The Counter-Strike 2 limited test is underway! GE-Proton adds support for Diablo on Linux, Windows updates for Steam Decks, Raja Koduri leaves Intel, and smashing the Vulkan button on Asahi Linux.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Venn on drugs
03:11 Handy damage
04:43 New Thursday game
05:59 Pedro vs Apogee II
STEAM NEWS
08:03 Windows on Steam Deck updates
12:08 Proton GE Diablo fixes
NEW GAMES
15:57 Resistance 204X
GAME UPDATES
18:57 Ambitions pulls Linux support
22:19 Counter Strike 2 on Linux
27:41 Revhead on Steam Deck
NEWS
36:52 New NVIDIA drivers
40:07 Raja leaves Intel
47:17 Big MAC with Vulkan
51:01 Heroic game launcher Snaps
REVIEW
55:37 Apocalyptic Vibes
HATE MAIL
01:09:19 Teenagers
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- Still no dual boots for the Deck.
- The SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn’t ready yet.
- To enter your product key during installation, you’ll need internet. Because there are no Wi-Fi drivers at this point.
- Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 are supported.
- A year later and Windows on Deck is still an absolute dumpster-fire.
- Yet another example of Big Linux ™ keeping indie OSs from gaining traction.
- If you really, REALLY need to play Destiny on the go
- Audio works on Windows now, that’s a positive.
- I thought that Outlaws protonfix might finally allow me to change the controls and play through the game once more.
- Still doesn’t, unless you set WINE to to run the game in a separate X Window.
- Maybe the open sauce Dark Forces engine will support Outlaws one of these days.
- Diablo 4 beta was working
- No longer need to mess with your hosts file for star citizen to work
Steam: New Games
- It tried to lock up Steam on exit.
- Click on the button and you should get right in the playtest.
- It has That Soundpack ™ with the beats and record scratch menu movement.
- No online multi in the demo so it’s kinda useless.
- Xbox Controller picked up and reminded me I need to get a fight stick.
- It’s a nidhogg like with some fancier fighting game mechanics
- It got that rollback netcode
Steam: Game Updates
- It’s not fair that we have to spend time fixing our broken linux build that we sold to people for money
- I hope those bugs the Linux version exposed don’t come back to bite you in the future.
- Unlike a LOT of “we’re no longer supporting Linux” posts this game has a playerbase.
- Grated, it’s a small player base because I’ve never heard of it and that’s kinda my thing.
- Linux was exposing bugs in the game and the developer was not a fan of that.
- Smash that Linux export button, fam.
- Steam will issue refunds to all Linux players who don’t see Proton as an option.
- The rumors were true.
- Oh my god the rumors were true.
- Valve confirms release of long awaited sequel!
- No Linux for the closed beta but there is a depot.
- It’s a free upgrade to CSGOfuckyourself. So that’s nice
- I wonder if Valve is gonna add any new monetization options? Or just straight up embrace being a slot machine
- People went all data-miney on the files and found references to L4D3.
- You know what else had references to L4D3? DotA2 when it was updated to Source 2.
- If I ever get to visit a parallel world, I’d like to visit the one where VALVe released HL2:E3
- I for one look forward to playing Left 5 Dead 1.
- A new 5 player experience from the team that brought you Firewatch.
- Now Steam Deck verified.
- Sent them another email just in case.
- Hungarian build your own car in the Australian outback simulator.
- This is still in the “Fixed duplicated controller issues” phase of development.
- The trailer is a smorgasbord of pop-in and low fps.
- This is impressive considering the graphics are straight out of the 90s.
News:
- Makes with the working.
- Setting the icon location to …/icons/hicolor so it can be properly overridden by your own choice of icon theme.
- That’s only over two decades overdue.
- Now everybody gets to enjoy the fast decompression speed.
- Anyone who uses the .run anyways
- The mind behind VEGA and ARC has left the building.
- Intel pulls the plug on Arc by the end of summer?
- If Intel can’t break the duopoly, who can?
- China is WAY behind on the GPU tech.
- Maybe his work on Battlemage was already done.
- Raja is moving to a new startup. Could be for any reason really
- As much as I’d hope that Intel’s corpo overlords aren’t gonna fall victim to shortsightedness…who are we kidding
- Surprise us! Prove us wrong! PLEASE!
- I love this trend of Asahi using the M1/M2 hardware better than MacOS
- Asahi OpenGL passes more compliance tests than OSX Lol
- 800 FPS xonotic
- Vs rosetta, but whatever. pssh
- The many challenges of trying to implement explicit sync in a primarily implicit sync world
- Proper graphics acceleration and support is the big one for Asahi.
- Maybe once the M1s start showing up at more agreeable prices on the used market I’ll be able to use it properly with Linux.
- Flatpak, Snap, or regular.
- But why?!
- Unless Canonical is actively paying for it, why would you?
- Now it’s even more available-er on Linux than any EGS offering
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Apocalyptic Vibes
Webzone: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1840610/Apocalyptic_Vibes/
Devel: Amanito Computing
Engine: GZDoom
Price: £16.75 / $19.99 / $25.99
Wazzat: A vintage immersive first-person shooter on GZDoom. With an atmosphere of a cold and melancholic postapocalypse, elements of dieselpunk, mix of a retro-style and realism and romantic shoegaze as a soundtrack.
Mandatory Disclosure: The dev sent us keys
Venn:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- BAM! Middle monitor.
- Gamescope to the rescue.
- Click on the screen when you’re done waiting for something to show up.
- It had options galore because gzdoom.
Fun?
- 33 minutes to figure out that first bit leading to the baddies.
- The levels are empty, big, and chocked full of absolutely nothing to do.
- Even a bit of world lore (old photos / papers) would have gone a long way.
- All of this time was spent alone, pursuing the emptiness and collecting ammo and coffee.
- Then I went through the magical door and got killed to death by a smudge.
- Seriously, I was walking straight up to two guys trying to figure out WTF they were and BLAM!
- Yeah, you die a lot, and with a quickness.
- Save scum to the rescue!
- It took another 30 minutes to live die repeat my way through the next area and all I was feeling was tired.
- Tired of reloading the game over and over and oh, save, alright, back to reloading.
- Yeah, the AI is old school murder bots that go full T800 the second you are within 0.0089% of their vision cone.
- I enjoyed my time with Metro on Ranger difficulty but this was the bad kind of punishing gameplay.
- This OTOH was like playing a really cocked up deathmatch level filled with the same 90s era murder bot.
- Best I can tell from the reviews is this is 2.5 hours of that and that alone.
- Coming in a 1.12 Hollow Knights, yeah, no.
Jordan:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- Launches OOTB. it really does just pick whatever monitor it wants
- There isn’t really much of a soundtrack. More of a soundscape. Mostly empty one that startles you when it suddenly makes a new noise
- All of the configuration options
- Visually, it looks like a GZdoom game. That is all
- The colour palette is pretty muted. I actually missed the revolver in the apartment cuz it looked like a smudge
Fun?
- I’ve been wandering around aimlessly. I have no clue what I’m doing.
- Video games are supposed to provide an escape from reality. It’s too real!
- Ok, after finally caving I watched a video of someone playing through it and the door you were supposed to go to looks suspiciously like a background texture that is usually a locked door
- I guess it’s trying to be metro: gzdoom edition
- And yeah,it really does capture the punishing environment of the post apocalypse. You might get one or two shots off but then you get deaded
- And that’s when you start abusing the autosave feature
- My experience is mostly similar to Venn’s. Advancement at a snails pace
- Some people like that sort of methodical challenge, but I don’t really like it in my shooters
Pedro:
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
- Much like every other GZDoom game, smack in the middle screen.
- But it does work out of the box on the Desktop and the Deck on the Beta Branch.
- It defaults to WASD config for Steam Input.
- But that also means controllers will work out of the box if you have Steam Input enabled already.
- It’s GZDoom, it’s gonna work everywhere.
- As for the graphics, Strider likes to give me stick for liking desaturated things.
- Apocalyptic Vibes manages to be just over the line for me.
- It is all brown and grey, mostly grey.
- And the sprites are probably the devs or their friends.
- Those cans have some real high res mud texturing.
- The music is nice when you’re near a radio to listen to it.
Fun?
- I don’t think it’s supposed to be fun.
- Just like not everything that quacks is a duck, not all GZDoom games are boomer shooters.
- This one falls squarely into the STALKER subgenre of FPS/RPGs.
- Bleak, lonely, and unforgiving.
- I’m playing through it on Hardcore because that seems to be the recommended way to get the full experience.
- When you die, your max HP gets dinged and you can only recover it by consuming “the tea”, lighting bonfires, and hitting certain milestones in the story.
- Yes, you can go and add the Souls-Like tag on the Steam Store page.
- I liked STALKER for its semi-open world and semi-metroidvania style going back through places you’d already visited to do more things once you’re properly equipped.
- Apocalyptic Vibes is a linear experience with the occasional deadend with some goodies.
- Nothing against strictly linear games, but this time it feels like it could have used something, anything, to feel less bleak.
- I like what it does but it doesn’t look as good as it could and it’s a little sparse in content.
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