What is there to say about a game which has been out for years that hasn't been said before? Probably not much, but I'm here to try anyway. I started playing this game pretty recently, but I've played through the majority of the content so I think I might have some ideas worth sharing. Warning, I will give zero f-bombs about spoilers, this game does not have a storyline worth mentioning. It's a drivin' trucks game.
Because I have a lot of these, I didn't want to lump them in with my main blog on this game. But because there are a lot of them, I thought that it was worth posting my list.
Things that are still bad and/or stupid about No Man's Sky
Some of this could be fixed relatively easily, some not so much (technical or balancing issues)
I am removing things from this list if I discover they are false or outdated, help me out.
There be spoilers here.
Long long ago, in a more innocent time, an upcoming title called No Man's Sky was announced at the VGX awards. They promised the sun, moon, and stars, and ultimately at launch delivered only a small percentage of what they had assured fans would be in the game. Many users sought refunds in response, and the game's review scores suffered, resulting in languid sales given the hype surrounding the game pre-release.
Bypass Nuka-World Quest "Home Sweet Home"
Once quest starts:
SetStage DLC04MQ04 1000
completequest DLC04MQ04
SetStage DLC04MQ05 5
I like to play games well into their sunset years, which is great because it saves me a lot of money on GPUs. I had Fallout 4 back when it was relatively new, but having tired of my other options, I decided to see how it ran on modern Linux. As it turns out, the answer is that it runs about as well as it does on Windows, maybe even slightly better in the graphics performance department. I started out with a steam deck howto and worked the rest out from there. These instructions assume you have all of the DLC.
This is a WIP mod collection for a (re-re-)replay with high Quality of Life, that is to say, minimum boredom which is not self-inflicted*.
Some of these mods are not working correctly! The goal of the next revision is to fix that. This set of mods requires all of the DLC. For some of the mods where it matters, there are alternate versions that don't require all of it. For some, there are not. You can always just not install those parts.
I recently started playing Fallout 4 again, because I own it already and it runs well on my potato, even under Linux. The last time I played I had dual nvidia GTX 950 cards in SLI under Windows 7, and now I have a single 1070 under Linux. The performance is as much better as you would hope. The game is just about as reliable on Linux as it is on Windows, which is not very. However, my current configuration lets the game start up pretty quickly, and liberal use of the quicksave feature keeps me from losing too much progress in the inevitable explosions.
I recently discovered that Fallout 4 runs pretty well on Linux using Proton-GE, for typical Bethesda-related values of "well". What this means for the uninitiated is that you still have to deal with dozens to hundreds of quest- and game-breaking bugs even when there are no more updates. This is why it is best to play Bethesda games on PC - you can work around most of the bugs with "console commands", which you ironically can't use on a 'game console'.
Assassins Creed is a really nifty psuedohistorical series of parcourt assassination games, and Assassins Creed: Unity is one of the recent entries in the series — which was included in a Humble Bundle of most of the titles. This post is not a news flash. It is a summary I'm writing because I don't want to have to track this information down again, distilled from a couple of pages I found googling.
Micro-rant: when you preface a game with an unskippable video featuring your logo, people begin to despise you by the fourth or fifth launch. I don't even know who ASPYR is, but I know they do Linux gaming and that they're annoying.
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