In case you're wondering what I've been up to over the last two weeks, I've been playing Doom (the original release from the 90s, but bundled with Doom II and The Plutonia Experiment, including a full updated soundtrack and mods), Don't Starve and Fallout Shelter.
With Doom, I'm having trouble clearing the final stage of "Knee Deep in the Dead", but I reckon if I play the earlier stages with only the pistol and shotgun, I can reserve the chain gun for the final stage. I might stand a chance of having enough ammunition then.
With DS, I've finally played it long enough to be able to prepare for Winter at least a few days in advance. Fortunately, that enabled me to survive at least one Winter with food to spare. I reckon I wouldn't have made it through without rabbit cages, traps, an icebox, a crock pot and stone walls to keep the hounds out.
Prepared for Winter on Day 17
I Survived My First Winter
With Fallout Shelter, I started from scratch after a mole rat attack left half my dwellers dead. I've still got quite a way to go to get all my dwellers equipped with uniforms and weapons. (I've sent dwellers out to the wasteland to find supplies, but they don't seem very good at it, although it seems to partly be a matter of chance.) I've still got quite a way to go to get all rooms built (including ones to level up SPECIAL skills) and full of dwellers. If only the rooms didn't require so much power and dwellers food, water and stimpaks, I could be well on my way ...
The Steam client and most of the games I've tried so far seem to work pretty well on GNU+Linux with Proton and Vulkan, although I do have a problem with some of the menu items and Bridge Constructor Portal doesn't render the bridge area correctly. (I get a bright white blur with thick black lines instead of the construction area in the case of Portal.) I'll post results for other games as I try them; I want to complete the Doom games and FO Shelter first. (DS is open world, so I don't think there's an end to it other than not surviving a certain number of days. As it stands, 34 consecutive days is a record for me.)
