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
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3873718133746831966/
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/1142710/discussions/0/3873718133748250755/
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The bannings will continue until morale improves.
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They locked the original thread and put up a new one that walked some stuff back
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Restricting people’s ability to bitch never goes well
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Doubling down with a grandstanding post and effectively declaring the end of free speech, even less.
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Only works with Steam games at the moment.
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Trainers are sourced from Fling Trainers.
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Relies on Proton to run trainers.
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AppImage for SteamDeck.
Steam: New Games
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They had to go with Satan because Sepp Blatter was too evil to put on a game cover
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Win by succeeding at soccer or murdering your opponents team
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Kind of reminds me of a purely PVP Pyre
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A brand new first person shooter done in *checks notes* GZdoom
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You can certainly make worse choices as far as engines go in 2023
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This one purports to be an intense action set piece story driven shooter
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They’re really proud of their Enemy Ai, inspired by F.E.A.R.
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This is one of the big BoomShoots I’m looking forward to.
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It looks damn good! Especially for being made in GZDoom.
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I remember playing the demo last year.
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Hope they have sorted the performance issues.
Steam: Game Updates
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We talked about this being a potential problem a few weeks ago.
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What, no bans?
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A public Trello board for an EA game?
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What fucked up timeline are we in, exactly?!
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They’re working on it apparently
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Hopefully the solution isn’t wontfix
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People were confusing the birds for grenades so now there’s no more birds.
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Workshop is also back in, so maybe some community servers will still let you have the feathery friends.
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I saw a bird. It was pretty.
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Less accidental friend stabbing
News:
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Not Linux related but keep your eye out for great deals on used controllers.
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Cracking down on devices like the Xim?
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Yeah, that’s just straight up cheating if you’re playing Halo with other console bros
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Pass certification or don’t use it on XBox
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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.
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Which Microsoft clearly stems to profit from.
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Trying to find out the process (much less the pricing) to get a device certified is beyond my ability.
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One of the many advantages of PC gaming is not having to worry about this nonsense.
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Then again, that might change when PC 2 is released.
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Buy used! Not everyone treats their controllers like they owe them money.
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Capcom doesn’t want anything in their game unless they’re making money off of it.
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“All mods are cheats unless officially supported” is a hell of a take
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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.
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Don’t wanna accidentally expose people to Guile’s butthole.
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Yeah, if you’re in a professional video game competition don’t use nudie mods.
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Though, I don’t like publishers cracking down on mods any more than I do AntiCheat, DRM, and Always Online requirements.
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It just seems like another excuse to remove even more of your rights as both purchaser and player.
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Unsupported MODs are “impossible to distinguish from cheat tools, implementation-wise.”.
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He’s not wrong.
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This is why you add MOD support to your game.
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People are still “scandalized” by human anatomy in 2023.
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Nude patches have been going strong since 1997.
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Rohit apparently got bored with NOLF and got started on another port. THis one isn’t lithtech though
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You can SiN on GOG for $9.99.
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That may be a good excuse to play through SiN again.
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Jak 2 support is now in open beta
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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.
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How far they’ve come
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They have a steam deck installer through decky
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It’s now playable with a few minor catches.
Hate Mail:
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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.
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RADV_PERFTEST=rt VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr %command% on Steam
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You only need the VKD3D envvar for Proton games.
