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Looking forward to playing that one! I can never get enough of these coop adventure games.

Also can I just point out that it really irks me when people use reviews as a grievance form for what's obviously a bug.

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I was confused seeing Pokemon and Mario but I guess it was to mention games of those genres supported on Linux rather than them being actual games. This is a great list and I'd love to see it be expanded more based on commenters!

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In my case see nice, have more characters like toadette

https://i.imgur.com/TCOZ0Ka.png

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It's funny because people weren't asking for a free-to-play, online Skate game. They wanted Skate 4, and the fact that they keep announcing that Linux and Steam Deck aren't supported also shows enough people are asking for Linux support for them to notice.

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Looking it up properly, GTFO appears to be really nothing like Tarkov. Needing to extract doesn't necessarily mean it's an extraction shooter - they're a lot more of a specific genre.

GTFO would be more like Helldivers 2 or Deep Rock Galactic, they're just co-op shooters.

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What would GTFO be an alternative to?

Alternative to Escape from Tarkov bcs it is a PvE Extraction shooter but in some alternative setting.

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CS2 is probably the closest alternative to Valorant as well.

When ARC Raiders releases, that'll be a good alternative for Tarkov, assuming it supports Linux like The Finals.

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I did not even know that there was a separate AMD open source driver outside of Mesa. So makes sense to focus on one, and make it the one that's widely in use at that :-).

Now, what I would want to see is all the LLM stuff supported by OSS driver. I don't really feel like setting up a separate install just for toying with my GPU. Though looking at how fragile that ecosystem still is, maybe there would not be a way around it anyway.

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I'm enjoying Session: Skate anyway. They're a few years too late to jump on this bandwagon.

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Again, just play Tony Hawk instead. 🤙

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I have the whole of EA on my ignore list. So I won't see this one anyway.

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Never had any problem with RADV in the... Gosh, 9 years since? From all the way back with my beloved RX480. I still remember the "RADV is not a conformant Vulkan implementation: Here be dragons!" warning. How far we've come.

Great news in my opinion. I haven't noticed any ray tracing performance gap, but I'm also using a 7900XTX and avoid using raytracing on principle when I'm not checking "max settings" performance with a game.

I remember a single title, Metro Exodus, where RADV constantly crashed in the desert area of the game and I had to briefly switch to AMDVLK to complete that level. Probably since long fixed as well.

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For the extraction shooters, I'll suggest Incursion: Red River. It doesn't have any PvP like Tarkov, but it's still an alternative that works on Linux (desktop, at least; I haven't tried on the Deck at all).

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What would GTFO be an alternative to?

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PSA It doesn't yet work on Linux (segfaults) and because they obfuscated the server binary with VMProtect nobody is sure why yet. They're working to fix it but closed source server and all that.

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Also there is [FragPunk](https://www.protondb.com/app/2943650) first person shooter, [The First Descendant](https://www.protondb.com/app/2074920) action MMO and [GTFO](https://www.protondb.com/app/493520) cooperative first-person shooter

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the only advantage i see is that, you can replace the battery when you run out of it...
or when the device get old.

we dont know how heavy it is

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As a joke:

Gambling Anime Open-World Action/Adventure RPG
Genshin Impact -> Wuthering Waves

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Can't wait to see them go bankrupt. Unfortunately, too many people are still buying their garbage. Despite they haven't made a great AAA game in decades. Gosh, they're already drooling for BF6 as if there wouldn't be 100 games just like it already out there.

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Looks like EA wants to live the SimCity fiasco over and over again...

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We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

(To be more precise than above: They didn't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

Don't ask me. :D
Wanting to be the only one (being supported)?
Fearing it takes away resources?
Having tried Linux, not having been able to cope with it, and now hating it? (I saw some trolls which seem to have this story.)

What baffles me more is the next though:

Nowadays, this job has been taken by Linux users.

(For the records: They mostly don't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

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From Eike:

We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

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The game is built around a premium store anyways, I already tried it because play testers have a couple of weeks of access before everyone else, it's a game completely built around the premium store. Like Liam said, Session and Skater XL are way better options.

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Nice! This sounds awesome, definitely putting it on my list.

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I totally get the point of a removable battery. That's the first thing I would do to use my handheld docked. I destroyed my Steam Deck battery because I tought it was safe and left it docked for quite a while (now 65% battery health). That was before the 80% max charge option.

But still having to buy a battery as an option... What a weird and bad idea!

And I will never get tangled in that cable and will never get it stuck in an armrest or table corner...

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I take my purchases very seriously. I would like to clarify that I will [still] not be supporting EA financially for the foreseeable future.



Sincerely,
My $50

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Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later

all of which are on AMD, or are able to be done (close enough) in opensource software with enough effort.

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which is why we should support indie devs more. Maybe we should come out with a campaign called 'indie alternatives' which it's aim is to replace all the non compatible AAA titles with Linux/steamOS comparable versions, only better, cheaper, more optimised and not riddled with micro transactions.

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So I confirm again that I'll skip this game

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Yeah online racing is not that great, players tend to turn it into derby, because they don't get any penalty, and ruining someone's race by pushing the other car is easier than fair race for the first place. Racing games are better played as a single player.

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