LinuxGameCast Weekly EP98 — Uncomfortably Happy

Unreal 4 samples hit the web! Dark Horizons bring the MECH, Sony eyes Crytek, and XCOM gets benched. Then Drunken Robot Pornography faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8mq09DqOw

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News

Review

Hate Mail

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News:

We are the 1.20%

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Around 900’000-ish Linux users assuming the 75 million active accounts is still current.
Knowing they don’t give ARCH it’s own category makes /w the smiles.
- They’re the vocal minority.

Virtual Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/news/13768/

at last our national nightmare is over
After facebuts picked up the Rift my interest went from “meh, I’ll buy one” to “fuckity bye!”

Virtual Witching

http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/522728086957775869/#c522730701897707839

Again, Linux devels will guide this moron through his errors.
FK all horrified he is under NDA for W3.
How many times do we need to have this discussion anyways? Stop giving these guys money. Period. End of File. Exit, init 0, *pours gasoline in PC and tosses in a lit match*
- start:
- invoke ExitProcess,0
- end start
- or GTFO
I’m pro never talking about the Witcher 2 on Linux again.

XSlow?

http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-xcom-enemy-unknown-on-linux-r151

I for one would like to see his moon benchmarking software.
Aside from one hardlock, I’ve had no issues with this port
There does seem to be some information lacking regarding the software he used.
- But considering it’s an Unreal Engine 3 game, I wouldn’t be surprised if the measurements are accurate.
Also, the minimum requirements are incorrect. You can play the game fine on an AMD mobility 5650 on medium-highish graphics.
The only real problem I ran into (and I’ve since finished the game) were the herky-jerky loading screen bink videos.

Early MECH

http://store.steampowered.com/app/266470/

In development “Support for additional platforms (Linux/SteamOS/Mac)”
It’s no HAWKEN but it tickled my mech fancy.
- Considering it’s UE3 …WHAR!
  - Hell if I know. Guess they’re happy with their game not being relevant in any platform.
Linux could certainly use some native mech combat games

Space Farmers

http://store.steampowered.com/app/271570/

That trailer is giving me some serious Reboot Flashbacks
Unfortunately multiplayer relies on a mysterious concept called “cooperation”

Contagion

http://rootgamer.com/11091/news/linux-build-contagion-in-progress

Apparently Valve is making with the help on the port
Bills itself as a more realistic Killing Floor/Left4Dead
- That actually sounds good to me.
- Left4Dead always felt less like zombie survival and more like bulletfest with zombies.

Legions of Ashworld

http://store.steampowered.com/app/310970/

Turn-based strategy.
Claims to want to bring a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of the overworld.
From that description it seems like a turn-based, slower paced, Mount&Blade with 2D hand-drawn graphics.

News:

Not good

http://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-uks-staff-are-currently-on-leave-1599923133

Please don’t let this effect Star citizen
Seems like Deep Silver might be looking to buy out Crytek UK to finish Homefront. That wouldn’t be a bad outcome all things considered
- I’d be alright with that!

Uggggggggggggggggggggh!

http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/07/04/sony-rumored-acquiring-crytek-soon/

9000% speculation but it makes sense.
Let the rumor mill spin!

Unreal demos

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Demos

“We hope that soon we will be able to cook the content natively in Linux, as well.”
64-bit only and the cool demos run like arse on ze APU.
Doesn’t work on the open source drivers.
Works fine on the nvidia boxen
Realistic rendering demo is fairly impressive and runs at a consistent framerate. Colour me impressed
Fuck Flappy chicken
- flap flap GRR! flap fla..OH FFS! Fla…alright, FK this business.

Help “The Dark Mod” improve it’s rendering engine

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/2883499-port-gpu-skinning

http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/

Optimization goes a long way, kids! Good on them!
They need halp porting Doom 3’s GPU skinning code.
- It’ll let the GPU do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to model joint movement and improve performance at the same time.

Dreamy episodes

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/890605

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey

Another case of “boy runs successful Kickstarter”; “boy spends all kickstarter money”; “boy thinks they have what it takes to compete with Telltale on the episodic field and hey moar games moar money, right!?”; “boy sells the first one or two episodes before people lose interest and the only ones who will be left playing will be the original backers.”
I understand the desire to provide something tangible to backers but please, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN, Don’t ad-hoc your development process. Have at least some kind of planning and scoping meeting and set some realistic goals or timelines.
- Do actual development instead of just programming

Relax’em Up, Mountain Simulator

http://mountain-game.com/

I don’t… uh… I don’t even!
From the same creative mind behind the video game featured in the movie Her.
- http://vimeo.com/83960846
I’m just disappointed that I can’t crush people’s heads in this
“Mountain Simulator, Relax em’ up, Art Horror”

Dosminer

http://www.dosminer.de/

The website’s description of the game sounds like Minecraft and its bazillion clones.
Terminal Minecraft with poor english.
Like the soundtrack though!
I don’t fucking know what’s happening. I’m so confused

Factorio

https://www.factorio.com/

Sim city-ish type thing with a focus on factories.
Futzed /w the demo. Borderline fun, but we do like our simulation.

Scale:

– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Drunken Robot Pornography

Webzone: http://www.dejobaan.com/drunken/

Devel: Dejobaan Games

Engine: Unity

Price: $14.99/€10.99

Wazzat: Bullet-hell, boss-battle, first-person shooter, with giant-robots, martinis and jetpacks. YES. Drink the cocktails. Fight the titans. Make your own Titans. Drink your friend’s cocktails.

Makes with the working

V-

Nothing, nada, zero problemo.

J-

P-

Instead of one config file (~/.config/unity3d/Dejobaan Games, LLC/Drunken Robot Pornography/prefs) you have two (the second one being in the game’s SteamApps folder). So when the game starts cocking up with the extended desktop resolution I have to edit 2 different files to fix it.
This game is completely buggy on my end.
Lo and behold, this is what the level selection looks like for me!
- http://i.imgur.com/tMP701p.jpg

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Unity can do quasi-cell shaded graphics well. This takes advantage of that ..in spades.
Nothing here will blow out your eye pussies but the textures are clean and the big boss thingys are well done.
The soundtrack can eat a bag of dicks.
The weapon sounds are flaccid as P-man in a room of hot ladies.

J-

P-

Resolution cock-ups and Unity-tastic graphics.
I didn’t hate the voice-acting!

Total-

Control

V-

I’ve had more than one human rage-quit while using my desktop. I enjoy a stupid high sensitivity.
Honestly, you need it in a game like this.

J-

Holy Mouse sensitivity batman

P-

Mouse sensitivity is far too twitchy even at the lowest setting
You know how if you hold the left click the gun just shoots continuously? For me it only shoots like once a second.

Total-

FUN

V-

I rather enjoy this game but it makes me feel the olds.
I can keep up /w difficulty on 11 but I’m exhausted after a few rounds.
Welcome to 30 motherfu*kers!
Loses a chair because I was killed to death more than once from not being able to distinguish enemies from the background.

J-

This game bored me after 10 minutes

P-

I’ve used the shooting spit balls out of a straw analogy before, but this is just getting ridiculous.
For me it’s completely broken and downright unplayable. It gets 1 chair because we don’t give out 0.

Total-

Final –

Hate Mail:

heretic purchase

http://slexy.org/view/s2Ge4z4LjQ

Screw two Jesus’s
I’m ok with heretic purchases being subtracted if the devs do decide to port their old games.
- And I mean actually port, wrappers do not count.
Granted you bought it specifically for WINE but if the devs play nice, I’m ok with it not counting towards the 5.
Spend your money however the fuck you want. I don’t give an iota of a shit

Jackass

http://slexy.org/view/s2w1LROzBM

This all stemmed from a comment on a Witcher 2 “lets play” video.
I said it’s universally hated by the Linux community and not native etc… and 50 something comments later.
Oh, let’s delete posts.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/522728086957775869/#c45350245065248563
I love all the level 0 steam accounts “agreeing” with them and congratulating them on banning “trolls”.
WHY ARE WE STILL FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THIS~
- ^
  - Next week on Witcher 2 Cast.
  - Personally, I like watching the devels implode.