Steam kills Link, Shadow of the Tomb Raider heads to Linux, NVIDIA 2060 details leak and Humble has another JUMBO Bundle.
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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- Low on Links.
- This should have been obvious since the first time they went on sale for $5.
- Two firesales and there is still stock.
- They’re still handy if you want to set up a minimal party rig, but it’s one of those things where basically the entire target market owns one now
- I wonder if they’re going to basically fold all this stuff into the Steam mobile app so that shit like Rokus or other set top android boxen can fill the niche
- They are out of stock in the EU, apparently.
- *checks nier automatic tomato*
- It’s half off, but it’s still 40 bucks
- Same with SoTR if you wanna test it before…well, spoilers
- Pulled the trigger on DS III and sent that fkr right back.
- Might have to get the Jedi Knight bundle since most of those are 75% off.
Steam: Game Updates
- Quite the list of changes
- I do like that they let you play offline without opening the starter packs so you can still get a refund.
- You can also huck your garbage cards for event tickets at a rate of 20 to 1. How that stacks up moneywise, I dunno. Can you enroll in keep drafts with those tickets?
- Supposedly keys from indiegala were the only ones supposed to be revoked, but everything bought from groupees is as well
- Apparently Indiegala has not been paying the developer their share of the sales
- Normally, when one party does not hold up their end of a contract, the other party gets a lawyer and sues the former
- Now y’all just have a bunch of pissed off customers
- “On a side note I will work to make sure you guys get your keys back one way or another as it’s not your fault, I feel like we’ve both been screwed over by these sale sites.”
- Might be a wee too late for that brad
- “On a side note I will work to make sure you guys get your keys back one way or another as it’s not your fault, I feel like we’ve both been screwed over by these sale sites.”
- Dude nuked keys that were on sale over a year ago.
- Went scorched earf and killed a lot of keys that were not from the bundle as well.
- Also, Indiegala called him the FK out, son. (post #10)
- Should a developer be able to nuke 20K keys without providing some damn good reasons?
- There should be something to prevent revocation after say, 90 days.
- 14 years later.
- Still running at a better clip than HL3
- The game will not be delayed again until Q2 2019.
- HD Ballsack boy!
- He so bouncy!
- HAWT!
- The flying Manta Rays have a derpy face!
- Has an option for Vulkan in the launcher.
- It might need a little work.
- OpenGL still runs like poo, struggling to maintain 60.
- Really wish they would get the performance sorted, could be a fun game.
Steam: New Games
- Lost that bet.
- It’s surprising
- My guess is that Feral had all of the tomb raider sequels on lockdown
- Yeah, that and they are doing the MAC port so might as well.
- First real battle for IndirectX vs DXVK.
- Performance consistency is another thing. Feral has some trouble with AMD in ze past.
- We might get a case where with Proton it runs better on AMD and on Feral it runs better on Intel+Nvidia
- Did their contract with WB EABOD?
- Not so much as a peep about Shadow of War.
- First tweet’s gone!
News:
- Basically moves all the stuff from the 415.13 beta to the stable branch
- They work, not much new to report.
- I’m back on the repo version of the drivers for Solus, hopefully they keep following the short lived branch.
- This could be an interesting little card for those of us looking to get the new nvenc hardware on the cheap.
- Chances of it being sub $300?
- The 980Ti really holds up on that particular benchmark and that, that’s kinda sad.
- If they want to sell it in favor of the RX 580/90 they will have to sell it for under $350
- Though if those benches translate into reality, it’s beating the Vega 56.
- Leak a better benchmark next time, NVIDIA.
- Pay 5 bucks for 3 linux games
- Pay 10 bucks to see if Derp 4 runs well in proton
- DiRT 4 does in fact work!
- Both videos at the bottom contain the same gameplay footage
- Remains to be seen whether or not
- A “warehouse fire” doesn’t destroy all the units
- There are Power and thermal issues out the wazoo
- The performance is actually shit
- Either way, this thing sold all the units it’ll ever sell in the kickstarter
- Believe, see.
- You too can prove to your mates, if this ever comes out, that you’re financially questionable by buying the €100 golden version.
- A single cross-platform standard is also easier to maintain: instead of supporting DirectX, OpenGL and OpenGL ES on various different platforms.
- It’s experimental for the Windows client only for the time being.
- Oh, the one I never played because monthly sub!
- An engine overhaul seems pretty overdue for these folks
- The current vendetta looks to use SDL 1.2 and shuts down my other monitor
- For those of you who don’t know, devler is a hipster pixel first person dungeon crawler in the style of Pool of Radiance or Eye of the Beholder
- Good on the developer for open sourcing their engine
- Oh look, it’s done in java! Spool up the REEEEEEEEEEEEE drive
- You can buy the full game on Steam for £6 during the sale, if you want to tell the devs you appreciate this!
- I know I did.
- This is incredibly well done.
- So well done I’m surprised neither Nintendo’s or Sega’s lawyers have said anything…
- Also sports multiplayer.
- Requires SDL2 Mixer.
- The controls seem a little…off I suppose? I keep spinning out of control just by tapping left
- TLDR: Homeboy thought it was because he was using Wine.
- Turns out he’s using some mouse scripting utility to get through menus faster which Actiblizzion’s anti cheat picked up.
- Someone brought up that this has a very subtle effect on overwatch, given that in ranked matches you could use it to guarantee which character you get, which is antithetical to the OW design
- Life cheaters find a way.
- Let this serve as a lesson.
CHAIRQUISITION:
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– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Mark of The Ninja
Webzone: Mark of the Ninja Remastered
Devel: Klei Entertainment
Engine: Custom
Price:$20 USD, $5 if you have the original
Wazzat:In Mark of the Ninja, you’ll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.
Venn: 
Does It Launch
- Works OOTB unlike the non-remastered version.
Performance @ 1080
- It maintains a solid 60 except when it don’t.
- Sometimes depending on the hour of the day and what shoes you are wearing it will nosedive into the 40’s every 10 seconds or so making it unplayable.
- This can be resolved by restarting the game… a few times.
Graphics
- Dark and flashy.
Control
- Steam controlla no issues.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- yessereeboberooniemajigger
Performance @ 1080
- Runs smoothly @ UHD #Wintel
Graphics
- The animated cutscenes give me newgrounds flashbacks. Not that that’s a bad thing, I just haven’t seen that sort of animation in a good long while
Control
- Works OOTB with the ps4 controller. Still getting xbox prompts
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- It does start right up
Performance @ 1080
- Oh yes, when the performance tanks it tanks like the Panzer VIII
- It’s jarring to see.
Graphics
- Graphics look crisp and even when your character is hiding you can still see it
- Which I guess is where the focus of this particular remaster went into.
Control
- Yes, the Quick Time Events are still just as responsive as they were last time but more on that later.
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- Venn:
- Like HitMan this game has a little thing I like to call the nope cascade.
- One little mistake can trigger a tsunami of guards and that’s that.
- It’s repetitive as hell and that really sinks in around the two hour oh hi Mark of the ninja.
- Press X to stab respects is hella annoying and adds nothing to the game.
- When you are not doing that it’s hurry up and wait.
- It does provide you with a bag-o-tricks to overcome situations designed for said bag-o-tricks.
- When this game first arrived on Linux is was busted with the always run mechanic taped down.
- Even after that was sorted it was nothing exceptional but OMG NEW GAME ON LINUX!11! allowed me to overlook a lot of shortcoming.
- In 2018 we have a gang of games and more incoming so revisiting this is not a good idea.
- Even with a new coat of HD it’s still… boring.
- How, fkn, evar.
- If you have been waiting for a remaster of bitch ninja Mc. bag-o-tricks and have the original pick this up for $4.99 and kill two hours.
- Jordan
- I’m with pedro, I’m not that big a fan of the QTE assasturbations
- Aragami had it right, position yourself and press a button
- The sneaking gameplay is pretty good, although sometimes you get screwed by the context sensitive menus
- Sometimes though, the best option seems to be to cheese the fuck out of the enemies and make a mad dash to the next checkpoint
- I guess I’m not very good at this game. It requires a sort of patience I really don’t have
- Nice touch, you no longer run by default
- Everything looks nice in UHD, so If you enjoyed the original one, want some new side missions and some crisper art, it’s not the worst 5 bucks you could spend
- Pedro
- I suppose I shouldn’t have expected much since it’s just a remaster rather than a remake.
- But I still hate the QTE stealth kills.
- And just how annoying it is, the moment you’re spotted, ninja dude forgets he has a sword until the enemy is knocked down.
- Also, and I mentioned this last time, you get rewarded for not killing guards or raising the alarm.
- But all you can do with those rewards is to buy more skills for your character to make the game easier.
- If you’re already good enough to get through the levels without those skills, why would you want to buy them?
- Klei does good games.
- Shank is fucking awesome! Shank 2 is just more of that fucking awesomeness! Don’t Starve is great if you enjoy that kind of game.
- Of all the games they decide to remaster this one… I don’t get it.
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