Total War Warhammer 3 banhammers community members, EA breaks Aphex Legends on Steam Deck, Counter-Strike 2 kills birds, Microsoft knocks knockoffs, and game training on Linux made easy.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Adventures in French Canada
02:52 Fan of mouse
04:15 Shocking a chair
STEAM NEWS
05:28 Total War boycott bans
10:14 Game trainers on Linux
NEW GAMES
15:20 Soccer With Satan
17:22 Selaco
18:59 New devs old engines
GAME UPDATES
20:09 EA breaks Apex Legends on Linux
23:18 Solaris Deck
24:12 Counter-Strike 2 kills birds
NEWS
26:42 Microsoft band unofficial controllers
31:34 Capcom vs game MODs
40:08 SiN updated for modern PCs
45:48 Open-source Jak 2 beta
50:15 HL3 VR?
HATE MAIL
53:05 Ray Tracing on AMD
55:21 Custom commands for Steam
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3873718133746831966/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3873718133748250755/
The bannings will continue until morale improves.
They locked the original thread and put up a new one that walked some stuff back
Restricting people’s ability to bitch never goes well
Doubling down with a grandstanding post and effectively declaring the end of free speech, even less.
Only works with Steam games at the moment.
Trainers are sourced from Fling Trainers.
Relies on Proton to run trainers.
AppImage for SteamDeck.
Steam: New Games
They had to go with Satan because Sepp Blatter was too evil to put on a game cover
Win by succeeding at soccer or murdering your opponents team
Kind of reminds me of a purely PVP Pyre
A brand new first person shooter done in *checks notes* GZdoom
You can certainly make worse choices as far as engines go in 2023
This one purports to be an intense action set piece story driven shooter
They’re really proud of their Enemy Ai, inspired by F.E.A.R.
This is one of the big BoomShoots I’m looking forward to.
It looks damn good! Especially for being made in GZDoom.
I remember playing the demo last year.
Hope they have sorted the performance issues.
Steam: Game Updates
We talked about this being a potential problem a few weeks ago.
What, no bans?
A public Trello board for an EA game?
What fucked up timeline are we in, exactly?!
They’re working on it apparently
Hopefully the solution isn’t wontfix
People were confusing the birds for grenades so now there’s no more birds.
Workshop is also back in, so maybe some community servers will still let you have the feathery friends.
I saw a bird. It was pretty.
Less accidental friend stabbing
News:
Not Linux related but keep your eye out for great deals on used controllers.
Cracking down on devices like the Xim?
Yeah, that’s just straight up cheating if you’re playing Halo with other console bros
Pass certification or don’t use it on XBox
Yes. It will cut down on the cheating, but it will also cut down on people being able to get a cheap replacement controller when the one that comes with the console dies.
Which Microsoft clearly stems to profit from.
Trying to find out the process (much less the pricing) to get a device certified is beyond my ability.
One of the many advantages of PC gaming is not having to worry about this nonsense.
Then again, that might change when PC 2 is released.
Buy used! Not everyone treats their controllers like they owe them money.
Capcom doesn’t want anything in their game unless they’re making money off of it.
“All mods are cheats unless officially supported” is a hell of a take
Although side note for those of you who are TOs: Probably best to actually clear all the machines that you’re gonna be using in your tournament.
Don’t wanna accidentally expose people to Guile’s butthole.
Yeah, if you’re in a professional video game competition don’t use nudie mods.
Though, I don’t like publishers cracking down on mods any more than I do AntiCheat, DRM, and Always Online requirements.
It just seems like another excuse to remove even more of your rights as both purchaser and player.
Unsupported MODs are “impossible to distinguish from cheat tools, implementation-wise.”.
He’s not wrong.
This is why you add MOD support to your game.
People are still “scandalized” by human anatomy in 2023.
Nude patches have been going strong since 1997.
Rohit apparently got bored with NOLF and got started on another port. THis one isn’t lithtech though
You can SiN on GOG for $9.99.
That may be a good excuse to play through SiN again.
Jak 2 support is now in open beta
I remember the first blog post we covered from these folks and how they had to figure out some obscure old LUA dialect to get things working.
How far they’ve come
They have a steam deck installer through decky
It’s now playable with a few minor catches.
Hate Mail:
I don’t know if it’s enabled for all AMD GPUs which support it by default, but you do need to pass the launch codes to allow some games to enable ray-tracing.
RADV_PERFTEST=rt VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr %command% on Steam
You only need the VKD3D envvar for Proton games.
