Well, time to buy then, to show support/demand for Linux gaming.
Is the steam game still a fight against the frame rate or can I let a hundred cats breed in my fortress without restarting?
You don’t need to restart a fortress, you can just kill the cats
At .05 fps, it’s faster to restart entirely.
I can’t relate because my forts never got to that point even with a really big number of cats. I know that with DFHack you can set up an auto butcher thingy that controls the population though!
Omg, auto-butcher plus so many other niceties… everyone should be using DFHack. It’s installable through Steam as well so everything automagically works.
I still don’t know how a lot of the tools in DFHack aren’t just baseline in the game at this point they are that good.
That sounds incredible! The game used to be so barebones and unoptimized that it was essentially a balancing act between efficiency in the game and efficiency in processing it.
In current versions of the game you have to try to get low frame rates like that.
I bought the Steam release day 1 and it has worked great with Proton. I played a couple forts and had my fill. Now that the Linux version is out I might have to run another fort on it and see how it works.
Bought it day one and went in blind. Had my fun with it but I’m excited to dive back in when adventure mode is out.
Well I hate to say it but so far I can’t get any audio from the game when running the Linux build.Of course as soon as I post it, I see a comment online saying that the sound properties were altered and need to be turned up much louder in the Options menu. I had to crank the game from 15% up to 100%, but it’s there and working well so far!
Just looked it up, but it’s quite expensive compared to the <£12 I usually spend on steam games (eg Terraria, Stardew Valley, Portal)
The game has been free for 16 years. This is the paid version to support the devs, literally because they’re getting old and they have medical bills to pay.
While I typically love a good sale, some labors of love like this or factorio involve so much quality they warrant paying to support these wonderful developers
My personal benchmark is $1/hr; so my question is, will I get 38 ($CAD) hours of enjoyment out of it eventually? I think I almost certainly will, this kind of game is pretty on brand for me.
Fair enough, everyone has their own preferences.
Great, it was working without issues on Gentoo and Steam Deck respectively before, too.
Love this game and its history !
And the people behind it seem genuinely awesome.
I used it in Beta and it’s amazingly stable. Love the game,too bad I don’t have the time or patience to scratch all the cool features and am quite bad it it anyway.
