The extermination bot services brings a little chaotic good to TF2, Fall Guys enables Easy Anti Cheat, 3DO DOOM gets remastered for Linux, and Radeon RX 6000 benchmarks begin to leak. Then Chronicon faces, the ChairQAsition.
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Timestamps:
05:15 Steam client beta updates containers
08:15 SteamDB adds top sellers list
09:26 CS:GO and cheating scandal
11:45 TF2 bot extermination service
14:25 Fall guys get EAC
16:15 Chronicon
17:14 There Is a Way
19:04 Faerie Solitaire Dire
21:00 Human Diaspora
23:10 Fury Unleashed
24:30 Apple sues Epic
29:00 Shameless self promotion
31:00 3080 benchmarks leaked
34:57 RX 6000 benchmarks
37:37 antimicrox
40:46 Phoenix DOOM
42:46 Beyond All Reason alpha
45:26 OpenRGB 0.4
48:21 ChairQAsition:Chronicon
01:00:44 Hate mail
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- More updates and fixes for scout, steam’s container based runtime
- A lot of this is behind the scenes stuff. I’m curious if we’re ever going to see an end result
- You can edit your review if for some gods forsaken reason you ever change your mind
- Could you fix the co-op category from expanding every, damn, time, I install a game?
- Crusader Kings 3 takes 4 out of the top 10 best selling games for week 36
- I mean, Brazil’s not doing too good on those covid protocols, so yeah, maybe having your money makers avoid getting sick and potentially dying is the smrt move
- If people found ways to cheat AT the arena, what do you think would happen if these things were to happen from home?
Steam: Game Updates
- Nothing wrong with a little chaotic good.
- Fighting fire with fire is probably not a bad idea at this point.
- Granted, this will throw a grenade into Valves AI cheat detection.
- EAC wrecking another online game.
- But that wine support is totally coming you guys. Tim promised
Steam: New Games
- 18.04 or get bent
- More on that at 11.
- Guys. Please stop it with the couch co-op.
- Chairs will be flying in its direction, stick around!
- 39 + 1 endings. I wonder if there’s a hidden 40 – 1st ending
- It’s an adventure/puzzle game with an interesting hook. The puzzles you do and how you do them affect the ending
- THe puzzles seem to be a weird bunch of number dot puzzles?
- Either way it seems ambitious
- Taking the Stanley Parable concept and making it a more traditional video game is an interesting idea.
- The action takes place in the scenery of San Francisco and Oakland.
- So this isn’t regular solitaire? It’s like a slightly different ruleset?
- It is for you to discover the mechanics of Dire.
- Whar faerie free cell?
- Beware the grey, indomitable fog!
- Sill no clue how to play solitaire.
- Apparently this is done on OpenGLES 3.0 for both the windows and linux version.
- It’s a bold choice Cotton
- Looks like it could be an okay shooter
- Could be very interesting, but I’mma wait for that Early Access to run its course.
- It has some interesting looking environments, I’ll give it that.
- No need for a graphics card.
- Demo is only available for a limited time. Cuz that’s how demos should work
- Still waiting on the online multiplayer
Epic Watch
- I mean, they did breach the contract.
- I’m still not cool with them going after Apple and pretending the console makers are the slightest bit different.
- They all make their own hardware and software.
- Again, ya’ll fkd up going after Apple.
- If the court hadn’t upheld the injunction to stop Apple from nuking the engine entirely, Apple would have probably already put the kibosh on Epic’s little stunt.
- Apple owning Apple’s stuff is dystopian.
- Epic owning Fortnite’s stuff is fine and dandy.
News:
- Got to see them 3070 digits.
- If the CUDA jump is that mental it would be hard to pass, 8GB or not.
- Come on AMD, something that’ll force NVidia to drive those prices down.
- Me thinks AMD has already had to lower their prices for the Navi 2.
- At times like these I’m super glad google translate is okay at german to english
- But yeah, a 2X performance jump in cuda makes this a super attractive card to people doing production or GPGPU
- To nobody’s surprise, openCL performance is junk but nobody’s dropping $$$ on Nvidia for openCL
- Kids, keep dumping your 2080Ti’s on eBay.
- Got to drive that price down just a wee more.
- BTW PNY is fire-selling the 1080Ti for,and I’m not joking, about tree fiddy.
- Strider should be making the traditional “is this linux hardware cast” comment right about meow.
- Guessing that’s Navi 22, not 21.
- It’s as fast as a stock RTX 2080 Ti.
- They have a new release out that has both flatpaks and appimages
- This is another program for mapping keys to xbox controller buttons. Handy if you have a spare one laying about
- OG AntiMicro hasn’t seen an update in over 4 years, so here’s someone else trying to keep it relevant.
- Enhanced 3DO DOOM goodness.
- I guess some folks are really attached to the 3do version of it?
- Looks like a quality FOSS game
- Large scale RTS with an emphasis on AI directed units seems like it could be interesting
- According to them, it’s a spiritual relative of Total Annihilation
- That looks very good from the screenshots.
- I’m not touching it but it does look very nice, indeed.
- Improvements to the ASRock RGB controller means I can probably get the SteamBox to go full rainbow puke on me without having to plug in a keyboard and do it in the BIOS.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Chronicon
Devel: Subworld
Engine: Gamemaker Studio 2
Price: £10.99 / $13.99 / $15.49
Wazzat: Use the magical device known as the Chronicon to travel into the souls and memories of fallen heroes to re-live their grand tales! Epic adventures full of loot and monsters await!
Mandatory Disclosure: Big thanks to Subworld games for the keys on Curator Connect
Venn:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- This game is only guaranteed to work on Ubuntu 18.04LTS.
- I find this an odd choice with 20.04LTS being out.
- Let’s give it a spin on Debian 10.5.
- Hey! It launches in a little window!
- Welp, setting it to fullscreen knackeres the input.
- Can’t get past the menu now because there is no way to select anything with the keyboard.
- Does not detect gamepads so there goes opton B for getting past the main menu.
- Breaks Steam overlay, impressive.
Fun?
- Since they were kind enough to send us copies I did something I otherwise would not have done.
- Slapped in the head with a little Proton 5.0 and low and behold everything works.
- Even my controllers.
- The menu is unreadable at UHD and that’s saying something since my monitor is 43”.
- You click on things and they die.
- Made it to the first legit big-bad boss skeleton and he teleported into a corner so I stood there for a full minute just clicking on him until he ded.
- BTW, I don’t know if it’s intended behaviour but moving whilst booping is not an option?
- It’s not my bag and as Pedro pointed out it’s a legit technical shite show.
Jordan:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- It does launch
- Says it detects no controllers. Which I guess is fine if you’re playing single player cuz you’re just going to be spamming left and right click
- For a pixel game, everything is daaaark
- And tiny
- Way to hide all of the font scaling options at the bottom of the menu
- It does have some good sound design though
Fun?
- It diablo. Real pixelly, hard to read on a UHD monitor diablo, but diablo nonetheless
- It’s substantially easier than diablo, at least on normal, especially once you have something that does splash damage
- Then it’s just click, click away
- Honestly, the gameplay doesn’t feel too bad, it just gets a little boring for me. Diablo had story and characters and reasons to keep me interested, this game doesn’t
- Also unlike diablo this one don’t have any sort of working online multiplayer
- Nay, the steam overlay does not work, and therefore even if you wanted to you can’t use remote play
- Also I’m pretty sure local MP is a no go, what with it not detecting any controllers steam input or no
Pedro:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- This game is a technical shitshow!
- If I start it with the dualshock turned on it crashes.
- If I turn on or plug in the dualshock while it’s running, it crashes.
- Go ahead and google Gamemaker Studio controller crash, it’s not just Linux
- It starts in a window, for good reason.
- If you enable Fullscreen, you need to push F11 to undo it otherwise goodbye mouse input.
- No overlay!
- It holds some magnificent 60FPS, because Gamemaker lies and doesn’t actually sync to the vblank
- Had to use the nvidia API visual indicator, because MangoHud wanted nothing to do with it.
- The text in the UI flickers in and out of focus.
- The mouse movement option is off by default, despite this being a Diablo clone.
- And it’s off for a very good reason too, it doesn’t work properly!
- You’ll even get stuck on nothing and won’t attack enemies because the engine doesn’t register you let go of the button and clicked again.
- Its one saving grace, the music.
- Damn that’s some good music!
Fun?
- …
- Fuck!
- Yes! It is pretty damn fun.
- I get to live my Diablo power fantasy all over again and it’s just as much of a time vampire.
- If I had to complain about something I didn’t find fun in the gameplay itself, it’s the loot shower and how easy Chronicon is overall.
- It also shits achievements like it had 3 litres of coffee beforehand.
- I can absolutely see how a game this janky on a technical level gets an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam.
- It’s all in the gameplay and that gameplay is pretty damn fun!
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