Quoting: Shaolu

Quoting: Julius

Quoting: edoThe game itself is awesome (and by game I mean the engine), have you never tried the editor mode? You can do a lot of things there way easier than on a normal engine

As a sandbox and mod platform it seems quite cool indeed, but the official story campaign is very lackluster.

So, precisely the same story as Neverwinter Nights. It's always annoying when game reviews focus so much on the campaign without noting that the original campaign is ancillary to the game's true potential as a platform.

I actually kind of liked Neverwinter Nights' campaign, but I got stuck and lost my save game and have not tried to complete it since.

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Quoting: frotz

Quoting: ElamanOpiskelijaGreat minds of GamingOnLinux, I summon you:
How do we attach a GPU to this thing in a reasonable way for a laptop.
"For a laptop" meaning: the size of the GPU alone is not multiple times the one of the laptop. The power consumption of the GPU alone is not multiple times that of the laptop.

All four USB-C ports on the Framework board support Thunderbolt, so one could (and many have) use a GPU via an enclosure (with all of the fun and heartache with using an external GPU setup). The Framework community (https://community.frame.work/ [External Link]) has a number of threads of people relating their various experiences with different eGPU enclosures and GPUs.

Ah Thunderbolt... one of those things where you spend so much time trying to find something that supports the new version (TB4 in this case) and then eventually find out that the only difference between TB3 and TB4 is that they tightened the requirements for what can constitute TB4, TB3 had looser restrictions. Pretty much it, the bandwidth is the same.

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Quoting: JuliusNice to see that their codebase and build process for Linux is not some obscure afterthought and should be relatively easy to maintain in the future.

The game itself is sadly a bit meh and while there is some experimental multiplayer support, it seems like the overall engine design doesn't really lend itself to expanding that further.

Would be nice though if someone took that awesome procedural animation system and made a library for Godot out of it or integrate it with Blender or so.

One always forgets that open source also makes it easy to port to previously unsupported platforms. Like maybe someone will make a native m1 macbook port!

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: slapinwishful thinking...

I would rather be wishful and have plenty to be excited about (which there is!), than just negative for no reason :)

No pleasing some people...

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I just figured I'd take a moment to say 'Congrats, Liam!' if you aren't getting name dropped directly, gamingonlinux.com certainly is in random videos about the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, and Apple is just bordering on being openly hostile to game developers. Killing off 32-bit support, not keeping an up to date OpenGL, pushing Metal instead of providing Vulkan, etc.

It actually warms my heart to see games released for Linux and Windows natively, and macOS being skipped.

Last year when I moved internationally I only had my work-provided Macbook to game on for five months while my Linux desktop was shipping*, and I was shocked to realize just how few of my games were playable on MacOS. Well, ok, part of that was some games was not being playable due to its weak specs, but still…I've gotten so used to games Just Working on Linux with Proton, it was really surprising how many didn't have MacOS versions, and of course, no Proton-equivalent for Mac. If you filter on Steam by available OS, there are more games with Mac versions than Linux, but in terms of actually playable games, it's not even close.

*Don't move internationally during a global pandemic if you can help it, folks!

Yeah, and the amount of 'this won't run because no 32bit' is ridiculously large. Remember the transition from 32bit to 64bit for Windows... it was, and always has been more about 'games have more things if they're 64bit!' Like the first FarCry game came had a 64bit patch to add more textures. But would MS ever dump 32bit support? Not likely, though 16bit died a long time ago...

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I just threw my money at Gabe! So soon I will no longer be Deckless!

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Oooh, I recently watched some builds where people put it under a mechanical keyboard for a look back at the wedge computers of old! And I thought "I want one!" and now they do this....

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Quoting: ixnari

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: ixnari

Quoting: slaapliedjeCould have sworn there were a few worms games that released for Linux, but only found Worms W.M.D.

Would be sweet if we got more Team17 ports.

There's also Worms Reloaded and Worms Clan Wars. Not that I'm going to buy any of those any time soon, because I was really disappointed in W.M.D.'s Linux port. After almost four years this bug [External Link] is still around. It breaks Steam overlay, which is needed for inviting friends to multiplayer matches. My friends and I got so annoyed, we wound up switching to Hedgewars instead. It's not as flashy or feature-rich as W.M.D., but the multiplayer is pretty much hassle-free.

Ouch! Is it at least also affecting Windows? Then at least you can tell they don't give a shit about anybody, instead of just not giving a shit about us. :P

Responding horribly late, but no, it's not affecting Windows. It's just Linux users who are getting the shaft.

ha, I hang out in a lot of old computer forums... where there are occasionally decades between flurries of responses. Sometimes makes me forget that if a post is older than like 2 days on reddit, no one will ever read it.

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ssh/scp or gtfo!

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