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Ultra Off-Road Simulator 2019: Alaska will be supported on Linux with enough requests
14 Jan 2019 at 2:21 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweYeah, it's not ideal and it only works if you set one platform too (an issue for dual-booters). Still, better than nothing, just need Valve to actually direct users towards the setting.
Where is this setting, I can't find it.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for Linux has been officially cancelled
28 Dec 2018 at 3:13 am UTC Likes: 1

Well, Inafune had already throw the name of old Japanese developers in the mud with Might No. 9, now Igarashi just run a bus over it.

Never thrust those guys again. The next one asking for money, claiming to be a developer from a beloved old franchise, will be received as a scammer.

Desert Child is a thrilling racing adventure now available with Linux support
12 Dec 2018 at 3:27 pm UTC

Looks like somebody is a big fan of Cowboy Bebop.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces a Battle Royale mode, goes free to play
7 Dec 2018 at 6:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Sojiro84
Quoting: Patola
Quoting: KohriasYou are really plaing an fps game with a gamepad on PC? Why would you handicap yourself that much?
No, I am not. I don't consider the steam controller a mousepad. More like two mouses with a small keyboard and a gyroscope for fine aiming. Which gives more control than mouse and keyboard and it's also faster. All of this well disguised under a gamepad-like shape.
You mean you haven't seem the youtube videos demonstrating this aspect of the steam controller?
Ah, it's great for strategy games too.
When I got the Steam Link with the Steam Controller I tried it for about, 5 to 15 minutes with CS:GO way back when. It was a terrible and uncomfortable experience. Even worse then the standard controller for the X and the PS4.

I am sure I probably needed to give it more time to learn the controller but thought it wasn't worth the hassle. Strategy games need a mouse and keyboard for me personally and shooters can work with a normal controller, but mouse and keyboard is still my preferred method.

Guess I do should look at the people using the Steam Controller like a pro. Can be interesting to see.
You succumbed to what I call "the first 5 minutes of desperation" of the Steam Controller. I suffered of it too. Got that horrible buyer regret. But I powered trough it, slowly got my muscular memory together and know I can play it fine.

But for me, is just 80% of the capabilities of a mouse/keyboard. You can use it just fine in any non-competitive game. Third person games like Tomb Rider feel great, because it blends the controls of a gamepad (that the game was made for) with a mouse-like precision. When I play L4D2 with my friends, I only go back to a mouse when the shit really hits the fan and we need to really take it serious to pass some difficult part. I play in the same level as anyone in a M/K on the SC.

Is not a perfect controller. I keep a DS4 for the "Twin Stick Shooter"genre, where I find the SC lacking, at last for me.

But the most important thing to remember is: we are in the PC. We can use whatever device we want. You can choose the best controller to the game you are playing. I have the 5 gamepads and the SC is the one I use the most.

Valve have adjusted their revenue share for bigger titles on Steam
1 Dec 2018 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 3

While other companies may like having their own online store, things aren't always rosy for consumers. Having to install several clients on your computer is a shore, and the experience outside Steam for me was terrible. To this day I still get angry at the idea of installing Ubisoft's client to play their games, such bad piece of software that was. EA's one also can't hold a candle near Steam in terms of resources.

While for some Steam may come as a prison, for me is a very nice and organized place to organize my collection.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has a new 'Beyond the Baltic Sea' expansion out now
1 Dec 2018 at 3:09 pm UTC

Quoting: kido
Quoting: M@GOidTo me, the 1.33 update in ETS2 brought a serious performance problem, with the game stuttering (like a intermittent slow motion, lag) in the cities, while in the roads it eventually reach 60fps.
I have this problem too.
Interesting, your machine is similar to mine but you are using a Nvidia card. So is definitely a issue with the game engine, not the drivers.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has a new 'Beyond the Baltic Sea' expansion out now
1 Dec 2018 at 3:08 pm UTC

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: M@GOidI reverted to 1.32 (now it says my profile in incompatible, yay...) but at last the performance is back at a fluid 60fps on the cities.
ETS2 backups your profile directory on a version change. So you can just copy it back.
Wow, I have forgotten that. Thank you for the reminder.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has a new 'Beyond the Baltic Sea' expansion out now
1 Dec 2018 at 1:01 am UTC

To me, the 1.33 update in ETS2 brought a serious performance problem, with the game stuttering (like a intermittent slow motion, lag) in the cities, while in the roads it eventually reach 60fps.

I reverted to 1.32 (now it says my profile in incompatible, yay...) but at last the performance is back at a fluid 60fps on the cities.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 has a new 'Beyond the Baltic Sea' expansion out now
1 Dec 2018 at 12:56 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: leillo1975
Quoting: Mountain ManI gave up on this on this game when the developers never bothered to fix the Steam Controller bug in Linux. I emailed them, they acknowledge that they were aware a bug existed that prevented the Steam Controller from being recognized, and then proceeded to do nothing about it. I'm still kinda pissed off.
You can use Steam controller in ETS2 with sc-controller. You can emulate an xbox controller and then customize it as you wish

https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller [External Link]

It's important that you load first SC-Controller and then run Steam
I'm aware of the workaround. But my point is, the developers have not seen a single dime from me since my initial purchase simply because they are aware of but never bothered to fix this bug.
For me at last, Steam Controller is working right now. But keep in mind that:

1- I do not have SC-Controller installed;
2- I'm using Steam Client Beta;
3- I in (K)Ubuntu 18.04;
4- I updated my SC firmware via Steam.

I mentioned this on the Steam forum for both ATS and ETS2 and some people confirmed it is working, while others said it was not.

SC Controller, the driver and UI for the Steam Controller is being rewritten to be more portable
26 Nov 2018 at 11:28 am UTC Likes: 2

I'm glad to hear the developer is back in business. This is a piece of software that is very useful.

Now, since I'm not a programmer, somebody can explain how C will help with portability instead of Python?