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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Steam
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/310830
- http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
- http://store.steampowered.com/news/13768/
- http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/522728086957775869/#c522730701897707839
- http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-xcom-enemy-unknown-on-linux-r151
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/266470/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/271570/
- http://rootgamer.com/11091/news/linux-build-contagion-in-progress
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/310970/
News
- http://kotaku.com/sources-crytek-uks-staff-are-currently-on-leave-1599923133
- http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/07/04/sony-rumored-acquiring-crytek-soon/
- https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Demos
- https://www.bountysource.com/issues/2883499-port-gpu-skinning
- http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/890605
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey
- http://mountain-game.com/
- http://www.dosminer.de/
- https://www.factorio.com/
Review
- http://www.dejobaan.com/drunken/
- http://store.steampowered.com/app/209060
- http://i.imgur.com/tMP701p.jpg
Hate Mail
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam News:
We are the 1.20%
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
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Around 900’000-ish Linux users assuming the 75 million active accounts is still current.
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Knowing they don’t give ARCH it’s own category makes /w the smiles.
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They’re the vocal minority.
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Virtual Steam
http://store.steampowered.com/news/13768/
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at last our national nightmare is over
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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
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Again, Linux devels will guide this moron through his errors.
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FK all horrified he is under NDA for W3.
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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*
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start:
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invoke ExitProcess,0
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end start
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or GTFO
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I’m pro never talking about the Witcher 2 on Linux again.
XSlow?
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I for one would like to see his moon benchmarking software.
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Aside from one hardlock, I’ve had no issues with this port
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There does seem to be some information lacking regarding the software he used.
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But considering it’s an Unreal Engine 3 game, I wouldn’t be surprised if the measurements are accurate.
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Also, the minimum requirements are incorrect. You can play the game fine on an AMD mobility 5650 on medium-highish graphics.
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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/
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In development “Support for additional platforms (Linux/SteamOS/Mac)”
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It’s no HAWKEN but it tickled my mech fancy.
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Considering it’s UE3 …WHAR!
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Hell if I know. Guess they’re happy with their game not being relevant in any platform.
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Linux could certainly use some native mech combat games
Space Farmers
http://store.steampowered.com/app/271570/
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That trailer is giving me some serious Reboot Flashbacks
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Unfortunately multiplayer relies on a mysterious concept called “cooperation”
Contagion
http://rootgamer.com/11091/news/linux-build-contagion-in-progress
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Apparently Valve is making with the help on the port
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Bills itself as a more realistic Killing Floor/Left4Dead
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That actually sounds good to me.
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Left4Dead always felt less like zombie survival and more like bulletfest with zombies.
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Legions of Ashworld
http://store.steampowered.com/app/310970/
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Turn-based strategy.
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Claims to want to bring a sense of adventure to strategic war-gaming with its first-person view of the overworld.
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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
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Please don’t let this effect Star citizen
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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
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I’d be alright with that!
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Uggggggggggggggggggggh!
http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/07/04/sony-rumored-acquiring-crytek-soon/
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9000% speculation but it makes sense.
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Let the rumor mill spin!
Unreal demos
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Demos
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“We hope that soon we will be able to cook the content natively in Linux, as well.”
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64-bit only and the cool demos run like arse on ze APU.
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Doesn’t work on the open source drivers.
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Works fine on the nvidia boxen
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Realistic rendering demo is fairly impressive and runs at a consistent framerate. Colour me impressed
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Fuck Flappy chicken
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flap flap GRR! flap fla..OH FFS! Fla…alright, FK this business.
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Help “The Dark Mod” improve it’s rendering engine
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/2883499-port-gpu-skinning
http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
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Optimization goes a long way, kids! Good on them!
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They need halp porting Doom 3’s GPU skinning code.
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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Do actual development instead of just programming
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Relax’em Up, Mountain Simulator
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I don’t… uh… I don’t even!
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From the same creative mind behind the video game featured in the movie Her.
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I’m just disappointed that I can’t crush people’s heads in this
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“Mountain Simulator, Relax em’ up, Art Horror”
Dosminer
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The website’s description of the game sounds like Minecraft and its bazillion clones.
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Terminal Minecraft with poor english.
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Like the soundtrack though!
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I don’t fucking know what’s happening. I’m so confused
Factorio
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Sim city-ish type thing with a focus on factories.
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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
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Nothing, nada, zero problemo.
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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.
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This game is completely buggy on my end.
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Lo and behold, this is what the level selection looks like for me!
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Shiny / Sounds
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Unity can do quasi-cell shaded graphics well. This takes advantage of that ..in spades.
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Nothing here will blow out your eye pussies but the textures are clean and the big boss thingys are well done.
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The soundtrack can eat a bag of dicks.
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The weapon sounds are flaccid as P-man in a room of hot ladies.
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Resolution cock-ups and Unity-tastic graphics.
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I didn’t hate the voice-acting!
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Control
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I’ve had more than one human rage-quit while using my desktop. I enjoy a stupid high sensitivity.
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Honestly, you need it in a game like this.
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Holy Mouse sensitivity batman
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Mouse sensitivity is far too twitchy even at the lowest setting
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You know how if you hold the left click the gun just shoots continuously? For me it only shoots like once a second.
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FUN
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I rather enjoy this game but it makes me feel the olds.
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I can keep up /w difficulty on 11 but I’m exhausted after a few rounds.
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Welcome to 30 motherfu*kers!
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Loses a chair because I was killed to death more than once from not being able to distinguish enemies from the background.
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This game bored me after 10 minutes
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I’ve used the shooting spit balls out of a straw analogy before, but this is just getting ridiculous.
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For me it’s completely broken and downright unplayable. It gets 1 chair because we don’t give out 0.
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Hate Mail:
heretic purchase
http://slexy.org/view/s2Ge4z4LjQ
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Screw two Jesus’s
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I’m ok with heretic purchases being subtracted if the devs do decide to port their old games.
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And I mean actually port, wrappers do not count.
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Granted you bought it specifically for WINE but if the devs play nice, I’m ok with it not counting towards the 5.
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Spend your money however the fuck you want. I don’t give an iota of a shit
Jackass
http://slexy.org/view/s2w1LROzBM
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This all stemmed from a comment on a Witcher 2 “lets play” video.
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I said it’s universally hated by the Linux community and not native etc… and 50 something comments later.
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Oh, let’s delete posts.
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http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/0/522728086957775869/#c45350245065248563
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I love all the level 0 steam accounts “agreeing” with them and congratulating them on banning “trolls”.
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WHY ARE WE STILL FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THIS~
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Next week on Witcher 2 Cast.
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Personally, I like watching the devels implode.
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