LinuxGameCast Weekly 422: A 💩 Gee!

Gang Beasts beta 2 standardizes sausage distribution! Blasphemous heads to Linux, Nvidia releases drivers for cards you can’t buy, and something Epic happens to Rocket League. Then we explain why Proton is a really good bad thing.

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Timestamps:
04:28 Buying every Steam game
07:06 Proton 5.9 GE fixes
09:26 New Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer
11:08 Gang Beasts beta 2
12:28 Epic accounts for Rocket League
15:28 Blasphemous Linux release
17:48 FOBIA
20:43 Shameless self promotion
25:08 Nvidia 3080 drivers
31:44 Open game jam 2020
34:44 Descent update?
38:00 Unvanquished is free
41:13 CPU-X
45:00 ChairQAsition: SubDivide
57:03 Hate mail

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam: News

All the $team

My old co-worker was right! The See comes before the Wang
Half a million dollars doesn’t buy it all. That’s… Yeah!

Proton-5.9-GE-6-ST

Hey, somebody is releasing Proton updates.
Updates to FAudio, I wonder if it will fix the audio issues with the OG version of Dark Souls 2.
- Nope and the grass at the start is still b0rked.
It fixed the stuttering issue in not Hollow Knight 2.
Horizon Zero Dawn gets a bunch of updates with this release too

Steam: Game Updates

New Last Stand trailer

Pitchforks, son. Pitchforks.
I hope the shovel has a nice clang to it.
Well, that’s certainly one way to breathe some new life into a game
All of the fuckboxes

Gang Beasts beta 2

Lots of balance and bug fixes
They’ve also standardized sausage distribution
Also some notes as to some future changes, like prolong grabs being nerfed

Epic rockets

Now even Windows people are starting to get pissed.
Epic wants to collect all them data bits.
EAC will be up next.
If it’s true that they’re making you go out of your way to read the new TOS, that is super sketch

Blasphemy

It will be in-line with the currently released version of the game.
I got a bit worried when they missed the September 4th date, I’m glad they decided to acknowledge the delay.

Steam: New Games

FOBIA (from Mila)

Just in time for 2spooky4U 2020.
No copy with the audio here.
I dicked around in the room I was stuck in.
Looks alright.
A few issues:
- The audio is choppy
- There’s no mouse in the menu
- There’s no way to rebind controls.
- The fuck?
No mouse life is real.

News:

3080-90 drivers

Seems to have fixed the lightdm glitch with full pipeline compositing.
Hope all the bots enjoy their new video cards.
After 25 years of online stores being a thing, I’m surprised there isn’t a better system to deal with the rush for a popular product and to stop making this a click contest.
Fixed Youngblood on my end
According to the release notes, the new VkMemoryType they’ve introduced should help performance in some dix vix apps
No DLSS proper on Linux, yet.
They do mention the NGX library Updater but that isn’t the same kind of consumer facing bit.
We’ll need the driver to expose that kind of functionality if we expect people to be able to make use of it.
I’ll wait until this shows up in the PPA
Say what you will about Nvidia but Linux drivers on launch day are the norm.

Open Jam 2020

By the time you’re watching this live, you’ll have a day left. If you’re watching this on sunday, you better get started
Get some brownie points by developing it on linux. Or more than likely in your linux VM
This year’s theme is airborne. Go make Brick Simulator Infinite

State of Descent

Thanks for all the fish?
Member when you pulled the game from steam to go to whatever that tokens site was?

Open Vanquish

They ended up doing a good?
Three years is pretty good for a community project to audit all of it’s licenses. Good job!
I did wonder what it was that caused them to drop completely off the grid.
Good to see it was just an internal review of all their licenses and they can safely distribute the game wherever they’d like.

CPU-X

At has one of GUI things the kids like.
It looks exactly like CPU-Z. Which is the point I guess
Needs root to see all the relevant DMIDecode bits.
Still doesn’t show FCLK speed for AMD CPUs, but I think that’s a kernel limitation.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: SubDivide
Devel: Julian Heuser
Engine: Unity
Price: £3.99 / $4.99 / $5.69
Wazzat: Make your way through over 50 levels by manipulating a line that divides the world. Reveal a platform to get across a gap. Cut through a platform to drop down past it. Make a ramp by cutting a platform midway, or even use a platform as an elevator to make it to the goal.

Mandatory Disclosure: Dev sent us 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!

NDI