Quoting: SylvesterInkYou've already mentioned Overload, which was one of my favorites this year, but the other one is CrossCode. It's one of the best old-school action RPGs I've ever played and is just fantastic all around. Also, Hi! Hi! Hi! Lea! Bye!

Hi! Hi! Lea! Bye!

My list was originally a little longer and included CrossCode. When trying to pull it down to 5, it CrossCode was very hard to cut!

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Quoting: GuestUnfortunately the link to get Full Throttle doesn’t work for me even after disabling uBlock and allowing several third party sites in uMatrix…

The link in the article goes to the game's store page. The "Go to giveaway" link on that page just goes to gog.com, and a banner there has a dynamically loaded "Get it FREE" button, which calls giveaway.claim(), which seems to be a part of one of the scripts hosted at www4-static.gog.com (or some other GOG CDN server).

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I hear Full Throttle was ported by someone pretty handsome.

Hope it's running well for everyone :)

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Thanks for the kind words people!

When the update shipped, I didn't have time to put a proper changelog together, but if anybody's interested, there's one up now here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/426290/discussions/0/1734342793784839163/ [External Link]

We also did a tiny update today that addresses some minor issues and improves behaviour on multi-headed Linux systems with multiple X sessions (as opposed to a twinview/xinerama style multiheaded configuration).

For anybody who wasn't aware, Tux is a Linux-only character that I added as part of my first Linux stability patch [External Link] after getting onboard with development a year ago. He's not really a canonical part of the story, but he was fun to make and his biography more or less describes how I got involved with the project ^_^

Glad to hear you enjoyed the game, Liam! It's always hard to know whether these sorts of games that cross niche boundaries will appeal to any given person.

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Thanks, people ^_^

Quoting: GuestJust one question - will I be able to customize text size? In case I want to play on my TV...

This isn't on the roadmap for the Lost Exodus update, but the work I've done on text wrapping and rendering make size adjustment more doable than it was before. I'll put it on the list of post-Lost Exodus things to consider!

The game comes with three fonts that have varying degrees of readability when seen from a distance. It is possible to add custom fonts, and I've seen people load fonts that have a larger glyph size, so for not at least, there is a workaround to get larger text.

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They've also updated their FAQ [External Link] with troubleshooting steps for any Linux users who hit this problem in the future.

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Quoting: NeverthelessI see all kinds of problems. Maybe in this case the technical side is clear (to you), but this will not be the case every time, there might be even more problems with the same game, or it might really and completely break for other reasons at a later time.

Is that relevant? The same can be said for Proton itself, or any piece of software that you can't compile and fix yourself.

I have trouble understanding how "there might be other problems that we're not aware of that might occur in the future" could be a justification for removing a Linux-specific version of a game, especially if that Linux-specific build works for someone.

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Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: CheesenessI was speaking specifically to the case of Event[0], but it likely applies here too. How accurate is the developer's assessment that the problems are driver related? As Liam highlights in the article, there's not really enough information here to know for sure.

Reading through the thread that Liam linked, it has the hallmarks of a known issue that can cause garbage values to be used for screen/window resolution. I haven't dug into the specifics of the problem for a while, but IIRC, it was either an X or a xrandr update that caused the problem to manifest, and it became redundant when Unity switched to SDL for windowing.

Don't ask me if he's right.. :) However, the result will be the same either way. The developer will not fix the problems, and I guess it will not be easy to prove him wrong with his assessment, even for someone who knows better like maybe you..
Now, if the dev chooses to leave the native version online, as it is, and if the customers get the option to choose versions, who will support them? The dev for the native version or Valve for Steam Play? I think it's possible Valve won't support a game that has a native version, and the dev clearly states it's broken, so he won't either. And maybe that is one good reason he pulled it of the store. Still, who supports GOG and itch.io users now?

A user in the thread has just mentioned they're able to run the demo after deleting their prefs file, which is in line with my suspicions, so it looks like the game was never "broken" per se, and there's a simple client-side workaround.

As for whose responsibility it is to support users, people using Proton are Valve's problem to deal with, people using Linux-specific versions are the developer's problem to support. That's what was laid down in the Steam Play update/Proton announcement post [External Link], and I think it's fair to demand that that be adhered to.

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Quoting: NeverthelessSo you think it to be the best solution the developer leaves a game on the shelf that is working for almost no one anymore, because of its incompatibilities with newer drivers? No big deal maybe if you can easily choose which version you want to use, but even when that is fianlly prossible, maybe there should be a warning at least..

I was speaking specifically to the case of Event[0], but it likely applies here too. How accurate is the developer's assessment that the problems are driver related? As Liam highlights in the article, there's not really enough information here to know for sure.

Reading through the thread that Liam linked, it has the hallmarks of a known issue that can cause garbage values to be used for screen/window resolution. I haven't dug into the specifics of the problem for a while, but IIRC, it was either an X or a xrandr update that caused the problem to manifest, and it became redundant when Unity switched to SDL for windowing.

On that note, @Hori, could you check your Event[0] prefs file and check that it doesn't have bonkers mad resolution settings? When the problem I mentioned above occurs, the bad values can get written to the prefs file.

Quoting: GuestTrue, and the best solution is to allow linux users to have the choice on the matter, giving the option to run native linux games under proton is a better approach and suprised Valve didn't have the foresight to see this

It would make sense (to me) to put the effort that people have been putting into asking to have Linux-specific versions removed into requesting that Valve add an option to choose in the Steam client.

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Quoting: HoriI don't know about this particular game but I have 2 games in my library that are completely broken on Linux and I'd rather play them through Proton instead. One is Sheltered which worked like 2 years ago and since then it always failed to start at all, and the second is event[0] which never worked for me, being unable to start up as well.

This highlights an awkward sitaution that often goes overlooked. I can't speak for Sheltered, but Event[0] worked for me before release, and continues to.

Statistically speaking, it is normal for any given game to just not work for a few users. Individually, none of us really have a chance to appreciate what the majority of other Linux users are experiencing, and there's a tendency for Linux users to assume that their own experiences represent everybody's (both positively and negatively - I still have people telling me that DotT and FT are perfect ports, when they've only run it on one machine).

Should a Linux-specific version of a game that runs for some people but not for others be removed to appease those that can't? I'd be pretty ticked off if a Linux-specific version of a game that I was enjoying was removed.

With it being possible for users to run stuff in Proton themselves (either manually or with a helper [External Link], it's hard to see much value in asking for Linux-specific versions of games to be removed if they're work for someone (and even when they're not, it's probably better to focus on the selling of non-working games being Valve's responsibility to deal with).

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