LinuxGameCast Weekly 323: Sexy Batman

Proton gets players banned, Humble drops two Linux filled Bundles, AMD kills 32-bit drivers and we discuss the OBS Box.

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Steam: News

Valve, dealy????

Delaying a beta so close to release doesn’t bode well. It means the testing and patching done in the beta is going to be super rushed
However this is valve time so don’t be surprised if we don’t see the full game until december 2020
How is this a surprise?
Episode 3 has now been delayed for over 10 years.

#dollarydoos

Now australians can spend obscene amounts of money on software in their native currency
I wonder if the automated region pricing stuff we covered last week will have any impact on prices in Aussiland
It’s a way for VALVe to keep a tighter leash on developers trying to stray too far from the “Buying power” stat.
It’s several years too late but it’s certainly a good thing.

Valvedex

There isn’t much in the patent application other than it’s for “Computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing and streaming of audio, video, data, text and multimedia content”
The reddit thread is speculating that it’s a performance index for machines (valve presents the windows experience score), possibly for a new wave of steam machines?
- Spin that wheel of booga booga
Streaming game console (or service) in partnership /w Googs, calling it.
They’re pushing out a streaming thing and an updated controller, is my guess.

Danger Proton

Behold the dangers of early adoption.
*Laughs in Diablo*
But whose fault is it really? Denuvo! Cuz Fuck DRM
Although, to be fair it wasn’t on the whitelist. We knew ahead of time anticheat stuff will be fucky
Now will Namcai-Bando allow people’s shit to get unlocked, or is it too bad so sad
Anti-cheat systems don’t see WINE as a good thing, the calls intercepts it does and the translation of those calls runs afoul of what most of those system were designed to recognize.
Now it lies with Namcai to undo this and hopefully stop it from happening in the future.
Otherwise, this new market of Steamy Proton goodness that VALVe handed to them on a platter isn’t going to last very long
It was a Proton bug.

Sale

Uh… Yay?
I guess if you like porny visual novels or asset flips this will be a great sale.
Here’s hoping SW 2 gets cheap for multiplayer’s sake

Steam: Game Updates

Deathroad X4

They’re bumping co-op from two to four players
What would be better is IF YOU COULD PLAY IT ONLINE WITH YOUR FRIENDS CUZ EVERYONE IN CANADA IS DEAAAAAAAD

Team Hipster

I would not be able to tell the difference.
We’ve seen a similar thing with vanilla WoW. Some people like playing games as originally presented
Aaaaand it’s gone
Their twitter has a single post with a URL which redirects to an “Account Suspended” website.
There’s shady, then there’s whatever the hell is going on here.
- Investigative grame journalist Old Man Venn to the rescue.

Steam: New Games

GP Simulator

Bing, bang.
I think i’ve seen some really bad porn done with those CG models
House Party at the doctor’s?

News:

WB Classics

The goddamn batman, MAD MAX and Hordor are on the menu.
I’m confused. Why is a disney game on the list?

Dav of ze Devs

AKA Yooka-Laylee at a price I’m willing to pay Bundle.
Grabbing the full throttle remaster along with it isn’t that shabby a deal

RIP 32

With this and Linux distros dropping 32bit left and right, people with older machines are going to have a hell of a time.
I mean, Mesa still has your back

Lutris

Strider doesn’t want you running lutris as root
Proton itself is now blacklisted from showing up as an app
Does it automatically scan your system during setup and show available games?
Can I get it as a Snap, Appimage, or Flatpack?

Trine 4

Not surprising since their Linux person noped.
Guess we’ll never know what happens after trine 3 episode one.
We Trine Again in Proton?

3.19

Better support for 32bit .NET means older .NET 2.0 games should run in a 64bit prefix now.

OBS box

Yeah, I’m not sure paying the NUC tax for a dedicated streaming box is worth it.
Though I do see the appeal of having something specifically for this purpose with support from Intel or whomever else rebadges it.
The idea of “Device as a service” makes my organs itch
Still, a cheap and optimized for task streambox isn’t an awful idea.
It even lets you stream portal 2!
An interesting riff on this idea might be to integrate it into routers themselves
Cheap and NUM dwell not well in the same abode.
It could be an interesting turn-key solution for console gamers.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Farm Together
Webzone: Farm_Together
Devel: Milkstone Studios
Engine: Unity
|Price: £15.49 / US$19.99 / CA$22.79

Wazzat: Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Mandatory Disclosure: Milkstone sent us keys

Venn:

Does It Launch

Yes, minus the cesure.

Performance @ 1080

60 @ 1080.

Graphics

Mobile +

Control

Key + gerbil.

Jordan:

Does It Launch

Aformentioned -force-glcore42 -force-clamped CLI options required to make it work

Performance @ 1080

At first it was a little chuggy, I was petrified
But then it smoothed out

Graphics

I mean, it has them
Props to the little farmer dude for keeping their back flat while lifting things though

Control

Picks up the dual shock, got xbox prompts though

Pedro:

Does It Launch

It launches into a seizuretastic, blurry screen.
In order to get it to work you need to set a few launch flags:

-screen-fullscreen 1 -screen-width 3840 -screen-height 2160 -force-glcore42 -force-clamped

Adjust the resolution to match your own

Performance @ 1080

At 1080 it peaks at 120-ish ferPS and holds over 100.
At 3840×2160 the FerPS count is about half with dips to 40.

Graphics

AA, Depth of Field and Motion Blur are the “advanced options” and to Milkstone’s credit they work properly.
I still disabled motion blur because it looks like absolute ass, still.

Control

Even on the lowest point of the sensitivity slider the mouse is still a little too fast for my liking.
That said, you don’t need pin point accuracy for Farm together so it’s passable.

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Fun?:

Venn:
- Hurry up and wait simulator.
- I lack the FK out of whatever it is that causes people to get sucked into these games.
- Farmville, Candy Crush and the like.
- And that’s why I’m unable to recommend Farm Together sine it’s “that game”
- I gave it the business but at the end of the day it’s the same formula.
- Do work, make money, buy useless shite to show off to your friends… TO REAL!
- Nothing made me take a step back, strip neekid and prance about screeching eureka! Now I get it!
- On the flipside it’s a well done work, make money, buy useless shite to show off to your friends simulator.
Jordan
- Man, I’m farming the shit out of some lettuce
- Like, I got that level 6 lettuce life
- It took me a couple minutes, but I finally narrowed down the feeling I get playing this game:
  - Having unread texts or emails piss me off. I always read them ASAP so that stupid glowy alert in the browser or on my phone go away
  - This game is the exact feeling of this
- I managed to put an hour and 45 into it, and at no point did I feel anything resembling
- I felt Like I was farming shit. Props to this game for the verisimilitude, but it’s not my thing at all
- This game really benefits from a desire to come back to it at some point, which I lack.
Pedro
- When I said this game had the potential to be 3D farmville, I had only played a little bit.
- After getting sucked in for 2 hours and feeling like it had only been 30 minutes, I can say for a fact that they accomplished their mission.
- That is, if their mission was to create a completely mindless time vampire to keep you collecting virtual eggplants.
- This game has charm pouring out of all its visual assets and animations.
- I don’t really care that it has multiplayer but I can say for a fact that that will bring a lot more people who wouldn’t have ever given it a chance otherwise.
- This could have been just another cynical cash grab game but I’m glad they put the extra effort in.
- Might be a hard sell at over £15 but, if Farmville had you spending a lot more time on Facebook than you otherwise would have back in the day, you’re going to like this one too.