LinuxGameCast Weekly EP113 – Super DP

The Pre-Sequel is out! NVidia brings PhysX to the penguin, 0 A.D. throws Alpha 17 in our FACE organs, and Unity denies all the things. Then Borderlands The Pre-Sequel faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News :

Pre-Sequel launches, Working as Advertised on Day 1

http://store.steampowered.com/app/261640/

Differing regional release dates can DIAF.
We’re in 2014 not 1993.
I’m actually a bit giddy about this. Is this the first triple-A game to get a simultaneous release (giggity)
- More like AAA DLC @ 59.99

Racist

http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2014/10/10620/

Shader fixes, basically.
Still doesn’t let me use llvm to speed up the shader compiles.

Distance Beta Build 3153

http://steamcommunity.com/games/distance/announcements/detail/171460076368602807

Four new challenge modes.
WHAR challenge pissing?
Quicker level restarts and a FK load of bug fixes.

Screencheat (embargo keys in list)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/301970/

Embargo and launch date of Oct 21

I like this bit from the system requirements:
- Graphics: Any from the last 4 years
Interesting mechanic. Have to play this with roommate and see how that fares
It hurt my brain organ a little bit.

DeadCore

http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/

We talked about this game billions of years ago in the futures past
Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun
First Unity game I played /w Linux

Used to be called DeadLock but then the Dev discovered that was also the name of 1996 TBS game.
Those aesthetics remind me of how much they’re trying to be Portal.
This was the game that made me realise Unity games work better on the Intel Mesa drivers than AMD’s.

Dolphins Cry

http://steamcommunity.com/games/281130/announcements/detail/137683079242548069

http://store.steampowered.com/app/281130

Looks neat but no Linux in ze System Requirements so NOPE!
3rd-party DRM YAY! \:D/
Several Duke Nukem Forever analogies were made in the comments. This fills me with hope
This doesn’t fill me with confidence: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_on_Steam#Reality_Pump
- Because you want to limit the number of machines your game runs on in an ecosystem that is trying to introduce “Play anywhere” functionality. Good jerb

Sigils of Elohim

http://store.steampowered.com/app/321480/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

Oh, those crazy Croatians
Sliding block puzzle minigame in the Serious Engine?
Oh look, free promotional material.
- In the hands of anyone else, this’d be called Early Access and you’d have to pay full price.
Croteam has always attempted to put out Linux ports, so I’ll continue to support them
WHAR The Talos Principle?

News:

No Unity

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-technologies-sale-options-solved.268527/page-4#post-1808103

Clearly the place to debunk these rumours is ..the forums?
If you feed this into the De-BS-o-tron-9k you get ‘nobody wanted to buy us’

Oh, barra-barraCUDA – Yeah

http://physxinfo.com/news/12421/physx-sdk-3-3-2-arrives-adds-gpu-acceleration-support-on-linux/

You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it out to the wick!
This will only really affect new games and older games who completely overhaul their Phys-X support
- https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2j6r3h/borderlands_the_presequel_is_now_playable_on/cl97p9z

SDP

https://education.github.com/pack

Basically a huge free bundle of software and credits for services aimed at making student projects easier by putting all the necessary tools in their hands (Hosting, CI, Collaboration, DNS)
- Almost as good a deal as hostgator (ker-plug),
YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOW
Apparently my university e-mail is still valid. Can you say free shit?

0 A.D. New Release: Alpha 17 Quercus

http://play0ad.com/alpha-17-quercus/

something something …in a world
Performance improvements
Scenario and Mod Design
New Maps
Major Core Combat Rebalance

Terminal Overload 0.3

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2014/10/terminal-overload-03-released-support.html

Everyone’s favourite remake of ROTCE is back
- This time with a new map, GUI improvements, and game improvements
Glad he is still working on it since it’s a fun game that nobody knows about.

OG Fallout (1&2) for Linux goes on GitHub

http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?202489-fallout-for-linux-source

https://github.com/Spunkybd/fallout-for-linux-source

Timeslip (prominent OG Fallout modder) gave up on his SDL based Linux engine reimplementation for the original Fallout and Fallout 2.
Don’t expect that noise to build OOTB because makefile

Scale:

– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Borderlands 2: The Pre-Sequel

Webzone: http://borderlandsthegame.com/index.php/game/borderlands-the-presequel

Devel: Gearbox/Ass-Pyre

Engine: Willow Engine (Unreal Tech)

Price: $59.99/€49.99

Wazzat: Your mother, the meat bicycle

Makes with the working

V-

Works OOTB /w two issues
Roughly 30% of our A/V downloads come from space Australia and not only are they hit /w the space Australia tax they get region lock-in FROM A COMPANY IN SPACE AUSTRALIA?
- This is how you create piracy
New rule: FK mothering region locks in 2014 =’s minus one chair.
You lose another chair for not even bothering to detect mah hardware.
Really, everything was set on calculator.
My first experience should not be digging around in advanced graphic settings seeing what else I need to enable or set to high.
Outside of that everything else was butter.
Ass-pyre did a fine job porting the game. I know this because almost every, single, game-breaking, bug found in the Windows version is here as well ..but that’s not their fault.

J-

S-

I ran the game on Both my SteamBox running SteamOS and my Ubuntu 14.04 machine down stairs. It runs flawlessly on proprietary 334. drivers on my Nvidia GTX555.
The game has a tendency to stutter on the on the AMD open-source drivers but runs flawlessly on FGLRX 13.35 drivers.

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

It’s a reskin of Borderlands 2 and BL2 looked okay.
Again there was no single point where I went Oooooh shiny!
Again Unreal Engine 3 (even modified) is getting long in the tooth organ

J-

No real change from Borderlands 2

S-

The Borderlands series has been one of the best Unreal 3 ports I have played with.
The soundtrack reminded me of Tron Legacy… then I went to Moxxies bar and I saw Daft Punk in the DJ booth. Go figure

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Control

V-

I could bind all the things
Didn’t spend 20min futzing /w the gerbil input speed,

J-

S-

Frawless

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FUN

V-

I’m coming at this from an uncommon position.
My first time playing BL2 was a few weeks back. I wasn’t revisiting an old friend on a new OS.
For me this is BL2 /w a new gravity mechanic (yes but-slam is fun for a bit) and an oxygen meter that is more of an annoyance.
Really, there was never a time I ran out of O2 and said anything other than ‘welp, better stroll halfway across the map and grab some more’.
In all fairness I drink A LOT so random blackouts while walking is called “Tuesday” #powerblackout
Singleplayer is just miserable for me. I just did all this shite in BL2.
Multiplayer is somewhat better but FK all buggy.
Unoriginal, poorly written, unfunny, buggy DLC repackaged as a $60 game.

J-

Linux gamers kind of got screwed with the release schedule of the Borderlands game
For someone who played BL2 two years ago, this would probably seem like a fresh game
For folks like us however, all we see is getting two very similar games back to back, so I’ll try not to Judge it too harshly
Venn is Right, sometimes there’s just a metric fuckton of enemies you have to deal with
Its also pretty grindy, which II think is a bit of a step back from BL2, which mitigated some of the grind

S-

Unlike the other two heathens, I am enjoying the game. My only major gripe I have is that if the game is going to check for my old save files from BL2 take out the tutorial. I also am still on the fence with the games grinder system.

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Final –

Hate Mail:

chairquisition

http://slexy.org/view/s2SgehLVXO

To plagiarize my response from shatrealm:
- “Cameron, you racist slut! I was completely aware that there is a 3DS shovel knight. It’s specifically why I brought it up!”

The bridge

http://slexy.org/view/s21S4iWatR

The chairs are not of this world.
We are only beginning to understand their ways
We only know our simple human ape maths are wrong and dare not question these ascended beings who gifted us advanced moon technology.
Hallowed are the Chairs

Fully (redacted)

http://slexy.org/view/s2MpOptrh5

You were soooooo close little buddy.

If you want us to take a look at your game (basically give it a free plug) just send us the keys.
We’re happy to do it but it’s really at the point of having to pick and choose and one of the deciding factors being keys in the note.

E.g. the lot from Screencheat (this game will be huge) were all like ‘we know there’s only three of you but we’re sending an extra one for the full experience‘