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Posted September 09, 2015
[EDIT: September 9th, 2pm GMT]

Update 1.1 to the GOG Galaxy beta is now available for everyone! Enjoy the new features and remember to submit your feedback in the dedicated GOG Galaxy Beta forum thread and report any bugs at mantis.gog.com.


Rollback, friend search, pausing downloads, and more in the biggest update yet.

Have you tried the GOG Galaxy beta yet? This is an awesome chance to jump on board. Our DRM-free online gaming platform has already been tested by so many of you we can barely count, and today we're ready to roll out the first major patch with new features and plenty of quality of life optimizations.

Update 1.1 to the GOG Galaxy beta will bring the anticipated Rollback feature, allowing you to restore your game to prior states with just a single click. Game updates are now not only optional, but also reversible.

The weeks following our GOG Galaxy-powered release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt were a chance for the team to collect feedback and to work on perfecting the Client while addressing many of your top feature requests. The newest 1.1 update includes much-requested improvements to the friend system (making it easier to find and invite friends), pausing & resuming downloads, extended pre-installation options with more ways to configure your games, and an improved app UI and navigation. The entire client will now be more resource-friendly while also becoming faster.

The 1.1 update is available today for everyone enrolled to receive preview updates through GOG Galaxy, but it will also be rolling out very soon to the entire userbase. Those of you eager to test out the announced improvements today, can simply navigate to your GOG Galaxy settings screen and select the option to “Receive preview updates”.

To download the client and read about what’s new and improved in update 1.1, visit [url=http://www.gog.com/galaxy]www.gog.com/galaxy[/url]. Make sure to subscribe to the preview updates to try them out yourself, and as always, you can submit your problems and find new solutions on the dedicated GOG Galaxy Beta forum thread.
Posted September 09, 2015
Defiantly slowly but surely becoming very good. :)
Posted September 09, 2015
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yogsloth: Does it still come with the feature to allow you to have your account stolen by Russians?
Your account can be stolen wheter you use GOG Galaxy or not.
Posted September 09, 2015
Will Galaxy eventually have profile pages like Steam?
Posted September 09, 2015
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jorlin: *Building* it yourself from the tarball? That would imply source availability (which would be extremely cool 8-) ).
I think you are in fact referring to *extracting* the tarball as opposed to building it? Or am I mistaken here?
What game are you referring to? Lots of games here have .deb-packages rather than .tgz

btw, Tarball archives would be really fitting for a DrWho game: "Let's .sqz the tarball into the Tardis and extract ourself from this utterly dreary place" ;-)
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aeruginosus: That was an interesting way of putting it.

I may not be right about the proper wording, but I do know that on Arch Linux which I am using, I'd have to build that tarball and make the directory for it, and basically build the whole thing myself in it. Because this isn't a debian based system and with Arch you add only what you need, so you build your entire system yourself. As much work that is involved, and I've been able to get this far, I have no doubt I can actually do it.

However, I shouldn't have to is my point - because I bought these games from here, they should be installed properly no matter the 'base' distro I have. Whether it be, Debian-based, Arch-based, or Fedora-based. Pacman is how we install things on Arch, and we have to build a lot of things from source, I don't think there is much at all that isn't that way here. That is what I was referring to.

If that cannot be done with the tarball, and as I stated I don't run a debian-based system - then how would I go about doing this on Arch, without a software that detected what I had and installed it for me? I wouldn't easily do it.

There is a very good practical reason for having this software for Linux and have it work on more than just Ubuntu and Debian based systems only. Yet they aren't doing it. That was my point, and I was expressing how I felt about it - without being hateful or intentionally disrespectful.

As for the games, I currently own from GOG the following: Pillars of Eternity, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Shadowrun Dragonfall -Director's Cut- and Shadowrun Returns. Currently I am able to play Arcanum via Wine on here, because it has no Linux version - that's fine.

I can play Pillars of Eternity on here, by extracting the tarball and running it. But I cannot at all play Shadowrun Dragonfall or Shadowrun Returns - they flat out don't work and I'm not really sure why. In order to get my hardware to work properly (because of things out of my reach right now) I actually have to use Arch, it's the only distro that can solve the screentearing I get - it reduces it to almost none here, while other distros flat out don't do anything, no matter what I do. I spent a year trying to solve the issues, Arch was as close to solving it as I could get and that's because they only allow clean code.

Things would be so much easier if GOG would get the GOG Galaxy software working in Linux and have it detect what I have and provide what I need to make it work.
"Where it belongs" is a rather bague term in the linux-verse, although I do get why you wouldn't just want extracted games and other things to just sit on your desktop. This is what the /opt folder is generally used for (binary packages with assets), but /usr/local/games or /usr/local/share would probably fit the bill as well, providing yje games are XDG complient and save their games in a user confih directory. If you don't want to have permission inconsistancy (which I'd understand as well) but still want those files to belong to you in case you mod the game or anything, ~/.local/share would probably be better suited to that purpose (which also happens to be steam's default install directory and where its games are saved).
I understand why you'd be impatient for GoG Galaxy, but not knowing what to do with tarballs is not a very good reason, now is it?
Posted September 10, 2015
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aeruginosus: That was an interesting way of putting it.

I may not be right about the proper wording, but I do know that on Arch Linux which I am using, I'd have to build that tarball and make the directory for it, and basically build the whole thing myself in it. Because this isn't a debian based system and with Arch you add only what you need, so you build your entire system yourself. As much work that is involved, and I've been able to get this far, I have no doubt I can actually do it.

However, I shouldn't have to is my point - because I bought these games from here, they should be installed properly no matter the 'base' distro I have. Whether it be, Debian-based, Arch-based, or Fedora-based. Pacman is how we install things on Arch, and we have to build a lot of things from source, I don't think there is much at all that isn't that way here. That is what I was referring to.

If that cannot be done with the tarball, and as I stated I don't run a debian-based system - then how would I go about doing this on Arch, without a software that detected what I had and installed it for me? I wouldn't easily do it.

There is a very good practical reason for having this software for Linux and have it work on more than just Ubuntu and Debian based systems only. Yet they aren't doing it. That was my point, and I was expressing how I felt about it - without being hateful or intentionally disrespectful.

As for the games, I currently own from GOG the following: Pillars of Eternity, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Shadowrun Dragonfall -Director's Cut- and Shadowrun Returns. Currently I am able to play Arcanum via Wine on here, because it has no Linux version - that's fine.

I can play Pillars of Eternity on here, by extracting the tarball and running it. But I cannot at all play Shadowrun Dragonfall or Shadowrun Returns - they flat out don't work and I'm not really sure why. In order to get my hardware to work properly (because of things out of my reach right now) I actually have to use Arch, it's the only distro that can solve the screentearing I get - it reduces it to almost none here, while other distros flat out don't do anything, no matter what I do. I spent a year trying to solve the issues, Arch was as close to solving it as I could get and that's because they only allow clean code.

Things would be so much easier if GOG would get the GOG Galaxy software working in Linux and have it detect what I have and provide what I need to make it work.
Well, that is why GOG says they don't support all Linux distros in the first place. The game card even says that the games are supported on Ubuntu and Mint (both Debian based). You may be able to get them running on other distros, but they're not supported and aren't claimed to be.

Also, you don't seem very versed in the usage of Linux, so you might be happier with an easier distro. Arch is notoriously hands on with everything and is really meant for open source software, which these games are obviously not. I'm sure a Linux whiz could get everything working just fine, but there are easier and better ways for the rest of us Penguin fans. Mint and Ubuntu are just as customizable as every other distro. You might feel more at home somewhere else. That's the beauty of Linux.
Posted September 10, 2015
Hey guys, just wondering if this fixes the problem with the witcher 3 auto update, you know the one where it says you dont have enough disk space even though theres like 500G's on your harddrive? Been manually updateing but last i checked it was still a issue for me.
Posted September 10, 2015
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metalslug1990: Will Galaxy eventually have profile pages like Steam?
Well, there is wishlist entry for it but so far it's not marked as in progress unlike some others.
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Posted September 10, 2015
You know, I still wish there was a way to remove the "contacts" you speak to, and not just clearing out the conversations. Friend chat feels a tad more clunky. It works better just within the galaxy client, than launching out in a separate window.

Looking forward to other updates though!
Posted September 10, 2015
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0Grapher: As far as I know, there is no in-game overlay yet, sorry.
Oh it's alright, I was just wondering how to get it if there was one already. (options menu indicated there was one)
Posted September 10, 2015
/me still checks every time to see when Sword of the Stars: The Pit will be supported.

All the games that work and, of course, it's my favorite one that doesn't.
Posted September 10, 2015
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saberwolfxm: Hey guys, just wondering if this fixes the problem with the witcher 3 auto update, you know the one where it says you dont have enough disk space even though theres like 500G's on your harddrive? Been manually updateing but last i checked it was still a issue for me.
yes, this issue should be fixed in 1.1
Posted September 10, 2015
I will keep harping on this, fix the caching system, get off my SSD GOG.

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tapeworm00: I just updated the client and instead of getting the 80 MB patch for Invisible Inc released on August 18 it's downloading the full 1.1 GB of data all over again...
Seriously? That's flat out unacceptable. As Wurzelkraft says, we don't all have unlimited, disposable bandwidth.
Posted September 10, 2015
Hmm... I kinda preferred how (installed) games looked in the previous version of Galaxy. Now they're very small icons. Is there any way to change it?
Posted September 10, 2015
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OdanUrr: Hmm... I kinda preferred how (installed) games looked in the previous version of Galaxy. Now they're very small icons. Is there any way to change it?
Indeed there is. Click the button on the top-left of the sidebar and then choose to view it as a "Large List". See picture attached below.
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Posted September 10, 2015
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OdanUrr: Hmm... I kinda preferred how (installed) games looked in the previous version of Galaxy. Now they're very small icons. Is there any way to change it?
See my attached pic :)
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