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/
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SteamDB entry with more info: http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
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FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/
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Let’s see, UEFI, 500GB HDD, Debian based, no AMD driver support…
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I feel a resounding NOPE brewing in me.
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IMA give it a few weeks before slapping it on the Steam boxen.
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How to without UEFI (thanks Strider, for posting it): http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1sussr/installing_steamos_on_a_bios_machine/
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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
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Fuck this shit! Could have fuckin’ said so from the fuckin’ start!
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Glad I built one months ago.
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With this and the RHEL 7 beta out, I’m gonna have my hands full monkeying around with OSes
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I’m not looking forward to downloading SteamOS on the 13th though. *shudder*
Steam Machine v3.0
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Details TBD @ CES 2014 (likely to have a Titan)
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“Options include a GeForce GTX Titan graphics card and a 700W power supply”
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A bit on the pricey side.
Rust (by Garry Newman) Alpha now on Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/252490/
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If nothing else, he apologized for being mean and gave us some keys.
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Gotta love that caveman themed nudity
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BREAKING: Garry unable to count
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Gotta love thwacking people /w rocks
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Oh and Venn, I was right. It is Unity!
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Need to type “cursor.lock true” in the F1 console to get the mouse to behave.
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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/
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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/
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Free OST for people who buy the game on Steam
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2,5D point-and-click adventure game
News:
Air Control
http://www.desura.com/games/aircontrol
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I refuse to believe anyone could be bored enough to play this.
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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
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Um, release the source?
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^
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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/
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Interesting premise. Probably going to pick it up on principle considering DF has been showing the linux love for a while now
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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
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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
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Hipster, pixel, graphics.
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Terreria did it, so no points for originality
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Gets the job done, but no bonus points
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Music is nice and smooth, most of the times you can’t even tell it’s there.
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Graphics are meh! Like Jordan said, it’s Terraria all over again.
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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.
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Controls are reasonable enough
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My one gripe is that they tend to be all over the keyboard. Closer to WASD == Good
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Are you seriously not letting people reassign their keyboard mappings? Really?!
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Guess they’re working on it: http://imgur.com/LgT7Yfv
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They have until Saturday to get a better score from me.
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FUN
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2D Minecraft in spaaaace
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Interesting premise, but I find I suffer from minecraft fatigue syndrome whilst playing it
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Well, I liked the story up until the end. Very weak payoff. I was completely unsatisfied
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nope, we just hate the flags
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