Valve closes the Advanced Access refund loophole, Notebook Check says ProtonDB sucks, Nintendo goes all DMCA on Garry’so Mod, open-source Fallout 1, and Proton Experimental hides your cores.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:22 Playing Thirsty Blade
02:31 Bon Chair
03:07 Venn vs NDI 6
05:00 Reproducible sounds
STEAM NEWS
08:36 Steam stops Prefunds
11:46 Have you ever preordered?
12:35 Introducing NFGs
13:25 New games added to Proton Exp
14:46 2 many cores
17:14 861 Deckbuilders on Steam
21:38 ProtonDB Sucks
GAME UPDATES
31:18 Nintendo DMCA for Garry’s MOD
34:28 12 years of Closure
37:53 Hyper Charged: Uboxed crossplay
NEWS
41:32 Open-source Fallout 1
44:28 Y’all still edit config files?
47:04 40 years of Sopwith
52:03 HackMatrix 3D desktop
HATE MAIL
56:54 Factorio vs Wayland
59:49 Pedro blindly defends KDE
01:00:12 Know any Factorio addicts?
01:02:26 Gamepad gyros
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Closed that loophole.
Advanced Access is not to be confused with Early Access.
It’s when you pay extra $$$ to play the finished game a few days before the peasants.
Previously, you could pay the extra $$$, beat the game with a quickness, and refund when launched.
I’m genuinely surprised this loophole lasted as long as it did
I think that if you’re pre-ordering a game you are part of the problem.
It sucks that you don’t get special treatment anymore, but given the state of the industry and the state games tend to come out these days… just don’t pre-order games.
12 new playable games.
10 games are no longer confused by high core counts.
Steam Overlay now works with EAC EOS games.
They do describe it as a hack though, so it may or may not stay working
Quite a lot of older titles getting fixed there, this is good!
People like to play CCGs but they cannot afford to play CCGs
Also I’m addicted to combos
I don’t mind the roguelike deckbuilders, it’s the prevalence of extraction shooters and survival games I’m more worried about.
Yes, survival elements can enhance a game.
Fallout: New Vegas only exists for me with Hardcore mode on.
But I really can’t enjoy most of them when the nanny bars start nagging you.
He’s right in the sense that it’s something Valve needs to build into Steam.
I agree that if there is a case of a developer choking on whatever anti-cheat gluestick they were munching, there should be an option to mark it as b0rkd immediately.
But that requires someone to be on the ball and keep track of it.
I like videogames and even I wouldn’t necessarily envy that position unless the pay was good enough.
Heck, pay me £50k (after taxes) a year and I will review all of the ratings in ProtonDB, play the games on Linux to confirm it, and probably even add more ratings of my own for more games.
ProtonDB’s existence is just a symptom of the larger issue
There’s just too much damn variety in PC builds, engine hardware support, etc.
I think ProtonDB does need a “ruined by anti cheat” label. Name’em and shame them
Steam: Game Updates
Sorting through 20 years of MODs.
I support the segregation of everything Nintendo
Give them exactly what they seem to want.
Apparently there is some dude going around filing bogus DMCAs on behalf of Nintendo.
Like, a lot of them.
Gotta lick that boot extra hard I guess
Thanks Flibit
The real game preservation there!
Mac users got excited for a second there, cruel.
The steam cloud save does the cross-platform trick.
SDL2 under the hood.
Shaders ported from Nvidia CG to GLSL.
People were playing this on a PS3 emulator because it was smoother.
Incoming crossplay with XBOX players.
Does this mean it’s gonna do a stint on gamepass?
For a game that averages 11 players over the last 30 days, hey, good on their dedication.
Last time there was a chonky patch we tried it in the Aftershowzen and ze Linux build was a hot damn mess.
News:
Just in time for the show, their yearly release came out on march 3
Mostly bug fixes and some recalculation on some perks and damage
Elevators work now though. Unlike my old building
Fallout 2 CE has also been updated, they released the new version on the 21st of April.
The big one for Fallout 2 is sfall integration, since a bunch of mods and community fixes/projects use it as a base.
I know I really like the Fallout 2 Restoration Project and playing the game without it now feels weird.
That’s the sole reason I still use Proton to play it rather than Fallout 2 CE.
Does it make the shrieky pcspkr noises?
Originally released in August 1981 for the PC so it’s OG.
One of the earliest networked games.
One of the oldest video games still in active development.
SDL Sopwith v2.5.0 has some of the underpinnings needed to start work on a level creator.
And the manual page now documents the dashboard layout.
Never actually played this one before
Big fan of it being able to run in a browser. I think that alone is probably the biggest advancement in game preservation possible
How about a Wayland version using gamescope?
When dude adds support for VR he will convert the project to Wayland but no ETA on the massive undertaking.
Doesn’t compile on fedora 39.
Spdlog seems to be missing a file, so I don’t know who fucked up there
Hate Mail:
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408
Only macOS and Linux support asynchronous saving #TIL
Wayland is an adventure.
