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they canceled the linux version for postal 4, so i am pretty sure they mean proton

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I just hope they did not steal many ideas from Stardeus.

The spacegravship stuff in this expansion is basically making the highly-popular mod Save Our Ship 2 official (minus some things like ship-to-ship weapons and combat), and SOS 2 was around years before Stardeus released*. I doubt Tynan needed to look elsewhere for inspiration.

*Or at least the original SOS was, I don't know exactly how far it goes but I know it was a fairly early mod.

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which game was number 20.000?

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This game looks interesting, but being published by Paradox Arc (a division of Paradox Interactive) is a no-go for me, taking into account what they did with the game Across the Obelisk - it started as a game published by Paradox Arc and later it got integrated with Paradox Interactive and since then the game have tons of DLCs (just like all major games under the Paradox Interactive umbrella). No biggie though, since we have lots of other great games to play nowadays.

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This is a great number for marketing purposes. I am always surprised at how many of my 250 Steam games just work on Manjaro. However their should be a quality rating like Great | Good | Just Okay.

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Telling Linux users to dual boot so they can benchmark their hardware in Windows is a strange suggestion. We want to benchmark our operating systems and not just the hardware. I'm not sure how someone who specializes in benchmarking software doesn't understand that.

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What are "game capsules"?

Icons in the shape of capsules communicating information about game features/status. So... game capsule icons? I guess the similar term "badges" does not get the specification badge icons, if it is clear enough from the context.

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@Pyrate

Linux has exactly the same issues as Windows & I think it's usually caused by the firmware (e.g. it got better on Lenovo ThinkPad or HP EliteBook devices after a few firmware updates). Unfortunately S3 often isn't even implemented anymore.

I don't know any of the details, I just know it doesn't happen for my laptop (Dell Inspiron i5 gen 8).

In fact, and this is another thing that came up when I was flexing on my friends; I don't believe I heard the fan noise of my laptop, not even once since I installed Linux on the thing a year ago. When it was on Windows, it would randomly spin up the fans like crazy, usually when I'm away form the computer too, like what's up with this thing ?

I'm glad you've had this experience, but it is always super easy to misjudge probabilities in case of anecdotal evidence (aka stories). In my case my Dell Latitude 5289 with Linux turns on in my backpack. And my Tuxedo Aura 15 gen1 (laptop sold with Linux) randomly spins fans like crazy every time when turning off or going to sleep. I'm pretty sure I've gotten worse battery life as well, but not sure which laptop - and ultimately not confident in these stories.

That said, I still strongly prefer Linux over Windows, because I think my digital systems should not rely on trust for an entity whose sole purpose (like for any capitalist company) is growth at any cost.

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This demo was a highlight of one of the past nextfests, so I'm pumped about this release. Downloading now! Price is good as well.

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The other part is that every system that would be running Linux can right now already be tested by installing Windows dual boot

Oh yeah, the guys who wanted to test the performance of the Legion Go S could just boot Win11 to see how it performed with SteamOS... wait... wait, wasn't there something?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-massively-beats-windows-on-the-legion-go-s/

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One of the developers shared some more info in the Steam comments.

UL_Jarnis [developer] 7 hours ago

Yes, there is going to be a Linux version. If it was ready, it would be out. It is not and it is decisively harder project than the mac version as it has far more tests and features. That is part of the reason why we tackled mac first. The other part is that every system that would be running Linux can right now already be tested by installing Windows dual boot, while Macs cannot really do that (well, you could have run iOS version, but it was decisively not optimal way to test the systems and it ran against platform vsync cap on high end macs).

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I feel like some of us should bake a celebratory cake and tag @Steam and @ValveSoftware in a picture of it

But THE CAKE IS A LIE

In all seriousness though, 20K games is extremely impressive Remember that PS4 only had 3,500 games, and Nintendo Switch only has 6000 titles. Both consoles have existed far longer than the Steam Deck though

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Nice music. Sounds a bit like The Arcade Fire.

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Well now. That's a nice big round number. You could put that on an ad.

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I feel like some of us should bake a celebratory cake and tag @Steam and @ValveSoftware in a picture of it

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The devs sound nice.

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@Tevur Hey, I'll have you know some of the stuff I pull out of my ass is absolutely amazing!
. . . Hang on, that didn't end up sounding quite the way I'd hoped . . .

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I checked it out during the closed technical test and I was really not impressed. I'm not going to buy the full game that's for sure

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I don't think it's anything like that,

Yeah, as with 99.9 % of all conspiracy theories:
It's just something a random Bob on the Internet pulled out of his ass...

But it COULD be true! :-D

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It's just from their 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark.

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Is the picture a screenshot from a game? If so, does anyone know which game?

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Let the sticky notes fly! 🔥

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@Vasya Sovari

Those ghost penguins are my #1 favourite thing in a game ever. Bring it

The "Larval Stalker", "Demon Child" or "Mumbler" (US)? It's going to be interesting to see if they can go back to the original design of them being closer to ghost children this time around.

In general, I'm very curious how they're going to handle the monster designs, as a modern one-to-one interpretation might end up being a bit too similar to something like American McGee's Alice.

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They released the macOS version so there's a native Apple Silicon version instead of people just running the iOS version like they were doing. Running the iOS version on an Apple Silicon Mac gives the incorrect scores. If I'm ever able to get a new Mac mini like I want, it'll be cool to be able to benchmark it.

As far as the conspiracy theory above goes. As bitter towards my old boss and UL as I am for being laid off last year due to cutbacks, just weeks before their IPO. (I was in infotainment testing here in Detroit.) I don't think it's anything like that, even as an anti-capitalist. I'm glad that they're taking Linux seriously and taking their time working on a native version.

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BTW Geekbench and Furmark 2 has booth Linux x86_64 and arm64 version. So I'm using it)

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Postal 2 is a guilty pleasure that I feel really terrible for playing when I do, but I use it to blow off steam when I'm upset so I'm looking forward to this. Mostly because it won't crash every few minutes unlike the original.

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I don't want them to do Silent Hill 3. I'm afraid they will censor it to hell (no pun intended) due to the subject matter. Silent Hill 3 is my favorite, followed by 4. I'm actually not super into the 2nd one like everyone is. Silent Hill 1 deserved a remake more than any of them though, due to how dated it was. Though I'm worried it will lose that oppressivly heavy and dark setting and graphics.

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This looks graphically exactly like Desert Strike. It's the same graphics. Definitely. In my head. The same. Impossible to be mistaken. Right?!

Yes, just a couple definitions higher

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I was attracted to Stardeus because of the original setting of post-disaster and having to pick up the pieces, but the game's really kinda left that behind in a lot of ways now.

Still, I should try it again sometime soon and check out all the new systems.

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