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I have played Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor on the Steam Deck. The controls, graphics and responsiveness were very good. The only problem I had was that the fans in my Steam Deck (512 LCD version) ran at full tilt boogie and the battery life was dismal . It will be interesting to see if this patch makes a difference.

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Any way turn off silly pixelated fiter? I cannot stand deliberate 5 gen console filter on modern 3D games.

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I think that survivors-likes is a good idea. And there is already a subreddit with that name.

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Because, Abominable Intelligence makes shareholders wet.

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This is the kind of game I really WANT to learn and enjoy, but even just looking at the screenshots I get anxiety over the eleventy billion buttons and menus and icons and etc etc ...

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Thanks for the roundup ❤️

Ones I'm keeping an eye on:

• Divinity - YESSSSSSSSS number 1 by far on this list. Hoping it's basically DOS3, but details are a little scarce right now, so who knows. I liked DOS2 a lot more than bg3, so I guess we shall see.


• Order of the Sinking Star - loved both the prior games, Braid and Witness, so just keeping an eye on this dev.


• Ontos


• FOTOR - completely burned out on star wars anything, so normally I wouldn't give a shit, but KOTOR is one of my all time favs, so ....................


• No Law - absolutely loved The Ascent, so this should hopefully be amazing!


• Warlock

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This looks amazing! Wishlisted, thank you for the recommendation :)

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I hope it has a Battlefield feel.

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I still call 'em horde survival, tbh. You're surviving against a horde. Bullets are rarely involved. And we already have a bullet-hell tag.

But whatever - it's good to have a tag for it here, that's what's important.

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New hybrid graphics support for longer battery life
◦ No need to change modes
◦ Apps that request the discrete GPU will automatically run on the correct GPU
◦ Manually run an app on your preferred GPU by right-clicking on the app icon

I will have to try it out on my laptop for that reason alone. That's big! I am mostly happy with Fedora KDE on my laptop with only two annoyances (copy+paste from Flatpak app isn't reliable; updates take a very long time).

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I hope they addressed the irregular difficulty curve. I found the sudden spikes in difficulty incredibly frustrating. Then again, I probably won't fire it back up any time soon, it was too frustrating :-(

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Very nice. I enjoyed both Lacuna and Between Horizons. Nothing spectacular, but very satisfying and even a bit cozy.

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Quoting: 14Do any of the complainers explain what they want it to look like? Or is that a guessing game? I can't tell if people want it to look retro with higher resolution, or if they want it to look like Space Marine 2 fidelity.

How about making it look like a cohesive whole instead of a bunch of random assets slapped together. You can't just put a high resolution texture on a flat surface and think it'll work. This looked like low grade mod stuff and would be the type of mod I'd actively avoid.

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Quoting: 14Do any of the complainers explain what they want it to look like? Or is that a guessing game? I can't tell if people want it to look retro with higher resolution, or if they want it to look like Space Marine 2 fidelity.

Sure, here's a low effort example:
https://i.postimg.cc/g0T9bFs6/image.png

Speaking of Oblivion, here's another fun fact that I'm sure consoomers here will find to be 'fine' aswell. This Deus Ex 'remaster' has the same GPU recommended system requirements as Oblivion remake.

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Thanks, Satan

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Wow. 8000 participants in a survey. Amazing. That should be the definite answer to the question for all times. 😀

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I'm just glad they got the wayland fixes in

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The beauty of open source is that discontinued doesn't mean dead. Anyone can pick up the torch and move forward.

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Should call it Robotron/Llamatron-like.

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I guess they're too busy chasing AI now to care about gaming, not that they ever did.

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Time to discontinue NVIDIA. ;-)

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I wanted Horde Survivor.

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Seeing Colin McRae Rally 2 working brings a tear to my eye. I remember playing it in Wine about 6 years ago using WineD3D. Happy to see it Vulkan-ized.

You might want to grab an unofficial patch for it: https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/cmr-2-0/

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I am used to playing Minecraft via the Prism Launcher (because I am on Linux obv). But I recently had "the pleasure" to experience the default Windows 11 Minecraft Launcher. And.. it's horrible. They really want you to buy these texture packs, rent servers, and buy other games. Everything screams for attention. A real master class on how not to do UI/UX.

An excellent example of:
On Windows they want to control you. On Linux you are in control.

It's so weird that Linux users have the better Minecraft experience.

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Quoting: tpau

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: tpauGeforce below 20xx series... are stuck on 1.1.

That's also incorrect. Kepler supports 1.2. Maxwell and up supports 1.4.

in that case the linked website is inaccurate or out of date

If you mean https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/, it's just a bit confusing because it has several entries for GPUs with different driver versions. Try writing in a Maxwell GPU like "GTX 750" in the Device filter box and you'll see 1.4.312 in the "Max. API Version" field with the last available driver (the 580 series).

BTW, you can check the version supported by your current hardware and driver with `vkgears -info |grep apiVersion` or searching vulkaninfo output for "apiVersion". Might have to install vulkan-tools or a similar package.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: tpauGeforce below 20xx series... are stuck on 1.1.

That's also incorrect. Kepler supports 1.2. Maxwell and up supports 1.4.

in that case the linked website is inaccurate or out of date

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Quoting: tpauGeforce below 20xx series and amd below 480 are stuck on 1.1.
I happen to have both Geforce 980 and AMD RX 480.

It may not be as bad as you think. According to my research, the GeForce GTX 980 supports Vulkan 1.3 in Linux and Vulkan 1.4 in Windows. Conversely, the Radeon RX 480 supports Vulkan 1.4 in Linux (latest Mesa) and Vulkan 1.3 in Windows.

The GeForce 10 Series supports Vulkan 1.3 (1.4 in Windows). I know, as I have a member of that series. Strange about the GeForce 20 Series.* Even my older GeForce GT 730M supports Vulkan 1.2 in Linux and Vulkan 1.3 in Windows.

😀

* Apparently, it was initially limited to Vulkan 1.1 but it now supports up to Vulkan 1.4 in both Linux and Windows.

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Quoting: tpauGeforce below 20xx series... are stuck on 1.1.

That's also incorrect. Kepler supports 1.2. Maxwell and up supports 1.4.

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Quoting: Tethys84It's really sad. I've come across some really great games over the years that seemingly no one noticed or played. Not going to lie, I wish we could go back to something resembling the Steam Greenlight days, where games had to voted on to be able to be on the store. It would just need some tweaking to make sure it wasn't exploitable by shady developers. I feel it would really help cut down on the thousands of legitimately bad, low-effort-made games that flood the store daily.

I get where you're coming from, and to some extent don't disagree, but I'm also not sure how much it'd really help. Let's say that all those games with <10 reviews are the legitimately bad, low-effort games. We cut those out. That still leaves 9,739 games released this year, or over 26 games released a day. We could go further and say only games with >50 reviews are likely to be actually good games…looking at the graph that's still something like 4,500 games, or over 12 games per day.

I think there are just so many people making games now, that even if we apply some arbitrary limit to cut out the really obviously bad ones there would still be so many releasing that no one could keep up with all of them. Would it result in some undiscovered gems getting noticed that haven't been otherwise? Probably, yes. But on the flip side how many games that have blown up and become viral hits in the years since Greenlight ended wouldn't have been voted on for approval with Greenlight?* It's a tricky question, but ultimately I think I'm in favor of erring on the side of more games and letting things like the review system float the good ones to the top (however imperfect a process that may be).

*Or, alternatively, how many games got through Greenlight and then ended up barely played because they weren't as good as the screenshots made them look?

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10% more mine, 20% more craft. also added back herobrine

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