...did they finally fix HID support? Like, can I use a controller to fly a chopper without right trigger being double-mapped to yaw right and 'fire guns', with no way to remap it? :p

Better yet, can I use my G27 wheel+pedal combo to drive ground vehicles and my X52 Pro HOTAS for flight and mouse & keyboard for on-foot without them all messing each other up, like I can under Windows? ;)

I guess I'll have to test these at some point and report back. I can live with being a bit behind the Windows version in terms of raw features/patches, but that was an absolute deal breaker for me playing under Linux. What's the point of having a HOTAS + wheel if I can't use them, etc.

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To be fair, I even have friends playing the Windows version who complain about this game's absolutely atrocious performance on even high-end gaming rigs, nevermind the other bugs, and whether the game is, you know, fun and balanced well or not.

Last time I tried to fire it up a week ago, under Linux, myself, it just crashed to desktop trying to play a new Single Player world. I gave up trying again right then and there.

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One of my friends (not really a Linux gamer though he does keep a Linux laptop on the side as his stream chat monitor/general purpose machine, while gaming on a Windows desktop) did a bit of a playthrough of this one a while back.

The little mini-arcade games are quite neat time-wasters that rip off established genres, and we spent a bunch of time watching him go through a Zelda-esque one fighting off progressively harder waves of baddies.

Then, 'oh, right, there's this platformer main game to get back to!'.

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I'd been thinking about ClusterTruck for a while, and Streets of Rogue looks interesting. Picked up and downloading now. :)

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• Multiplayer
• Added hacks and cheats

Yeah. We played this at a 4-person mini LAN party one weekend. Until about 5 in the morning, because we were laughing so hard. Desync issues abound, of course...

...but it's still hilarious to be patiently working on your giant, max-height rocket elevator thing and hear a split second of screaming peeps as someone else's death coaster launches an entire train across your screen at almost 1000 km/h into oblivion, somewhere out there. :p

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Wow. Never thought I'd see MU* clients on here. Or updated still. :p

I'm bouncing off a screen session on my home server with TinyFugue all the time on a daily basis for some of the places I visit and play on still. Heck, I'm temporarily hosting a PennMUSH instance for a number of friends.

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I wondered why I was able to play it fine on my Linux system, turns out it's because I used the command line 'unzip' utility, which automatically fixes this on extraction. Still an issue, of course, but it's easily worked around at least.

There's still bugs, of course (like the minimap not showing terrain), but it's otherwise playable!

GitHub Issue [External Link]

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I've tried a couple space-building-type sims (Space Engineers, Empyrion, and a very early version of StarMade), and general space sims (various Wing Commander games including the venerable Privateer, X3, and still holding out hope on Star Citizen - but not Elite: Dangerous), so the bar is pretty high here.

I've got a lot of friends with old/underpowered computers (dual-core Celeron w/ onboard video for one, an A10 APU desktop for another), so while Star Citizen is going to be great on my high-end rig, it's going to be lonely. This looks like it might run half-decent on older/underpowered machines, at least by the requirements on the Steam store page.

Anyone know if you're able to run dedicated servers with this for the multiplayer aspect, aka a 'persistent universe'? I've got a couple beefy rack servers running FreeBSD (with an Ubuntu Server VM) in my basement, and we're getting 150/150 fibre hooked up soon™, so this is something I'd love to host for my small group of friends. Right now it sounds like this might be another option to, say, revisiting StarMade, maybe? :)

I'll have to keep an eye on it anyway - neat!

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Oh hey, so we'll still be unable to use joysticks and wheels and stuff properly because VP will just blame SDL rather than figuring out... well whatever every other Linux game company's figured out for remappable controls? ;) /s ... sort of.

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I'll tackle this one probably later tonight or this week, too - I'm curious to see if the whole 'multiple presets' functionality is still there (i.e. what if I want to play an old version of MC? Or switch to a custom path i.e. modpack? Can Forge still hook and install into it?), or if this is really more like a fork than a proper rebuild.

Just glancing at that screenshot I'm tempted to say it doesn't look to be anywhere near as full-featured as the 'legacy' launcher, but we'll see.

We've been at the point of using the wonderful MCUpdater [External Link] with its ability to feed it custom packs built from XML for years, though, so I don't see that changing. :)

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