LinuxGameCast Weekly EP188 – Super Saiyan Demo

Desura is dead! Punch Club talks piracy, XCOM 2 receives an upgrade, and VALVe wants you to design their next controller. Then PAYDAY 2 faces the CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail!

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

CAD
http://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements/detail/901091250587237164

Ugh, do you know how long it’s been since I created a penis in CAD?
- Is your plan to 3D print a dick to tittyfuck an areola controlla? Because if so I am 100% on board
Can’t find anything to open the fkrs.
That a good idea! It’ll let people with 3D printers print accessories or enhancements for the AC.
And it’s not just for the visual stuff, it may even make the controller more accessible for those of us that don’t exactly have symmetrical hands.
- Changing the button layout would be tricky unless VALVe sells you the internals and you print your own PCB.
  - I mean, theoretically you could disassemble it and move the guts around, but that’d be a very involved mod

5
https://twitter.com/obriend17/status/712389378195075072

TLDR: Expect Vives to start arriving April 5th
I propose we mark the day by calling it “The Facefuckening”

PAYDAY 2 launch
http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/

MAC users already throwing a shitefest.
Holding a steady 60 @ 1080 on YOLO.
- And by 60 I mean it will not go above that.
Not an EON port. Awwww yeah
Damn good port from the looks of things.

As we breath a collective heavy sigh of relief
https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/news/549/

As we had suspected
#noteon
Soooooo, your announcement was an announcement #yodawg
- Listen man, between this and Payday, I’m fine with announcing the announcement of the annoucement.
- And if this goes well, we might be getting some other Squenix games. Like Deus Ex. That would be nice
Good!
“coming this spring”

DLC & Patch
http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412448158150022524/

The Children of Anarchy DLC had been delayed for Linux and Mac but it is now available.
If you bought the premium/deluxe/turbo edition, you already have this.

$pace $im
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427970/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

You want $39.99 for FKN Early Access?
An ambitious single player VR version of EVE online.
- I wonder if it will ever exit early access

OMG u guyz it iz finally time! Candice is out & ready 4 u 2 play!!!!!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/453790/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

According to my estimate, this game will give you cancer faster than standing out in the sun for extended periods of time
I saw Jim Sterling’s video on it, I’m good thanks!
- “IS THIS MEMES?!” –JSS

Ground Fox 64
http://store.steampowered.com/app/384330/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

I don’t think this critter has AI opponents.
Doesn’t Race the Sun do pretty much the exact same thing?

News:

Non-Beta Vulkan
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/100577/en-us

Not only Vulkan support, but EGL support for both Wayland and…that other one.
- Don’t forget MIR support motherfu*kers!
- Not 100% sure if this plays nice with the wayland implementations of Gnome/KDE etc that are shipping with fedora/arch/whatevers. Will definitely try to fuck around a bit with it this week.
Something something lulz@amd
- At this point it’s just… sad.
GLVND is now primetime, so no more shady nvidia hacks
Vulkan TALOS bench is within +/- 1FERP.
- I’m getting about the same performance I did with .29.

Furries!
https://developer.nvidia.com/hairworks

Kill performance on AMD cards!
It’s available now in UE4, but it doesn’t look like it supports OpenGL or Vulkan.
Also, WHAR SUPER SAIYAN DEMO?
This is DX11 only for the time being, guess NVidia’s looking for the community to help them migrate this over to the Vulkans.

SOMA – 6 months later
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/soma-6-months-later.html

“people lump both titles under a “Current Horror From Frictional Games” label.”
- This was on the topic of each new game causing decreased sales of previous titles.
- I love Frictional but let’s be honest, you can spot one of their titles from orbit.
- That’s not a bad thing, they are the clit-commanders of this genre.
“but since SOMA is in many ways quite different from Amnesia, we thought it wouldn’t happen this time.”
- So, you’ve seen it happen every single time and you expected this time to be different? You lot are insane!
I liked SOMA, but I didn’t like it quite as much as I did The Dark Descent. And I didn’t like The Dark Descent as much as I liked Penumbra.
What really killed it for me in SOMA were the glowing head WAU monstrosities which caused the camera to go full metal headache inducing pixely.
Honestly, I think they’re right about the survival horror thing
There have been a lot of games recently that have borrowed a lot of the tropes from the amnesia games, and that can cause some fatigue
To frictional’s credit though, they are some of the best at doing that genre.

Punching
http://tinybuild.com/punch-club-has-been-pirated-over-1-million-times

So what I took away from this article is that if you want to curtail piracy, neglect the Portuguese.
- Real Portuguese, not those wannabes over in Spain.
- Yeah, the brazilian game price mark up is astronomical.
- Until developers realize that, shit’s gonna get pirated.
Also, and this is a personal thing, don’t localize stuff in Portuguese on accounts of Portugal.
Most people here will just cringe with each every mistake made by the amateurs you got to do the localization.

Desura.gone
http://www.desura.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160316203326/http://www.desura.com/

It’s just, gone.
- Even the Google Cache won’t load properly.
- I found that Web Archive link with the latest snapshot being from March 16th.
I hope you all downloaded your games when I told you to.
- NO BITCH I DO WHAT I WANT
I’m honestly not surprised, considering they supposedly ran out of monies a while ago.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Payday 2
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/
Devel: Overkill (a Starbreeze Studio)
Engine: Diesel Engine 2.0
Price: 19.99 / CDN 21.99

Wazzat: PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains – as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.

Makes with the working

V-

The first few times you start this critter up is launches in 8X6 and that’s a bit jarring @ UHD.
I think I had to set the res twice manually but it eventually obeyed.
It took a performance dip while playing /w an AI team but that was sorted in the 2.2.GB update.

J-

Empty and Venn both reported that the resolution setting kept getting reset. I ran into no such issue

P-

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Even with Anisotropic filtering set at 16X the jaggies were visible at 1080.
Cranking the res to 2160 sorts most of that.
Visually the easiest way to describe PAYDAY 2 is L4D2 with a slight graphical upgrade that takes place (mostly) during the day.
The environments rage from Malls, to banks, to warehouses and a somewhat unique meth lab.
Oh, there’s also a freeway map that will get you killed to death. True story.
The gun sounds are there along with the radio announcer who will update you on your current tasks but all that is drowned out by the wub wub.
However you might want to keep that playing since the 5.0 shows up at the drop.

J-

If you’re focusing on the soundtrack instead of the screaming of your buddies, or you screaming at the AI, you’re doing it wrong
It definitely makes with the jaggies
The voice acting is competently done, despite it just being random yelling

P-

The wub-wub got muted pretty damn fast.
I didn’t think I’d ever NEED AA as much as I do for this game.
The sound effects are on-point, but I’d like an option to have surround.
I’m not even going to ask for 7.1 which this headset supports, just 5.1 would do.
- Counter-Strike Global Offensive has it, why doesn’t this one?

Total-

Control

V-

WASD + gerbil with a logical layout that you can rebind.
Didn’t need to futz around with any settings. OOTB
If I had to gripe about something it would be the on/off crouch but it kinda makes sense.

J-

Standard FPS fare. Had to switch q and c because why would you not make your switch weapon button Q? Like every other game ever?
I’m not really a fan of the ironsights style shooting, to be honest. I get what the game is supposed to be, but it’s just a nitpick

P-

Rebindable controls and a mouse sensitivity slider that actually works.
The shooting feels responsive enough for a game that actively pushes stealth or at least a much more tactical approach.
- As someone who plays a lot of CS:GO I don’t particularly like the shooting in this one but more on that later.

Total-

FUN

V-

Let’s get this out of the way; PAYDAY 2 has some thirty odd bits of DLC that it really really wants you to buy.
In fact, it’s hard to find a single in-game menu that does not mention some type of available DLC.
And yes, I know all about the pay-to-win SNAFU but everything I’m about to say comes from the perspective of someone who never plans to spend a dime on it.
Minus the initial purchase price.
We cool? Alright!

J-

This game gets three chairs because of one fact and one fact alone:
- Multiplayer with your friends is stupid fun
The game basically boils down to Left4Criminal, and it works.
Having played the single player after trying multiplayer, I can tell you that the fun factor for single player is severely lacking.
There’s a fairly detailed customization system as well, however most of that is locked away behind a metric fuckton of DLC
Joining their steam group gets you some stuff, but you had to pick up a ton of cross promotion DLC to get any of the cool stuff. And that isn’t cool man
Despite all that, I had a blast playing with Venn and Empty. Fun is fun
Also, the police in this game apparently have mastered the instant transmission technique

P-

First thing I see when I start the game, a fucking ad for DLC.
Guess that’s to set the tone for the rest of the game.
When you’re not in a mission, there’s always ads scrolling down the bottom left hand side of the screen telling you to get the new DLC.
The top item in the Main goddamn Menu is a big blinking button telling you to buy DLC.
This is usually a $20 game! Why are you pushing Free-to-Play marketing bullshit?
Weren’t these the guys that said they wouldn’t do Pay to Win bullshit DLC but then totally went and did it?
I suppose it’s a good thing they let you play for free until the 31st.
But enough bitching about the DLC, let’s talk gameplay.
You may remember the past few weeks when I said that, in a game, I’ll take solid gameplay over narrative any day of the week right?
You may also remember when I’ve mentioned I don’t like Real Time Strategy games.
While I think the gameplay and mechanics of PayDay 2 are damn solid and you should at least try it out on the free until the 31st, I don’t like Tactical FPS.
- The only one of those I ever played was the OG Tom Clancy Rainbow Six from 1998. I didn’t like that either!
The only reason I’m even remotely competent in CS:GO is because that game actively rewards lone-wolf tactics.
I can run around and nope people with any gun I damn well please and no one gives me shit for it. (Unless I kill them, then they’ll call me a cheater and a hacker)
PayDay 2 is a stealth game that requires everyone to know exactly what to do or else there’ll be cops.
And everyone starts with the same shitty AMCAR and the same shitty Glock ripoff.
What’s that? You don’t like those weapons and would rather have a shotgun or a sniper rifle in order to be useful? Well, hope you have some friends to carry your picky ass over a couple of missions so you can buy it.
- Or you know, drop some actual money on the bullshit DLC. Bad Pedro, we were done with that!
If you’re playing offline, the brain-dead AI teammates will get shot down within minutes of the first assault.
Forget getting into an online game with randos. You’ll get kicked almost immediately until you’re anywhere north of level 20.