LinuxGameCast Weekly EP59 — ♪I Can’t Green Gabe♪

NVidia drivers get knee·capped! Valve ships 300 Steam Machine prototypes. Half Life 3 is confirmed? Linux stretch goals can DIAF, and a bit of steamy irony. Then we throw the chairs at Legends of Aethereus. All this, plus your hate mail.

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http://www.overclockers.com/mouse-clicking-troubles-diy-repair/

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PSA:

Gerbil repair

http://www.overclockers.com/mouse-clicking-troubles-diy-repair/

This is for Logitech 500 series and up. That said.
1. Works 100% of the time
2. Don’t you dare attempt it.
3. Newark.com Part Number: 36K7257
4. I explain the sticker method

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News:

Steam Machines – Prototype Details

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/2145128928746175450

Full-metal Intel?
Oh please almighty FSM let me get the NVidia Titan SKU
- Mineminemineminemineminemine
Fuck the Titan! I’d be prancing around like an elementary school girl with the low end one.

Half Life 3 confirmed

http://www.gamespot.com/news/valve-trademarks-half-life-3-6415182

“A trademark application does not necessarily indicate that Half-Life 3 is in development” (yes it does)
$3.50 says HL3 launches /w the Steam Boxen.
- DUUUUUUUUUUUUUH
- As will Portal 2 and CS:GO for Linux.
There was also the leak of the team posting for the HL3 team.

You get green, you get green, and you get green!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=182641731

32 new titles Greenlit – 14 support Linux
AdventurOS – Scan your hard-drive the game!
Known faces: McDroid, Nihilumbra, MouseCraft, Crystal Kingdom,
New comers that interest the Pedro: No Heroes, Pulsar and Of Guards and Thieves.

NS2 Update

http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/state-of-development-september-2013/

Thats wonderful and all but I STILL CAN’T PLAY YOUR FUCKING GAME
Still refuses to start with the Open Sauce drivers.
After two months I still can’t play a game I purchased at full retail.
- I got about 10 months on ya

ARMA Tactics now Available on Steam for Linux

http://store.steampowered.com/app/224860/

Granted it’s not THE ARMA game people want *cough*DayZ*cough* still, big names coming to your Linuxes!

News:

GLIDE 2: Electric Boogaloo

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-xbox-one-playstation-4-john-carmack,24434.html

http://xkcd.com/927/
Allowing game developers, who don’t know jack shit about how to properly optimize their product, to code directly in the silicone is going to cause a lot of Alpha and Beta testers’ PCs to go up in flames.
- Um
That said… Carmack, stfu! You’re no longer relevant.
Like GLIDE Mantle’s low-level API grants direct access to AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU hardware features, which allegedly allows developers to achieve a far higher level of hardware-optimized performance than is possible with OpenGL and DirectX
GLIDE was eventually open sourced but D3D and OpenGL took over.
What I’m saying is this. We don’t need another proprietary API.
It has all happened before and FK all if it should happen again.
From AMD
“The plan is, long term, once we have developed Mantle into a state where it’s stable and in a state where it can be shared openly [we will make it available].“
- That’ll happen never
Riiiiiiiiiiiight

AMD Drivers

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-10LINBetaDriver.aspx

I no longer give a fuck.
That said, it does seem to fix a bunch of shit they’ve broken over the past 6 months.
New features? Zero, rien, nada!

NVIDIA 331.13 BETA

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-331.13-driver.html

Added GPU utilization reporting to the nvidia-settings control panel.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused display corruption in GLX applications while changing the display configuration.

I can’t Green Gabe

http://notonsteam.com/

Plenty of games unable to pass the Greenlight sniff test
Ah, this is from Flippy (race the sun) and his game was just Greenlit. Irony.
Rose and time is the standout here. Everything else looks pretty meh
- Yup

Linux Games, Crowd-funding and Stretch goals (again!)

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nl0yt/i_really_want_to_release_my_game_on_linux_but_im/

“Some people raised concern about the Linux goal being very high” Those people were being nice. They should have told you you’re fuckin’ doin’ it wrong!
You want to make your game for Linux, then just make it. If not, cut the bullshit and the fucking stretch goals.
- ^this
Unity game. Click export!

Of Guards And Thieves

http://www.indiedb.com/games/of-guards-and-thieves

Demo works great outhabox *cough*Unity*cough*
- They tar’d it!
Hopefully they’ll fix the multiplayer “failed to connect” issues before they get on the Steams!

Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Legends of Aethereus

Webzone: www.aethereusgame.com

Devel: ThreeGates

Engine: Unity

Price: US$29.99/€27.99/ZBW$10’857’000

Makes with the working

V-

ZERO in-game gerbil control until you disable “Mouse lerping”
Had to Alt+Tab and kill the game to unfuck this.
Why won’t this game remember a resolution?
Is 12.04 some generic drop-down menu option when posting a game? Because fk all if you bothered testing with it.

J-

While it does run, this category also covers running well
- It runs like ass

P-

The game freezes with no apparent reason in seemingly random places.

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Oh, have a look. Glitches like this be everywhere.

When the game is running correctly it looks meh (even on ultra) at best.
I’m not hating but $30 should buy 2010 graphics, not 2005.
The voice acting is atrocious. It caused me physical pain.

J-

It looks like a console game
I’m not blown away by any thing really. It just reminds me of monster hunter
Really hard to focus when their camera is squirreling out
takes forever to load on my SSDs

P-

It works great with the Open Sauce radeon drivers, unless you’re using any other resolution than 1280×720 or 1920×1080 (Performance takes a serious dive, even at 1024×768)
Gamma is bugged on my end, it’s always too frickin’ dark.
Dat stock Unity grass! (See http://linuxgamecast.com/2013/04/l-g-c-reviews-haunt/)

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Control

V-

9/10 times gerbil control locks the game.
Yes, I tried unplugging my gamepads (I shite you not! That’s a “workaround”)

J-

Holy shit what is up with that bollocksed camera
I’ve almost got killed so many times due to camera fuckups
Why am I unable to turn around half the time

P-

Mouse lerping is the doom of Unity3D games.
Mouse sensitivity is constantly increasing itself, regardless of how many times you tell it to stay down. Even altering the settings .ini file doesn’t stop it from going up.
Melee strikes don’t connect, unless the invisible/non-existent crosshairs is aimed at the random ass hitbox those NPCs were coded with. (Frustrating as fuck to swing a 7 feet long greatsword and even though the animation clips right through the model, it doesn’t register as a hit)

Total-

FUN

V-

Can’t say. Never managed to get it working.

J-

Bored. This is boring. Lame monster hunter clone

P-

I wanted to like this game, I really did! Linux needs a proper, modern, hacky-slashy RPG.
It did a number of things right. Letting you craft your own armor/weapons and keeping gameplay simple but effective.
Unfortunately, it fell far short when it came to execution. Unoptimization, random freezes and the fact that about 10 missions in the difficulty curve doesn’t ramp up; It sky rockets!
Also, fuck those goddamn narrated tips. Fuck them right in the ass.

Total-

Final –

You don’t really need LGC’s review to tell you the truth about this particular game. There are plenty of review/opinion posts on its Steam community board and they all say pretty much the same.
With that said, I can appreciate the scope of what they TRIED to do. Unfortunately they bit a little more than they could chew.
I give you the known issues thread. The Linux version is unplayable. I’m talking demand a refund unplayable.

Feedback:

Areola Controla

http://slexy.org/view/s21SlCdD8i

Oh, you don’t like this controller for playing FPSes? That’s too baaaaaaaaahd *rubs nipples*
That’s a really nice haptic feedback I’m getting here.

Keyboards, biatch!

http://slexy.org/view/s28SaGXhxZ

Possibly the fact platformers were designed for controllers? The rise of the platformer happened on arcades (Donkey Kong and Co. in the early 80’s).
I don’t know about the arcades where you’re from, but to me the feedback a controller gives is much more similar to the arcade inputs than the kbd/mouse ever will be.

Building

http://slexy.org/view/s2zxjFMC01

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/1/entry-1143-build-a-killer-linux-gaming-machine-for-430/

Bwahahahahahahaha Optical drive
Yeah, with those 20 you save on the optical drive you can get an AMD 6300 instead of the 4300.
$60 for a Standard case that just happens to be branded CoolM. That’s another $40 you can shave off and get a 600W Power Supply instead.