abarbarian Posted January 6, 2024 Posted January 6, 2024 2 minutes ago, securitybreach said: BTW Heroic Games Launcher is a good epic alternative for Linux since Epic doesn't offer one: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/ It's in the AUR on arch I run Epic games through Lutris. Well I run one Epizoic game through Lutris. I bought Red Dead Redemption 2 in the sale as They gave me an extra discount for some reason so it only cost me £13. To be truthful I am finding it a bit like watching paint dry at the moment. An I seem to die a lot. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted February 24, 2024 Posted February 24, 2024 Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam Quote Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, which is an open source version of the classic Star Control 2, has managed to get a Steam release from Pistol Shrimp Games. The developer team includes both of the original designers Paul Reiche and Fred Ford and they're currently working on The Ur-Quan Masters 2. The second video on the steam page is a real hoot and like travelling back in time. The game was originally made in 1992 and open sourced in 2002. The Ur-Quan Masters - home site Quote The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page. Welcome to The BonePit Quote Here you will find The Ur-Quan Masters HD MEGAMOD, a mod that takes the best of the Ur-Quan Master's mods and rolls them up into one big "Mega" mod. Building upon the latest Ur-Quan Masters source code I've made an expansive mod which includes HD-mod, HD-Remix, Nic's Extended mod, and my personal mods which range from quality of life changes and extra modes to making the HD portions of the game look more faithful to the original design. Though not everything is going to be perfect and a few things will still stand out. I believe classic Star Control II fans will favor this version over the previous incarnation of the HD-mod. The above is the version available on Arch uqm-megamod 0.8.2-3 Lots of extra packages for Arch https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=+The+Ur-Quan+Masters&outdated=&SB=n&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go The Ur-Quan Masters HD MegaMod - GitHub 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted February 28, 2024 Posted February 28, 2024 Dungeons & Dragons 50th Anniversary – my memories of the grandaddy of gaming Quote As the fountainhead of interactive entertainment celebrates its golden jubilee GameCentral reminisces on five decades of old school role-playing. March 2024 will see Dungeons & Dragons turn 50, Quote Last year saw what many would call the most faithful video game adaption of D&D so far, with Baldur’s Gate 3. Video games have been trying to recreate D&D, both officially and unofficially, for decades, with some of the very earliest video games being directly influenced by it. In fact, it’s almost impossible to imagine modern video games without the influence of tabletop games. Dungeons & Dragons Turns 50! See How We're Celebrating Our Gold Anniversary Quote Festivities kick off in March with a free tournament-style adventure you can play at your local game store, conventions, or at home with your friends. We're also giving you a sneak peek at upcoming books and brand partnerships. To help you sport your love of D&D, you can download a special 50th anniversary wallpaper for your desktop or mobile device that highlights the kind of stunning art you'll find in the 2024 core rulebooks. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted March 9, 2024 Posted March 9, 2024 Humble's Heroines Bundle Features 8 Female-Led Games For $15 Quote Humble is celebrating International Women's Day with two variations of the Humble Heroines bundle, a package of games featuring female protagonists. To lean into the celebration even further, the charities associated with these bundles are dedicated to helping women programmers and game developers. The deal features either 8 games for $15, or 5 for $10. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted April 19, 2024 Posted April 19, 2024 (edited) This is what started me on this adventure. Did not realize it was a on-line game or how many hoops I would have to jump through to make it work. Trouble is I can not resist a freebie especially as I have paid for Prime.You just have to get your moneys worth don't you. Claim a free copy of Fallout 76 with Amazon Prime Quote For a limited time only, get a code to redeem the full Fallout 76 game on the Microsoft Store. This offer is for PC only. Prime members may claim one game code for Fallout 76 from April 11, 2024, to May 15, 2024. The code will be eligible for redemption on the Microsoft Store until June 14, 2024. Logged into Amazon got the game, easy peasy. Never read the blurb. Fallout 76 Fired up Heroic and, what !! no game, but other Amazon games are there. Hmmmmmmmmm. Back to Amazon, read the blurb. Darn it I need to sign my life away to Microsoft. Over to here, redeem-a-gift-card-or-code-to-your-microsoft-account Which took me to here, login.microsoftonline.com Which finally got me here, Redeem your code or gift card Whew that was long trail. OK now back to Heroic, what no game !! Stuff this I'll try Lutris, what no game. Hmmmmm. As I have some Amazon games and may get some more in the future. I thought I would use the Amazon Games App through Lutris. Thinking that my Fallout 76 was not a steam game I could not install and run it through steam (I was wrong in this assumption). https://lutris.net/games/amazon-games-app/ Darn it !!! it works but only shows the same Amazon games as Heroic does, no good for me but it may be of use for other folk. What to do ? Lutris has a Fallout 76 install file but it is for steam. Stuff it I'll give it a go. https://lutris.net/games/fallout-76/ Use the plain steam version, the top entry. Whoopee !!! it works. Well it installs and you can start the game. Then it asks you to log in to the Bethesda site. Darn I have no Bethesda account.Drat another hoop to jump through. Over to Bethesda and make an account. Back to Lutris or Steam, both work to launch the game. An Bethesda refuses to log me in. Darn I am sure I gave the right details, manually and painfully, as Copy + Paste does not seem to work. Darn still no log in. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Seems you have to link your Bethesda account with Steam though the site, https://bethesda.net Then the game will work. So far have only had a few hours in as am still getting used to it and it took a while to choose my character. So hard to decide whether to use lipstick or not, do I look too fat or too thin. When I say the game runs ok, it does, trouble is quitting. Yes I know you should never quit a game, but a fellow has to eat and rest. The ESC key will not do anything and there is once you start the game no way to get to the main menu. Luckily I run Window Maker so I just ALT + One Key and swap work spaces, fire up htop and kill the game. I run my games in a separate work space as I have had similar problems before. It is much easier than CTRL + ALT + F2 to a new tty and killing the game from there. I am running Arch + Window Maker fully updated with a nvidia GTX 1070 proprietary drivers on a 2560x1440 165 Hz monitor, ASRock B650E Taichi mobo, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D cpu, nvme 1 TB SHPP41-1000GM, with steam on a internal nvme A-Data SX8200PNP. I have gamemode running through systemd. Steam uses Proton experimental. I have the game on full Ultra settings. The games runs smoothly and graphics look very good. Enjoy folks This is a good article to read for new players who prefer single palyer playing. Can you play Fallout 76 single player? And should you? Edited April 19, 2024 by abarbarian 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 Hmmmm it seems the screenshots have disappeared in the Fallout post above. Par for the course it seems. After logging in and out of the game several times I thought that the game had installed ok. Well it had but when I went to start it he next day it would not do so and gave a message that there was no paid for copy. So it looks like the Lutris script worked but with some steam settings. Guess it would as it was a steam specific script that it used. Tried a couple of ways to load the game but none worked, could not find a way to download the game from Microsoft. So I gave up and paid for the game on Steam as it was heavily discounted and I quite like the Fallout universe. The game was made by morons. Who on earth makes a game today where you can not press ESC to get to the main menue ? Your right the moranic Fallout 76 developers. You have to open the map then press Z to make it to the main menue. Clicking on exit to desktop freezes the game and you have to fiddle about to close the game which is a real pain. Quote
securitybreach Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 I wasn't a fan of Fallout76 as it is mostly just a multiplayer spinoff of the original games. Fallout 4 is probably my favorite after 3 and New Vegas. Quote
abarbarian Posted April 23, 2024 Posted April 23, 2024 21 hours ago, securitybreach said: I wasn't a fan of Fallout76 as it is mostly just a multiplayer spinoff of the original games. Fallout 4 is probably my favorite after 3 and New Vegas. 4 was brilliant, never played 3. 76 can be played single player and is pretty decent but not brilliant. I sort of agree about the movie but then a lot of complicated tv series can be like that, full of seemingly unrelated bits that only come together after a while.Looking forward to the next series though. 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted April 23, 2024 Posted April 23, 2024 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: 4 was brilliant, never played 3. 76 can be played single player and is pretty decent but not brilliant. I sort of agree about the movie but then a lot of complicated tv series can be like that, full of seemingly unrelated bits that only come together after a while.Looking forward to the next series though. The latest series was great and had a lot of things from the game series in it. I would suggest a watch Quote
abarbarian Posted April 26, 2024 Posted April 26, 2024 On 4/23/2024 at 10:50 AM, securitybreach said: The latest series was great and had a lot of things from the game series in it. I would suggest a watch Yeah already watched it. Looking forward to the next season 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted April 26, 2024 Posted April 26, 2024 3 minutes ago, abarbarian said: Yeah already watched it. Looking forward to the next season Me too 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted May 22, 2024 Posted May 22, 2024 The five-year journey to make an adventure game out of ink and paper Quote “I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas, a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam. The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach. Quote “I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas, a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam. The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach. Neat effort. Quote
securitybreach Posted May 22, 2024 Posted May 22, 2024 While that is neat, I couldnt play that as its too distracting. Quote
abarbarian Posted May 23, 2024 Posted May 23, 2024 9 hours ago, securitybreach said: While that is neat, I couldnt play that as its too distracting. Not my cup of tea either. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted October 17, 2024 Posted October 17, 2024 You might have noticed that I have been missing on the site for some time. Well I fell into the deep well of Fallout 76. I was running it on this rig, Quote I am running Arch + Window Maker fully updated with a nvidia GTX 1070 proprietary drivers on a 2560x1440 165 Hz monitor, ASRock B650E Taichi mobo, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D cpu, nvme 1 TB SHPP41-1000GM, with steam on a internal nvme A-Data SX8200PNP. I have gamemode running through systemd. Steam uses Proton experimental. I have the game on full Ultra settings. The games runs smoothly and graphics look very good. The game did run smoothly but it stuttered slightly when there was very intensive action scenes, loads of players and loads of enemies. So I made the final upgrade to my new rig with a new gpu. Radeon™ RX 7900 GRE GAMING OC 16G My GTX 1070 handled the game very well most of the time but as I had upgraded my monitor from a 1080 to a 1440 it did struggle a tad at times. With the new RX 7900 stuttering was eliminated completely and there was a small noticeable change to the way scenery refreshed as you moved quickly forward. The graphics in Fallout 76 are pretty detailed and there is a lot happening all at once at times so the extra fluidity in the graphics has been appreciated. As you can see I have been having fun trying out different outfits. Making camps has been fun too, the two I have made were just quickly thrown together. I have completed all the main quests and almost all the side quests so am coming to the end of the game. Though with the SEASONS thing that they have running there is still fun to be had. I intend making a much better camp over the winter and will keep on popping in to Fallout during the winter months. I have been busy with life too and will post regarding that later on. 1 Quote
abarbarian Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Ok so this is not a pure linux game but there are so few of us gamers here that I did not think a dedicated thread for this was worth while. Meet The Man Man, the newest serial killer in town! It is a five minute time waster game. Quote
abarbarian Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming Scene Quote What’s particularly interesting is that Arch-based distributions are becoming the go-to choice for Linux gamers. Unsurprisingly, Arch Linux continues to lead the Steam charts with 0.20% usage. Meanwhile, its derivative, Manjaro, holds steady with a 0.06% usage share. The real surprise, though, is the debut of EndeavourOS on the list, matching Manjaro’s share at 0.06%. Am not surprised as the Steam Deck runs on an Arch base. Good news for EndeavorOS which I think is much better than Manjaro. All in all linux keeps on chipping away at Microsoft’s monopoly in gaming which is a good thing, slow as it may be. The couple of recent AAA games I have played all run perfectly on my Arch set up. 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted January 22 Posted January 22 9 minutes ago, abarbarian said: The couple of recent AAA games I have played all run perfectly on my Arch set up. Yeah, I play quite a few as well. Here are my current favorites: Quote
abarbarian Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I have been playing Fallout 76 too much lately. Played Red Dead Redemption and thought it was ok. Would love to try RDR 2 but I will have to wait until it hits the sales. That Days Gone was fun until the hoards got me. I could not quite figure out how to beat them so gave up. Any Borderlands game is terrific fun and I think Borderlands 4 is coming soon. You might like Fallout London. It is a free mod of Fallout 4. Fallout: London - Devs site arstechnica review ign. Fallout London Review https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london You do need the Fallout 4 Game of the Year to use as a base though, the GOG one is the easiest to use. I have not tried it yet. A lot of the early bugs have been sorted, most were caused by the huge revamped update that occurred just before they were ready to launch. Quote
securitybreach Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I also bought all of the fallout DLCs months back. Quote
securitybreach Posted January 22 Posted January 22 I see you can add it to steam but that requires downgrading so not interested. Quote
abarbarian Posted February 2 Posted February 2 Atomfall is a proper British detective mystery with Fallout: New Vegas vibes Quote Inevitably, comments will call Rebellion’s latest “British Fallout,” but Atomfall is far more brutal, with the desperate combat putting it closer to Metro or STALKER than its vault-happy American counterpart. It’s also very much a detective game at heart, one with mysterious leads instead of quests and a role-playing spiderweb where you scavenge your way to unexpected discoveries, liaise with factions, and come to roundabout conclusions in a series of lush Lake District environments. https://atomfall.com/ Quote A survival-action game inspired by real-life events, Atomfall is set five years after the Windscale nuclear disaster in Northern England. Explore the fictional quarantine zone, scavenge, craft, barter, fight and talk your way through a British countryside setting filled with bizarre characters, mysticism, cults, and rogue government agencies. I met quite a few of these whilst living 'oop norf. Quote bizarre characters, mysticism, cults, and rogue government agencies. https://store.steampowered.com/app/801800/Atomfall/ You can pre-order at Steam and if you pay £20 more you can play it three days before everyone else. I will not be doing that. Though I may be tempted to pay full price. Hmm I have never paid full price for any game as I wait for them to arrive in the ultra cheap sales. The game does sound interesting and it will be interesting to see what wild and woolly characters and events they have created.Graphics look super in the trailer. Ooooooooooh I am tempted. 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted February 2 Posted February 2 Very cool but like you mentioned, I wait on them to be on sale as I am not pay $59.99+ for a game. Quote
abarbarian Posted March 15 Posted March 15 20 Hidden Google Games for You to Play Quote Google’s repertoire of hidden games and Easter eggs stretches across all its platforms – from Google Search to Assistant and the Google Android app. This list brings together Google’s best secret games wherever it can find them. There are some good time wasters on offer. I have played the Gnome Trebuchet game before and it is very funny. There is even a Dr Who game and Solitaire. Quote
abarbarian Posted April 2 Posted April 2 Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux Quote For Linux users, the new Steam Client update improves the download speed of Steam client updates, fixes a rare issue on Linux where non-steam Protons could get assigned an incorrect compatibility tool, and no longer applies compatibility tool filtering to shortcuts. Valve have probably given the penguin world more public exposure to ordinary users than any other company. Well done c keep up the good work. Quote
securitybreach Posted April 2 Posted April 2 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux Valve have probably given the penguin world more public exposure to ordinary users than any other company. Well done c keep up the good work. Yeah, I stopped gaming completely for a few years until Valve released their proton compatibility layer. After that, I could play all the windows only games I liked on Linux. Now most play better on Linux than they do over Windows. Quote
abarbarian Posted Tuesday at 09:24 AM Posted Tuesday at 09:24 AM https://www.gog.com/en/game/metro_2033_redux You can get a FREE copy of Metro 2033 Redux from the above link, available for "Offer ends in: 1d 05h 35m 57s " Plays great via Proton on linux. 1 Quote
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