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