Just a quick note from me: I couldn't get sound to work for this game without setting the FERAL_SYSTEM_ASOUND=1 environment variable.

I'm running openSUSE Leap 15.1 with a second hardware device, running sound through a HDMI cable to the monitor, so I guess it's all a bit of a snowflake edge case.

Everything else works great, thx Feral.

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I'm honestly quite surprised by all the negativity surrounding Stadia. Is it a walled-garden ? yes... but so are a lot of game systems - I don't remember any of my mates say that about their consoles, yet they've all got one. Did anyone say that about their music streaming service before they ditched their entire CD collection ?

As to the price, yes it's pricey - but so are video cards. You can make your own calculations, but on a personal level I've stopped buying the high-grade cards due to price, and the service allows you to switch to basically a laptop running an intel graphics chip and play the latest games out there.

I'm not going to discount it so quickly.

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I guess the cost is offset by not needing expensive hardware to run these games - I guess that might make it worthwhile if your PC is a little old (like mine).

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Quoting: LinasI understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

I must admit that was one of the first things I thought when seeing the title. I spend most of my gaming time through wine, but I don't think proton-enabled games should be promoted unless they've been whitelisted by steam, or they've made contributions to the wine codebase, or perhaps comparisons/bug fixes between the proton and native versions.

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I did not see the news on Phoenix Point dropping Linux support :( was there an article on that ?

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Quoting: NeverthelessIt's just not my point. Linux is the last open gaming platform to be. While it is good to have most games playable on Linux, it is essential to have most of them natively on Linux, because otherwise no one will see a Linux market anymore. Therefore I am not concerned about developers that hate Linux, but about the others to stop native Linux versions, because it's cheaper for them to just point at Wine.

I could't disagree more. Linux will attract a continued gaming market if a critical mass for consumption exists, and sales returns a profit over the development and support of a game, not because a producer sees other producers creating native ports. The technicalities behind native or non-native is irrelevant when you look at a financial cost-benefit analysis in target platform support.

Producers already do use emulation (VP, wine) to sell their games to the Linux market, and this raises linux market sales, visibility, platform mind-share, while lowering the cost of development and support. The biggest detraction is the lack of consumer acceptance, which is actually hurting the platform more than helping it, as we saw with the witcher 2 where the producer decided to discontinue linux support in the sequel despite releasing a reasonably successful (emulated) version.

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On a different note, I wouldn't describe this site as gaming press, or at least I don't read the articles for the reviews as much as a summary of the latest Linux gaming news|bugs|shame. I prefer to describe the content as platform advocacy, and useful sometimes if you're running into some common issues.

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Quoting: libgradevI don't think their approach to DLC helps them personally... I own Stellaris but I've held fire on buying the DLC as they *just keep coming* and this seems to be a recurring theme...

Kind of agree. I have some of the base games, yes they are intricate, but at the same time the game mechanics do not evolve much even between games, let alone the DLC's. Maybe they are too scared to experiment much with the franchise/core ideas in case they upset the die-hard fans, at least that's the impression I get.

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I'm unsure why the game is not marked on steam as linux compatible, anyone know why that is?

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One major issue I repeatedly get on my main machine is that the audio after the intro (as you get to the main menu) will completely mess up and give me some weird static.

I have this with a few games.. I always thought it was because steam ships with it's own ALSA shared library runtime that emulates the old ubuntu 12.04 environment, whereas most distributions that run steam have moved on since then, and you start seeing issues with applications like pulseaudio that uses the system library.

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