Valheim gets a day one Linux release! Embracer yoinks the game porting experts at Aspyr, big upgrades for OpenSuspect, Corsair wins their infringement case against Valve, and Google Stadia is winding down.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
08:46 Steam game festival
12:02 January hardware survey
14:42 Proton GE 6.1
18:02 Valve loses $4 million case
20:22 Tabletop Simulator 13.0
21:47 Valheim
24:47 Sword of the Necromancer
26:57 DOOMBRINGER
28:27 Mutropolis
36:17 Gearbox buys Aspyr
39:52 Open Suspect updates
41:52 Stadia winding down
47:02 GODOT shader store
49:47 GODOT gamepad API
50:57 fheroes2 0.9
52:32 Bogus HDMI capture cards
55:07 Review: Skul
01:06:07 Hate mail
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- That is a most useless collection of images and links without a sort by OS option.
- Yeah baby back at < .9%
- And it’s all aaaaaarch
- Arch, 1’st place loser.
- RX480 is losing some ground to the 1060
- And whatever that one in the middle is.
GloriousEggroll Proton-6.1-GE-1
- Still the same old list of borked games, but Grandia 1 and 2 are on the bork list too. What I shame, I really do love those games
- So apparently Microsoft decided to get rid of some DLL download links, so this required some directory workarounds`
- 2 other hotfixes for persona 4 and dxvk respectively
- One thing I don’t see in the known issues is the fullscreen hack being disabled
- Is this real life?
- Follow up from last week, yerp, they dun infringed copyright
- $4M is a slap on the wrist though. It apparently does open up the door for more damages though
- It still seems like patent trolling.
- That company doesn’t make anything, they just hold patents.
Steam: Game Updates
- Doesn’t look like they fixed the bug where cross platform multi is pooched
- Most of the updates here are framework level, great for people making board games, less exciting for people who play them
Steam: New Games
- Vikingcraft!
- Seriously, it looks like forkknife and minecraft hooked up.
- Need goat.
- It’s Ark but with Vikings instead of dinosaurs.
- When and if it ever comes out of Early Access, I do want to try it.
- The boats look mighty interesting
- I’ve been watching people play it, na.
- Weeb-er light drifter
- Local co-op baby. Use that crappy remote play
- That reads a lot like hipster pixel Shadow of the Colossus
- The art looks kinda basic, but the focus is supposed to be on the gameplay and that could be good for al I know
- None of us will until we get a demo or something
- That does look like butt.
- Looks all hand-drawn and pretty.
- It is a point and click adventure game, so maybe give it a look if that’s your jam
News:
- As much as I hope this will result in a native borderlands 3 for linux, I ain’t holding my breath
- AssPyre (like Feral) are in an odd spot.
- Proton nuked their fledgling Linux porting business and Apple well, Apple.
- I really don’t like the idea of Randy Pitchford owning Aspyr.
- THQ Nordic seems to have a lot of games out for Linux, I wonder if that will change.
- Make your penis person look as dapper or as dinky as you like.
- Cleaning up spaghetti code isn’t really sexy, but it’s definitely a thing that should get done earlier than later in a project
- I didn’t know they had a dedicated team.
- Shame, you could in theory do some cool stuff with Stadia.
- You know, all that stuff they showed off at launch and never delivered on.
- Stadia isn’t going anywhere just yet. Google’s dedicated innovation team is getting the axe and they’re focusing on “partnerships”
- I think this reads that google is done pumping their own money into stadia and now if you want in you gotta pony up.
- It’s probably a good idea to demonstrate value before doing that.
- Yeah where’s that bit about sharing a link and getting someone to jump in at that exact same point in the game?
- It looks like they are going to whitelabel Stadia as a service.
- Community shade!
- Good for not reinventing the wheel and getting new ideas.
- Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a repeat of the unity asset store
- That is very likely, especially if they’re useful shaders.
- Such as the ones shown here.
- I can see that fire getting abused, if Godot ever gains Unity levels of traction.
- Godot in the browser now works with the HTML5 gamepad API
- Once upon a time, I worked with someone who was trying to get this working in firefox. Cool to see how far it’s come
- Big honking bug fix release.
- Ctrl-f linux don’t find nothing
- The AI is a little better and map drawing is faster
- Consumer activism at LGC!
- I picked this up for the lulz and morbid curiosity.
- Didn’t expect this level of nonsense.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Skul: The Hero Slayer
Devel: SouthPAW Games
Engine: Unity
Price: £15.49 / $19.99 / $22.79
Wazzat: Guide ‘Skul’ on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent us keys
Venn:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- It holds 60 @ 1080 @ 2160p.
- Latest update causes black screen on Linux.
- -force-vulkan if you want a laugh.
- The Vulkan render is a disaster on Debian testing.
- It alternates from 0 to 5K FPS.
- No cloud saves if you are thinking about tapping that Proton button.
Fun?
- Yeah, this is not my jam with a vengeance.
- I spent an hour doing “runs” until the game gave me a floaty wizard lady instead of sword guy.
- I managed to defeat her and died shortly after.
- Back to the castle.
- I get it but don’t care.
- That’s a huge problem when my first and only reaction after getting killed is “whatevs Alt+F4”
- Similar to the reaction of SouthPAW Games when they pushed an update out on Friday that knackered the Linux build and took the weekend off.
Jordan:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- No proton ,no launchy with the latest build it seems
- Shame, cuz it runs well enough
- Controls are reasonably tight
- I really like the soundtrack. It’s really good
- Pixel art is also pretty good. No character blindness
Fun?
- A couple weeks ago when we talked about this game, I said ti reminded me of a 2d Spectacle brawler
- That’s not quire really what it is. Most of the enemies just happen to be chumps who will gladly let you corral and wail on them with whatever you got handy
- The chop chop looks reasonably good, but really you’re just mashing square/X/Y/Fish
- And it feels alright. The levels kinda get all samey after a while, it looks like whatever thing they’re using the generate the maps has a pretty limited number of types
- It’s done reasonably well enough, and I can’t help but root fior the underdog main character. That might just be the dungeon master in me though]
- The head swapping is kinda cute. Changes up the gameplay styles and there’s some neat combos you can do while switching your skull for the spare kine, but a lot of the heads are kinda useless. Too much wind up in their attack
- Then you get the thief knives, which just cut shit to ribbons and you can spam it ad infinitum
- All this to say, i don’t think it’s worth the 20 bucks
- The story is fun, and I’m sure the developers put a lot of work into it, but it’s a bargain title with lofty ambitions
Pedro:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- It started out of the box originally.
- It holds 144 at 2560×1440
- Since the update on friday you need to pass -force-vulkan if you want to see anything
- No, I don’t know how they managed to break OpenGL and kept Vulkan working.
- But I’m not sure it’s a bad thing.
- Though, not defaulting to Vulkan is.
- As it is, most Linux people starting the game will insta-refund it.
- Had to force Steam Input with the Dual Sense to get it to recognize the buttons properly and not have them one position clockwise out of whack.
Fun?
- It can be fun
- The default head is pretty good and I can see myself being able to beat the game with just that.
- But it boils down to smack all the enemies into a bunch and pound the living shit out of them.
- There are so many different heads and they play so differently I honestly hated most heads I picked up.
- Except for the bull, the wolf, the spear, and the sword, those were actually okay with how I was playing.
- The problem is, in a run you might not find one of the heads you like.
- At which point you stick with the default one and the routine settles in.
- I don’t play games for the routine.
- I play games to escape it.
- And since this game only gives me what I like half the time, I will only give it half the score.
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