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Sublevel Zero is an exciting looking game, and with it being a roguelike six-degree-of-freedom shooter i just had to give it a go.

Sadly, it's another game that doesn't really work. It doesn't even launch for me right now on Ubuntu, so I would avoid it until we can update you that it works.

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Sublevel Zero is a first-person roguelike six-degree-of-freedom shooter set in a universe where reality is falling apart. Take control of a lone gunship pilot whose mission is to loot and craft ancient technology. Descend into a vast underground facility, fighting through procedurally generated zero gravity environments to recover the technology you and your clan need to survive. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Cybolic Nov 20, 2015
It runs now. There's a bit of visual flickering with dynamic lights enabled and there's no Steam Controller support, but it works.
ricki42 Nov 20, 2015
Works fine for me on Ubuntu 15.10. Played a bit with the Steam Controller, it's nice to have the extra grip buttons. I mapped up/down to them, but I think I'll change that to roll. Would be great if it were possible to map roll to gyro, but I don't think that's possible. I still suck at aiming with the Steam Controller, so I connected a Dualshock 4, worked out of the box. I only had to switch the button prompts from 360 to DS4.

EDIT: just tested, and it's possible to map d-pad to gyro. Quite fun, but maybe not the best control scheme, tends to spin out of control. I might just remap the weapon switching to the d-pad, and the up/down to shoulder or trigger buttons.
What's nice is that the game allows simultaneous mouse and gamepad input, so it's possible to use the right pad on the controller as mouse while keeping the gamepad inputs for the rest.


Last edited by ricki42 on 20 November 2015 at 3:29 am UTC
Mnoleg Nov 20, 2015
It is also available at GOG with a small discount.
http://www.gog.com/game/sublevel_zero
Julius Nov 20, 2015
Was hoping for a Pyrotechnica ( https://youtu.be/9YlCw7hRNI4 ) inspired 6DOF game with awesome chip-tune music that doesn't tax my *not top of the line* system (mobile 2011 i5 with a Geforce 550m) too much.

Initial impression is good, but at least on my system it is currently unplayable as the sound stutters a lot and the frame-rates (even on lowest settings) are not really good either (15-30fps I would guess).

So it seems like this was not optimized at all and I wonder if the Unity Personal Edition is somewhat crippled under Linux?
Beamboom Nov 20, 2015
Hold on a sec:
Quoting: ricki42Works fine for me on Ubuntu 15.10.
Is Steam working for you under 15.10? When I upgraded to 15.10 my Steam client were uninstalled due to unmet dependencies, and I could not install it again after the upgrade. So I downgraded back to 15.04 again.

Is this fixed, or did you do something special to get it to work?


Last edited by Beamboom on 20 November 2015 at 11:40 am UTC
Julius Nov 20, 2015
Steam works fine here on Kubuntu 15.10. never had a problem when upgrading from 15.04.
ricki42 Nov 20, 2015
Quoting: BeamboomHold on a sec:
Is Steam working for you under 15.10? When I upgraded to 15.10 my Steam client were uninstalled due to unmet dependencies, and I could not install it again after the upgrade. So I downgraded back to 15.04 again.

Is this fixed, or did you do something special to get it to work?

I upgraded about a month ago, and haven't had any problems with Steam.
inlinuxdude Nov 20, 2015
Okay, I'm probably being pretty dense here, but if someone could please explain to me how this game is at all "roguelike" (as the description states), I'd really appreciate it... It does not remind me of rouge AT ALL from the screenshot...
tuubi Nov 20, 2015
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Quoting: inlinuxdudeOkay, I'm probably being pretty dense here, but if someone could please explain to me how this game is at all "roguelike" (as the description states), I'd really appreciate it... It does not remind me of rouge AT ALL from the screenshot...
Nowadays the term roguelike is applied quite liberally to anything and everything with procedurally generated content, random loot and/or permadeath.
PublicNuisance Nov 20, 2015
I give every new game 3 months before I even think of buying them and this is why. Not saying I think releasing games in this state is alright, just that it's what I have come to expect. Hopefully patches are in route.
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