LinuxGameCast Weekly EP171 – Discoverable Cock Mechanisms

0 A.D. gets Syllepsis! VALVe doubles down on two factor, AMD releases Crimson, and Leadwerks shites bricks. Then Lucius II faces the CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail.

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Steam News:

3 lights days
http://www.techspot.com/news/62938-valve-implementing-trade-holds-help-protect-against-steam.html

  • VALVe’s pushing that three factor authentication.
  • It only kicks in if you do not have two factor enabled.
    • Which is a good thing.   Even if it’s just the email notifications, having some manner of 2FA is better than none.
  • They’re also offering a discount if your account uses it.
  • Gotta like how VALVE will do anything to avoid improving customer support.

Special Attention
http://steamcommunity.com/games/332970/announcements/detail/101691440685284069/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/332970

  • Remember the asshats who neglected their Linux build for over three months?
  • The ones charging $19.99 for a game that will be free to play and already have backing so Early Access is icing on the cake-organ.
  • Did they fix the bug causing the servers to be empty?
  • Hacker item, the Energy Pad, has been added. Once placed on the ground, step on it and you’ll instantly regain Energy travel through time to fight Kung Fuhrer.    GOTY, right there.   You’re welcome Pixelbeam
  • They supposedly did include some linux performance enhancements.  I’m not gonna waste 10GB to verify it though.
  • No BOTS, online only.
  • That said, played a while /w Frenchi Thursday and it works.

It’s over 9000! Literally this time.
http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/blog/41/entry-1588-leadwerks-game-engine-reaches-10000-paid-users/

  • The real story here is that ze Leadwerks Game Launcher now makes /w the Linux.
  • Sweet! Now I can download games to my hard drive that I’ll never actually play! 
  • We got some keys from Herr Klint, so we might be having ourselves another away of give
    • Jordan, they can get a better engine from the Unity personal-edition.
      • Or UE4.   For freez.   And they’ll get the source.  Or even godot
      • That could be the contest too!  Whoever can make the best game with Unity Personal gets a copy of leadwerks so they can realize how good they had it!
  • We gave our trained space Australian game devel a copy and insisted he port Brick Simulator. 
    • He had some very very strong words about that.
    • It…it’s beautiful

Lamian’s Land
http://store.steampowered.com/app/385310/

  • Sort of reminds me of two brothers
    • in a van
      • And then a meteor hit
    • That’s exactly why I sent them an email about it.
  • The graphics give me some egoboo flashbacks though.
  • I’m going to have to play more, but so far it doesn’t look anywhere near as compelling as people have described Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.Unity screen of nope!
  • And another game that need some serious camera control

Another Minecraftian dungeon
http://store.steampowered.com/app/415030/

  • It’s a shittier looking ziggurat!
  • My first reaction to the graphics was: “Oh, for fucks sake! Another Minecraft looking game.”
  • But no, once you get inside this is more along the lines of the original Heretic/Hexxen.
  • So yeah, a worse looking Ziggurat.
    • Toldja.
  • It’s not actually too bad though, for a doom/hexen clone.

Tame the DEMO
http://store.steampowered.com/app/385270/

  • From the developer who asked “can anyone confirm if the game is working on Lin/MAC” 
    • Another top graduate from the “click export” school of porting
      • You can’t expect devels to drive all the way down to the Linux store and drop a grand on a Linux PC.
  • “Jet Racing Extreme Will Make You Want To Stuff A Rocket In Your Exhaust.” 100 – Game Players Review
    • …Probably not something  you want to be advertising.

Might and Magic is what I call my testicles
http://store.steampowered.com/app/336520/

  • Oh look, it’s a browser game.
  • I don’t know which engine it’s trying to use, but It won’t even load on my end.
  • Maybe that’s a good thing, people are already review bombing it saying it’s loaded with microtransactions.
  • It just seems silly to put a browser game on steam though.   But hey, it beats that chess game that was just using steam to pipe people to their sign up form.

RC Simulation 2.0
http://store.steampowered.com/app/381750

  • It’s already a far better Early Access game than many supposedly finished ones.
  • That said, it still needs a lot of work.
  • I quit after the human-organ went goat ragdoll after resetting the RC.

News:

They’re out
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDRadeonSoftwareCrimsonEdition15-11LINReleaseNotes.aspx

  • Still no Xorg 1.18 Support
  • Still no support for 4.x Kernels
  • Par for the course for AMD, but if they’re going to be offering new  and supposedly awesome driversauce, at least support the latest kernels and X server.
  • Still needs the gimp help files
  • And the only things they fixed were:
    • [SWDEV-55204] Stuttering when running glxgears with VSync enabled
    • [SWDEV-7339] Intermittent mouse cursor corruption
      • under/over on AMD driver devel knowing that Steam was released for Linux?
      • I like how the issues with GLXgears take the top slot.  I wonder if that’s just how they test that their driver is working.
        • Gears spin, ship it!
  • B-b-but AMD cards already work perfectly /w Linux!11!!
  • …at least that’s what I’ve been told by AMD fanboys.
  • Well, the benchmarks are coming in and the improvements are the definition of marginal.   Why anyone expected anything different is beyond me.
  • For ONCE I would like AMD to get its shite together and release something that competes /w NVIDIA on the Linux.
  • More specifically I want them to compete in the arena of gaming.
  • Yes, I said “gaming” so everyone furiously typing hate mail /w the Subject: OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS YOLO420 DORITO!11! can calm your collective tit-organs.

xf86-video-amdgpu
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002659.html

  • Sort of want to see a walk-off between Crimson and this boy.  Sandy do it
  • At least they’ve brought support for the R9 3 series up to par with RadeonSI/R600.
  • If for no other reason than literally just forked the old driver to work with the new blob.

GCN Assembler for AMD
https://community.amd.com/thread/190822

  • Direct access to the GPU? *grabs popcorn*
  • Amazing how this only shows up after the CUDA support.
  • We are gonna see such widespread usage of this you guys.   SO many people just want to harness the power of their radeon cards under linux to do…parallel processing…yeah

WINE 1.8
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.8-rc1

  •  38427  Desura client 0.0.20.2 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp120.dll._Thrd_current
    • Two questions:  
      • 1) Who is using the windows version of desura on wine?
      • 2) WHO THE FUCK IS STILL USING DESURA?!?
    •  30855  Rhymes (Russian rhymes dictionary) doesn’t work correctly
      • Solid Stone’s rap career nods knowingly
  • Honestly, I’m waiting for the direct11 support
  • Everyone is, at this point.
  • Tell that to VP

All of a sudden, the Open Pandora became much more interesting
http://pandoralive.info/?p=5338

  • Until Blizzard serves them with a C&D.
  • I’m interested to see what other sorts of older games can be ported using this method
  • Dude’s totally gonna get a visit from ActiBlizzion’s lawyers though.

Syphilis
http://play0ad.com/new-release-0-a-d-alpha-19-syllepsis/

  • SDL2 is now on by default, meaning that now everything will generally work automagically
  • Two new victory conditions were added
  • They’ve added the ability to capture buildings and siege units as well.

CHAIRQUISITION:
CHAIRNooope

CHAIRCHAIR-Not sure if want

CHAIRCHAIRCHAIRCheck it out

CHAIRCHAIRCHAIRCHAIRShutupandtakemymonies


Game: DeLucius II
Webzone:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/296830/
Devel: Shiver Games
Engine: Unity
Price: 19.99/21.99 (66% off until December 1st)

Wazzat: The story of Lucius II continues where the original left off: Lucius emerges as the lone survivor of the burning wreckage his parents once called home, unscathed from the ruthless slaughter he had unleashed.


 Makes with the working

VCHAIRCHAIRCHAIR

  • This critter struggles to hit 50 FERPS @1080
  • Forget about playing @ 4K.
  • I’m only getting between 19-20 on the old 8150 /w a 980
  • I’m guessing people /w Skylake Intel CPUs do not have such issues.

J-CHAIRCHAIRCHAIR

  • 24 FPS at 4K
  • 37FPS at 1080.   On an i76700k.   With a 980.
  • I dinnae understand

P-CHAIRCHAIR

  • It works, I guess.
  • I had to put the graphics up to “Mental” otherwise I’d get texture flickering all over the place.
  • The FerPS go anywhere from 30 to 80 in the first three levels.
  • It’s so bad it also messes with the game physics.

 Total-CHAIRCHAIR


Shiny / Sounds

V-CHAIRCHAIR

  • Mmmm 15FERP cutscenes.
  • It has the standard Unity slider bar of graphical asshattery.
  • Anything below “High” will look full-metal N64.
  • Please sir, could I bother you for a cup of antialiasing?
  • Yes, this is coming from captain I’m okay /w  jaggies.  
  • Cocking about.
  • Oh look, a Doctor WHO episode.
  • I don’t want to call this game fugly, but even on high it looks a bit meh.
  • Meh without the ability to rub some Vaseline on the lens-organ.
  • Sounds are intermittent and annoying.
  • Listening to a defib charge on loop is not my idea of a good time.
  • Fortunately that is broken up when the game (randomly) decides to play background “music”
  • Mix that /w the sup par noises made by the people you kill to death and you end up with..

J-CHAIRCHAIR

  • So many glitches.   This game has problems with trying to shadow
  • The people models look like they belong in an early 360 game.   The small objects, not so much.
  • The voice acting is alright.
  • The opening cinematic people have muppet heads
  • The sound design isn’t all that great.  Random annoying comments, laughs and shitty radio.

P-CHAIRCHAIR

  • Unholy graphical glitches, batman!
  • When the graphics aren’t flickering and tearing all over the place, it’s a good looking game.
  • It’s very clear the voice actors were all in different rooms and using different Mics when they were recording their lines.
  • The very first dude that mumbles stuff when you walk into his room, I couldn’t make out a damn thing of what he was saying until I muted everything else.
  • The paper cutout cutscenes were great, until they attempted to do lipsync.

 Total-CHAIRCHAIR


Control

V-CHAIRCHAIR

  • First time I had to use the Xclone and the keyboard to get unstuck.
  • Disable controlla support (in the menu) or you will have a bad time playing /w the keyboard/gerbil.
  • Unfortunately sorting the controls allows you to use them.
  • Apparently the devil’s son is made of teflon… and parkinson’s.  
  • You can forget about doing anything that requires precision.
  • That, and “press E to drag” might as well say “press E to imprint”

J-CHAIRCHAIR

  • Ran into the keyboard and mouse bug Venn mentioned
  • I can’t get it to go away.  Keyboard and mouse are entirely busted.
  • Mouse in the menu is perfectly fine.   In game it goes all Michael J Fox.  Unplugged all the controllers, reborted the machine and still with the shakey shakes.
  • Switch the right touchpad mode to joystick mouse and set throw to right trigger to make this fucker playable on the steam controller
  • Default bindings are completely fucked on the steam controller, but at least you can remap keys.

P-CHAIRCHAIR

  • I didn’t run into the issue Venn and Jordan did.
  • Nor did I have to disable the SHIELD from the menu.
  • What I did have to wrestle with, were the camera controls.
  • The camera gets caught in strange parts of the scenery and the wandering NPCs which, more often than not, results in some serious jerkiness and is generally horrible.

 Total-CHAIRCHAIRCHAIR


FUN

V-CHAIR

  • You MUST power through the useless/busted tutorial since their is a semi-functional game hiding behind it.  
  • You heal by flushing the toilets.
  • Save states are luck of the FK mothering draw.
  • My last save reanimated the NPCs and I had already used all the items to nope them.
  • I genuinely believe they put the NPCs on rails but it flipped out so they called it A.I.  
  • “Create your truly own unique traps by using a complex combination system and various tools.” hahahahahahahahahahahah. Yeah, no. Not /w the busted ass-control system.
  • More often than not you will end up shock fishing. That’s holding out a charged defib paddle and doing something else until a NPC runs into it.
  • That said, you can tell they wanted to pull off something neat.
  • Just look at the attention to detail / graphical fidelity in the first room. Take a long hard look.. because that’s the only time you’ll see it in this game.  
  • I’ve made it to town (halfway point) and the game cannot hit 30 FERPS and suffers from Doctor WHO blocks.
  • This is full-metal Bird Culture since I’m now 6hrs in and the game is effectively unplayable.
  • Now, this is the point where I normally find something to compliment…
  • I fully understand the devels are actively attempting to sort this busted pile of nope but until they overhaul the graphics, fix the physics, sort the controls, improve the performance, hammer out the graphical glitches, and make saving reliable you might do better to play in traffic than buy this game.  

J-CHAIR

  • Seriously.  Toilets
  • The AI is hella busted in this
  • I ran into a game breaking bug in the hospital level.   A set of keys didn’t spawn, so I couldn’t progress.   At which point I would have to restart the game
  • And the tutorial.
  • Yeah fuck that noise.
  • I get what a game like this is trying to do.   It’s a neat concept, but the execution is very flawed
  • the game is almost busted to the point of unplayability.   Effort just doesn’t cut it in the chairquisition

P-CHAIR

  • I hate these kinds of games.
  • Not the genre, not the premise.
  • I just hate games that are mediocre.
  • You can rail on it for its technical shortcomings; Poor optimization, shitty voice acting and camera controls.
  • But the game itself is competent enough to work, but nothing spectacular to be worthy of praise in any way.
  • I didn’t like this game but I didn’t exactly hate it.
  • What I hate is that I can’t effectively criticize it without sounding like I’m just picking at the nits.

Total-CHAIR


Final – CHAIR


Hate Mail:

Duke
http://slexy.org/view/s2S44S3yof

  • Yeah, that guide is a bit out of date.
  • If you can tell me what fails I might be able to help you out.

NWN Docking
http://slexy.org/view/s21O4gSbOI

  • Be careful! We might just start calling you the Dockmaster, instead of Orn.
  • That said, Strider has also made a Lutris installer for the game which supposedly makes it a much smoother experience (both installing and playing) for people who only have the one monitor or have separate X sessions per monitor.

Order
http://slexy.org/view/s20p4xKl9i

Sale
http://slexy.org/view/s2v4bJeY1Q

  • That’s the problem, nobody is comparing them to consoles.
  • Thing is, VALVe hasn’t marketed the Steam Machines. Period.
  • Not to console players, not to PC players, nobody!
  • And if we’re honest, it worked for Steam itself.
  • But the Steam machines aren’t a free bit of software people can use and forget about that’s sitting on your hard-drive holding your games hostage.
  • They’re a piece of furniture. They should call up Ikea, have them give a few tips.
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