Slightly disappointed that the game hardcodes qwerty key mappings (so on my dvorak keyboard it registers ',' as 'w', etc.), shouldn't cause any problems besides any tutorials or QTEs displaying the wrong character, but I thought game devs had progressed past this already.

Edit: played for about five minutes, got an OOM. Game used ~21GB of RAM. Might have more luck when I don't have a Arch build chroot setup in tmpfs taking up an additional 12G of memory but wow. Even the "extreme" system requirements only called for 16GB of memory. Suspect a memory leak, but I'll see if I can reproduce it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Alas, Steam did not let me know that a game on my wishlist was now available for Linux. It's not even listed on the front page of the store for me. :/

Oh well, GoL doesn't disappoint, thanks for the announcement! I just bought the gold edition, so don't include me in the giveaway.

Here's hoping I find time to play it in the not too distant future. :D

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestI'm sure this is a dumb question (those are all I usually have) but "it seems they will only officially support Ubuntu too" is going to be an issue with people who don't use ubuntu?

All it means is you may need to recreate any bugs you encounter on "Ubuntu 20" (whatever that is) before the official support channel will do anything about it.

If you run steam as steam-native, you may need to install some additional (probably outdated) libraries in order to even run the game. The official support channels will probably be unable or unwilling to help you figure out how and what, so you'll need to figure it out yourself or seek support from the community.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: KeyrockSo, the game just doesn't work on AMD CPUs? :whistle:

?

AMD GPUs are listed for all four quality levels.

Ah, I can't read. You said CPUs, not GPUs. :whistle:

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ShabbyXFinally a native release that happened because of Stadia.

I'm not sure that this counts as that, tbh. Yes, it was released on Stadia before it was released for Linux, but the prior Metro games were also released for Linux. We do now know that a Stadia release doesn't prevent a Linux release, though.

And yet, fuck stadia. ;)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Awesome, added to my wishlist so hopefully Steam tells me when Linux support is added and/or Liam does a follow up article when it finally drops. :D

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Ahh electron app incoming

It's already an electron app.

Personally I've not touched it since they switched to GTK3 builds.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The Valve patch they're waiting for is likely related to the SDR issues they mentioned in https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/892970/view/3058478454632856786 [External Link]

valve are also working on fixes to the SDR system (used when connecting to non-dedicated servers)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Agreed. Useragent sniffing to decide whether to show content or an 'unsupported browser' message is terrible practice. Test whether the browser has the capabilities required, and if it does then show the content.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Could anyone give me a one-sentence summary on the difference between emulators and translation layers?

Emulators emulate, translation layers don't. :P

View this comment - View article - View full comments