LinuxGameCast Weekly EP213 – Attention ARCH Users

Deus Ex is coming to Linux! Steam cracks down on reviews, CRYENGINE chooses Vulkan, and NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti specifications get leaked. Then AM2R faces the CHAIRQUISITON!

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam reviews
http ://store .steampowered .com /news /24155/?snr =1_550_552

I was wondering how Vendetta – Curse of Raven ‘s Cry managed a “mixed” review.
This also prevents reviews from Humble or Kickstarters from being counted.
I can see this being a mixed blessing. Stops devs from reviewspamming, but removes the voices of cheap gamers who like their humble bundles.
Still, the ability to filter the reviews does something to mitigate the issue. Something…
Basically, your reviews don’t count unless Steam gets a cut.
It also makes it so we and other outlets who get keys from the devs/publishers, can’t influence the Steam rating.

Dev reviews
http ://www .gamasutra .com /view /news /281261/Devs _react _Valves _Steam _key _crackdown .php

Most devels get why it’s being done but agree it’s a daft way to go about it.
Alexis Kennedy brings up a good point. Valve might reverse this if enough outcry is present
- Na, this is VALVe trying to get out of using humans. They never back down from that.
Notice how most of the shovelware games that came out this week are sitting /w 0 reviews.
- This right here is exactly why I agree with VALVe’s move.
It does in fact curb some legit reviews, like 3rd party shop purchases and kickstarters.
Those people effectively payed for the game and their opinion is about as “legit” as people who bought it on Steam itself.
I feel like the good outweighs the bad, here.
And if it does take a major outcry to get VALVe to screech back on this, I’m not seeing it happen.
And it does make sense for the store owner to value the opinions of people who bought the goods on that specific store.
I sense the possibility of some key tracking software coming down the pipe.

The Big Announcement
http ://www .feralinteractive .com /en /games /deusexmd /story /

I am jack’s complete lack of surprise
“Later this year” You gots three months, Brad.
- Could also be code for “if we can’t hit our deadline they’re going to Arkham Knight the fucker”
- But I mean, who gives a shit about release dates anymore. The mercurial nature of software development means that they are really just best guesses
People bitching about Denuvo in 3.. 2..
- I’ve already seen people bitching about the telemetry the game collects
Everything you do in-game, from button presses, cutscene or dialog skips, etc., is sent to Square Enix.
Which is probably not ironic, given the issues the game tackles.

Rocket Fix
http ://steamcommunity .com /app /252950/discussions /2/350541595120148519/

Seems to have fixed both the lack of AA and the framerate cap.
Remains to be seen if it still crashes and/or freezes at specific points.
- Still nopes randomly if it feels like you’re taking it for granted.
Runs without issue on this end minus starting in a minimized window.

Worms of Massive Buggery
http ://steamcommunity .com /app /327030/discussions /0/343786746000265586/

Still have to keep the export LC_ALL=C and the export PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 in the Run.sh file for the game to work properly.
Did they fix the little Fedora bug?
- They did not. Still 1 Chair
- Which kind of pisses me off. I totally wanted to play that fucking game

You don’t say
http ://store .steampowered .com /app /527340/

So someone was playing metal gear solid and thought to themselves “Man, all this epic storytelling and challenging gameplay is really weighing this series down. Let’s strip it to the basics: Chasing people around in cardboard boxes”
For Five bucks, this could be good aftershow bait

Good idea Bad idea
http ://store .steampowered .com /app /521340/

Speaking of aftershow bait
- ^
Game starts you off with 200 questions. For another 500 you gotta shill out about tree-fiddy

News:

Xfactor
http ://www .overclock 3 d .net /news /gpu _displays /nvidia _gtx _1080 ti _specifications _leak /1

This week on rampant speculation.
Slower clock but more nodes.
That’s cute. They’ve binned a slightly less crippled Quadro P6000
Remains to be seen what the MSRP is going to be like.
Because if this turns out to have the same price/performance delta between it the new Titan X as the 980ti did from the old Titan X, most people won’t touch it.
- I think NVIDIA learned from having the 980Ti match the TitanX.
It’s nice to see they also went back to the 384bit memory bus, that was the one reason the 780ti would curb stomp the 970.
We’re missing the big question on everyone’s minds though
- Can you throw more than two of them in SLI? I have about 3 grand to burn and I want all the performance I can get on….doom 3?
  - And Serious Sam 3. How could you forget your favorite game also supports SLI on Linux?

GG Epic
http ://venturebeat .com /2016/09/15/epic –games –awards -100000-for –unreal –engine -4-projects /

Rite of Ilk, Research and Destroy, All Walls Must Fall, Kabounce, Allright Rig, and MEG 9 will split $100,000.
Epic has set aside 5 (pinky finger) million in grants to spur UE4 adoption.
While handing out money doesn’t hurt adoption, UE4 was already in a pretty good situation to begin with

Spock Cry’s
http ://www .dsogaming .com /news /cryengine -5-3-with –vulkan –support –coming –in –mid –november –cryengine -5-4-will –support –dx 12-mgpus /

Vulkan first, DX12 whenever.
Makes sense. Lots of android devices that people like to play games on. And they support DX12 bruh. Right? Right?
The release is coming in november, so don’t get too excited just yet

ioGL2
https ://ioquake 3.org /2016/09/11/were –updating –ioquake 3 s –graphics –renderer /

IOquake3 always had a pluggable graphics stack, so this is just updating it to openGL 3. Their naming is very confusing
Why not vulkan, you ask? That’s a damn good question.

Someone needs a marketing department
https ://supersmashinggreatgames .com /foreveracers /

It’s in early development
Had a chance to play with Terry on Sunday evening: https ://twitter .com /UnaccountedFour /status /775102017710809088
- That’s nice, did you manage to try the game? #NTTAWWTYour ‘rekt’ status:

SDLUnity
https ://twitter .com /natosha _bard /status /776462990401036288

Sister Na’tosha is preaching the good word
But will it end the scream of nope? Stay tuned
Oh look, you’re doing something you should have done in the first place.
- Sometimes baby needs to touch hot stove to learn not to touch hot stove

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: ASMR2
Webzone: http ://metroid 2 remake .blogspot .com
Devel: Milton Guasti
Engine: Game Maker Studio
Price: You have to install Lutris. Quelle domage

Wazzat: AM2R, short for Another Metroid 2 Remake, is an unofficial enhanced remake of Nintendo’s Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus. It includes several new features, including redone graphics and music, a map system, and new areas and minibosses.

Makes with the working

V-

J-

If you want to run this on a newer version of fedora, you need the to do the following after you extract the game (requires an older openssl ABI for some retarded reason):
- Download https ://archives .fedoraproject .org /pub /archive /fedora /linux /releases /17/Everything /i 386/os /Packages /o /openssla -1.0.0 i -1.fc 17.i 686.rpm
- Extract the package to a safe directory “mkdir rpm; cd rpm ; rpm2cpio openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.i686.rpm | cpio -ivd’
- cp lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0.i $AM2R_DIR/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
- cp usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0.i $AM2R_DIR/libssl.so.1.0.0
- Launch the game with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./am2r
Everything works great after that. 2 Chairs for the effort required though

P-

Total-

Shiny / Sounds

V-

Hipster-pixel perfection.
This is what’s possible if you target what games actually looked like.

J-

They wanted this to look like super metroid. Mission accomplished

P-

They set out to make a game which looks and sounds like an improved version of Metroid 2.
They succeeded.

Total-

Control

V-

Worked OOTB /w the Xclone controlla.
I don’t like the micro-freeze of forward movement after each jump.

J-

It works with the steam controller using sc-configure
However, as you’ll discover quickly, this is a game that requires a d-pad
So one seeks out the controller with the best quality D-pad, the sony dualshock
Unfortunately the game doesn’t recognize it. Or any of the third party xbox controllers I have
It does recognize my old raged-on 360 controller, and that works fine. The controls feel a bit muddy sometimes. And I’d REALLY like that PS4 Dpad

P-

Doesn’t work with the Logitech F310 or the SHIELD controller
Managed to get it to work with sc-config, as per Jordan’s notes.
But even then it’s not ideal because there isn’t a proper D-Pad and neither the analog nub or the left areola give you the same sense of precise feedback.
Tried playing the game with the keyboard until it was painfully obvious I wasn’t enjoying the time I spent playing it.
But more on that later.

Total-

FUN

V-

If you enjoyed the original Metroid ( the only one I ever played/owned) this will hook you, ard.
If you didn’t enjoy the original Metroid you are damaged, rendering all of your opinions invalid.
You don’t play a game like this looking for innovation. Quite the opposite, really.
You play a remake/ohmage (and judge) on the devels ability to recapture what made them so damn special in the first place.

J-

The game that best exemplifies a perfect remake is Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver
It didn’t take away anything from the previous games, just added new stuff and made the existing shit better
I feel that this game sort of misses the mark. That I feel the same way playing this game as I would playing actual metroid 2
Mind you, having never owned metroid 2 on the gameboy, I can’t really vouch for how apt a comparison this game actually is
It’s not a bad game by any means, but it just feels like a gameboy game with prettier graphics
And muddier controls

P-

I have mentioned that I’m tired of 2D platformers before, haven’t I?
I will excuse it if it does something different, like Starbreak, Salt & Sanctuary, or even Awesomenauts.
Each of those examples of games I just mentioned are 2D platformers which outside of the typical platforming mechanics, they add something else to the mix.
Starbreak is an “MMO” of sorts, Salt & Sanctuary has the whole Dark Souls clone going for it and Awesomenauts is a MOBA.
The 2D platforming is just a stepping stone in those games for the rest of the mechanics.
Now I know what you’re going to say “But Pedro, Metroid is a classic. It was this series and others that refined the platformer genre.”
- And I’d agree with you.
Except we’re not throwing chairs at Metroid 2, we’re throwing chairs at a fan remake.
As such, I can’t help but feel like this would have been time better spent in a new game.
Take the Metroidvania subgenre and the platformer mechanics if you must, but do something original or at the very least different with your limited time on this planet.
I used to enjoy platformers. I loved Castlevania on the Mega Drive, I loved Symphony of the Night on the PSP, I beat Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Master System.
But those were the days of technical limitations. Those platforms had severe technical limitation which people were forced to get creative to work around.
A fan remake of a gameboy game for PC which adds very little of notice, is the literal antithesis of creative.
In fact, I don’t even see why Nintendo would waste time and money DMCA’ing this project when it literally does nothing other than fuel the nostalgia-riddled people, who’d rather reminisce about the time when their bones didn’t creak and had the brain cells to appreciate something new.