Linux Game Cast Weekly 438: Fedora 43000

Reverse engineering Xbox games with Linux! The most followed games on Steam, Feral Interactive ends support for Tomb Raider, a native launcher for Epic Games, and Nvidia threatens to Xwayland. All this, plus your hate mail.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:26 Most followed games on Steam
06:31 Player LED slots for Steam client
09:46 Proton supports MS Flight Sim VR
13:44 Feral ends support for Mad Max & Tomb Raider
17:59 What is Gestaltor?
21:04 Spacebase Startopia
24:29 Shameless self promotion
30:29 Nvidia driver updates
34:09 Xwayland support for Nvidia
38:29 RIP FNA on MAC
42:24 Reverse engineering Saboteur with Linux
45:24 Heroic game launcher for Epic
48:34 Linus loves ECC
52:34 OBS 26.1.1
56:09 Live closed captions for Twitch
58:04 Review: Biscuitts 2
01:09:04 Hate mail

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam: News

Most followed Steam games

My favourite game of 2020 was the “Holiday Sale Community Group”
There’s a lot of people following DLC Simulator
I get that it is popular, what I don’t get is fucking why?
Do you develop this really warm sensation inside from all the Stockholm Syndrome?
Is this how people who don’t get Dark Souls feel about Dark Souls?
The hell is up with payday2?
Killing Floor 2 beating Rocket Cars.
LEFT ALIVE™ is ded last.

PS5 LEDs

It’s got that wooty keyboard support. Woot
- I guess that means their remap API is now supported via steam input
Got that HOTAS support as well
I like the idea of having each key be fully analogue all the way down those 5 mm of travel.
I do play racing games and that would be frickin’ awesome!
What I don’t want is to deal with it OS-side.
G15? Like… the Logitech G15?
Can you set the Macros on Steam Input now?

Proton VR

Get your MS flight on with Proton and AMD.
Melhorias para layouts de teclado fora dos EUA.
RTKit?
WHAR RTKar!??
Does this mean I can bind the accent keys without it just thinking I’m pressing numlock?
That’d be nice!
Getting hotplugging working better is definitely addressing a pain point I’d like to see eliminated

Steam: Game Updates

RIP Max & Tombs

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Batman: Arkham City have been removed from sale due to their licences expiring.
WB didn’t want to reup the support contract.
Proton killed Ferals Linux business model but it’s going to be the tool that keeps their games playable.
- Not even. You’re just running the windows version as is. All that feral code, like sand in the desert
Can’t buy the Linux Car Desert Sandbox no more.
I liked Mad Max, there’s 0 replayability but I liked it.
It’s gonna be smaller folks who keep linux gaming alive now. More on tha tlater
Once those last contracts expire, we’re probably not gonna see many more games on linux from feral
It’s sad though. Kinda an end of an era.

Steam: New Games

Gestaltor

Subscription Blender?
glTF is developed by the Khronos group
I still don’t get it.

Spacebase Startopia

Hoo boy that asking price
I can’t tell what the hell the game is about from the screenshots
I guess it’s a city builder in spaaaaace
The linux version just requires an 64 bit CPU and a dream

News:

Nvidia Rays (RTheren)

Support for the A6000, one of the few GPUs available to buy from Nvidia.
Installed, it works.
They don’t mention it in the changelog but it looks like this one works with 5.10
You’ve already got a bunch of this stuff from the beta driver, this just rolls it into the long lived
It Doesn’t like Sonic racing with Proton.

Nvidia wayland

Oh boy, yall about to find out that Nvidia holding Wayland back is a damn myth.
Also: Incidentally, we’re currently working on driver-side support for passing buffers as dma-bufs, and once that’s ready we could transition egl-wayland away from using EGLStreams.
Now that the course seems determined, Nvidia is now willing to move their stuff away from EGLstreams
So NVidia caved, finally
Can we stop delaying and get the rest of the stuff we can do with X in Wayland on top of the new amazing things Wayland can do?
- LOL, no.

FNA Linux focused

It’s a bad time to be gaming on MAC.
I mean, in general it’s just a bad time for making software on Mac
Good luck getting developer support
I really wish a lot more people would give Flibit work!

630 Linux

So while not directly linux related, the guy did use it and a bunch of open source tools
This requires some backstory: back in 2008 there was a game for xbox and windows called The Saboteur
The game is pretty busted, and the developer went bankrupt shortly after launch. A dev version of the xbox version was leaked and this guy wants to see if it’ll help him dig into the binary to implement mods
Needless to say, hilarity ensues

Epic hero

GUI wrapper for the Legendary CLI tool
It will cross index with ProtonDB, which is a handy feature we’ve been requesting for steam.
Cloud save is a little buggy
Next Design iteration based on the UI/UX Research by Biliane Moreira.
That dude dove DEEP, and it shows.
Comes in DEB, RPM, Pacman, AppImage flavours.
How come this didn’t get Lutris’ed immediately?
Dropping the ball there, strider!

Gaming ecc

I mean, he’s right.
I’m not sure if I’d be willing to spend the extra cheddar on ECC, but i’d certainly like an option to
And yeah, once again shows how being a de-facto standard lets you swing weight around in strange ways in how Intel kept it out of the consumer market.
In theory I should have ECC in Threadbooper but I guess I’m conditioned.
It never crossed my mind.
It’s not that much more expensive, $178 for 32GB.
What’s really holding ECC back is lack of blinky arse heat spreaders.
I am only half joking.
I’d love some high speed ECC memory but it looks like I’ll be stuck on this X570 motherboard for the long run.
So in half a decade, assuming the world hasn’t burned itself down to the crust by then, it’d be nice if we could have 5000MHz ECC RAM at a reasonable price for the mainstream platforms.

OBS Studio 26.1.1

Fixes for Jack are in place.
Decklink works again.
Skull-FKD the UI for a lot of people.
They disappeared the virtual cam button (bug) but I’m not banging my head against the wall to point that out.

Speaking of OBS

This is, in fact, how we do it.
Easy captions for live recording or for local recording with a .srt.
One person on Twitter was really pleased. She called it a game changer.
That’s why I do this.

CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Biscuitts 2
Devel: Crossplatform
Engine: Unity
Price: £15.49 / $19.99 / $22.79

Wazzat: Biscuitts 2 is a punishing jumping game. With practice, you’ll be able to jump, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down.

Mandatory Disclosure: Venn bought us keys.

Venn:

Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control

It launches and that’s the only nice thing I have to say about Biscuits 2.
Fullscreen & windowed mode work so I guess that’s another positive thing but I’ll give that credit to the Unity game engine.
Let’s talk about sound because there is a lot of it.
At 100% this bad boy was throwing all of my meters into the red. It looks like it was mixed with 0 as the target.
Also, multiplayer does nothing.
As far as looks, it’s clearly a Cuphead knockoff.

Fun?

Fun?
Well, if you define fun as immediately switching over to Proton because you thought the controller mappings were fkd on Linux only to find out that’s the intended behaviour, yeah, it’s a fkn blast.
Let me tell you about the controls. You hold down the jump button, press left or right, and release.
Your distance and height is proportional to how long the button is pressed.
From there you try to navigate upwards through random shite placed on the map.
There, that’s it, the entire game.
It’s marketed as a “rage platformer” when in reality it’s a bunch of assets from their previous game stacked vertically with a poorly thought out movement mechanic tacked on so it met the bare qualification for a game.
Biscuits 2 should had been a Flash game released in 2006 because upon seeing it Adobe would have immediately killed Flash and apologized to humanity.

Jordan:

Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control

Launches out of the box on Nvidia and AMD
Holds [email protected] on both too
I’m able to join multiplayer games, both local and online, but the randos are way further ahead than I am.
Tried to get it working with pedro to no avail. Apparently randos or bust
Controls are a timing based jump mechanic. It technically “functions”, but it ain’t great

Fun?

Yeah, it’s kinda poo poo
It’s a rage game, like getting over it with bennet foddy
It’s the exact nonsense that will absolutely drive me up the wall. Or at the very least cause a couple of new holes in my wall as a result of me trying to get up there
The timing based jump mechanic sucks. You have to feel it out until you master it, so have fun slamming into walls or getting knocked back to the beginning
I get why they exist. Your Markipliers and your pewdiepies will play it and scream and it’ll be funny for the kids
It ain’t fun for me

Pedro:

Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control

Launches out of the box
Holds 144 at 2560×1440
You can’t disable chromatic aberration or the old film screen noise.
The music is like 10 seconds on a loop.
Have to enable Steam Input for the DualShock 4 or DualSense to work.
And even then it doesn’t work properly since the jump button doesn’t register half the time and you just walk right off a platform.

Fun?

What in the actual fuck?
I didn’t think I’d find a game that actively hates its player.
There’s a lot of incompetent game development happening, hut here… it feels deliberate.
It’s deliberately asking “why?”.
Why are you still playing this rage platformer with chromatic aberration and screen noise you can’t disable?
Why would you bother even trying to make progress if you know that time investment is just going to result in a misjump and you falling all the way back to the start?
Why? Just… Why?
And honestly I don’t know what to say.
People complain about difficulty in some video games, but difficult games often reward you for gitting gud.
This just spits in your face.
Biscuitts 2 made the experience of pooping after I rage quit feel rewarding.