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Latest Comments by Julius
Inspired by the likes of Cube World, open source RPG Veloren has the biggest update yet
28 Nov 2020 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 4

Release party just now was chaos, in a good way :)

I think there were around 100 players fighting a giant dragon :woot:

Re-live the experience of Half-Life with Black Mesa: Definitive Edition out now
25 Nov 2020 at 3:22 pm UTC

After having seen how well Half-Life works with the unofficial port to the Occulus Quest:
https://youtu.be/M7sY1HmMBKc [External Link]
I sincerely hope the next step is to port Black Mesa to the Half-Life: Alyx engine... Shouldn't be impossible I think ;)

The Pro1 X Smartphone looks like an awesome Linux phone for tech fans
21 Nov 2020 at 1:09 am UTC

Looks like it will actually get worse 1.1.2021 in the EU. Some sort of new banking regulation coming into force that at least my current bank seems to interpret in a way that they have to use a broken Android app now :(
I am currently looking for options to switch my bank because of that... too many times that sh*t just didn't work and I was left in trouble :(

The Pro1 X Smartphone looks like an awesome Linux phone for tech fans
20 Nov 2020 at 10:27 am UTC Likes: 9

Just as a note: This runs the community version of Ubuntu Touch ( https://ubports.com/ [External Link] ) via the Halium compatibility layer. It is a nice mobile phone OS and I use it on another former Android phone daily, but it is far from a "regular" GNU/Linux and requires quite some workarounds to run normal GNU/Linux desktop apps. If you are looking for an experience more like desktop Linux, better get a PinePhone. Although to be honest, as a phone OS Ubuntu Touch is actually better than desktop Linux.

OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind sees great progress
18 Nov 2020 at 3:34 pm UTC

Does anyone know if the multiplayer and VR forks are planned to be included in the main version?

The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine
16 Nov 2020 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: elmapuli wonder why its easier to reverse enginering an game than making an free open source alternative to it...
it shouldnt be
Actually no. Making an engine for an existing game is much easier. You have a fixed target and all the art assets are already done.

Valve dev clarifies what some of their upcoming and recent Linux work is actually for
15 Nov 2020 at 11:32 am UTC

A pity that there isn't more collaboration on OpenXR. Playstation VR supperd on Linux PCs via Monado and Steam would be cool for example ;)

It's hard to believe but Counter-Strike has turned 20 and it's still going strong
9 Nov 2020 at 6:52 pm UTC

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: JuliusAnd it even got a FOSS engine reimplementation:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecs-1-5/ [External Link]
Is it for CS 1.5 only? I've just tried it, at it seems very unfinished with its instant reloading, sway, weird recoil and shooting, etc. I've also tried Xash3D-FWGS, and while it can run Half-Life, it doesn't support CS yet.
CS 1.5 was the last freeware version and also generally most liked by the original CS community. Not sure what you mean with unfinished, as far as I can tell it is quite faithful to CS 1.5, but my memory might be playing tricks on me ;)

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 Nov 2020 at 11:01 am UTC

VR games mostly. Budget Cuts is super immersive and Wolfenstein Cyberpilot as well. With a few exceptions VR also runs great these days with Proton. Really better than I expected when I got my second hand HTC Vive Pro.