The Steam Link is dead! NVIDIA teases the TITAN of terror, Counter Strike gets a Danger Royale, and Epic hires the guy behind Steam Spy.
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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- The Link lives on in spirit.
- I’m honestly surprised this didn’t happen sooner
- I know why they did it but grr… a deb? Really?
- Going out on a limb here but isn’t like 99% of the Pi install base running *.deb?
- Yeah, but I worked hard on those RPMs dammit!
- And ended up accidentally naming it something terrible!
- That they ended up sticking with
- And ended up accidentally naming it something terrible!
- Yeah, but I worked hard on those RPMs dammit!
- Going out on a limb here but isn’t like 99% of the Pi install base running *.deb?
- This is a great move!
- There are a lot of people with Pis driving DIY smart TVs, so it’s just a matter of plugging a controller in or pairing with the blueteeth.
- And so it motherfu*king begins.
- Explains Steam’s new progressive revenue scheme.
- “The store will launch with a hand-curated set of games on PC and Mac, then it will open up more broadly to other games and to Android and other open platforms throughout 2019.“
- Speculate!
- Given Epic’s complete and utter lack of fucks regarding linux, I’m not holding my breath
- ^
- Also, is Epic going to offer functionality like proton?
- Probably not so we as linux gamers won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.
- Yeah… Proton, Steam Cloud Saves, in-home streaming, family sharing.
- There’s a lot to Steam these third parties forget to mention.
- Though, bring on the competition!
- I want to see VALVe actually have to give a damn for once this decade.
- Now that’s all kinds of interesting.
- Building a store?
- Hire the guy who was more attentive to the the Steam Store than Steam.
- Might as well.
- It’s not like VALVe was doing anything to the questionable value Steam Spy added.
- I got a feeling Valve not courting (and acquiring) the Steam Spy guy will be looked at like Nintendo not sealing the deal with Sony way back when.
- “Several years” might explain why Valve hasn’t scooped him up. Epic was giving him more money
- I don’t really buy the “oops, tee hee” take. Epic was smart to have a guy paying attention to the analytics of their competition
- The student studies strategy, the master studies logistics, etc
- Notice how the article calls out that the epic store isn’t going to give competition the same benefit of the doubt
- I made this for myself.
- Deal with it.
- As someone who was looking for a complete compiled list when they released the second batch, I can see its usefulness.
Steam: Game Updates
- Oh god. You get two points per ball touch per second. I don’t want or need this information
- Tournament creators may not be able to spectate matches
- Sucks if you want to broadcast a tournament
- Batmobile is no longer the longest car in the game.
- Pay2win bro!
- Now all the “plank” cars share the hitbox.
- “Engine update” means they clicked export, cuz unity
- There’s also a couple of accessibility updates, including leveraging rumble for color matching puzzles and a more lysdexic friendly font
- Takes a minute to load, don’t it.
- It’s still a better lovestory than CRAZY JUSTICE.
- It’s a bit crashy for me.
- Setting setting.mem_level to 0 in ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<userID>/730/local/cfg/video.txt stopped the crashing altogether.
- Three random updates thus far.
- Unplug Xbox controller =’s working game.
Steam: New Games
- Enter the gungeon with destructible environments
- And here’s the kicker. They added multiplayer. But not online multiplayer
- Devs. Y u do dis?
- Starward Rogue but with different sprites?
- …meh.
- Has a Gold rating on ProtonDB.
- It works just fine with Proton… VALVe! We need that goddamn button!
- Feral’s lifeblood now spells it’s DOOM!
- The contracts they hammered out with other publishers didn’t take proton into account!
News:
- Can it do 1440 @ 60 w RTX on?
- Because it better do 1440 @ 60 w RTX on.
- So… the Titan V is still what you want if you want the most powerful sub $5k GPU?
- These are not for gaming.
- Perhaps one day someone will hack it to work on non-nvidia gpu hardware
- They called out self driving cars, which is the new thing Nvidia is all about
- Either way, this will either be strip mined for parts or will become more standard because of the name recognition
- Again, less than 70 games have used PhysX in the last 12 years.
- I will like to see the ramifications of this.
- Gaming or not, I want to see if anyone else will put this to use or if people just cherry pick little bits for other stuff.
- I’ll stand by the old adage of if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- Hoo boy, them model names.
- Makes sense, it’s not like the XP series days.
- A 7nm Navi 10 part @ 150W TDP seems like a solid product that has my interest.
- A no 6-pin 75W 3060 has the attention of OEMs.
- And people on older systems looking for an upgrade.
- Look at how good the X50 models have been for nvidia. AMD wants them a piece
- If that 3080 can deliver on those claims, AMD has at least a chance at competing.
- Which is more than they’ve had for a long time.
- The real $3080 question is whether or not they’ll catch fire
- As much as it pains me to admit it, I have to agree with Strider
- This was the only game epic was working on that had anything resembling linux support, and it’s dead.
- EPIC STOOOOOORE!
- Yeah, the Linux version has always ran like junk and last two times I tried it got nothing but a white screen when in-map.
- Why bother with UT when you have Fortnite?
- Everything has linux support, which is kinda nice
- Worms games have a tendency to not work on a distro by distro basis
- If you’re a fan of the escapists, you get a whole bunch of DLC for it at the over average tier
- That’s a lot of DLC.
- If you want some goblin multiplayer stealth without burning a Heretic purcache.
- Don’t know if I love or hate the goblin game.
- Couple of Linux titles as well.
- The force unleashed has a silver rating on protonDB and was a pretty fun game if all you wanna do is be a badass sith lord for a few hours
- King of Fighters 13 is also included and works really well!
- Metal Slug works after a couple of assertion errors you can ignore.
- Hardcore of the hardcore, netbsd users relinking binaries to use netbsd compiled FNA to play fna games
- Not gonna work without BSD fmod tho
- They got a graphical installer working
- This is only about getting the installer to work.
- Would be interesting to see how the game would perform, but that wasn’t tested here.
- Will they at least tell us the Linux port will never happen?
- I need some closure on that.
- Can Stainless get the boot, please?
- They made a game so bad Proton can’t help it.
- RIP rubber duck
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Yooka-Laylee
Webzone: https://store.steampowered.com/app/360830/YookaLaylee/
Devel: Playtonic Games
Engine: Unity
Price: £34.99 / US$39.99 / CA$44.99
Wazzat: Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Venn:
Does It Launch
- You like windowed mode?
- Cause it launches in windowed mode no matter what.
- Have to fiddle with the screen resolution in-game to make it pop fullscreen.
- Every, singe, time.
Performance @ 1080
- It manages to hold 60 @ 1080, just.
Graphics
- I looks a lot better than I was expecting.
- Nice and bright with all the 3D models looking straight out of the 90’s.
- Even has a dancing save icon.
Control
- Quitting is an option.
- Seriously, quit is in the options menu.
- Even with the camera on manual it’s still a dick.
- When it comes to controls I won’t say floaty as FK but I will say floaty as FK’s second nephew.
- You can legitimately blame the controls for getting you killed to death.
- Sometimes the controls and camera do a tag-team and it’s DIAF city.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Yup, although all of a sudden disabling vsync makes it really like my leftmost monitor
Performance @ 1080
- Holds 60 @ UHD
Graphics
- I mean, they’re pretty simple, but they get the job done
- Everything is colourful
Control
- OOTB with the dualshock 4 controller
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- It launches if you don’t exit the game in windowed mode.
- If you do, then I hope your GPU isn’t a GTX1080 with a max resolution of 32767×32767
- Because the game will do its goddamndest to render at that resolution and fail miserably
Performance @ 1080
- 60 FerPS at 1080 and 2160
Graphics
- Pretty and cell shaded
- Sounds get annoying after a bit
- And fuck that “voice acting”
Control
- The 8bitdo NES controller works ootb
- No rebindable controls in 2018 loses you another chair.
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- I’ve never not cared about something so hard in my life.
- Now don’t confuse that with hate, or even mild anger.
- It’s more of an extreme indifference if anything.
- By the time Banjo-Kazooie rolled out I had bought a Voodoo 1 and separated myself from the filthy console peasants.
- So what can i say?
- You run around and collect things to expand things that let you collect more things.
- The game.
- The worlds are mostly empty and the baddies are effectively the same providing more of an annoyance vs any real challenge.
- The puzzles are sometimes complicated, mainly due to being not so well designed.
- So coming from a zero nostalgia point of view you have a rather primitive collectathon with a paper thin story, slippery controls that does little more than remind me of what games did wrong.
- And if you say differently it’s because one of two things
- 1.Yooka-Laylee reminds you of a different time from the long long ago and good on it for being able to do that and you’re willing to overlook some of the shortcomings.
- 2. You still trying to justify paying $30 for the privilege.
- Jordan
- Its fucking banjo kazooie with the serial numbers filed off
- That’s not necessarily a bad thing
- It’s your bog standard 3d platformer. Run around, collect things, do some puzzles, n unlock powerups, do more puzzles, unlock more puzzles, rinse repeat
- There’s certainly a bunch of stuff to do
- The camera can EABOD sometimes, especially when you’re trying to line up a jump
- It’s a perfectly serviceable game, even if I had to mute the voice audio because it sounds like everyone is having super disappointing sex
- It’s a competently done platformer
- But it’s not $45 good
- Pedro
- Didn’t have an N64 or knew anyone with one.
- I have 0 nostalgia for this one.
- That said, it’s a game about collecting things just so you can unlock other areas to – you guessed it – collect more things.
- Back in the day, that was enough.
- Nowadays, the sole reward for doing one thing being more of that thing seems a bit meh.
- I would say this is a good game for a proto-human but after My Brother Rabbit and the Gardens Between, and how much those games did with much less, that argument seems a lot less poignant
- But hey! If you got it in that Bundle a while back, it was the perfect amount of money.
Fun Score:
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Jordan:
Pedro:
Hate Mail:
- I thought it was the Tubes that cracked down on people making videos advertising their stream on Twitch.
