Collabora turbocharges Steam Deck updates. Humble has a Metroidvania Bundle. Custom Battlefield 4 servers are back with Warsow. Roblox is now playable on Linux with WayDroid. And Majora’s Mask goes native on PC with the help of Zelda64Recomp.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:59 The Elite box
04:16 Jordan exercise tips
04:51 Smoking in 2024?
STEAM NEWS
07:31 Steam 150% 4K Beta
09:27 Do people use remote play?
11:52 Controller with OLED buttons?
12:21 Atomic SteamOS 3.6
16:11 ROBLOX on Steam Deck
20:07 Steam remembers Linux VR
22:09 When will VR die this time?
NEW GAMES
26:20 Big Butt Bobby
28:25 Ingression
GAME UPDATES
31:09 Ultimate Horse Pandamonium
33:08 Keeping old games alive
35:18 Dome Keeper Tormentor
NEWS
38:12 Humble Metroidvania Bundle
42:01 Majora’s Mask on Linux (native)
46:34 Warsaw Revamped for Linux
47:59 Windows servers
50:33 EA dynamic ads
52:59 Generation adds
54:30 Tappy Chicken
HATE MAIL
01:05:12 Helldivers 2 victory
01:12:29 LOL Linux
Steam: News
Fixed swapped A/B buttons when using Nintendo GameCube controllers so no, you were not the crazy.
Better streaming performance for AMD cards.
Changed the default scale from “FKN seriously?” to “that’s almost 125%” on 4K monitors.
I have my UHD monitor at 125% scaling
It’s…okay. Certainly better than the previous old man scale
“Fixed slow startup on busy systems” – tell me more!
I too would like to pull performance out of the ether on occasion.
There was at least one case of steam trying to launch a Windows game on Linux without proton
Definitely gotta fix that store tab behavior
Thanks to Ludovico over at Collabora for the email.
It was single-thread-ville when updating SteamOS on the Deck, from the hashing of the current system, to the downloading of the new atomic partition image.
It’s better now, if you like to live dangerously and want to opt in to the Preview channel.
Looking at 30%-50% faster system updates thanks to Desync.
Failed system updates no longer have to redownload all the things.
One of the occasional perils of open source is that sometimes someone maintaining your upstream project just fucks off
The nice thing is that someone else will usually be glad to pick up the torch, as was the case with Desync
So that’s how people are playing Roblox on the Deck!
The readme shouts out Roblox like 3 times
The picture of all the android apps don’t include it
Anything that gets the kids a hacking.
Simple script to set up Waydroid with ARM emulation on the Steam Deck, for all your Android gaming needs.
I like Waydroid, they’ve done a very good job with the integration onto a typical Linux desktop.
Someone remembered they had VR for Linux.
Steam Crab confirmed!
Hopefully once I’ve moved I’ll be able to borrow the Quest 2 again.
Special fix for some SDL stuff on fedora
When can I finally play a star trek vr game where I can get Riker pregnant on the holodeck?
Steam: New Games
He has his little doodle out!
Or is it an extremely out belly
Aping the Domics/oddonesout style
It’s yet another 2D platformer but it has a naked protagonist deliberately butting his enemies.
“Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer…” – fuck me!
Another one?
I do love me some precision platforming.
This one has a level rotate around character mechanic.
Kind of like portals without portals when using momentum.
Only run this on Gnome on X11 according to the system requirements
OR ELSE!!!!1
Steam: Game Updates
Yep, totally done working on it.
Time for another free content update from the team that can’t let a good thing die.
This one brings a new character, two levels, and foreskins.
Plus three 3 new music tracks, and 2 new outfits.
That Tormentor monster just looks like he was desperate for a piss
The little pose it strikes as it unleashes the stream is pretty
It’s pretty chonky update
Moving from Godot 3 to 4
Bunch of rebalancing
A new companion gadget that can carry and fight for you
News:
Get Axiom Verge 1 & 2 for $14.
Oh, and another five games to go along with it.
9 years of shadow and Cookie Cutter are really solid.
Pedro might like Death’s Gambit.
Version 1.0 is out and ready for Masking.
This is a static recompilation of Majora’s Mask into a native port with many new features and enhancements.
Widescreen, gyro aim, autosave, Steam Deck support.
The better Zelda game is in the works.
Download available for the Linux.
I was not a fan of the Mask but this might be worth another shot.
Yes, you need to go to the nintendo store and buy the N64 ROM.
Custom servers for Battlefield 4.
Keeping games alive.
“Will be playable on Linux at launch”
looks at the screenshot
“RUST_BACKTRACE=full wine64 …”
Don’t get my hopes up like that.
Even on windows the server runs in docker so I suppose on the server side linux support was guaranteed
Good to know they’re treating Linux players seriously though
With the possible exception of Popeyes, I will not knowingly buy something with in-game ads.
Drawing a hard line right the hell there.
At least they will be dynamic so blocking them will be possible.
Does a generation that has grown up with ad supported mobile gaming give a damn?
I haven’t bought a single EA game since Dragon Age: Origins.
Something tells me I’m going to keep not buying any.
The quest to squeeze more blood out of a stone continues
Roku wants to inject ads over HDMI, EA wants more ads in games
“Non-intrusive” can mean “literally every moment you’re not playing the game there is an ad being shown to you”
Or are games just going to adapt and become super blatant and on the nose about the product placement. “Boi, drink your ice cold Mountain Dew and come with me”
Will games need to become advertiser friendly like YouTube?
Does it depend on the game?
Like, I don’t want space-pepsi ads in my Star Wars but wouldn’t blink twice at a mcdonalds billboard in GTA 11.
Could always buy the ad-free season pass.
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