money (I hear GOG and Steam has a 30% take), while I get it DRM free.

Regarding the quote above... Yikes! They completely wiped the floor with me, and I tried 4 or 5 times, not being close a single time. Some in my group were level 7 at the time, and I had spent all points on skills and attributes, having invested many points into stamina to increase the life pool. Even in combat before this one, the mage would sometimes die outright when the enemies attacked, without being able to get her turn. Enemies seem to often target the weak foes like the mage, so she'd often go down fast. The Taunt ability was very useful in that regard (but obviously not if I don't get a turn to use it before she dies). However, in this particular fight the odds were too stacked against us, and generally two people would be dead more or less off the bat, and trying to take down 4-5 skellies was impossible.

I liked the flow in combat, though, and that it hopefully won't be too overly complex. I prefer RTwP in RPGs of this sort because combat is more fluid and typically faster (despite often heavily used Pause, like in the Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity games). Turn-based games sometimes take very, very long to slog through simple combat, which is one of the things I didn't like all that much with Wasteland 2.

And I suppose that at some point characters will have more than 2 AP, so it would for instance be possible to move and also do a 2 AP attack.

Incidentally, this was one of the challenges I had with the skellies behind that two-orb door. We are bunched up at the start of combat. I tried to trigger it in different ways, but we are generally always bunched up, which often has the consequence of needing to move to attack, because somebody else are in the way (no line of sight). The skellies have some ranged attacks as well, so they don't really need to get face to face. But once they are, they will hit us twice. I can try to hit them twice back, or I can try to heal or put up a buff. And then there are 4-5 of them, each able to hit us twice, and each attack does more damage than we often deal out with two attacks. And they have AoE. So yeah... that was rather difficult.

Maybe I'm still doing things wrong, but I do use many of the abilities, like trying to pin down somebody and so forth. I'm new to the game ofc and hadn't even heard about it before. But perhaps that is good feedback anyway. Playtesters and the like probably know everything inside and out :P

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