Coming up on Linux GameCast Weekly: We’re giving away two copies of RUST! Our live stream goes tits-up. SteamOS makes with the working, Garry brings the caveman penises, and we have some Double news. Then we throw the chairs at Starbound. All this, plus your hate mail.
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Away of GIVE #6
Steam
- http://repo.steampowered.com/download/
- http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570
- http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/11/5200180/digital-storms-first-steam-machine-will-be-a-1469-gaming-pc
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/252490/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/255500/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/257830/
News
- http://www.desura.com/games/aircontrol
- http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/12/help-to-rotcethernet-to-become-fully.html
- http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/announcing_hack_n_slash_its_real_and_it_has_algorithms/
Review
Hate Mail
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam News :
SteamOS goes live
http://repo.steamstatic.com/download/
SteamDB entry with more info: http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/
Let’s see, UEFI, 500GB HDD, Debian based, no AMD driver support…
I feel a resounding NOPE brewing in me.
IMA give it a few weeks before slapping it on the Steam boxen.
How to without UEFI (thanks Strider, for posting it): http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1sussr/installing_steamos_on_a_bios_machine/
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand…its just debian. Colour me not terribly impressed
Steam Machines Beta went out on the 13th(US Only)
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570
Fuck this shit! Could have fuckin’ said so from the fuckin’ start!
Glad I built one months ago.
With this and the RHEL 7 beta out, I’m gonna have my hands full monkeying around with OSes
I’m not looking forward to downloading SteamOS on the 13th though. *shudder*
Steam Machine v3.0
Details TBD @ CES 2014 (likely to have a Titan)
“Options include a GeForce GTX Titan graphics card and a 700W power supply”
A bit on the pricey side.
Rust (by Garry Newman) Alpha now on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/252490/
If nothing else, he apologized for being mean and gave us some keys.
Gotta love that caveman themed nudity
BREAKING: Garry unable to count
Gotta love thwacking people /w rocks
Oh and Venn, I was right. It is Unity!
Need to type “cursor.lock true” in the F1 console to get the mouse to behave.
12/12/13 patch broke Linux support. 14/12/13 patch makes it work again.
Eve on a budget Entropy
http://store.steampowered.com/app/255500/
ZigFraK on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/259430/
If you already own it on Desura, the Groupees Build a Greenlight Bundle, etc., you can redeem the game on Steam.
Violett
http://store.steampowered.com/app/257830/
Free OST for people who buy the game on Steam
2,5D point-and-click adventure game
News:
Air Control
http://www.desura.com/games/aircontrol
I refuse to believe anyone could be bored enough to play this.
I liked the Euro Hooker Stabber Sim 2… This one, not so much!
Help ROTC:Ethernet to become fully open-source
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2013/12/help-to-rotcethernet-to-become-fully.html
Um, release the source?
^
Even when LucasArts went tits up they didn’t charge $1500 to release the code for Jedi Knight
Double News
http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/announcing_hack_n_slash_its_real_and_it_has_algorithms/
Interesting premise. Probably going to pick it up on principle considering DF has been showing the linux love for a while now
Retro presentation without the hippy pixel make up! Gimme! I wanna play!
Actiblizzion still being the same Anti-Linux Assholes
http://forum.pinkertonroad.com/showthread.php?803-GK-*not*-releasing-on-Linux
Still glad I got the mouse instead of giving them money.At the same time, do we REALLY want activistion putting their grubby paws on our linux?It’s a non-story http://forum.pinkertonroad.com/showthread.php?803-GK-*not*-releasing-on-Linux&p=29327&viewfull=1#post29327
Scale:
Game: Starbound
Webzone: playstarbound.com
Devel: Chucklefish Games
Engine: Custom (Made in C++)
Price: $14.99/€13.99/2 Rai Stones
Wazzat: In Starbound, you take on the role of a character who’s just fled from their home planet, only to crash-land on another. From there you’ll embark on a quest to survive, discover, explore and fight your way across an infinite universe.
Makes with the working
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Shiny / Sounds
V-
Hipster, pixel, graphics.
J-
Terreria did it, so no points for originality
Gets the job done, but no bonus points
P-
Music is nice and smooth, most of the times you can’t even tell it’s there.
Graphics are meh! Like Jordan said, it’s Terraria all over again.
Bonus chair for the awesome background noise soundtrack, each planet/biome has its own and it does its job at immersing you in the game.
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Control
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Yeah, it “controls” but clicking on the right top clicky buttons are a PITA unless it’s windowed.
J-
Controls are reasonable enough
My one gripe is that they tend to be all over the keyboard. Closer to WASD == Good
P-
Are you seriously not letting people reassign their keyboard mappings? Really?!
Guess they’re working on it: http://imgur.com/LgT7Yfv
They have until Saturday to get a better score from me.
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FUN
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2D Minecraft in spaaaace
J-
Interesting premise, but I find I suffer from minecraft fatigue syndrome whilst playing it
Multiplayer is a bit stupid. No steam integration, no clear indicator that you need to go to the game folder and launch the server executable from there
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound ~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/starbound_server
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The game is actually fun. I spent almost 8 hours on it in one sitting, playing with a couple of guys I met on twitch tv.
Problems arose when we needed to fight and fine motor controls became a necessity. Having to use my right hand on WASD meant I got killed in a matter of seconds.
I’d like to give this game at least 3 chairs, but if I can’t rebind my controls to something I can manage with it only gets 1.
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Feedback:
Phobic
http://slexy.org/view/s2qH6HJ8vc
Badge of shame? We blasted it for being a poor Linux port with 90min of gameplay and zero replay value for $20. Everyone loved the story but it’s not Linux Story Cast.
Well, I liked the story up until the end. Very weak payoff. I was completely unsatisfied
Additionally, we don’t usually have adventure games on the review segment. In fact, If memory serves it was the first. I guarantee you that if we reviewed another adventure game had the same deficiencies as gone home, we would also apply that label to it.
Attention whoring aside, your argument about the non-gameness may have had some truth to it before Beyond Two Souls came along. That’s another non-game and one that if it had been on Linux would have gotten the exact same reaction from us.
While we’re on David Cage, Heavy Rain is an example of a non-game that is actually good! As are some of those older “adventure” titles.
Gone Home in the other hand is a sheet of LGBT paper wrapped around crappy game design, shoddy graphical work, non-existent optimization and 0 reason to exist in the first place.
Nope, we just hate the flags
