LinuxGameCast Weekly EP111 – Raging Clue

Borderlands 2 is ready for your face organ! Stronghold 3 gets a Linux port, Tesla breaks the world, and we show you how to get every game on STEAM for free. Then Borderlands 2 faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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Away of GIVE LIVE!

http://linuxgamecast.com/discussions-2/#/discussion/1159/away-of-give-live-bl2

Steam

News

Review

Hate Mail

Colour Key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News:

I see a penguin

http://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/

But will it blend?
~~Not in online mode.~~
- ~~No clue what you’re talking about.~~
  - ~~Known bug causing crash on menu.~~
  - ~~I really like how on the ball they are with bugs that come up~~
Cross platform multiplayer works. Played up to the first boss with Mike Teehan and his friend on windows, no issues

Same day

http://blog.gameagent.com/borderlands-pre-sequel-coming-mac-linux/

First AAA simu release? *glares at Metro*

Shadowrun Online

http://store.steampowered.com/app/267750

As it says on the tin, an MMO taking place in the same world as ShadowRun Retu rns
I’m curious about it!
- Unfortunately, I think it will suffer from the same kind of lack of immersion as the multiplayer mods for Fallout 1 and 2.

Stronghold 3

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47400/

Kill it! Get it out of here! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Well, it runs like shite.
- The entire game IS shite.
If you go on Metacritic (don’t know why you would) you’ll see it only got 1 Positive Critic review out of a total of 29.
- Both IGN and GameSpot, notorious for their hype of games that turn out to be shit, gave the game negative scores.
- If even those two said it was terrible, I don’t really think you should be going anywhere near that game.

Ahh-CHOOO (thank freejack)

http://steamcommunity.com/games/contagion/announcements/detail/202982573784073427

Good on them for at least letting linux users know not to buy this one until they get the port out
blah blah cross platform blahdy bleedily boop
Linux is hard, man!

Tesla Breaks the World!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/314210/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

“OS: Linux 3.0 or later“ This does not inspire confidence
- Don’tchu know? Linux is an OS, so they can call it by its kernel version!
  - Sorry, we only support Busybox/Linux. What’s this GNU stuff?

Ugh, I remember playing this

http://store.steampowered.com/app/312720/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

News:

Quit giving us keys!

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LeszekLisowski/20141001/226840/How_to_get_every_game_on_STEAM_for_free.php

Never thought of that but yeah, valid point is valid.
If you are throwing out wet stinky keys check /w the judge
- If they are a Tuber make them contact you from that channel
- If its a site make them contact you from an email associated /w ..the site.
Now you know where all those sketchy arse sites that offer discounted keys obtain them.
You can trust us though. We’re totally not taking your keys and laughing at your stupidity. No sir

AMD Catalyst™ 14.9

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux%20x86_64

Oh hey, 3.15 kernel support, just in time for the 3.17 release
- I’m on Ubuntu 14.04 and I have kernel 3.16.
You fucking clods
One chair

Nvidia is getting closer to supporting Wayland

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2ht4p4/nvidia_is_getting_closer_to_supporting_wayland/

Its a shame it’s all for naught. Mir is the future. All hail Shuttleworth

Tiled 0.10

http://blog.mapeditor.org/2014/09/tiled-010-released.html

Everyone’s favourite 2d and isometric map editor is back with a whole whack of improvements and bugfixes

Updated Clonk

http://blog.openclonk.org/2014/09/achievement-unlocked/

Can you say, Terraria ripped us off and now we’re piggybacking on their reasonable success.
OG Clonk came out in 1994.
2010 – Open Clonk sees the light of day.
- Still uses 2D graphics but instead of sprites, the objects are now rendered in realtime.
Update brings Achievements and configurable Scenario Parameters
Fun project and it’s been around forever. Glad it’s still kicking.

Graywalkers: Purgatory

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreamlordsdigital/graywalkers-purgatory-turn-based-post-apocalyptic

Played for 15min (wondering WTF) before I realized my brain organ misread ze title
That said, there is no chance I would recommend backing this project.
Seriously, if you don’t know that *.zip does not retain permissions I have zero faith in your ability to deliver a functional Linux port.
- But Venn, don’t you know that Unity does all of that for you?!
To be fair, the demo sort of works. Basically it’s a dark fantasy wasteland style game
Looks a bit shit to be honest

Scale:

– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Borderlands 2

Webzone: http://www.aspyr.com/games/borderlands-2

Devel: Gearbox/Ass-Pyre

Engine: Willow

Price: 19.99

Wazzat: Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in 4 player co-op on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.

Makes with the working

V-

Does not remember windowed mode
I was having hella stuttering issues until I put the framerate limiter in YOLO mode.
Day one launch noped unless you were in offline mode. Bad form gents.

J-

A little slow on the draw, as to be expected of unreal 3 games
Cross platform multiplayer works out of the box

P-

Now I’m confident giving it 4 chairs, the last update fixed the herky-jerkyness and the random freezing.

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Sound and soundtrack were top of the notch
Voice work was just as good. I really wanted to kill clap shack
Graphics were great but there was no single point where I went Oooooh shiny!
Unreal Engine 3 is getting long in the tooth organ

J-

P-

For some reason it won’t hide the panel.
- Latest update fixed it!

Total-

Control

V-

I can’t for the love of FMS find the perfect gerbil setting
The default layout worked minus the inventory key. ‘I” Really?
Like how it has cheat mode auto aim built in

J-

Standard FPS fare

P-

Why can’t I bind the Ctrl keys?
- Because, since the Linux version is based on the Mac port and in MacOS Ctrl is used as a modifier to emulate a right click on those 1 button mice they have, someone forgot to remove that limitation.\

Total-

FUN

V-

It’s challenging and I don’t completely understand what the hell I’m doing …and that’s a good thing.
At first I was playing it full-metal FPS and getting killed to death …a lot.
Once you get on the quest bandwagon things pick up.

J-

This is a single player FPS MMO
The Aspie part of me likes the repetitive goals
The critic part of me gets a bit bored by it
It’s certainly a fun game, and the guys at gearbox did a good job of making it
The port is top notch as well

P-

I like it. But then again, I knew I probably would.
Much like its predecessor, it can get a bit grindy and repetitious.
It gets to a point where I just ignore the lower level enemies and carry on my way.
As far as Linux gaming goes, there really isn’t anything quite like it, so I’ll give it three chairs.
Doesn’t get 4 because being on Linux doesn’t excuse it from its repetitious-ness.

Total–

Final –

Even if you hate Shooters, buy this game. It’ll give these guys some much deserved wet stinkies and help encourage more Developers to contract these guys for ports.

It’s a RPG

Correction, it’s an MMO-RPG. Go over there and kill X amount of monster Y and pick up item Z. It’s got a better story than most MMOs but considering how much more money 2K has over <insert random dev here>, it fucking well better!

Hate Mail:

Asking permission

http://slexy.org/view/s2WKJHnn2D

They delivered: http://i.imgur.com/D91B0vq.png
- http://kanal.pt/973446
I posted this because we have no clear guidelines for re-transmitting our vijeo.

You heard it here first, BL2 Delayed on linux because of us!

https://twitter.com/iancbullard/status/516104255187320832