Better Wi-Fi for the Steam Deck, Intel has a 3050 killer, Epic updates Unreal Engine pricing, tips for buying used PC hardware, and how NOT to promote your game on Steam.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Knee vs kitchen table
01:49 Screechy YouTube comments
06:44 Furniture and death metal
07:46 Drilling Pedro
08:44 LGC training AI
10:57 Steam Deck 2.0
15:18 Steam Deck dream feature?
19:09 Proton 8.0-4 fixes the SF6 hack
23:07 How NOT to get featured on Steam
NEW GAMES
32:53 Trolley Delayma
35:45 Ludus Mortis
39:15 Jackbox Party Pack 10
41:31 Three Minutes to Eight
43:43 Noreya The Gold Project
GAME UPDATES
46:24 Extraneum 1.0
49:02 A Gang Beast update?
52:03 Quake 2 update 1
54:24 Ion Fury Aftershock
NEWS
57:24 Intel ARC 580 is real
01:03:55 Intel Vulkan improvements
01:05:47 WINE Bottles – TNG
01:10:36 Unreal alters the deal
01:17:15 Steam Spy creator leaves Epic
01:19:08 Jdungeon open-source GODOT MORPG
01:20:02 What defines immersion?
HATE MAIL
01:25:56 Giving up on Linux gaming
01:27:52 Tips for buying used PC parts?
01:31:29 What do you not buy used?
01:42:57 Credits
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
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I guess replacing the M.2 Wifi card counts as a refresh.
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Better than changing it and saying nothing, Samsung, SanDisk, etc…
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The FCC registration refers to a Quectel FC66E chip, featuring support for the updated Wi-Fi 6E standard (i.e., 802.11ax).
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Still, it could be anything up to and including a new screen, removable battery, 300-kW laser pointer.
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Aww, they fixed the SF6 hack.
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Now you wifi peasants will have to play with your own kind.
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Enabled nvapi for a gang of titles.
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Dwarf fortress got a fix of all things
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Kotor 2 no longer requires experimental as do everquest 2 and a host of other older games
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Fixed a bunch of the third party launcher woes people have been reporting with EA, Ubisooft, and Battle.net.
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A video that VALVe had to make because of the rampant misinformation they themselves caused by not explaining things properly.
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Seems to be very broad strokes, not a lot of specificity.
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Things that are not a factor in your store ranking.
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Page traffic
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Review score (sometimes) recommendations.
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Wishlists
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Early access (not visible in new and trending)
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Things that are
Localization
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Steam taking 25 minutes to tell you it’s not going to explain how the recommendation algorithm works because you would game the hell out of it.
Steam: New Games
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Originally created for the Ludum Dare 50, with the theme “delay the inevitable”.
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Games about the trolly dilemma have been a thing for some time but they usually take the form of a text adventure.
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Arranging tracks to save people and confuse trollies is a new take.
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Made with GODOT.
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Baba murders 5 people to save 1
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It’s a short game, taking about 30-45 minutes depending on how smort you are
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Is free
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Baba is less about the moral quandary and more about just the ideal outcome.
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Oh shit more Eye-of-the-beholder-likes
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It’s’ got nec-ROME-ancy
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I’m really glad we evolved past these dungeon crawlers and into full on action RPGs.
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For all their flaws, Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls, and their ilk have done such a wonderful job moving the genre forward.
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I liked Legend of Grimrock as a novelty, “Hey! Check out this retro inspired game but with modern-ish graphics”
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I wouldn’t want to play more of it.
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A new game from the mind behind 7th Circle.
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It’s turn-based.
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The background music for the Steam trailer is a bit heavy for the genre.
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Anyway, it involves the roman senate and necromancy so it’s 100% going to have dating sim elements.
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Art looks legit for the aesthetic.
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Hopefully this jackbox can break the streak of having 50% games that you play once and go “huh, lets not do that again”
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New Tee-KO
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The typo fixing one seems like it could be fun too
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I do look me some Trivia
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It has a demo that includes a typing game and a rhythm game.
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A game where you try and cheat death before 8PM
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Kinda looks like an adventure game
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Apparently there is a bit of a roguelike element to it where each run is a little different
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It’s got a demo
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Classic slashy stab-a-vania.
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Controls are serviceable but needs an option to nope vsync.
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Demo is Windows only but downloads the Linux version with an empty repo.
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Smash the Proton button, fam.
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Art looks good, movement is fluid, and the main pixeltagonist is a wee small.
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No upgrades in the first 20 minutes of gameplay.
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No spiders
Steam: Game Updates
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Or as I call it: CutieDoom
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Release date is “May 2024”
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Apparently episode 2 is expected to be fished by the end of the year
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I very much enjoyed what I’ve played of the Early Access, but I’d rather play the rest when it’s all available.
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Linux native boom shoot!
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Well, apparently they’ve been taking some time to fix their technical debt. Kudos for that
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Apparently their new process and tooling should allow for some more consistent releases
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I didn’t realize they farmed out so much of their development.
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Double Fine was the publisher until 2020.
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Boneloaf used scripts and tools from the Unity Asset Store for rapid prototyping and editor customization.
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Then shipped a semi-functional tech demo as a full game.
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Gang Beast ships a server, just noticed that.
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Good on them!
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Quick saves in online coop is handy for maximum cheesing
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Spawn furthest by default is enabled in vs. Is that a thing we can turn on in Coop to stop the telefragging?
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Apparently the ladder sound is too OP in multiplayer
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Trespasser!
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They made the berserker a threat and now they’re nerfing him again, what the fuck?
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You can play through the original campaign with the new stuff as well.
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I wonder if the fine folks at voidpoint were obsessive enough to balance the new weapons and enemies on the old levels.
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I wouldn’t put it past them.
News:
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Filling the $139-$239 gap.
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Officially announced last year but has not been made available until now.
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It’s now a 185 watt card vs the original 175.
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24 Xee cores and 24 RTUs.
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8 GB with 512 buswidths.
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“ there are reports suggesting that they are actively working on an even less powerful RTX 3050 model”
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What an odd sentence
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More 770s are coming too
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And hey, at least they have drivers this time kinda sorta
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Well, the RTX 3050 trades blows with the GTX1080 in everything except DX12.
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If they can have it at $150, which is not going to happen, that’d be a damn good deal!
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If your budget is in the 6600/3050 range you need to look into buying used.
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Better support for Alder Lake IGPUs is always nice
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Real necessary for that DX12 goodness
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Going from the rather stark GTK-based GUI to a busier one.
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A lot of inspiration taken from Steam’s grid layout.
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With a bit of Legendary UI.
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They plan to restructure how it works to allow for better prefix management.
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They will also separate the GUI client from the underlying bits.
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Seems ripe for a Lutris integration
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Tim Sweeney says the company began running into financial problems “about 10 weeks ago.”https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EA_gNXbNg_PGe7KGCdNulnSfcHp0oWFzX2TDUoZpwWM/edit
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This comes after laying off 900 or so employees.
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Unreal will switch to per-seat pricing for non game development projects.
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The pricing structure will be similar to subscription services like Maya or Photoshop.
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This goes into effect next year.
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Unreal will remain free for educators and students.
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ALL Disney shows are using it in some way along with several movie houses.
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On top of that there is the industrial side of things.
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I get it, studios were using UE for free.
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Who wants to bet this was going to be applied to games before Unity did a dumb?
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Very quick to point out that their EULA’s only apply from the version you use.
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For now the per seat license applies to non gaming applications like automotive and film
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I imagine other stuff like free games are going to go away as epic continues to tighten their belt
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Maybe they’ll even invest in making their store not suck!
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I think someone at Epic realized it all comes crumbling down when ForkKife money dries up.
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WHAR screenshots and video on github page?
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Open-source MORPG made with GODOT.
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GMORPG? GMOPG? Gazorpazorpfield?
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This one is not browser based, so you’ll need to run a server instance as well as a client instance
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IT’s still in development so you’ll need to actually run two instances of the game through godot.
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Hopefully eventually they’ll add some separate client and server packages
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“With its top-down 2D perspective, it offers an immersive gaming experience”
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We have radically different definitions of immersive.
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