Half-Life Alyx gets a native Linux port! Doom Eternal breaks Proton compatibility, Humble releases Bundle 21, and Steamy summer sale dates have been confirmed. Then Fury Unleashed faces, the CHAIRQASITION!
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Timestamps:
05:03 Steam summer sale dates announced
07:13 Play Next exits beta
09:33 Proton 5.8 GE MF
12:13 Doom Eternal breaks Linux compatibility
16:33 Alyx goes Linux native
20:43 Nimbatus
22:23 Biscuitts
24:22 Eidolons: Netherflame
27:11 Shameless self promotion
33:05 Humble Bundle 21
36:35 Epic online services
40:15 New Lutris webzone
41:23 Yuzu gets virtual multi-core support
44:27 Wraith Master RGB GUI
50:27 SuperTux 0.6.2
52:28 CHAIRQASITION: Fury Unleashed
01:02:50 Hate Mail
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- 3 weeks of sale, should at least allow people plenty of time to get a couple more games.
- I want a good sale, not 21 days of 10% off.
- Steam sales are kind of like Marvel movies at this point
- Play next is now a real boy.
- To be fair, as someone with a big backlog of games, I could probably use a prompting to play some of them
- I’d say the Play Next functionality is working, just one problem!
- It keeps recommending games in my library which don’t work with Proton.
- Mostly online, anti-cheat enabled games… and Destiny 2 which will get me banned if I look at it wrong.
- That’s an interesting back and forth, however this means that the Media Foundation stuff is getting upstreamed and we won’t need to use winetricks/protontricks to get these games going in the future.
- Looking forward to those anti cheat fixes, VALVe.
Steam: Game Updates
- The dangers of Proton & non-native.
- The Denuco human is nice
- “MG: We’ve been tracking the Proton issue immediately after launch and are committed to delivering a fix soon. This isn’t a request coming to us from a publisher or anything like that – we genuinely respect such an enthusiast community and regret introducing this incompatibility on day 1.”
- I don’t buy that for a damn second but it’s still nice to get a little lip service.
- They don’t believe in kernel level anti cheat, but they’ll still do it
- Yeah, I don’t believe they respect “such an enthusiast community” since, from day one of Proton, Denuvo has been one of the issues with game compatibility.
- Heck it was even an issue before that with just regular WINE.
Steam: New Games
- I very gladly lost that bet.
- Alyx is now vulkan powered and ready for your head meat.
- On Linux, AMD graphics and the Mesa RADV driver are recommended for best results.
- I’d think this goes without saying, but someone might not know
- As someone who has had some issues with RadV on both an RX 570 dedicated GPU and a Vega 11 IGP, that’s good to hear.
- They’re basically opening up the full get for modders. Hopefully folks can pick the game apart and figure out how to make even better VR experiences
- It’s out of Early Access.
- It honestly looks like a great game to play on drugs
- Discount cuphead!
- They do have online multiplayer though.
- Like, that’s cuphead with the numbers still very much intact.
- They say in the description they’re doing dark souls xcom with the story of planescape torment. That’s definitely a pitch
- Oh hey, it’s done in java.
- Which may result in psychological pressure
- Looks more Salt and Sanctuary than Dark Souls, though I can see where the comparison comes from.
News:
- That, that’s not much of a Bundle?
- That is pretty weak.
- There’s also a non-Linux game on it.
- Is that the new Gianna Sisters?
- You also don’t get a DRM free copy of moonlighter on linux
- Silly Tux logo, what are you doing in there?
- Ask strider
- Likely cuz it’s just a service, and they don’t care what OS your client is. Or they’re just hoping the community will do it for them
- Sounds like they’re trying to go after valve’s lunch a little bit. Their VPN was a good idea, and epic wants to yoink it.
- Testing their happy new webzone.
- WHAR Flatpack!
- Go install your free copy of GTAV.
- Put simply, instead of emulating the CPU on a single thread yuzu will now emulate the CPU using multiple threads.
- Bayo screenshots?
- Looks like they’re at the state where cribbing from citra isn’t gonna do it anymore
- Calling out AMD’s openGL drivers. I wonder if that’s just for windows
- AMD’s OpenGL has always been subpar, even in Windows.
- The only reason they got as good as they did on Linux was because of community effort.
- I can’t get it to work, not even a little bit.
- Honestly, I never plugged in the cable, even when it was in use.
- Dev was quick to add that while support is not entirely official, it should build and be able to load modules on the Linux.
- Revenge in Redmond!
- So what do you think? Bob-omb-l,ers? Bullet Bill Gates? Shy Guy Nadella?
- I think this game is so old it’s from a time Microsoft posed a threat to Linux.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Fury Unleashed
Devel: Awesome Games Studio
Engine: Unity
Price: £17.99 / U$19.99 / C$22.79
Wazzat: Fury Unleashed is a combo-driven roguelite action platformer – each kill you score increases your combo. Hit certain thresholds and your damage resistance and healing powers will kick in! It’s a game you can even beat in one, ultimate combo.
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent us keys
Venn:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- You motherf*ckers like shooting left?
- That’s my hard option when using the Xclone wireless.
- Seriously, OOTB the controls were jacked to the point of making me use Proton, when everything worked as expected.
- In all fairness, the PS4 controller worked native without issue.
- And it should be noted that the controls are surprisingly responsive.
- Performance is 70/120 native @ 1080 or 2160.
Fun?
- It’s a rougelike but an action rougelike so I might not hate it outright.
- And you know what, I didn’t.
- It’s got a comic book theme going on with smash and bash action mixed with a varied powerup system.
- The game makes a big deal about combos but I never found myself in a situation where they were needed, maybe later on in the game?
- There is clearly some attempt at a story but FK or all if it makes any sense.
- I could see this being fun in multiplayer but it’s slip screen only and no, Remote Play Together does not count.
- If you don’t like rougelikes this might be the one to cut your teeth on since it is simple and splodey with plenty of action.
Jordan:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- I click, it launches. Seems pretty solid
- I get proper prompts for the DS4, which is much appreciated
- And hot damn, they use all those buttons
- Seems to hold about 122 ferps on either 1080p or 2160p
Fun?
- I actually really dig the comic book aesthetic
- The panel transition as board transitions thing is nice, although because it’s a roguelike there are a bunch of panel paths that go nowhere. Oh well, that’s what retcons are for
- It a
- The combo mechanic is also pretty fun. Kill stuff, don’t get hit, live forever.
- The talent tree leans into that, giving you longer times between kills, more health, etc
- Like a lot of roguelikes though, sometimes RNGsus likes to give you a super powerful weapon that just lets you dominate and cruse through bosses
- Sometimes you get a crappy shotgun
- Still, it’s fun enough, and sometimes neil gaiman shows up to talk crazy at you
Pedro:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- With Vsync off it seems to cap out at around 298 FerPS on the 1080
- Turning on Vsync caps it to 144, which tracks with it being Unity.
- DualShock 4 worked OotB
- The sounds and looks all seem to work.
- As technical implementations go, this one is spot on.
Fun?
- It’s Rogue Legacy but in a comic book, with guns!
- I forget there’s a gun sometimes.
- Just because the melee and pounce are so much more powerful than the default SMG.
- I’m not very good at roguelikes or roguelites, as Furry Unleashed may be.
- But it is a genre which I like and this one very much fits the bill
- Comparatively speaking, Rogue Legacy is better.
- It just is, from the ability to see your character to the originality of the concept at hand.
- The Furry isn’t bad, but it could certainly be better.
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