Epic challenges Valve to a price match guarantee! Ashes of the Singularity teases a Linux port, NVIDIA updates Vulkan, and we chat with Alan Pope about Snapping Lutris. Then SuperTuxKart 1.0 faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
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Timestamps:
03:45 Steams talk at GDC
05:36 Epic challenges Steam
08:10 Ashes of the Singularity coming to Linux
10:46 Forager
12:18 Maos Legacy
14:10 Streampad
16:20 Gunslugs
18:36 Shameless self promotion
21:54 Nvidia Vulkan update
23:42 Nvidia 430.09 drivers
25:15 GTX 1650 lacks Turing NVENC
28:03 GDP Win powered by AMD Ryzen
30:44 Epix Store on Linux with Lutris
32:40 Maze95
34:06 Gameboy Studio
36:28 Alan Pope & Lutris interview
39:24 CHAIRQASITION: SuperTuxKart 1.0
51:21 Hate Mail
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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- Summer is when the library redesign beta will be popping up, I look forward to breaking it!
- It was a presentation of “Look at all we’re giving you for that 30% split!”
- Not that it matters to some people, since all they care about is having parity in the split when not offering any of the other features.
- I want to see Valve call his bluff, because it’s a damn bluff.
- Yeah no they won’t
- Bold claim there, Cotton!
- Thing is, buying exclusivity on top of taking such a low cut is not sustainable and everyone knows that.
- Oh, I’m sure as expenses mount we’ll start seeing them start to take a larger cut. It’s inevitable
Steam: Game Updates
- It’s great to see a Windows benchmark come to Linux!
- Having a mainstream benchmark pushing for better drivers is a good thing.
- I don’t get what they’re talking about when they mention damage and area of effect, is there anyone out there genuinely PLAYING Ashes of the Singularity?
- The benchmark has some kind of interactive mode, I think.
- Apparently you can do a multiplayer benchmark too
- The benchmark has some kind of interactive mode, I think.
- Hopefully Ashes adding supporting linux will help increase the quality of their vulkan code.
- However, this is just a promise. Show me dem elfs and so’s
Steam: New Games
- This one is getting a lot of good buzz.
- Cutesy Minecraft?
- More like a cutesy don’t starve
- Not available in _____.
- These folks have poor out a number of other communist alternate history choose your own adventure games
- I’m kind of reminded of crusader king’s, although I’m not sure if the goofiness level compares
- A little curious how this works with Linux.
- It’s a soundboard bit of software
- No custom hotkeys just yet, so it’s a bit limited in that functionality.
- If Gunslugs 1 and 2 were basically just Metal Slug, this one introduces some much needed variety into the mix.
- Roguelike elements are usually a pretty good way to get me interested in a game I previously didn’t care much.
- The art style gives me a bit of a broforce vibe
News:
- VK_NV_ray_tracing is now available on the following non-RTX GPUs:
- Pascal: TITAN Xp, TITAN X, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
- Volta: TITAN V
- Turing: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660
- WHAR RayQukeII!
- The developer driver is based on the long lived branch, 418 for now.
- This is the driver you want if you want to play with the latest Vulkan stuff.
- It’s also the driver to run if you want the RTX functionality on a 1**0 series card.
- It sucks for you if you’re buying a 1650 for a development machine.
- Yet another reason, but spoilers
- It landed in the Buntu PPA in under a week, nice!
- New short-lived branch to introduce support for the 1650.
- More on that after the jump.
- They’re fixing some PRIME configuration issues as well. Seriously, if you’re still on bumblebee cuz you have an optimus laptop, consider using PRIME. It’s much better
- And with that you nixed any desire for this little video encoder underpowered graphics card.
- And thus Nory gets a 1050Ti.
- Not entirely unexpected, but disappointing nonetheless
- Nvidia could have shipped a metric fuck ton of units if they included that silicon
- Considering how well the RX 570 is performing compared to this, it’d be a great alternative.
- If the used ones out there weren’t mined to hell and back.
- If you can find one of the 4GB versions, brand new, at MSRP, there’s no discussion.
- Does it come with a carry-case for the batteries?
- And a heat shield.
- I like how they mention the schmach like it’s an actual thing
- Mind you, a bunch of the games in said store don’t run yet
- Sweeny indicated that lutris should apply for some grant money. Still probably cheaper for them then actually supporting Linux
- The creator of Lutris has stated if he had to pick between Valve and Epic, he choo choo chooses Epic.
- Oh, man! You’re in for a world of fun now, Strider.
- I’d totally apply for the grant.
- Now it just needs to run the games.
- Play the screensaver
- Be the screensaver
- Homeboy just wanted to learn about software rendering
- It has an AI mode that run through the maze like the screensaver did.
- RPG maker that can output GB compatible ROMs
- I found my ol’ brick GB in a box while I was consolidating things for the move.
- Drag&Drop development
- Create your pokeyman ripoffs easily, so Nintendo can hit the C&D button on you.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want to
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Super Tux Kart 1.0
Webzone: https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page
Devel: https://supertuxkart.net/Team
Engine: Custom (Irrlicht/Antartica)|
Price: N/A
Wazzat: SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play. Our aim is to create a game that is more fun than realistic, and provide an enjoyable experience for all ages.
Venn:
Does It Launch
- Everything worked OOTB.
- It cannot spawn a Pulse sink when Jack is running.
- Not dinging it a Chair but y’all might want to look into that.
Performance @ 1080
- Runs great if you build it from source.
- Was having some frame-pacing issues when using the binary.
Graphics
- Looks good enough.
Control
- Worked with the Xclone and things could be rebound.
- However.
- If the wireless cuts off you have to restart the game for it to redetect.
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Yes
Performance @ 1080
- Cranking everything up to 11 on the APU got me about 30FPS@1080
- The 1080TI laughs at their puny karts
Graphics
- I mean, it looks like super tux kart
Control
- Everything seems to wokr OOTB
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- Built from sauce on Solus, since the repo doesn’t have 1.0 yet.
- Only needed libopenglrecorder-devel.
Performance @ 1080
- If you push the graphics all the way up, Intel iGPs can only muster around 20 FerPS
- 111 seems to be as high as it’ll go.
Graphics
- Motion blur is necessary if you want to have the fancy depth of field effect.
- It looks alright, but not so much in a recording.
Control
- Keyboard works
- Dual Shock 4 works
- You can rebind everything
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- I’ve been playing this game for 11 years and have enjoyed it for the last 8 months or so.
- Let’s face it, single player is boring and everyone wants whatever drugs you lot were on when that brainstorming session took place.
- Still haven’t figured that fever dream of an intro out.
- It’s a cart racer with a gang of tracks and players to fill them.
- A couple of modes like soccer and demo derby exist if you’re not into going round in circles.
- If you are playing with friends prepare to have a good time.
- But like I said earlier, single player can be a bit of a slog followed by a rage quit after the AI goes into hella dick mode at the end of the last lap.
- #hockeystick
- But it’s free, looks good, and is more entertaining than a lot of paid racing games.
- Jordan
- Almost everthing from the last review of STK applies to this one
- Except now you can play with folks online, and it’s actually very well done
- And being able to play with your friends is it’s true saving grace. Otherwise it;d be just be that one competently done open source kart game
- I can appreciate throwing in some rocket league, but goddamn these are not the same games. BLUH
- Pedro
- Honestly, this has turned into a very nice party game.
- The single player is still a bit meh and the AI cheats like a motherfucker.
- They rubberband to you like crazy,
- On expert it’s almost impossible for me to be in first place for more than a couple of seconds
- I’ll be hit by three cupcakes and a basketball the moment I start getting anywhere close to the leader.
- The physics are still a bit stilted but at least the camera no longer stays directly behind your kart, so that jolting around is gone.
- For the life of me, in the standard maps, I still don’t see the point of drifting
- The multiplayer is the big one here.
- Rocket Karts is a bit meh but it’s different, and that diversity is awesome to see in what was the first game most people played on Linux.
- And without the cheating AI, multiplayer racing is pretty fun.
- They still need to do something about those name tags.
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