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Latest Comments by gbudny
Combat Master is a cheesy indie free to play Call of Duty
3 May 2023 at 7:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: mrdeathjr
Quoting: gbudnyCan I play it with bots?
maybe this answer your question



and works with zink too

:smile:
Thanks.

It's awesome to see a game similar to Call of Duty because we probably never had anything like that on Linux.

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck support
20 Apr 2023 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: ToploaderNot to take away from the fantastic work done by Loki/Ryan, but we've put in a lot of work since regarding Linux. All the updates we've applied to P2 over the years since AW, such as workshop support, have parity with Linux and it makes maintaining things a lot more time intensive.
Thank you for the answer and the fact that you mentioned the details like workshop support.

On the other hand, I know that you had some issues with updates for Linux in the past.:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2014/07/postal-2-linux-updates-are-now-up-in-the-air/page=2/

I hope it's not a secret, and maybe you can answer these questions:

Did you hire a new employee that maintains and ports games to Linux/Mac?
Did you have someone on your team that learned how to maintain and port games to Linux/Mac?

Quoting: ToploaderIt has been awesome though seeing the Steam Deck come out and seeing how well our past efforts paid off: both P2 and Redux run a lot better with the native client. For this reason we do plan to make a native version of P4 in time, even though it runs pretty well via proton in the here and now.
I will be fun to play Postal 4 for Linux.

I think that Windows is the better option to run games for Windows than Proton. In this case, I will wait for the Linux version.

Quoting: StoneColdSpider
Quoting: gbudny
Quoting: StoneColdSpiderRWS was kind enough to sign the box for me..... I still have that signed box on my shelf...... And I got a RWS metal sign with real bullet holes in it :tongue:

My dog was even featured on the front page of their website......
That is cool. Do you have a picture of this version of Postal and the link to this section on their website?
Heres a picture of the Postal 2 box.....


Postal 2 Signed Box......

I dont have direct links to the web pages...... But I do have screenshots of it......


Myself and Sasha on the RWS website....


After Sasha died they were kind enough to mention it on their website as well.....
Thank you for the pictures.

Wow! They really care about their fans, which is awesome.

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck support
19 Apr 2023 at 10:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ssj17vegetaThese fine people, with a 20-year old game with a probably vastly obsolete code base, are putting other studios "unable" to ensure proper native Linux versions to shame.

One of the few companies worthy of respect. Kudos to you !
One of the few companies worthy of respect?

I think that I'm too old because I don't understand this way of speaking about companies that release games for Linux.

I respect every company that decided to release games for this operating system. Especially the companies that started to release games before Steam was available for Linux.

RWS is one of the better companies because they were interested in releasing their games to Linux. Unfortunately, we can't forget that Postal was ported to Linux by Loki. Later, Ryan Gordon ported it again to Linux, and he ported Postal 2 for LGP. Icculus was also involved in creating patches for AW. I don't have an issue when companies hire others to port their games to Linux.

I was surprised when they ported Postal 2: Paradise Lost and Postal Redux without any porting houses.

I hope they will surprise us again with POSTAL: Brain Damaged and Postal 4 for Linux in the future.

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck support
19 Apr 2023 at 10:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderRWS was kind enough to sign the box for me..... I still have that signed box on my shelf...... And I got a RWS metal sign with real bullet holes in it :tongue:

My dog was even featured on the front page of their website......
That is cool. Do you have a picture of this version of Postal and the link to this section on their website?

POSTAL 2 got a surprise 20th anniversary update with Steam Deck support
19 Apr 2023 at 5:12 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ToploaderNative has better performance by quite a margin, so native is the way to go. We're finally rewarded for supporting Linux all these years later :grin: (it was never a profitable thing in the past, just more a passion project to keep our games native Linux).
I like this game!

Thank you for the update.

I don't know about sales of Postal by Loki. I have always thought that you had a small success with Postal 2 from LGP:

Postal 2 became Linux Game Publishing's fastest selling game in its first month, and contributed greatly to the continuing profitability of the company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_2 [External Link]

I still have this version from LGP.

When do you plan to release this game on GOG?

Valve rolls out Proton 8.0 to further improve Steam Deck and Linux gaming
18 Apr 2023 at 1:14 am UTC

Quoting: pageround
Quoting: BelaptirAge of Empires 2 DE is broken on this release. If you try to open it, first you'll see a crash report, then an Xbox login window will appear, then turn completely white and won't go away, effectively blocking and preventing you from playing (I was playing with experimental before and this didn't happen).

Only way to get around this is to go offline to open the game.
Oh no! Well, I'll be waiting for 8.1 in that case. Glad I can still run AOE2:DE in an older version of proton.
Are new versions of Proton could break the compatibility with different games more frequently than new versions of Wine?

Marble It Up! gets Native Linux support in Beta
31 Mar 2023 at 8:50 pm UTC

Quoting: Calinou
Quoting: gbudnyHowever, it would be cool if they could port the DRM-free version of Marble Blast Gold to Linux.
PlatinumQuest [External Link] works well in WINE. To download it, grab the macOS version of the launcher, extract the ZIP, `cd` to `Marble Blast Lauincher.app` then run `java -jar Contents/Java/MBLauncher.jar` (you need to have a JRE installed, JDK is not required). The launcher will download the Windows version to a folder in your home directory, which can then be run in WINE.

PlatinumQuest includes all Marble Blast Gold levels, while also having much more features such as online multiplayer and support for texture packs.

There's also Marble Blast Web [External Link], which is a pure JavaScript + WebGL game that can load Marble Blast Gold levels. It's not a port of the original code, but rewritten from the ground up.
Thanks.

I didn't know that PlatinumQuest includes all Marble Blast Gold levels.

I mentioned the Linux version because I was expecting more users be interested in playing it.

However, I can use Wine to install a Windows version if later I can run a Linux version. In this case, I will have to use Wine to play it. I always avoid using Wine/Proton because Windows is a better option.

I tried a web version, but a Haxe port of Marble Blast would give me a better experience playing it.

Unfortunately, it's not the official game. It's annoying that they re-released this game only for Windows and Mac.

Marble It Up! gets Native Linux support in Beta
28 Mar 2023 at 8:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Great!

It looks like a great game that I want to play on Linux.

However, it would be cool if they could port the DRM-free version of Marble Blast Gold to Linux.

Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release
21 Mar 2023 at 5:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: mr-victory
Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.
I am biased but I must say that 2 PCs sound overkill to me, compared to dual booting.
I don't know this game, but it's a terrible news.

I have 3 computers with the different Linux distributions to play different games published between 1996 - 2004 (e.g. Mohaa), 2004 - 2015 (e.g. Jack Keane), 2015 - 2023.