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Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
By robvv, 29 March 2024 at 11:15 am UTC

The devs have since posted this message on their website.

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
By drjoms, 29 March 2024 at 11:05 am UTC

I would buy it, but i am not going to support "buy endless DLC to progress/win" like we see in tank simulation battles games.
Fuck this shit. I am not your cow to milk me forever. You only write code ones.

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
By Schleichfahrt, 29 March 2024 at 10:46 am UTC

I doubt it, but this might make it possible that "Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition" gets relisted. I don't really know details about the delisting, possible music licensing issues etc, but I think I remember reading that Gearbox considered their "20th Anniversary World Tour" version worthy of replacing the "Megaton Edition" or something dumb like that (shut up, Gearbox).

Maybe Valve could work something out with Take Two and then give "Half-Life: Opposing Force & Blue Shift" the same treatment they gave Half-Life 1 for its 25th anniversary? I don't even know if it wasn't possible before.

Or maybe all this is now even less likely because Take Two is terrible?
We'll see (or not).

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
By Liam Dawe, 29 March 2024 at 9:48 am UTC

Quoting: Kirbybut they released a free game in their launcher for 20$ on steam
marked as early access too when its the full title release, straight scam
Nothing “scam” about it. Developers are free to release on Steam however they want, they decided for now to bundle a package with the Steam purchase which wasn’t all that bad. As for Early Access, they planned to keep improving it and so decided for Steam specifically it wasn’t to be classed as a full complete ready release. There’s really nothing wrong with how they did it.

The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th
By Liam Dawe, 29 March 2024 at 9:46 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Kirbyan announcement for another announcement
Yeah, it’s called marketing.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By scaine, 29 March 2024 at 9:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Kirbyi'm going to stop playing games at this point, i refuse to be a microsoft laboratory rat just to play battlefield
You should definitely stop playing EA's games. Plenty of excellent alternatives still out there.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
By Geppeto35, 29 March 2024 at 8:23 am UTC Likes: 3

Snap in three drawings

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
By Samsai, 29 March 2024 at 7:52 am UTC Likes: 1

And now not on Steam, since people weren't happy with the bundling of DLC and issues with linked accounts.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
By pleasereadthemanual, 29 March 2024 at 4:52 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pilkI'm glad they're finally doing this, but this should've been implemented, at the very least, after the first time this happened.
In 2018?

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
By ToddL, 29 March 2024 at 3:47 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Linux_RocksHow long until a GTA-style Borderlands game? 🤔

Going by GTA time, you'll have to wait for at least a decade before it ever becomes a thing.

The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th
By ToddL, 29 March 2024 at 3:42 am UTC Likes: 1

Pretty interesting list of companies in this showcase and hopefully, there's some good games that come out of it that'll work on the Steam Deck/Linux

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
By Peak, 29 March 2024 at 12:35 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: KimyrielleI guess every studio saved from Embracer's grasp is a good thing?

Not when they fall right into Take Two's grasp.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games
By Pengling, 29 March 2024 at 12:21 am UTC Likes: 2

Stray Shot has the funniest trailer I've seen in a long time!

The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th
By Pengling, 29 March 2024 at 12:07 am UTC Likes: 2

Apparently there's going to be something new revealed for Brotato during this broadcast. Interesting!

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
By redneckdrow, 28 March 2024 at 11:45 pm UTC

Quoting: pete910Or all the distros could just go back to ya know, the method of the signed packages it the repos

Instead of reinventing the wheel three times !

Amen! Amen! Amen!

Now, to paraphrase from that movie, I need to get some food in my Methodist stomach!

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By hell0, 28 March 2024 at 11:11 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: damarrinIs creating a good server-side anticheat solution even possible?

Story time, I used to run some private servers for fun. In case you don't know, private servers are emulators/leaked binaries which let you run servers for games which you are not meant to, WoW for example.

In one of the games I hosted, there were dungeons you had to go through to get your gear. In typical game code fashion, the server checked pretty much nothing. As a result, there was a popular cheat for this game which let you fly or go through walls. Of course using this cheat you could complete dungeons within minutes getting unfair advantages or even crashing the economy.

Sadly the code for this server was not fully available, hardening the server directly was not an option. However the server would log players' positions every few seconds. So I wrote a small program which would stream the log and constantly calculate the speed at which players were moving and check whether the coordinates were within normal values. When a player was producing suspicious data, I would check what they were actually doing. Within a few weeks of adding this system and refining it, cheaters would get banned within a couple minutes by the moderators.

Of course my small server was not a massively popular FPS, but I was a teenager with no access to the server code nor extensive programming knowledge. I believe companies likes EA or Valve would be perfectly capable of producing really good server-side anti-cheats.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By Purple Library Guy, 28 March 2024 at 9:46 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EagleDelta
Quoting: damarrinIs creating a good server-side anticheat solution even possible?

Yes, it is. Rather than just spout that it's the only way or anything else vague, the appropriate solution would be to hire a team to reverse engineer the cheats, tear them down to their basic components and build heuristics on that.... but it costs money and likely a new team dedicated to doing that.... and it's not cheap, so the money is in picking the easiest option that makes it LOOK like the business side cares.
What if someone writes new cheats?

The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th
By Kirby, 29 March 2024 at 9:23 am UTC

an announcement for another announcement

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By Kirby, 29 March 2024 at 9:23 am UTC

i'm going to stop playing games at this point, i refuse to be a microsoft laboratory rat just to play battlefield

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
By Kirby, 29 March 2024 at 9:22 am UTC

but they released a free game in their launcher for 20$ on steam
marked as early access too when its the full title release, straight scam

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
By nwildner, 28 March 2024 at 9:12 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: kaimanSo to me the question is, is there anything I'm missing out on when using X11? HDR support, maybe? (not that I'd have a HDR-capable display). In short, what's the incentive to switch from a user perspective?

It's a display server. You can't expect bells and whistles on that except really technical stuff that will be used by the DE/WMs with Wayland(lower device latency, standardized interfaces and protocols, better autoconfig, security on app isolation, better modern graphics handling or High-DPI as you've said...).

That's why it is being force-fed. There is no advantage that is immediately "tangible" by the user except it will make things better in the future.

For my personal use, being able to use Waydroid without using the "cage" command on X11 is a plus.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
By whizse, 28 March 2024 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: drjomsDoes Proton use SDL at all?
Both Wine and Proton uses SDL. Mostly on the controller side for things like force feedback and rumble support. Not for anything that would impact Wayland like window creation or rendering.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
By fenglengshun, 28 March 2024 at 8:51 pm UTC

Quoting: drjomsDoes Proton use SDL at all?
I'm pretty sure many aspect of Steam itself, including the client and the game overlay, uses SDL. I don't know if Proton itself uses it, but I'm pretty sure the thing that interacts with it and the thing it interacts with uses SDL or interacts with SDL themselves.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By EagleDelta, 28 March 2024 at 8:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: damarrinIs creating a good server-side anticheat solution even possible?

Yes, it is. Rather than just spout that it's the only way or anything else vague, the appropriate solution would be to hire a team to reverse engineer the cheats, tear them down to their basic components and build heuristics on that.... but it costs money and likely a new team dedicated to doing that.... and it's not cheap, so the money is in picking the easiest option that makes it LOOK like the business side cares.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
By fenglengshun, 28 March 2024 at 7:58 pm UTC

Quoting: kaiman
Quoting: nwildnerWayland is being around for the last 15 years so, need to push it hard or it will never replace the already bloated and hard to maintain X11.
Sounds to me that it doesn't really have a benefit to the end user, otherwise it would have been adopted much faster. I understand it's a necessity for developers, because X11 is dated and the code is in bad shape, but for everyone else it's apparently doing the job just fine.

So to me the question is, is there anything I'm missing out on when using X11? HDR support, maybe? (not that I'd have a HDR-capable display). In short, what's the incentive to switch from a user perspective?
New stuff are built on Wayland. If you're fine with x11, sure, just use it. If some of the things happening on Wayland interests you, you can switch. The idea is that we're pushing for Wayland where we can, so that eventually it gets to the point where users who uses x11 can eventually switch to it without noticing many issues. Eventually.

For me, I'm looking forward to the remote desktop portal - input-remapper already made mapping keys on my MMO-style mouse easier, so it was one less reason for me to drag my feet in moving to Wayland and be done with it, but remote desktop portal would genuinely have made me switch because being able to just install a remote desktop app (Rustdesk) from Flathub and it just working is appealing. Though honestly I already can't switch back to x11 because I cannot be arsed to set up touchpad gestures now that KDE Wayland come with it by default.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
By Trias, 28 March 2024 at 7:53 pm UTC

Quoting: JarmerI downloaded the demo, and unfortunately the linux version had just a black screen (missing into cinematic I guess) and no audio at all (but that's not this game, that's a system wide issue for me for whatever reason).

For me demo also started with a black screen, but a single Esc key was enough to proceed. Both intro and the game itself played fine after this.

I liked ATOM RPG very much in the past and Swordhaven demo wasn't bad either, so I decided to give them some support on Kickstarter... :).

The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th
By pb, 28 March 2024 at 7:40 pm UTC Likes: 2

Can't blame them for trying.

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
By Salvatos, 28 March 2024 at 7:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

TT's Wonderlands did seem surprisingly cheap at the latest Steam sale. I wonder if Embracer wanted to get as many sales as possible before handing the IP over. But maybe it's just older than I realize and/or hasn't sold enough to justify keeping a high price.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
By scaine, 28 March 2024 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Fremen
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: Genesis198Yeah it's this exact type of bs that made me sell my steam deck and get an ally and never look back,
This sounds angry, but perhaps at the wrong people. You're right, it is bs, but I prefer to tell EA to ram their bs, than be angry at Linux for being different from MS and not having the same anti-cheat options. EA made an explicit choice here, to exclude Linux/SteamDeck customers, even existing customers. It isn't the first time EA have flicked a finger at Valve - it's only recently that they caved on their origin-only stance and came crawling back to steam, so it's probably no surprise to see scummy moves like this from them.

I guess I can take the high road because I recognised EA for the dross it is back in the early 2010's and barely bought anything they touched for over a decade. Titanfall 2 is the primary exception. That was released in 2016, so it's real mystery why we don't have Titanfall 10 by now. I also picked up Mass Effect, mainly for sentimental reasons. Anything else I own has been through Humble Choice, so hey ho. Nothing lost there.

Fam this move is not about linux. It's just about EA implementing anticheat solutions they deem as "better" and "their own" into their games. I'm pretty sure Linux isn't even a consideration for them.
Their motivation might not be particularly driven by Linux, but this is very much about Linux, clearly. Valve sell a Linux-based console, and EA have just cut those consoles off from their games.